Word: sovietskaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...
...months after he was brutally beaten, gagged and dragged from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter by six burly Russians, little was heard of Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka. Last November Kudirka, 32, sought asylum when his ship, the Sovietskaya Litva, tied up alongside the cutter Vigilant in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights. Ten hours after Kudirka jumped aboard the Vigilant and pleaded for sanctuary, Coast Guard headquarters in Boston ordered the Vigilant to allow Soviet sailors to take him back. The incident so outraged the country and incensed President Nixon that the Vigilant...
Soon after, the Russian ship, Sovietskaya Litva, was escorted from the area by Vigilant. Kudirka's fate is still unknown, but imaginable...
Even the Soviet press tuned in with a sweet note for the world of music's unrivaled Gabriel. "The King of Jazz with a golden trumpet" was Sovietskaya Kultura's tribute to Louis Armstrong, who reached 70 last week. Back home, many of the big names of jazz joined well-wishers at Los Angeles' 6,500-seat Shrine Auditorium for a brassy birthday bash, and somebody baked an 11-ft., $1,500 cake. "The biggest thrill I ever had in my life being honored by these cats," said the Satch, visibly moved...
...been expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and threatened with exile from his country. The official press regularly denounces him; only last week the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, in a poem that did not name Solzhenitsyn but was plainly aimed at him, charged that he "long ago defected with his soul...