Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cooke and Jimi Hendrix died there. And The Who has taken up permanent residence. The danger that pervades this territory is not a matter of threat, but a kind of proud, blind, spiritual recklessness, forming a musical brotherhood that could be bound by the words of Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky: "To live is to burn...
...three centers of human rights agitation, Moscow, Kiev and Vilnius, KGB operatives over the past two weeks have arrested four prominent dissidents and searched the homes of several others. The moves mean a further thinning of Soviet dissident ranks already greatly diminished by the deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Amalrik in the mid-1970s and the trials and imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoli Shcharansky, among others, in 1978. The movement's sole internationally known survivor is Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, who last week condemned the new arrests as "a calculated blow by the organs...
...decide on what action he might take if Moscow refused to bow to U.S. demands for a change in the status quo in Cuba. Such a refusal appeared increasingly likely, as Vance had made absolutely no progress during talks earlier in the week in Manhattan with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Only two hours after saying goodbye to Gromyko on Thursday, Vance was back in Washington to brief Carter at the White House. Immediately after that, the two men headed for the Cabinet Room and the first of the NSC meetings...
...State Department. Last week they huddled twice. There was no movement on the issue, at least none that was made public. It seemed likely that any significant shifts in both countries' positions would have to await Vance's meeting this week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...July 1969 the Soviets undertook their first naval visit to Cuba. In November 1969, the Soviet Minister of Defense, Andrei Grechko, visited Cuba. In the months that followed, Soviet military activity in and around Cuba gradually increased-almost certainly to get us accustomed to a Soviet naval presence in the Caribbean...