Word: fluent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith has admitted taking many trips in 11981 and 1982 to Japan, which was then a hotbed of KGB activity, according to the testimony of a Soviet defector. On three occasions in the course of those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular-affairs official in Tokyo. Short, fluent in Japanese, and an active member of the Japan-Soviet Union Friendship Association, Okunev is assumed by U.S. officials to be a KGB agent. According to Waguespack, Smith admitted giving classified information about Royal Miter to Okunev and accepting the $11,000 from him in Tokyo...
...tone for the Midwest stop was set en route from the West Coast. As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood...
...English happened to be anything but fluent, but we had little trouble communicating, and we soon agreed to walk about Leningrad together. He appreciates the Soviet educational system because it stresses discipline and hard work (in America, he suggested, it is difficult to learn because no one has to study). His favorite American author: Mark Twain. His biggest political concern: Jewish emigration...
...Soviet Union in 1980 with two major novels in manuscript and a head full of ideas for new work. Since settling in the U.S. he has finished two more novels, both of which are scheduled for American publication. "I've got no time for nostalgia," says Aksyonov in fluent English. He teaches a seminar in Russian literature at Goucher College near Baltimore, and once a week his reviews of new U.S. fiction are broadcast to the Soviet Union over the Voice of America. In addition, Aksyonov and his wife Maya extend nonstop hospitality in their Washington, D.C., apartment...
...many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even by Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does in fact hale its neighbors, such antipathy certainly cannot...