Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Chinese, or pro-Chinese, before their hosts lower their guard. Says a young Muscovite: "When we see yellow skin and slanted eyes, we automatically want to know, is this guy nash [one of ours]? Is he on our side?" If an American talks international politics with a Russian, the subject of China is sure to come up. Sooner or later, the Russian is likely to lean forward and say, almost in so many words, "We white folks have got to stick together...
...must register with his local draft board at age 17. A year later, under the Universal Military Service Law of 1967, he receives an official postcard that simply states, "You are urged to appear" at an induction center. Those who fail to do so without a legitimate excuse are subject to arrest and face up to ten years of hard labor. Understandably, draft dodging is very rare...
Just how prolonged and how severe the U.S.S.R.'s energy gap will prove to be is a subject of widespread discussion. The CIA, in a controversial and criticized report in 1977, predicted that the Soviets would have to start importing petroleum before 1985. The CIA updated that study last year and said that Soviet oil output could fall as low as 8 million bbl. in 1985. If this view is accurate, the Soviet Union will soon have to halt its lucrative oil exports, including 129 million bbl. to such Western nations as Italy, West Germany and Austria. Last year...
...most of the following day's paper. All decisions are made with the party in mind. A full member of the party Central Committee, Afanasyev has direct access to top government leaders, including Leonid Brezhnev. The paper's two dozen departments (divided by geographical area and subject matter) are in close contact with the party's propaganda department and with government bureaus. Yet Afanasyev denies that everything in the paper is dictated by apparatchiks. Says he: "In reality, we do the majority of our stories ourselves. Our commentators [the equivalent of U.S. columnists] often express their...
...this year's graduates at Zagorsk were probably appreached at some point by the KGB secret police and asked to spy on colleagues. Some observers charge that promotion in the hierarchy tends to go not only to mediocrities but to men with known character weaknesses-which leaves them subject to blackmail...