Word: troika
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...MOSCOW-Only one ship in the Soviet space troika remains in space, and It is scheduled to land today, closing out the week-long Soviet space venture...
...Orbiting Troika...
...pride, power mania or personal deviousness that disfigure the image of so many revolutionaries. As a child, he had slept during a court ball in the future Czarina's semi-sacred lap, and he died (at 78) safe, as it were, in the bosom of Stalin, only a troika's drive from the Kremlin. His life had come full circle, and so had the movement that began as a fight for freedom against an absolute monarch and ended in the absolutism of the one-party state...
Ideological Troika. The investigation once again underlined the helplessness of the commission in its attempt to supervise the peace agreed to at Geneva in 1954. With negotiations to end the second Viet Nam war about to resume, the incident also served as a timely reminder that such settlements are only as good as the machinery that enforces them. By that measure, the ICC has been a monumental failure. The Paris negotiators will clearly have to think of something better...
...largest and most important-has held more than 750 full meetings and filed eleven weighty reports on its mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid down in its charter. If the Canadians say yes, the Poles say no, and vice versa. Moreover, the protagonists in the Viet Nam conflict have shown no interest in peace and neutrality. Cooperation with the ICC-in Hanoi as well...