Word: armenias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, whose popularity soared among Soviets when he was named to head a special Politburo commission directing relief efforts for Armenia's earth-quake, received a broader mandate than Gorbachev with only 10 votes opposed to his candidacy...
...allow city teachers and administrators to study at Harvard'd Graduate School of Education. The Cambridge Partnership for Public Education aids school administators, providing them with advice from the Harvard community. And the University's support for the city's earthquake relief effort for its sister city in Soviet Armenia this fall shows the best side of town-gown relations...
...associate vice president, O'Neill has overseen a wide range of community service programs, ranging from relief efforts for victims of the earthquake in Soviet Armenia to support programs for the city's school system...
...safety measures. Gorbachev called the Chernobyl accident "very serious for the whole world," adding, "Through science and technology, we need to give energy to the nation, but safety remains the most important thing." Forty-eight hours later, the first ! unit of a twelve-year-old nuclear-power plant in Armenia was shut down. Under public pressure, authorities conceded that the operation was too risky in the earthquake zone...
...political tremors of perestroika were not trouble enough for Mikhail Gorbachev, nature's rumblings are proving even more serious. For the second time in two months, a deadly earthquake hit the Soviet Union. As reconstruction efforts were getting under way in Armenia, where a massive tremor killed some 25,000 people, a second earthquake struck, this time 1,200 miles to the east in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan...