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Amin Dullah, 40, a fishmonger, crouched in a tent with around 40 other survivors. His five-year-old daughter Tia Leni Augustina sat in his lap, but his son wasn't there. When the quake struck, Amin ran from his house with his boy named Fajar. Almost immediately, he was inundated by a wave of earth from the landslide. Amin kept hold of his son and clawed his way out, thinking he was safe. After running around 200 m (about 600 feet), he was knocked back by another torrent of soil and lost his grip on Fajar. On Friday...
...January 1982, however, Vashchenko and her more robust mother Augustina, 53, began a hunger strike. After a month Lidiya, whose weight had dropped to 84 Ibs., became so weak that she agreed to be taken to Moscow's Botkin Hospital and nursed back to health. Two weeks later, she returned to Chernogorsk. There, determined to test the government's promise, she applied to the local authorities for permission to leave...
...room in the basement of the U.S. embassy in Moscow since they crashed past embassy guards in 1978. They had hoped, vainly, that U.S. diplomats could arrange their departure from the Soviet Union, where they have suffered persecution for their Pentecostal beliefs. On Christmas Day, Vashchenko's mother Augustina began a hunger strike, and Lidiya joined three days later. As her health deteriorated, embassy officials decided to have her moved to the hospital...
...January 1963, while Pyotr was in prison, Augustina was among 32 church members who won headlines around the world by barging into the U.S. embassy and begging for asylum. They left when the Soviets promised better treatment. Instead, Pyotr and Augustina lost their home and jobs, Pyotr was confined temporarily to a psychiatric hospital, and both went to prison for several years...
Even if the bill passes, it may be too late for Augustina and Lidiya, who this month wrote Soviet President Brezhnev. "People of the world "-" case as a murder committed by you. If these two great countries cannot find a positive solution to this small question, how then can they solve the big ones...