Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Returning to his tiny Moscow flat, he exulted to his wife and friends, "Tomorrow there will be battle!" They were his last words. He then repaired to his private study to rest and prepare for the next day's passage at arms. Two hours later, his wife found him dead...
"Sakharov was an honest man who was killed many times," said Vitali Korotich, editor of the liberal weekly Ogonyok. The saga of the deathblows inflicted upon Sakharov and his subsequent resurrection reads like a gripping secular sequel to the Russian Orthodox Lives of the Saints. Sakharov had certainly not been...
Sakharov's most lasting contribution to mankind may have been his effort to limit nuclear testing and encourage multilateral disarmament, for which he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. But he was best known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It...
Even with glasnost, Sakharov found numerous causes to pursue. Encouraged by bilateral cuts in Soviet and U.S. arsenals, he pressed for conventional-arms reductions and a demilitarized "corridor" in Europe to lessen the possibility of a surprise attack from either side. He was hardly placated when Moscow admitted that the...
U.S. airline fares are behaving like a jetliner climbing out of a tailspin. After tumbling some 12% since 1981, the cost of flying has risen by about 10% in the past three years and by around 6% so far this year, even though passenger traffic has been flat. The price...