Word: byelorussia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behalf of Harris is Moscow's professed horror that he faces the death penalty. In the Soviet Union, people found guilty of such crimes as bribery, graft and theft of state property are sometimes executed by firing squad. Last month, one A.G. Metlushko was sentenced to death in Byelorussia for a series of armed assaults - crimes for which Johnny Harris got life...
...guest as to where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States...
...Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later, he flew off to Byelorussia for a two-day conference with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that seemed designed, at least in part, to make points with the French left...
Walter Rauff, 68, a former SS colonel, prefigured the gas chamber by channeling exhaust fumes into trucks filled with victims. Vienna Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal claims that Rauff was responsible for the deaths of 97,000 people in such a manner in Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Poland and Yugoslavia. Rauff reportedly lives today in Punta Arenas, Chile. West Germany requested Rauff's extradition in 1963, but the Chilean supreme court denied the request because the statute of limitations had taken effect...
KIRILL MAZUROV, 54, a First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, is a tough and wily political infighter. Born in Byelorussia, he received a technical education and, during World War II, fought with guerrillas behind German lines. In the postwar period, he began a rapid rise through provincial Byelorussia's bureaucracy that led to his election to the Politburo. In March 1970, he reportedly joined fellow Politburo Members Mikhail Suslov and Aleksandr Shelepin in criticizing Brezhnev for his handling of the economy. As a result, Brezhnev would probably be happy to see him removed from the Politburo. But Mazurov seems...