Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...REICH'S CRACK troops are cashing in. Many Czechs, Poles and other East Europeans served in Hitler's SS but hid their past after the end of World War II for fear of retribution from ruling communist governments. Now that communism is fading, SS veterans are going public to collect pensions from the German government. Germany's social security system has awarded $190-a-month payments (a small fortune in the Baltics) to more than 250 disabled SS veterans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Says Latvian SS veteran and pension receiver Boris Mikhailov: "Thank you, Germany, thank you." Latvian Jews...
...American POWs than it had previously revealed. So far, only a few pages of the report have been made public, but TIME has obtained the entire 25-page translation. Elsewhere in the report are disclosures about efforts to recruit South Vietnamese politicians as agents, planned assassinations and programs to collect and publish information on American "crimes." Because there are references to a "speaker," the Russian report may well be an inexact transcription of an oral briefing, which could account for the inflated number of POWs...
Epidemiological studies, those which collect cast amounts of data useful in predicting risks, are also utilized by some scientists to determine the causes of breast cancer. Dr. Susan I. Troyan, a breast surgeon and director of research at the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is one such researcher...
Today is Secretaries' Day. In offices where they care about such things, the day is traditionally celebrated by taking the secretary out to a long lunch, or buying her a potted plant. Of course, most secretaries would rather be said a decent living wage all year round than collect one more "Secretaries Are Great" pin, but Secretaries' Day is not about politics. It is about promoting Hallmark...
...closest colleagues, broke into sobs as she visited the crime scene. Joe Slovo, who handed control of South Africa's Communist Party to Hani in 1991 after being stricken with cancer, told a radio station in a trembling voice that he was "shocked and shaken" and needed "time to collect my thoughts...