Word: dina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night, Dina Zisserman joined the group at the Medvedkovs. Dina's husband Vladimir Brodsky, a surgeon and neurocardiologist, is serving a three-year sentence in a labor camp under charges of "malicious hooliganism." His "crimes" include standing in front of the Academy of Sciences building with a sign that read, "No one will survive a nuclear winter." Once in prison, Brodsky began a hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment, and his health rapidly deteriorated. Officials offered to release him if he renounced the Trust Group; he refused...
Yureii and Olga Medvedkov, Dina Zisserman, and many other members of the group are also refuseniks. To Yureii Medvedkov, the right to emigrate is one of a broad slate of human rights that are indivisible from peace activism. "To be a peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks...
...experts suggested that the greatest danger to the babies during their ordeal had been cold. Mexican doctors speculated that dying adults in the wreckage near them had shielded the infants from the chill and passed on the margin of warmth necessary for survival. In any case, said Dina Villanueva Garcia, chief of the neonatology department of Juarez Hospital, "it was extraordinary that they survived." In all, about 15 infants and 166 adults had been rescued at Juarez Hospital by week's end, and two babies had been rescued at another hospital after nearly nine days of entombment...
...here to learn from other," said Dina R. Gerber '88, one of the Hillel organizers of the dinner...
Glamour is the rage this fall, and prime time is overflowing with ornately dressed, immaculately coiffed leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them...