Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morris Kranc, a Cambridge resident who returned from the Soviet Union a week ago after a 10-day visit with refuseniks in Moscow, Kiev and Kishinev, reported that Vladimir Tsukerman, one of the six, had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment until after the Madrid Conference, because he refused to obey the KGB's orders that he call off his hunger strike...
...Metropolitan Museum in New York, that the Vikings have had a bad press. That is what happens when you fall foul of Irish reviewers. No people in Western history, perhaps, had more of a reputation for mayhem and brutishness. Their longships ranged from Greenland to Byzantium and Kiev; they reached America 500 years before Columbus; and virtually everywhere they went, their greed and implacable cruelty stank in the nostrils of their victims...
...begin to take shape. Would-be immigrants spend six to eight weeks waiting for the important U.S. entry visas, during which time HIAS takes care of each family's settlement arrangements. Still, to many immigrants, the time spent in Western Europe is somehow not real. One immigrant, who left Kiev with her family two years ago, recalls that period: "Vienna was like Fantasy Island, and Italy was wonderful. We had troubles, but they were not real life; this trouble was more enjoyable. We didn't feel like our new life had started...
...Europe will result in a total thermonuclear assault on the U.S. After several agonizing seconds, the President decides that he cannot take the chance and refuses to order any of NATO'S missiles into action. Meanwhile, France and Britain launch submarine-based missiles targeted on Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. The Soviets detect the oncoming attack, assume Washington has defied their ultimatum and unleash 50 ICBMs against the U.S. Given only 30 minutes warning, the President now has no choice. He pushes the button. World War III starts and ends within the hour. There are no victors...
...Ukraine, 36 human rights activists have been convicted since 1976 on charges ranging from hooliganism to sexual offenses. In Kiev, both Jewish and Ukrainian activists have been severely beaten by KGB agents. In one celebrated case last year, witnesses say they saw two men force a popular Ukrainian nationalist composer, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, 31, into a KGB car. Three weeks later his body was found hanging from a tree; his eyes had been gouged out. Such acts of brutality-still rare but apparently on the increase-are strictly illegal. The KGB, however, remains capable of acting as a law unto itself...