Word: latvians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarked on a tour of the independent- minded Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. The visit was his first to an ethnic region since last December's Kazakhstan riots (see following story). Accompanied by his wife Raisa and Soviet television crews, Gorbachev waded into a crowd in Riga, the Latvian capital, and told the people...
...little whale dancing last week at San Diego's Sea World aquatic park. Trading his tights for a wet suit, the A.B.T. director jumped into a training tank for a pas de trois with two 900-lb. Pacific whales. An avid supporter of the Save the Whales campaign, the Latvian fed the leviathans some fish and performed an impromptu water ballet with them. "They're so powerful yet so gentle," he enthused. Speaking for the whales, Trainer Jennine Antrim spouted, "They were very responsive to him. They looked quite graceful together." Of course, Misha makes all his partners look good...
reading list. Even if he goes to few practices or meeting, he will spend the whole time in misery, Knowing that 700 pages of The Role of Wheat in Medieval Latvian Politics or Warren Harding--Man or Myth are waiting for him in room...
...took me to the most popular art exhibit in Leningrad, a cavernous hall filled with Latvian painting which stressed agricultural and industrial productivity. One picture depicted a truck overflowing with some fruit, and the subject of a towering lithograph was a factory full of men hard at work...
DIED. Arvid Pelshe, 84, Latvian Communist who was the oldest member of the Soviet Union's ruling Politburo and, as the token representative of the Baltic states, perhaps its least influential; after a long illness. Last of the old Bolsheviks who played a leading role in the October Revolution of 1917, Pelshe worked as a secret policeman and political commissar; when the Soviet army occupied his country in 1940, he became one of its new rulers. Elevated to the Politburo in 1966, Pelshe headed the Party Control Committee, which oversees the discipline of party members. His death reduces membership...