Word: leningrader
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Wiping flowing tears from his cheeks with a handkerchief, the pastor of Leningrad's lone Baptist church looked down at his packed congregation last week as he welcomed the evening's special preacher. "We know what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia...
...wife and I were traveling in the Soviet Union when the bombing joke occurred. Tensions were high in the wake of the Leningrad incident, in which a U.S. serviceman was roughed up, and became appreciably higher after the President's remark. Had we been harmed, I would have held Devroy responsible, not Reagan...
...efforts, NBC has come away with an engrossing view of life in the Soviet Union. Among the fascinating glimpses: citizens at a cemetery in Leningrad, where mass civilian graves of World War II dead are marked only by the years; a spy thriller on Soviet TV in which the villain is an American CIA agent; a portrait of the Muslims, who because of their high birth rate will soon outnumber ethnic Russians. "We've tried to give a different look at the Soviet Union without prostituting ourselves," says Bonn. "Our reports are different but honest...
...article in Izvestia last week, the Soviets countered that the Marine had been rowdy and drunk and that the police had intervened only to save his life after he had wandered into traffic. Yet in the past six months, the U.S. claims, security agents or other Soviets in Leningrad have arrested, detained and harassed at least a dozen Americans, including diplomats, without provocation. Said a State Department official: "This is intended to convey our considerable unhappiness...
...into a catalogue that now becomes a standard work. It shows no trace of the puffy garnish of superlatives considered obligatory for blockbuster shows in U.S. museums. The authors discriminate severely: "The execution lacks energy and seems pasty," runs the note on one painting from the Hermitage in Leningrad. "The figures are unsteady, the faces have no character or charm...