Word: leningraders
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Soviet officials have refused even to release the name of the prisoner. One report identifies him as an army engineer lieutenant in his twenties named Ilyin, who comes from Leningrad-where Kirov was assassinated. The week after the shooting, the Kremlin leaders failed to show up at the ceremonies in Leningrad that marked the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the city's World War II siege. Many Russians feared that Leningrad might once again be punished for supposedly spawning another assassination conspiracy...
...DAYS: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury. 635 pages. Harper...
...powerful Nazi army captured the obscure Russian town of Mga, a railhead east of the Baltic. The Nazis thereby severed the last overland link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union, clamping an iron ring of men, armor and artillery around the beautiful city first raised by Peter the Great. Thus began the most murderous siege in modern history...
Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...