Word: leningraders
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...late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility...
...cartoons are being supplied free of charge by the U.S.-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which has been smuggling the tapes into the Soviet Union for several years. Last spring a Leningrad news team filmed a short segment of children watching one of the videos for a documentary, and this month the shows will begin broadcasting nationwide...
...Awarded keys to the city to two visitors from the Soviet Union Rimantas Matulis, a recently elected city councillor from Vilnius, Lithuania, is visiting Cambridge to learn about the workings of local democratic government. Gregorii B. Maistrenko, a high school teacher from Leningrad, is visiting the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School along with one other Russian teacher and 10 students as part of an education exchange program...
This group should be taken seriously. Pamyat has chapters in cities all over the Soviet Union and held a national congress in Leningrad last month. Many Western observers suspect that the group has received support from high officials in the current Soviet regime...
...October, Israel Kovelman, an 81 year-old Moscow man, and Vitaly Lekhtman, a 51 year-old Leningrad man, were murdered in what police suspect were outbreaks of anti-Semitism. Lekhtman was left with a Star of David carved into his back...