Word: lidiya
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...Lidiya, 53, a neatly dressed schoolteacher in a fluffy white hat and cream- colored coat: "Yes, Gorbachev is young, but then a teacher came into the staff room last week who was one month younger than Gorbachev and dropped dead of a heart attack in front of my eyes. Who would have expected that? So we can't say how long Gorbachev will last. He is a man to be admired, an intelligent man and a lawyer to boot, so he should bring back a little order. On top of that, he is an economist, or so the papers...
...same time, he is an excellent family man; he has a well-deserved reputation for being faithful and solicitous to his wife Lidiya. Her influence upon him is considerable; she is the one person he listens to attentively. Her advice extends beyond their personal life to government affairs, particularly in the selection of people for top posts at the ministry. A ministry wag once dubbed her "the real chief of the personnel department...
...room in the embassy basement and later took over the barbershop next door. Last week, after nearly five years in their refuge, the Siberian Seven, as they have become known, finally moved a little closer to freedom when Soviet authorities allowed one of them, Lidiya Vashchenko, 32, to board an Austrian Airlines flight to Vienna...
Vashchenko's family has been at odds with the Soviet government for 20 years. Then particular Pentecostal practices forbid them to serve in the army, while their devoutness prompted them to withdraw their children from atheistic state schooling. Moreover, ever since Lidiya, her four relatives and two neighbors dashed into the U.S. embassy, the conflict has become more complicated. The Soviets promised to consider their visa applications only if all seven returned to their native city of Chernogorsk in southern Siberia and applied through normal channels. Fearing reprisals, the seven had steadfastly refused to leave the embassy...
...January 1982, however, Vashchenko and her more robust mother Augustina, 53, began a hunger strike. After a month Lidiya, whose weight had dropped to 84 Ibs., became so weak that she agreed to be taken to Moscow's Botkin Hospital and nursed back to health. Two weeks later, she returned to Chernogorsk. There, determined to test the government's promise, she applied to the local authorities for permission to leave...