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Fleming concluded the scheduled concert with six works by Rachmaninoff; the composer whose works have made her well-known. “Son” displayed the fullness and richness of Fleming’s voice, while the flirty “Rechnaya Liliya,” a song about a water lily, showed a penchant for whimsy. “Ne poy, Krasavita” and “Eti Letniye Nochi” were both impassioned reflections about the pain of grief, which Fleming delivered with remarkable gravity and poise...
Back in June 1978 the seven crashed past Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy, seeking to go to the U.S. Pyotr Vashchenko, now 55, Augustina, and their three daughters, Lidiya, Lyubov, 29, and Liliya, 24, along with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
...death nears, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman presumably will be forced to order the women out of the embassy for hospitalization-and into a dangerous reunion with Soviet authorities. If either woman is taken away, or dies, Liliya has vowed to start her own hunger strike...
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