Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before the final triumph, the elder Babbit went off to do political battle...
...alone, however, still had to collect 50% of the vote. The most prominent victim: Yuri Solovyov, the Communist Party boss of the Leningrad region and a nonvoting member of the Politburo. Though Solovyov ran unopposed, almost two-thirds of the voters crossed out his name, and he lost. The mayor of Kiev also ran unopposed and lost. So did that city's , Communist Party boss...
...list of losers: the mayor of Moscow, the president and prime minister in Lithuania, the party boss in Minsk, the first deputy premier of Belorussia and the admiral of the Pacific fleet of the Soviet navy. Across the nation, almost a third of the party's 129 regional leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only 15% of the vote. In fact, the five top Communists in the Leningrad power structure tumbled to defeat. Valeri Terekhov...
PAIN. Director Sergei Lukyanchikov's critical documentary on the Afghanistan war. In one of the most striking scenes, a veteran who lost an arm asks, "If ((the Afghans)) came here to help us 'build socialism,' how would we react?" Answering his own question, he admits, "They hated...
...Oslo, a Norwegian army supreme command spokesperson said the sub apparently was lost in the area between Norway and Greenland. Col. Gollow Gjeseth, press spokesperson of Norway's Supreme Defense Command, said in a telephone interview that a Norwegian observation plane sent over the area about 11 a.m. EDT saw "a Soviet ship and two rubber boats...