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...dossier concerning the 1963 assassination of JFK. The documents are in Russian and apparently concern Lee Harvey Oswald?s travels to the Soviet Union as well as the Soviet government?s reaction to the killing. Kennedy enthusiasts hope the information will yield new insights about Oswald?s life in Minsk in the early 1960s and any possible ties he may have had with Soviet authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Grist for Oliver Stone's Mill? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...Gerald Minsk used to drop acid and smoke pot to help quell paranoid delusions that Boston's North End mafiosi were conspiring against him. Yes, it's crazy to take hallucinogens to soothe your hallucinations. But that's what untreated mental illness does to you. It can also leave you jobless and sleeping under the Boston University bridge. That's what happened to Minsk, anyway, in the 1970s. For years, his bipolar disorder was virtually ignored as he cycled in and out of jails, mental hospitals and community centers, none of which took the time, or had the resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mental Health Reform: What It Would Really Take | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...strong, a member of the armed forces at 18, and not subject to the blond-haired, assimilated sexual longings he is given to in the United States. This vision of a state which is the national manifestation of the Jewish people is what compelled Zionists from Minsk to London to Cambridge to push for the creation of and to then settle and fight for the state of Israel...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Toward A More Perfect Union | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

Fluent in Russian, Burke-White spent last summer in Minsk, Belarus as a political analyst in the U.S. Embassy...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Three Named Truman Scholars | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...MINSK, Belarus: After declaring a landslide victory in Sunday's referendum that would expand his powers, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko found the results of the voting attacked by parliament. So today, Lukashenko convinced 111 members to leave their colleagues behind and convene in another building across town. That left 60 or 70 of his opponents behind in the original parliament, fuming and planning. Vice speaker Gennady Karpenko said the anti-Lukashenko deputies would not recognize the results, which were 70.5 percent in favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parliament Splits In Belarus | 11/26/1996 | See Source »

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