Word: mountaineer
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...Canoes on the Riverbank). The Moscow suburb of Brezhnev is once again Cheryomushky Rayon (Cherry Tree District). In Leningrad, Brezhnev Square reverts to the Krasnogvardeiskaya Ploshchad (Red Guards Square). Not since Joseph Stalin's name was wiped from the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and the country's highest mountain (now Peak of Communism) in the late 1950s has a Soviet leader been so posthumously disgraced. No word yet on whether the nuclear-powered icebreaker, the cosmonaut-training center, the military academy, the power station, the tank division and the assorted farms and factories that still carry the Brezhnev name...
Though government forces have occupied Khost since the beginning of the war, control of the surrounding area has shifted between the rebels and Soviet- backed troops. The mountain-ringed town lies just 21 miles from Pakistan, the main smuggling center for rebel supplies. Control of Khost would give the insurgents command of the border region and ensure a free flow of food, weapons and medical equipment...
...buildings range from tiny mountain chapels to huge urban complexes. After so long, the need for them is great. More than 90% of the country's 37 million people are Roman Catholics. And though some churches swamped with the faithful offer as many as a dozen Sunday Masses, it is not uncommon to see worshipers spilling over into the yards and streets outside...
...Like mountain climbers on one rope, the world's nations can either climb together to the summit or fall together into the abyss...
After a five-year struggle to pick a politically and environmentally safe site to store nuclear waste material, Congress has settled on a sagebrush-covered ridge in Bullfrog County, Nev. After geological tests are completed, a shaft will be drilled into Yucca Mountain to store up to 70,000 metric tons of radioactive material early in the next century. Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led the effort to halt studies of alternative sites in Texas and Washington State...