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...Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...with iron bars and stones. Moscow rushed 9,000 Interior Ministry troops to the scene in an attempt to quell the violence. But fighting erupted in the city of Kokand, 40 miles west of Fergana, where a mob numbering 5,000, some with automatic weapons, attacked government buildings, blocked railroad tracks and set fires...
...film broadcast to millions of Soviets showed charred railroad cars without windows lying at odd angles amid twisted tracks and broken railroad ties. The area was blackened and barren as though it had been bulldozed, a stark contrast to the plush green of trees dominating the landscape...
...Trans-Siberian Railroad links the western, European part of the country to the Asian region in the east. The passenger trains involved were traveling between Novosibirsk, the largest town in Siberia with a population of 1.3 million, and Adler, a popular health resort...
Plant officials inside said 51 people were arrested at a railroad entry point to the site, where demonstrators reenacted a 1976 protest and then climbed onto the plant property. Another 81 were arrested inside the north gate and hundreds more inside the south gate, where they sat down after encountering a police line...