Word: refuseniks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over the past 30 years you've established a reputation as an almost professional refusenik yourself, and some would say an anti-American...
...calls Lenin a "merciless Bolshevik." At the movement's noisy rallies, hecklers are often attacked by Pamyat toughs who are the Soviet version of skinheads. Soviet Jews are concerned that Pamyat's modest membership of several thousand is an inadequate index of its power. Says Boris Kelman, a Leningrad refusenik: "Pamyat is not only protected but controlled by people at a high level in the party. It gets support from...
...time Vera wrote to the Reagans last month, many of the country's better-known refuseniks had been granted permission to leave, and so the Ziemans have now moved into the spotlight. Americans who have met Vera cannot resist comparing the cherry-cheeked, curly-haired moppet to Little Orphan Annie. The Reagans considered visiting the Ziemans this week but decided that this might hurt rather than help their chances of getting a visa. The President does plan, however, to talk to Vera's father Yuri and a dozen other refusenik families at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence...
...Ziemans explained to Vera the difficulties she would face as a refusenik daughter, and she has learned to be wary. She has been studying English privately since she was three, and tosses off expressions like "Come on, Mom" with the exasperated sighs of an American youngster. Yet she has never let her teachers at school know that she can speak English and studies Latin: they might become suspicious and incite their students to harass...
...arms control and nuclear deterrence, ideology yields to four decades of reality in U. S.- Soviet relations. -- The lonely life of a twelve- year- old refusenik. -- Noriega thumbs his nose at the U. S. again while American officials wrangle over who is to blame for a backfiring bungle. -- The cross- border big stink about the polluted Pigeon River...