Word: samarkand
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...stories for Today, in Nightly News reports ranging from Moscow to Samarkand and in an hourlong documentary on space warfare by Marvin Kalb, NBC reporters noted meticulously whom and what they had been refused permission to film and when supervision had been imposed. When Today sought to interview a typical Soviet family, they were introduced to Autoworker Yevgeni Solinezin, 48, who is a Communist Party member with a comfortable apartment. He and his wife Nina, a former flight attendant, have traveled extensively in the West, and their son Oleg is an artist. Said Gumbel: "Based on our admittedly limited observations...
...Soviets grow up and see the gulf between the Communist dream and reality, some fall back on job and family. Rifi, a red-haired Tatar who services diesel locomotives in Samarkand, declares ebulliently, "Best of all in my life I like my work." Others, however, are inclined to become cynical and apathetic. Tanya, 21, is an attractive Muscovite who works as a waitress. Married and divorced in her teens, she is content to drift through a day-to-day existence...
...Central Asia, bordering on Iran, that were subjugated by czarist armies only a little more than a century ago?Samarkand, for example, fell in 1868. The Soviets have soft-pedaled antireligious propaganda and allowed the Muslims to maintain mosques and theological schools. Consequently, the Azerbaijanis, Turkmen and other Muslim minorities in the U.S.S.R. could eventually become targets for Khomeini's advocacy of an Islamic rebellion against all foreign domination of Muslims...
Eight words in Arabic sum up the central belief of the world's 750 million Muslims: "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Five times a day, from Djakarta to Samarkand to Lagos, this shahada (confession of faith) is recited by the devout as muezzins (callers to prayer) summon them to worship...
...returned to his favorite occupations: drawing and traveling, the one nourishing the other. He did not work en route, which is one reason why Steinberg's drawings of places all look equally exotic: their abnormality is a refraction of memory, whether of Paris, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Tashkent, Palermo or Samarkand (whose telephone directory, stolen by him in 1956 and listing 100 subscribers, is one of Steinberg's more cherished souvenirs). Provoked by a "geographical snobbism," he and his wife, the artist Hedda Sterne?they were married in 1944 and fondly separated without divorcing 16 years later?became epicures of travel...