Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...
...Kiev last month, newly released Baptist Prisoner Pyotr Vins was twice assaulted by police thugs after trying to arrange his family's emigration. His father Georgi, national leader of dissident Baptists, was due for release from a labor camp March 31 but still faces five years of Siberian "exile...
...Soviets do not respond to her petition, Ida Nudel will serve out the remaining three and a half years of her four-year sentence of exile in the Siberian village of Krivosheyino, where she lives in a house with 30 men convicted of non-political crimes, Artz said. "It's a world we can't even imagine," she added...
MONEX scientists are thus doing the only thing they can do-everything. That includes searching for pollution and Siberian dust over Borneo (which may affect the rain and winds), keeping a weather eye on cold surges (masses of low-temperature air moving rapidly down from Siberia) and sending up balloons into equatorial air currents. All the while, satellites provide an overview with hourly pictures...
Korchnoi's retinue was equally diverse. It included two young chess experts from England, an Austrian woman who reportedly had spent ten years in a Siberian prison after being convicted of spying for the U.S., and a young Belgian, known only as "Rasputin," whose job was to ward off Zoukhar's "evil eye." A former Soviet grand master who defected to the West two years ago, leaving his wife and son behind, Korchnoi was prepared for all of Moscow's ploys. So unnerving was the prospect of a Korchnoi victory to the Soviet press that it avoided...