Word: siberians
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...years. Factories, store windows and hotel lobbies are festooned with his picture, always in the inevitable heroic poses: addressing workers, receiving peasants in the Kremlin, studying hard as a boy, consoling his mother after his brother's execution by the Czar, trudging off through the snow to Siberian exile. Across Moscow streets hang bright banners with somewhat less than pithy inscriptions. Sample: LET'S IMPLEMENT LENIN'S IDEAS IN OUR LIVES...
...Expo visitors tire of the exhibits, they will be able to retreat to a 64-acre Japanese garden filled with twisted pines, bamboos, cherry trees, ponds, bridges and teahouses. At 210 restaurants, geared to dispense 235,000 meals per day, they can sample anything from Algerian cous-cous to Siberian snow grouse. Entertainment will range from the Bolshoi Opera and the New York Philharmonic to a three-mile roller coaster called the daidarasaurus. Offering a different sort of show, radical Japanese students plan demonstrations to show their opposition both to the Establishment responsible for the fair and the expected renewal...
...Nikita Khrushchev accused him of "intolerance, brutality and abuse of power." In 1962, Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's statues, as numerous as trees in the Siberian taiga, were hewed down, and the city of Stalingrad became Volgograd...
...parallel attack on elm disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cross the disease-prone American elm with the hardy Siberian variety. Even if the hybrid is a success, elm lovers are not likely to be pleased. The new tree clearly lacks the grace of its American parent. "It has a single, central trunk rather than our beautiful vaselike division," says Hansel. "Who will want a tree that looks more like a maple than...
...Greek junta for sheltering her Communist brother-in-law; Daniel Madzimbamuto of Rhodesia, an African nationalist leader who was imprisoned without trial four years ago; and Larisa Daniel of the Soviet Union, wife of imprisoned Russian author Yuli Daniel, who was sentenced herself in 1968 to four years of Siberian exile for demonstrating against the Soviet policy of "fraternal aid" to Czechoslovakia...