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...flapping in the breeze, clutched flowers. Just after 11:30, a military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When the lead vehicle clattered past the last checkpoint and onto Soviet soil, the six young soldiers on board broke into ear-to-ear grins...
...three specific issues: border tensions, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. Moscow began moving on all three, and last December Qian showed up in the Soviet capital. Shevardnadze's return visit made him the first Kremlin foreign policy chief to set foot on Chinese soil since the last, disastrous Sino-Soviet summit...
...gold and diamonds. The title number, which was wrenchingly performed this season in Ain't Misbehavin', is used here to bring on a choral stomp. Almost perversely, the blues, an art rooted in specific American history, is methodically detached from its context, as if the past were so much soil to be brushed from the roots of an ornamental shrub destined for transplant...
Lipkis' ideas about voluntarism have a certain earthy logic. "Scientists define pollution as energy waste. Sewage is pollution when you dump it in the ocean -- yet it's so loaded with nutrients that it could enrich any soil it is put into," he explains. "It's the same with humans. People have an immense amount of energy, but for the most part it isn't being used. The result is a kind of pollution: frustration, depression, rage, crime. Society needs that energy, and nobody is making the connection...
...first trip to the U.S. (and only his second journey outside the Soviet Union) to attend the meeting. And he was startlingly frank about the situation in his country. "We have started too late," Morgun told the group. "Our air is not up to the proper mark, our soil is polluted, and our forests are affected. Drastic measures were taken in the West 15 to 20 years ago to improve the environment. Now my country must get to work on this as well...