Word: tadzhikistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardly a week goes by without the report of a large-scale embezzlement or graft. In Tadzhikistan recently, a male employee was sentenced to death for stealing goods worth 130,000 rubles (about $174,000) from a retail store. In Azerbaijan, a man was executed for diverting more than $700,000 worth of state-owned building materials, truck tires, fertilizer and other goods in an elaborate black-market operation...
...problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems of San Francisco and Atlanta will be compared with those of Leningrad and another Soviet city...