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...fact that the Ukrainian birthrate is presently below the new replacement rate is of special concern to her. The best solution, she said, is to provide more and better day care facilities "so mothers will regard the day care centers as even better than home, and will have more children while they continue to work...
...coldly liquidating their opponents on charges of "terrorism"-usually fabricated. Even today these regimes hold political executions on occasion (almost never an¬ nounced), while the most peaceful forms of ideological, religious and national dissent are still punished by long terms at hard labor. The most compelling example: the Ukrainian nationalists in the Soviet Union. Unlike the Basque separatists in Spain, they call for nothing more radical than the wider use of the Ukrainian language in schools and other forms of cultural autonomy for their 48.5 million countrymen. For this, hundreds of Ukrainians in the past decade have been sentenced...
...agency in 1952 began a supersecret research program, code-named M.K. Naomi, partly to find countermeasures to chemical and biological weapons that might be used by the Russian KGB. Former CIA Director Richard Helms reported that a KGB agent used poison darts and poison spray to assassinate two Ukrainian liberation leaders in West Germany. The CIA also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death by asphyxiation. Said Colby: "Agents didn't want to face...
...attraction for visitors was the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, spread across 50 acres along the Washington Mall beside the 2,000-ft. reflecting pool. The festival celebrates and demonstrates ethnic and cultural diversity in American life, from Ukrainian folk dances to Indian lacrosse matches. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo took in the sights...
Pritsak said he would not disclose the names of the six other Ukrainian scholars, but that he will extend the invitation to them again next year...