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Smith is much stronger as a raconteur, depicting the grief of a widow in Nagorno-Karabakh whose son was axed in half by marauding Azerbaijanis, or the fear of a Ukrainian farmer whose state subsidies are in doubt, or the shock of a lifetime apparatchik who faces opposition for the first time in his political career for his seat in the Soviet Parliament...
...attend Demjanjuk's 17-month-long trial, confines himself to the first question, offering a compelling account of the evidence and courtroom drama that led to Demjanjuk's death sentence in 1988 by an Israeli court. Stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for lying about his past, the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was extradited in 1986, becoming the first Nazi war criminal to be tried in Israel since Adolf Eichmann was convicted in 1961 and hanged...
...Asia became the 14th of the 15 republics to declare its sovereignty. A nationalist alliance calling itself the Round Table won 54% of the vote in parliamentary elections in the republic of Georgia on a platform that opposes signing a new treaty of union with the central government. The Ukrainian government last week began distributing coupons to be used for the purchase of various goods, a step toward introducing its own currency. The Belorussian republic recently enacted measures regulating exports to other republics or abroad, and Armenia did the same last week...
...happened, more people than the usual unending queues of demoralized shoppers took to the streets last week -- from Ukrainian-independen ce campaigners in Kiev to a procession behind a Russian Orthodox priest blessing Moscow's new commodities exchange, to U.S. film star and fitness diva Jane Fonda leading a troop of Soviet women on an athletic loop around the Kremlin. Yet as loudspeakers blared "Hoorah, hoorah!" for Fonda outside the old czarist citadel, inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure...
...Duuuude! It's BRUNO!" This information seems to excite Bruno, but it gets Joe no closer to completing his cutting-edge exegesis on 14th-century Ukrainian dental hygiene...