Word: urals
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...DIED. URAL ALEXIS JOHNSON, 88, U.S. diplomat; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nearly as enduring as the mountain range after which he was named, Johnson's career spanned more than four decades and encompassed ambassadorships to Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Japan, a stint as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs during the Cuban missile crisis and service as chief U.S. negotiator under Nixon at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks...
YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA: Despite failing health and a dismal standing in the polls, Boris Yeltsin has decided to seek a second term as president of Russia. "I am sure I can bring the country through troubles, anxiety and uncertainty," Yeltsin said in an announcement speech to crowds in his Ural Mountain hometown. Facing steadily rising unpopularity over the state of the Russian economy and his conduct of the war in Chechnya, Yeltsin is seeking to appeal to voters as the only acceptable alternative to communist and nationalist candidates that he says would turn back from reforms. "I spend sleepless nights analyzing...
...DEATH OF COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...expanse and the magnitudes of Siberia are mesmerizing. Officially Siberia is the territory east of the Ural Mountains and west of the Russian Far East, which includes the maritime provinces of Khabarovsk and Primorski on the Pacific coast; however, convention has labeled as Siberia all Russian lands east of the Urals--an area that covers more than 5 million sq. mi. Within these boundaries are nearly the entire lengths of four of the longest rivers on earth--the Yenisey, the Ob, the Lena and the Amur, which constitutes most of Siberia's border with China. Yakutia, now designated the Sakha...
...shoot him; they cut him and broke his bones to teach him a lesson." The visitor, an international broker with diverse interests -- major weapons systems, oil, gold -- was intrigued by the emeralds and wanted advice from his well-connected hosts. A month earlier, he had traveled deep into the Ural Mountains, driving over forest roads not shown on any map, following a trail of whispered rumors that a cache of gem- quality stones was up for grabs. A group of miners, fed up with laggard paychecks, had supposedly been holding back emeralds in hopes of finding a private buyer...