Word: usted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills, clothing and shoe factories, is one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest cities. More primitive and inaccessible are the other...
...before him, was on his way to banishment in Asia's outer reaches. Kicked out of the Soviet Communist Party Presidium and Central Committee, demoted from the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, he had been put on a job as a Dynamo-Dan at a hydroelectric project at Ust Kameno-gorsk in the remote Altai Mountains near the Mongolian border-1,800 crow-flight miles from Moscow. The area is part of the Karaganda administration of Gulag, the vast slave-labor system that Malenkov helped found. In Ust Kamenogorsk, Malenkov will be constantly watched. If his exile follows...
Next day there was a shocked silence in Belgrade. This was Khrushchev the dictator talking, sure now of his ascendancy, contemptuous of all but his. own, threatening to crush anything in his way. When the time came to change the theme of benevolence, an exile in Ust Kamenogorsk could expect no mercy...
...heard
ominous -and recent-eastward trampings of Russian military boots.
Items: Ust Khair-yuzovo on the Kamchatka Peninsula.