Word: uzbekistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over one of Koste-rin's favorite causes, the return of the Tartars to the Crimea, their ancestral home on the Black Sea. Because some Tartars may have collaborated with the Nazis, Stalin in 1945 abolished their republic, uprooted more than 200,000, and shipped them off to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia. The Tartars were rehabilitated in 1967 but, despite persistent pleas, have never been allowed to return to their homeland. Grigorenko loudly decries this policy as a kind of geographic genocide...
...confined its disease-causing activities to the Indonesian island of Celebes. Once this kind of El Tor got under way, it seemed unstoppable. It secured beachheads in South Korea, Taiwan, Red China and Burma. Last year it reached South Viet Nam and Japan. Then it spread into Iran and Uzbekistan. By last August it had climbed the Himalayan foothills into Nepal. It is probably only a matter of time, say worried epidemiologists, before an infected airborne traveler takes El Tor on a jet-propelled trip to the West...
Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
...world. Holland-American Line's Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...
Nosing about the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, whose expedition is viewed by some as a qualifying round for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, drank up the sights in the fabled old Uzbekistan city of Samarkand. In his local ramblings, Lodge communed with the ages in the blue-domed ruins of the Bibi-Khanum Mosque, a 3½-acre wonder built by Tamerlane in 1399-1404 in memory of his favorite wife (of eight...