Word: yars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when you get in, not to get you out of trouble before you get in." And Norman Yar-brough, president of Eastover: "It is not true that inhalation of coal dust necessarily causes any impairment of pulmonary functions...
...monument stands over Babi Yar; A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. -Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Babi Yar...
...three decades poets, writers, musicians and at least one politician in the Soviet Union have called for a monument to be built at Babi Yar, a desolate ravine near Kiev that is a worldwide symbol of Jewish martyrdom. There, on Sept. 29-30, 1941, a 150-man SS extermination team assembled the Jews of the German-occupied capital of the Ukraine, stripped them naked, lined them up on the edge of the ravine and machine-gunned them. Children were thrown into the ravine alive. The team halted only long enough to shovel sand over each layer of bodies. When...
Silent Screams. Yet all efforts to memorialize the victims foundered on the Kremlin's unwillingness to acknowledge that Jews were particular targets of the Nazis. The postwar party chief in the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, publicly promised to erect a monument at Babi Yar, but his plan was forestalled by Stalin's anti-Semitic drives. Even after Khrushchev himself took power in Moscow, Babi Yar remained a refuse-strewn wasteland. Poet Yevtushenko was fiercely rebuked for singling out Jews as victims of the massacre. So was Composer Dimitri Shostakovich, who made Babi Yar a theme of his 13th Symphony...
...attacked by the Central Committee of the Communist Party for "vestiges of bourgeois ideology." He apologized, and two years later won a Stalin Prize. In 1962 he once again aroused the state's displeasure for basing part of his Thirteenth Symphony on Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which denounced the Nazi massacre of Jews outside Kiev...