Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeten the possibly bitter summit, Carter made a two-day stopover in Rome on the way to Venice and planned three days of sightseeing, fence mending and felicities afterward. The first stop: Yugoslavia, where he would try to make amends for his much criticized decision not to attend President Josip Broz Tito's funeral last month. Next: Spain and Portugal, as a way of celebrating their evolution from dictatorships to democracies...
...Asia. It is for this reason that the most intense manifestation of Russian xenophobia is Sinophobia. On the streets of Moscow, for example, the occasional Chinese visitor inspires something palpably different from and deeper than the resentment that Muscovites display toward the thousands of Third World exchange students who attend Patrice Lumumba Friendship of Peoples University. Those foreigners are unpopular because they have access to hard-currency stores, and because of their comparatively generous government stipends and their notoriety as black marketeers. On a bus or a metro car, a dark-skinned foreigner will often hear someone behind him muttering...
...unless Professor Snezhnevsky diagnoses it." That theory has proved convenient to the KGB, particularly since Soviet law allows for compulsory commitment by the courts when the accused has been classified as mentally ill. Indeed, the proceeding may be held without the dissident because he is considered too sick to attend. Thus, as Reich says, "dissenting views are pronounced the sick products of sick minds...
...burials are accompanied by a church service, and one out of six babies is baptized. In the Kharkov cathedral there are 120 to 170 baptisms every Sunday. Today the Russian Orthodox Church has 73 bishops, 10,000 priests and, according to U.S.S.R. government estimates, 30 million members who regularly attend services. Some Orthodox priests put baptized membership at 60 million...
Starting at age seven, school children must take part in two 45-minute physical education classes weekly. By age ten or eleven, those who show promise attend one of 5,000 "junior sports schools" operated after regular classroom hours. One result of this early introduction to sport and fitness is the development of an enthusiasm for athletics that encompasses the whole society...