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Issue 157 :: Tuesday, December 30, 1997

Arts and Ideas Show offers blessings, allegories
by Nonna Chernyakova	12/30/97 03:04 PM
As a product of Soviet society, Andrei Kamalov was not raised as a good Christian. Yet religion is reflected in his pictures in a very original way.
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Special reports Hunters kill man-eating tiger
by Victor Kholenko	12/30/97 02:56 PM
Hunters tracked down and shot a wounded man-eating Siberian tiger Dec. 24 after it killed two people in the wilderness of northern Primorye.
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Opinion Even in hard times, `walruses` offer hope
The Vladivostok News	12/30/97 03:03 PM
On a cold winter day in Vladivostok it is instructive to walk across the frozen harbor to look at the polar bear swimmers (or "walruses," as the locals call them).
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Business Dalpolimetal to lay off 200
The Vladivostok News	12/30/97 03:02 PM
The largest employer in the northern Primorye city of Dalnegorsk, the ore processing company Dalpolimetal, has announced it will lay off 200 workers out of a staff of 3,000.
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Business FESCO receives largest-ever loan
by Vadim Bratukhin	12/30/97 03:01 PM
The Far Eastern Shipping Company will receive the biggest loan in its history -- $ 93.5 million from European Bank of Reconstruction and Development -- following an agreement signed early this month.
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Special reports Vladivostok cops baptized en masse
The Vladivostok News	12/30/97 03:00 PM
For the first time in the history of Primorye law enforcement, the Russian Orthodox Church baptized local policemen en masse.
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Crime watch Beauty queen attacked with acid
Novosty	12/30/97 03:00 PM
In the third such attack this month, a maniac threw acid in a beauty queen’s face at Far Eastern State University and escaped, leaving her eyes seriously damaged.
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Social life Forgotten prisoners
by Lucy Jones	12/30/97 02:58 PM
Koreans stranded on Sakhalin Island after World War II have started compensation claims against the Japanese government. They long to return to their homeland.
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