91. Discussions between the UK and Vietnam were expected to begin in July. 92. The trial of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Khmara, which began in May, was repeatedly postponed as Khmara claimed that the judges were biased against him. 93. Other signs that a power struggle was under way included an announcement in July that the KPRP congress, due to begin in December, had been postponed. 94. The campaign for the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominations began in earnest during February with the holding of the first caucuses and primary elections. 95. The repatriation operation would begin in mid-May. 96. A nationwide strike by medical workers beginning in April intensified during May and achieved backing from the Federation of Independent Trade Unions. 97. Fighting which had begun in August between Georgian troops and Abkhazian separatists in the autonomous region of Abkhazia threatened in September to draw Russia into conflict with Georgia. 98. This was the highest number of convictions in one year since the present record began in nineteen forty five. 99. It begins in social conditions exactly like those in Britain now. 100. The first session of our training began in February when the weather was freezing cold and there was a hail storm. |