Grenade-Throwing Becomes Soviet School Sport
In Dushanbe and other Soviet cities students learn to hurl practice grenades as a formal part of physical education. From age 14 they grip, run, and launch wooden or rubber devices, aiming for 60 to 70 meters for men and 40 to 50 for women, part of a 140 hour military routine ending in tenth grade.
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Egypt to Move Mummies to Dignified Resting Place
Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports Egypt plans to relocate 27 royal mummies from the Cairo Museum to a new Museum of Egyptian Civilization on Samalek Island in the Nile. Construction begins in 1984 with a mausoleum to reflect the kings' dignity, aiming to end repeated grave looting and preserve pharaonic tombs.
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