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...others, one after another, if the atheistic campaign against Islamic Tripoli does not stop." Another caller warned that the Soviet embassy in Beirut would be blown up if it was not evacuated within 48 hours. A short time later, a passerby found the bloodstained body of Consular Secretary Arkadi Katakov, 32, a gaping bullet wound in his head, near a bombed-out sports stadium in Beirut...
Dvor (The Courtyard) by Arkadi Lvov, 56, has thus far failed to interest American publishers because of its monumental proportions. Still, the two-volume, 800-page novel has already survived a major hazard of emigration. The author managed to smuggle the microfilmed manuscript out of the Soviet Union by concealing it in the handle of a clothesbrush. Now available in Russian in the West, the book is a masterpiece of modern realism. Set in the author's native Odessa, The Courtyard tells the intermingled life stories of ten families that occupy a single tenement house. No other work...
Because Pravda is, in effect, the voice of the party, the paper does not have a government censor. The editors are responsible for blue-penciling incorrect thinking, but they rarely have to. Explains Arkadi Polishchuk, a New York-based émigré who sometimes writes for Pravda: "A Soviet journalist knows what will pass and what won't. He has an 'inner editor' within him. One step out of line and a journalist's career is washed...
Vacation in the Caribbean. A high-priced girlfriend. A luxury Washington apartment. Onetime senior Soviet Diplomat and U.N. Under Secretary-General Arkadi Shevchenko, 48, has hardly maintained a classless society's life-style since he defected to the U.S. last spring. After being debriefed by the CIA, he has not only enjoyed freedom of movement, but also savored the fruits of capitalism. Using at least four aliases and always trailed in public by a CIA or FBI bodyguard, the Ukrainian has been frequenting Washington's bars and discos and relaxing at resorts in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania...
Natalya (Tammy Grimes) is a brittle, self-centered wife. Consumed by ennui, she finds her estate-owning hus band Arkadi (Robert Symonds) a total bore. She whiles away the lazy hours with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...