Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the warmth of glasnost tolerates some public protests, the Soviet Union still finds ways of chilling the passions of its national minorities. The latest target is Latvia, the Soviet Baltic republic forcibly incorporated into the U.S.S.R. in 1940. As Latvian activists prepared for last week's commemoration of their lost independence, Soviet authorities sought to thwart them by trotting out an enigmatic figure from the spy wars of the 1950s: Harold ("Kim") Philby, 75, an Englishman who was the most successful Soviet mole in the British Secret Service...
Rarely seen in public since his defection in 1963, Philby appeared on Latvian television to denounce Western interference in the Baltic. Speaking English with a Russian voice-over, he charged that the West uses Latvian nationalists to sow dissension. His words carry a certain authority. Philby headed British operations against Moscow's agents from 1944 to 1947. His performance, together with police action and counterdemonstrations by Communist Party loyalists, may have had its effect. Last week's demonstrations were desultory compared with protests earlier this year...
...page portfolio of photographs. Deployed from the Baltic coast to the Bering Strait and admitted to places long inaccessible, 100 top photographers spend May 15, 1987, capturing the U. S. S. R. on film. TIME presents a selection from their forthcoming book, which includes the Ukrainian woman above herding geese at dawn and, on the cover, a school program in the Soviet , Far East -- simple yet arresting scenes of daily existence...
...list of Soviet minorities testing glasnost grew by three last week as demonstrators in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia openly marked the 48th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet secret protocol that led to Soviet annexation of the three independent Baltic nations in 1940. Altogether, several thousand people took to the street to chant freedom slogans and sing patriotic songs...
...nearing 60 and the head of a film and videocassette production company, and sends him on a trip to Poland to attend his grandmother's 107th birthday party. He revives the plot and premise of The Flounder and sets five women in charge of a sailing barge on the Baltic Sea, ostensibly testing for the stultification of that body of water by jellyfish pollution but really looking for the underwater feminist city of Vineta. Then there is the matter of acid rain and the death of European forests. That calls for a recurring fantasy involving the Grimm brothers, a host...