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...roughly, the Establishment), which includes perhaps a million people. This privileged group consists of a ruling class -those wielding power in state, party and military circles-and an upper class, comprising party-favored intellectuals, artists and top athletes. Whether they enter this exclusive club via the committee room, the Bolshoi stage or the hockey rink, members of the nachalstvo are assured of hidden perks denied to ordinary citizens...
...illegality, private markets are readily visible in Moscow and other Soviet cities. The gathering place for Moscow apartment hunters is the subway stop on Leningradsky Prospekt. The place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles...
...understandable crusade; for a Muscovite, it is an uncomfortable one. But Dancer Yuri Sherling, 35, seeks a renaissance of Yiddish culture, which, he laments, is "decaying all over the world and has been neglected by many Jews in this country." A graduate of three famed institutes-the Bolshoi Ballet School, the Moscow Conservatory Musical School and the Moscow School of Theatrical Arts-Sherling is director-founder of the two-year-old Jewish Chamber Musical Theater. He has written the music, choreographed the dancing and starred in two hits with his company of 25. One show was an olio of jazzed...
...offered only a 50% discount on Aeroflot in exchange for altering its plan to stay home. No thanks, said the Thais, who, along with other non-Communist Southeast Asian nations, are supporting the boycott. Jordan, which is sending a team to Moscow, was reportedly promised a visit by the Bolshoi Ballet. In South America and Lathi America, the Soviets have let it be known that free room, board arid round-trip Aeroflot charters are available for the asking. That offer was recently extended to African nations, some of which have already received Soviet athletic gear and coaching help to prepare...
...gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...