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...Soviet fighting machine may not be as awesome as the one that NATO strategists sometimes conjure up. When the situation in Poland deteriorated in December 1980 and Soviet divisions were put in a heightened state of readiness, the Carpathian, Baltic and Byelorussian military districts called up reservists. According to unconfirmed reports, the exercise was a shambles. Many failed to show up, and some who responded to the call-up deserted rather than spend cold nights in tents. By the end of January 1981, five of the ten top posts in commands bordering on Poland had changed hands, a signal that...
...charted the course from St. Petersburg and Moscow, across the Volga, the Urals and Siberia to the empire's frontier on the Pacific Ocean. The photographs then take the viewer back through Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Crimea to Russia's western borderlands at the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea. This approach permits Obolensky to include some of the exotic peoples and tribes that, like the Russians who colonized them, have long since lost much of their cultural distinctiveness. Another kind of excursion was plotted by the late English scholar Max Hayward, whose introduction covers...
Born in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a city of 60,000 in the Carpathian Mountains, Comaneci began her training with Béla Károlyi and his wife Marta, the gymnastic coaches at a special sports lycée in her home town. They had spotted her frolicking in a kindergarten playground and been impressed by her lack of fear. She was six years old. "At first it was like a game," said Nadia last week, showing no trace of nostalgia for those presumably more carefree days. "But by the age of eight," Coach Károlyi noted, "the students...
...bones of Bram Stoker, Count Dracula (Udo Kier) is a vegetarian, fussy about his daily diet, and dying for a heartening draught of blood from an unspoiled young woman. Anton, the count's assistant, insists on classifying young ladies of this type as "wirgins," in his Carpathian accent. The count's homeland being fresh out of them, Anton suggests moving to Italy, where the influence of "Holy Mother Church" promises countless young maidens...
...presence a reader might expect, but a slim, rather unformidable fellow with light blue eyes who smiles a lot. A man whom Susan Sontag has sponsored as a guru of Now happens to be the son of a Greek Orthodox priest, raised in a small Rumanian village in the Carpathian Mountains. True, he went to Paris as a graduate student of philosophy in 1937. But he is in Paris, not of it. He scrapes by as a translator and manuscript reader. He never met Camus. He does not know Jean-Paul...