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...themes provided some answers. One girl wrote that she would "travel about the country on business. Flowers, Paris, beauty. I'd spend the summer in the Crimea. I'd wear clothes made in the West. I'd have children, a car and a diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will...
...health arose from the fact that he has not been seen or heard from since he began his vacation at an undisclosed location on July 15. The new Soviet leader has issued no policy statements and summoned no leaders from the Warsaw Pact for private chats in the Crimea, as did Leonid Brezhnev during his summer vacations. Chernenko also passed up the opening ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, Moscow's answer to the Los Angeles Olympics, letting Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev preside in his place. None of this proved that Chernenko's health, already frail...
Aksyonov's first novel to appear in English since his exile is The Island of Crimea, published by Random House last
...satiric fantasy, the Black Sea peninsula has become an island off the Soviet mainland, something like capitalist Taiwan in relation to Communist China. In broad strokes Aksyonov contrasts the glittering hedonism of the islanders to the squalid austerity that prevails on the Soviet mainland. In Aksyonov's fancy, Crimea is the hog heaven of the conspicuous consumer. Dom Perignon flows like vodka in the luxury cafés and restaurants. Ferraris and Cadillacs jam the freevays on veekends. (In the original, Aksyonov used the English words transliterated into Russian.) Glass-and-steel houses cling to the island...
...them invited by the Supreme Soviet; twelve peripatetic New England newspaper editors; Film Director Alan Pakula, who was screening his film Sophie's Choice for Soviet film makers; and eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Me., who was on her way Andropov a youth camp in the Crimea. Samantha had written to Yuri Andropov in April, and he answered with an invitation to visit his country at Soviet expense...