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...coming off his second $2 million season, and who has dominated men's tennis for the past year and a half, first-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia and Connecticut stirs minimal conversation at Wimbledon. His aversion to grass is as well known as its aversion to him, but doubts about Lendl run much deeper than the surface. Breaking through against McEnroe at the U.S. Open last summer seems to have brought him only slightly more confirmation than doing it at the French the year before. Maybe McEnroe, 27, is missed by Lendl, 26, most of all. Without a definitive adversary...
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the ensuing Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine was carved up among the Soviet Union. Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. While the Poles and Romanians repressed their Ukrainian populations, persecution was even worse in the Soviet-controlled eastern portion...
...population numbers approximately 50 million people, of which 2.3 million live in the capital, Kiev. Ukraine is bordered on the south by the Black Sea; on the west and southwest by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania; and on the north and northeast by Byelorussia and Russia. It covers more than 230,000 square miles...
Ukrainians are renowned for being fiercely nationalistic. During the past three centuries, the Russian empire, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia have ruled all or part of Ukraine with an iron fist. In 1933, a famine, killing an estimated seven million Ukrainian villagers, took place under Stalin's control...
...future leaders. Most of the aging party chiefs will almost certainly be replaced by technocrats in the Gorbachev mold. In Bulgaria, for example, Mining Engineer Chudomir Alexandrov, 49, has just been promoted to the powerful post of central committee secretary, and looms as a potential successor to Zhivkov. In Czechoslovakia a quiet changing of the guard is under way. Says a highly placed official in his 40s: "The older ones are going, and we're taking over." In Hungary the fading power and health of Janos Kadar, 73, are sparking a succession debate at the top level of leadership. Some...