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...still vividly remembered and celebrated. Military themes pervade Soviet literature, cinema and television. Beyond that, the might of the Kremlin's military juggernaut alone gives the Soviet Union legitimate claim to superpower rank. There is much pride but little exaggeration in the statement by Moscow's Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov that "the Soviet military has everything it needs to fulfill worthily its sacred mission ... The Soviet Union has the military capability to complement its foreign policy...
...member of the power elite. Brezhnev was a major general. Andrei Gromyko was Ambassador to the U.S. Today, however, none of these tough, hard-working old leaders is exceptionally robust. Brezhnev, at 73, suffers from several illnesses, including arteriosclerosis. Alexei Kosygin, 76, has had two heart attacks. Dmitri Ustinov, 71, is currently ailing. "When Brezhnev dies the rest of the Politburo will be gone with the wind," says one Soviet bureaucrat...
...West are religious in content. Young religious rights activists are bolder than their elders. The official Communist response to new religious stirrings has been modified reprisal. Five of the Christian Seminar members are under arrest; others are being harassed or undergoing forced "psychiatric" treatment. In January authorities arrested Father Dmitri Dudko, a Moscow priest whose fiery sermons attacked official atheism. In what dissidents consider a pre-Olympics "cleanup," many other prominent Orthodox believers were rounded up in late 1979 and early 1980. Among them: Father Gleb Yakunin, an Orthodox priest who appealed to the regime and the World Council...
...Good Samaritan on the dangerous road of modern leadership who stops too long to minister to a few fallen persons (the hostages) may harm his nation-or never get to his destination. Turning away from evil (the Shah) may invite a greater evil (the Ayatullah Khomeini). Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov seems to be inheriting more of the world than are the meek...
...CONTRAST to such special effects, several artists create a physical obstacle course for subway patrons. David Phillips collects granite boulders and deposits them at random on the plaza at Porter Square. (Harvard's own) Dmitri Hadzi amasses sculptures composed of objects--mostly fragments of building materials--found in the Cambridge area...