Word: dnepropetrovsk
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...scene like a comet. In her first ever international competition, she won last year's world championships in Prague. And this is, of course, her first Olympics. But her life must change. She came up the hard way. Her childhood will shortly be folklore: her father disappeared from Dnepropetrovsk when she was two; her mother died at 36 of cancer when Oksana was 13, leaving the child without blood relations to turn to. Her coach was the next to vanish -- emigrating to Canada to seek a better future than struggling Ukraine could offer. It was then that Zmievskaya took over...
...only early returns were from six Soviet military bases in Kiev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and Donet- sk. The referendum carried there easily, with support ranging from 80.4 percent in Dnepropetrovsk to 97 percent in Kiev, said military spokesperson Vladimir Korkodim...
...Gorbachev's mentor, was particularly evident in the new leader's Politburo choices. First among them, in terms of seniority, was Viktor Chebrikov, 62, Andropov's handpicked successor as head of the KGB. Chebrikov was trained as a metallurgical engineer, then labored as a Communist Party functionary in Dnepropetrovsk before Andropov made him a KGB deputy chairman in 1968. Chebrikov is well chosen as a guardian of Communist conformity: in 1981 he railed against the "contamination of Soviet youth by Western ideas" and has since waged campaigns against "reactionary theological concepts," meaning religion, and against "Zionism." He was elevated...
While American restaurant food is now the world's most cosmopolitan, a Russian meal is almost as hard to buy in the U.S. as a Big Mac in Dnepropetrovsk. This vacuum can be filled by the home cook, with lively guidance from Darra Goldstein's delightful A la Russe (Random House; $16.95). The 15 Soviet republics have an extraordinarily diverse cuisine, embracing the cookery of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, representing regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite...
...away for years in mental hospitals, like the notorious Serbsky Institute in Moscow. There low-calorie diets and drug treatments produce pain and suffering as acute as more physical methods of repression. One dissenter, Cybernetics Specialist Leonid Plyushch, now living in Paris, testified that he was kept in the Dnepropetrovsk Special Hospital for 30 months after getting a spurious diagnosis of "torpid schizophrenia" with "reform-making illusions." Plyushch saw beatings applied to other patients. He himself received insulin and heavy doses of sulfur which caused "discomfort so intense that all you could do was endlessly search for a new position...