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...Americans. Marketing savvy has served Bubka well, establishing him not only as a man of the world record, but also as a man of the world, who maintains for his family a pied-a-terre in Berlin, a condo in Monaco and an apartment in his hometown of Donetsk...
...seeing Bubka's ambitions solely in terms of material gain is to ignore the depth of his attachment both to his sport and to Ukraine. In addition to his athletics club in Berlin, where he conducts much of his own training, he runs the Bubka sports club in Donetsk, which sponsors 35 coaches and more than 200 children. Each February he also puts together an invitational in Donetsk, in which vaulters from all over the world compete. "I had a dream to do this for our young people," he says. "With changes in my country, many coaches have resigned because...
...awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned $2 a week and she could not support her baby daughter. Now married to a Serbian pimp, she says, "So many Ukrainian women would welcome the chance I am getting...
Several heads have already rolled, Tass official news agency reported. It said the party chief and mayor of Stakhonov in the Donetsk basin "were forced to leave their posts," apparently under pressure from strikers...
...Republic it appeared that at least 40 of 175 districts would have only one candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev made a hasty trip to the region, where he exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...