Word: gregarin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope is a hard kidnap to follow. Hijacking the Kremlin is about the only plot outrageous enough-and that is precisely what a band of Russian dissidents sets out to do in David Lippincott's Salt Mine (Viking; 333 pages; $10.95). Led by the mysterious Alyosha Gregarin and funded by the World Jewish Alliance, amateurs of every faith and skill capture the Kremlin's Oruzheinaya Palata, taking hostage some 50 tourists and the sacred corpse of Lenin. Author Lippincott, who admits to having had "some intelligence connections," knows his Moscow and the schizoid style of its new aristocracy...
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