Word: hartman
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That excitement is understandable. Gorbachev's reform campaign represents potentially the most wrenching transformation in the lives of Soviet citizens since World War II. But can he succeed? Many Western experts are doubtful. Predicts former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman: "Russian history will prove stronger than the modernizers. Real reform means distribution of power away from the center, away from the party. I don't think those guys will accept that voluntarily." Some students of Soviet history, noting that periods of reform have typically alternated with periods of reaction, suggest that Gorbachev's policies may proceed for a while...
...Arthur Hartman, who until earlier this year was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, is particularly troubled by the unwarranted optimism he believes has erupted. "The little evidence we have is that this guy Gorbachev is a pretty orthodox fellow." Moscow's global ambitions and its "centralized authoritarian rule" seem unlikely to change, he says. "The Soviet Union is our antagonist and will be for the indefinite future...
DIED. Elizabeth Hartman, 45, high-strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
...Board is chosen. If the pro-divestment petition candidates do well this year, despite these manuevers to manipulate the vote outcome, you can be we'll see all kinds of recommendations aimed at making such challenges to traditional power at Harvard somewhere between difficult and impossible. Chester W. Hartman...
Most candidates' voter statements have in past years been bland statements of "fondness" for the University, Hartman said. "In previous years, it's been customary to say nothing. But this year, they've wanted to say something...