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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firms -- including Chevron, Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson -- signed an agreement for as many as 25 joint ventures involving about $10 billion over the next 20 years. Although the agreement specified ways that profits could be taken out of the Soviet Union in hard currency and not just held in worthless rubles, joint ventures still face enormous difficulties. Ford Motor Co. pulled out of the consortium because, a spokesman said, it was unable to persuade "the Soviets to adopt new and innovative financial arrangements...
...knows how many patients are being held in Soviet mental hospitals solely because of their political beliefs. In the past few weeks alone, a visitor encountered several possible cases. One man, for example, claimed that his son had been hospitalized for resisting the draft. Another young man said he had just been released after spending two months in a mental ward for refusing on religious grounds to enter the military. While hospitalized, he said, he was given sulfazine, a powerful drug that has no apparent effect other than inducing a high fever...
Bush is genuinely fascinated by Soviet affairs. He has frequently held private weekend seminars with experts on the subject, and he chose card- carrying Kremlinologists for the top two jobs on the National Security Council staff. One of the first documents Bush signed as President was an order to the Executive Branch to reassess relations and recommend a strategy that looks ahead to the next century. The review is supposed to be an American answer to Gorbachev's "new thinking." Yet to meet that challenge, the study may have to work its way free of attitudes and assumptions that could...
...militia and bulldozers to break up and bury an outdoor show of unofficial art in Sokolniki, a park on the outskirts of Moscow. This goons' picnic would not be repeated today. The socialist realist line, imposed by Stalin after 1929 and kept to the end of Brezhnev's reign, held that a work of art should fulfill the criteria of partinost (party spirit), ideinost (firm commitment to prescribed ideology) and narodnost (true portrayal of the life, soul and spirit of the people). It has now been undone. "Dissident" modernism became a talisman only because it was repressed; once tolerated...
...auction of Soviet contemporary art held, amid vast hype, by Sotheby's in Moscow last July was seen by the West as a vindication of dissident artists but by many of the artists themselves as divisive and even dispiriting. Some lots went for unheard-of sums; the painter Grisha Bruskin, whose work had been comfortably selling in America for just over $40,000, saw a large multipanel piece called Fundamental Lexicon go for $415,000, an event that caused much skeptical talk both inside and outside the ministry. Landscapes by Svetlana Kopystiansky, and her husband Igor's assemblages...