Word: hepner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Soviet students have occasionally been granted permission to study briefly in the U.S., this yearlong exchange represents a glasnost-era breakthrough that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. "Without perestroika, we would not be here in America," says Imbi Hepner, a bouncy 21- year-old education major now at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. The program was initiated by three American college presidents -- Olin Robison of Middlebury, Alice Ilchman of Sarah Lawrence and David Fraser of Swarthmore -- who presented the idea to the Soviet Ministry of Higher Education last year...