Word: igor
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...Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory worker Vladimir Shorikin. Igor Shepelevich, director of a computer-chip plant, explained that new strikes could pretty well close down Estonia. "The republic's railroads, airports, seaports and power systems are all run by Russians," he pointed out. In Moldavia recent strikes by Russians left tomatoes rotting in fields and railroad cars standing empty at stations, worsening...
Last week Danny Reed took Igor Morozov, 23, to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. They found the name of Reed's friend Ivan Smith, killed in 1965. Morozov tenderly ran his fingers over the engraved name and left a carnation there. The two veterans embraced, then walked away...
...moment, Western sports pages are lousy with Soviets, who are lousy only at baseball. Three more hockey players from the vaunted Red Army team resigned their commissions last week. By the grace of a fresh understanding between Moscow and the National Hockey League, stars Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov are now free to negotiate with the teams that drafted them: the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames (which already employs Sergei Priakin). Only one Soviet applicant has felt the need to defect. Alexander Mogilny saw Buffalo and just couldn't live anywhere else. Shrugging everything...
...crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores by many of the century's great composers. His musical foundation holds the world's most important % collection of Igor Stravinsky's papers. While Hoffmann-La Roche officials have not disclosed what will happen to the Sacher stock after the couple dies, the shares could go into a foundation that would protect the company from possible takeover attempts...
...from wrong. The U.S.S.R. has long been a society that is not just puritanical but almost completely ignorant about sexuality. The typical Soviet woman has nine abortions not because of liberal attitudes but because the procedure is a substitute for contraception, which is essentially unavailable. Says Igor Kon, a founding father of Soviet sociology and the nation's leading -- and perhaps only -- sexologist: "If you want to imagine the atmosphere in the Soviet Union, imagine a world before Kinsey -- even before Freud...