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...cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight than we can." Says Jonathan...
...FORMER KGB AGENT SEEKS EMPLOYMENT IN SIMILAR FIELD. Tel: Paris 1-442-506 . . ." When spies have to resort to classified ads in French newspapers, times are clearly tough. Now 500 or so former Soviet intelligence agents have decided to network. Headed by onetime KGB Colonel Igor Prelin, the group has < even started its own publishing arm, called Intel. Among the projects in the works: a memoir by a KGB agent who obtained American nuclear secrets, and a book by another who had dealings with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to November...
...standards. $ Their placards carried a warning Yeltsin and his allies cannot afford to ignore: HEY YOU IN CHARGE, STOP ALL THE EMPTY WORDS. WE'RE TIRED OF IT. The fractured forces of democracy don't have much time before "the rattle of empty cooking pans," as trade union leader Igor Klochkov warned, "may prove more terrible than the rattling of the tanks...
Then came the flight. M.S., together with his family, occupied a small compartment in the plane and called me in. Everyone laughed with relief. We were joined by Silayev, Rutskoi, Primakov, Bakatin and Dr. Igor Borisov ((Gorbachev's personal physician)). The talk centered on people, on their behavior in extreme situations, on immorality as a source of all ills. Toasts were proposed to ongoing life. It was then that Gorbachev spoke for the first time the words "We are flying into...
...ties to Saddam were taken into account when President Gorbachev instructed me in early October to go to Baghdad as his personal representative to help resolve the Kuwait crisis. I was accompanied by the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, Igor Belousov. We had two objectives: to reach an agreement to allow our 7,830 military and industrial specialists based in Iraq to leave, and to show Saddam the total hopelessness of refusing to abide by the Security Council's demands. We also wanted to look for a way to bring about the withdrawal of the Iraqi forces from...