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...caption on the front page of yesterday's Crimson gave an erroneous description of a photograph. It depicted, from left to right, Harvard Business School Research Associate Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, Igor Faminsky, Director of the USSR Research Intsitute of External Economic Affairs, and Professor Paul R. Lawrence, of the Harvard Business School...
...contrast, Czechoslovakia took an opening loss to West Germany with a gruff shrug. "They played with a bigger heart," said Jan Starsi, the Czechs' direct and wonderful coach. Surviving both the U.S. and its eight-year-old memory of the Lake Placid miracle, Soviet Assistant Coach Igor Dmitriev said, "We're very glad we won; our opponent was very strong. Our success was only thanks to our best efforts." And, referring to the spirited third-period comeback of the Americans, he added, "We forgot that here in North America, specifically in the U.S., they fight to the very...
Since the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan to prop up a Moscow-installed Communist regime in 1979, more than 20,000 Soviet fighters have died. An estimated 1 million Afghans have lost their lives. Weary of such bloodshed, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev said last November that Moscow had made the "political decision" to pull out its 115,000 troops, but a timetable remains to be worked...
...Soviets have no intention of relinquishing their claims to the sub, but neither do they plan to salvage it, according to Igor Bulay, press attache at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Nor does the U.S. Navy publicly profess any interest in the sub, noting that it was an older model and that the Soviets had ample time to strip it of encrypting devices. Under international law, the Navy says, the wreck belongs to the Soviets unless they expressly abandon it. Then again, the Navy is not likely to say otherwise, even if another salvage operation is in the offing...
...satiric essay called "Igor Stravinsky: The Selected Phone Calls," the humorist Ian Frazier pretends to rummage through old telephone bills for clues to the composer's life. For serious historians, the situation seems less funny. "I know more about the Kennedy assassination than anyone," says William Manchester, author of The Death of a President, "but I know more about the Dardanelles in 1915 than I do about the assassination. In 1915, people put everything on paper. Now, it's all done over the telephone." Notes Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Phone bills won't tell you much, and as a result, contemporary...