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...special stores that sell imported and otherwise scarce goods at very low prices. Behind a door marked 'Office of Passes' on Granovsky Street not far from the Kremlin, a windowless emporium offers a cornucopia of meats, fruits, vegetables and imported delicacies to the shishki (big shots). The average Ivan and Natasha, however, never see such a selection of goods in the stores at which they must shop. When the shishki become ill, they go to the Kremlin Polyclinic for medical care vastly superior to that available to their fellow countrymen...
...Europe. One is Alexander Benyaminov, appointed in 1976 to the data processing section of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a post that puts him in contact with those who possess nuclear secrets. Often the Soviet ambassador to a country is a full-fledged KGB agent. In Greece, he is Ivan Udaltsov, who, while serving as counselor at the Soviet embassy in Prague, helped to crush the Czech reform regime of Alexander Dubcek in 1968. Three months after he arrived in Athens in 1976, Ambassador Udaltsov was accused of funneling $25 million to the Greek Communist Party; unfazed, he called...
...CITY BUILDER by George Konrád Translated by Ivan Sanders Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 184 pages...
...interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader can piece them together. Konrád tries to atone for such cold impersonality by giving his builder a warm, strenuously rhetorical prose style (gracefully rendered by Translator Ivan Sanders). The effect is often striking. Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals in their epaulets and decorations receive the homage of subservient anniversaries. Men reduced to street names meet on this square." Yet when he recounts his surreal dreams, the narrator sometimes...
...York City, number no more than 20. They include such well-known investment houses as Salomon Brothers; Bache Halsey Stuart; Goldman, Sachs; and Lehman Brothers, which make arbitrage purchases for their own accounts, on behalf of wealthy clients, or both. There are also a few individual operators, ike Ivan Boesky, a lawyer, accountant, and security analyst. He set up his own firm two years ago to deal exclusively in arbitrage, and boasts that he works 18 hours a day at the game. Boesky, an immaculate dresser and a devotee of squash who once taught English literature in Iran, made...