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Local Suckers. Two of the mayor's more idiotic henchmen report they have discovered the government inspector, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlyestakov (Austin Pendleton), living incognito in a local hotel. This chap is actually an impecunious government clerk from St. Petersburg, but once he appears, sycophancy reigns supreme. Khlyestakov is a fop with the instincts of P.T. Barnum. He rooks the local suckers of all their ready cash, comes close to seducing the mayor's wife (Sloane Shelton) and daughter (Erin Ozker) and then blows town. Like the tolling of the bell of doom, a resplendent attaché arrives from...
...language in schools and other forms of cultural autonomy for their 48.5 million countrymen. For this, hundreds of Ukrainians in the past decade have been sentenced to terms of up to 14 years in camps or committed to prison lunatic asylums. Still, the names of Valentyn Moroz, Leonid Plyushch, Ivan Svitlychny, Ihor and Iryna Kalynets and other Ukrainian political prisoners are scarcely known in the West. Elsewhere in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, other obscure and often heroic dissidents have also disappeared with equal finality into what George Orwell called "the memory hole." Only one case in a Communist...
...York, James Atwater, Frank Merrick, Ivan Webster and Gerald Clarke pieced together the cables that flowed in all through the weekend and wrote the cover story and accompanying boxes. The package was researched by Edward Tivnan, Marta Dorion and Allan Hill and edited by Marshall Loeb. "An assassination attempt is more than just bad news or the act of a lunatic," says Loeb. "It raises the problem of how to campaign in our free, open society. And it reins in the ability of our President or presidential candidates to move among their followers and get a 'feel...
...Died. Ivan Maisky, 91, Soviet Ambassador to London from 1932 to 1943; in Moscow. A dapper, moonfaced charmer, Anglophile Maisky interpreted Stalin's often twisting policies to the British through the 1930s, forging friendly relations but no alliances with Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive...
...same day, two Roman Catholic Franciscan missionaries mysteriously disappeared: Fathers Michael Jerome Cypher, 35, of Medford, Wisc., a parish priest who had been in Honduras only eight months, and Ivan Betancourt, 35, of Colombia. Now a special investigating commission set up as a result of church pressure has reported that they too were victims of the ranchers' rampage. The commission has charged José Manuel Zelaya (a wealthy landowner), the provincial army commander and two accomplices with murdering the priests...