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...machine guns. Since July, short-wave radio operators in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere have been tormented by a mysterious radio beam that Western intelligence sources say emanates from what is probably the world's most powerful transmitter: a 2 million-watt Soviet military radar station near Kiev...
Although they are still operating it at full power, the Russians have cut back the Kiev buzz saw's schedule from hours at a time to scattered one-and two-minute bursts. To stem criticism, they are also dodging vital safety service and amateur frequencies. "It's become a cat-and-mouse game," says Douglas Spalt, an FCC treaty branch official. Meanwhile, Western states can do little else about the big noisemaker except ask for cooperation...
...three decades poets, writers, musicians and at least one politician in the Soviet Union have called for a monument to be built at Babi Yar, a desolate ravine near Kiev that is a worldwide symbol of Jewish martyrdom. There, on Sept. 29-30, 1941, a 150-man SS extermination team assembled the Jews of the German-occupied capital of the Ukraine, stripped them naked, lined them up on the edge of the ravine and machine-gunned them. Children were thrown into the ravine alive. The team halted only long enough to shovel sand over each layer of bodies. When...
...high, the memorial consists of eleven bronze statues representing such figures as a Communist guerrilla fighter, a Red Army soldier with clenched fist, and a sailor shielding an old woman. A plaque reads: "Here in 1941-1943 the German Fascist invaders executed over 100,000 citizens of Kiev and prisoners of war." The Jews are nowhere mentioned or portrayed, thus underscoring rather than answering Yevtushenko's plaint: "Everything here screams in silence...
...that Catherine is just beginning to enjoy peace, at the age of 47, the absolute mistress of everything from Kiev to Kamchatka has found a new specimen of what the Russians call a vremenshchik (man of the moment). He is Pyotr Zavadovsky, 37, her private secretary, who has moved into the traditional consort's suite just below the Empress's own chambers (and connected to them by a green-carpeted circular stairway). Where does that leave His Serene Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black...