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...Stars are the NHL's most improved team, the Canadiens the team most likely to succeed (and succeed, and succeed...). Even when mired in the depths of their slump, the Habs still found enough to beat the surrogate Soviet national squad--i.e., the Red Army--when the descendents of Kornilov fell to the descendents of Cournoyer, 4-2, in a New Year's Eve game that meant something...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein and Jim Hershberg, S | Title: Drawn and Quartered | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

...faces a sentence that ranges from ten years in prison to an unlikely extreme of execution if he is convicted, and Attorney Dubrovskaya probably could not get him off even if she seriously attempted to. After all, he has already been convicted in the Soviet press. Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov, for instance, insists that he will be found guilty because he helped a foreign state (meaning the U.S.) in hostile activities against the Soviet Union. Moscow radio's foreign-language broadcasts have frequently cited "facts" to "demonstrate" his guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Unordinary Case | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Soviet press fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: Cold War? Nyet. But It's Getting Chilly | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Reassured by constitutional reforms, he sided with the regime and was elected to the Duma (Parliament) in 1912. When repression increased again during World War I, Kerensky began to speak out against the Czar, and in the revolution that followed, eventually took over the provisional government. When General Lavr Kornilov-whom Kerensky had appointed commander of the army-attempted an unsuccessful coup d'etat, Kerensky lost face by turning to the Bolsheviks for help. Deriding Kerensky's weakness and taking full credit for crushing the coup, the Bolsheviks gained the support of enough revolutionary elements to climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 22, 1970 | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...Russian Secret Agents George Pavlov and Leonid Kornilov reappeared. They had been locked up in 1942 for trying to kill Ambassador von Papen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Harum-Scarum | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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