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...advent of the dollar has brought dismay even to the party faithful. Riding in an aging Lada to the countryside to buy food, a loyal government employee gripes, "We felt betrayed. Legalizing the dollar favors people who kept ties to their families in Miami, people who were not dedicated to the revolution, people who tried to kill...
...real steps toward privatization, the Soviet government announced last week that it is offering to sell at least 30% of its largest industrial company, Volga Automobile Associated Works, maker of Lada sedans, to a foreign investor. The portion of the company up for sale is worth more than $1 billion. The most likely purchaser is the Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. But the Soviets are not about to miss out on any better offers: they have hired Bear, Stearns, the Wall Street investment banking house, to provide them with some American know-how. Bear, Stearns is bullish on the U.S.S.R. Says...
...writers scheduled to read at the Signet are Pavel Srut of Czecho-slovakia, Mark Bloch of France, Dan Tsalka of Israel, Hernan Lara of Mexico, Dr. O. Sae Yung of Korea and Lada Galina of Bulgaria...
...weight, heats up dramatically and bursts into nuclear flame. Until now though, this has been only a model. But in a report to be published in the Oct. 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers will announce that they finally have supporting evidence. Says Charles Lada, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona: "We've detected what we believe to be the actual collapse of a cloud to form a star very much like...
According to Arizona Astronomer Erick Young, "We chose carbon monosulfide because it is a probe of the densest parts of these clouds." The molecule is most excited when it is most compressed. In the center of the cloud, says Lada, "we found that we were seeing carbon monosulfide in a very excited state." In the outer reaches, though, the molecules were much calmer. There was a dense core at the center of the cloud. It was also clear that there was systematic motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes...