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...average Soviet citizen is the star of Wheel of Fortunoff, hosted by the beautiful Vanna Red. Three contestants compete to decipher a patriotic slogan, spinning a wheel to win prizes such as a new potato harvester, a guided tour of Lenin's tomb, or a mink coat (with only a six-month wait). Competition is keen, as the consolation prize is a tanning session in scenic Chernobyl...
...respected correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, had been receiving persistent phone invitations to meet with a Soviet acquaintance named Misha. Daniloff, who was busy packing to leave Moscow after a 5 1/2-year stint, kept putting Misha off. Finally they arranged to meet in a park in the Lenin Hills near Daniloff's apartment. As they walked, Misha edgily pressed into Daniloff's hands an envelope he said contained newspaper clippings. Daniloff gave Misha a goodbye gift: two books of horror stories by Stephen King. That was when Daniloff's own horror tale began...
...Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that the KGB staged the Lenin Hills charade without consulting the top political leadership. Most U.S. analysts were incredulous that such an important arrest could have been made without Gorbachev's knowledge. Says former CIA Director William Colby: "The most interesting thing about this is how it shows the power of the KGB. You have Gorbachev...
Signs of the strategy are evident everywhere, from the prominently displayed statues of Lenin and paintings of Stalin in Addis Ababa to the controversial policies that are creating peasant cooperatives across the countryside. A new constitution, to be adopted later this year, will enshrine the Soviet-oriented ruling Workers' Party of Ethiopia as the "guiding force of the state and the entire society." Says a Western diplomat: "Under the new constitution, Mengistu will have more power than the late Emperor." Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Soviet, East European and Cuban advisers are stationed throughout the Ethiopian armed forces and government...
...Soviet Union may have wanted to end the dispute because low oil prices have reduced its revenues from petroleum exports. Now the financially squeezed Soviets will be able to issue bonds in London's capital market for the first time since the days of Lenin...