Word: leningrader
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...Every tourist at a Moscow Olympic event finds himself brought up short when he looks out and fails to see the deep-blue warm-up suits with the red-and-white USA on the back of the jerseys. The reaction has had its odd consequences. One tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards at Lenin's tomb. They thought...
...object and a breeding machine," they became alarmed. Finally, when the feminists called upon wives and mothers to persuade men not to fight in Afghanistan, the KGB felt compelled to move in on the fledgling women's liberation movement. Secret police agents swooped down on the Leningrad apartments of three editors of the magazine and gave them 24 hours to get out of the Soviet Union or face prison sentences. When the women chose exile, the authorities quickly stripped them of their Soviet citizenship...
...intervention in Europe will result in a total thermonuclear assault on the U.S. After several agonizing seconds, the President decides that he cannot take the chance and refuses to order any of NATO'S missiles into action. Meanwhile, France and Britain launch submarine-based missiles targeted on Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. The Soviets detect the oncoming attack, assume Washington has defied their ultimatum and unleash 50 ICBMs against the U.S. Given only 30 minutes warning, the President now has no choice. He pushes the button. World War III starts and ends within the hour. There are no victors...
...this did not refer to the 53 Americans held hostage since November. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh announced the expulsion of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat accused of spying. He then ordered Moscow to reduce its diplomatic staff in Iran sharply and announced the closing of the Iranian consulate in Leningrad...
...Leningrad gym, a class of ten-year-old schoolgirls begins one of its twice-weekly sessions by executing handstands on the parallel bars. In Moscow's Central Army Sports Club, teams of soldiers exchange their combat boots for skates; a hockey puck is soon cracking like gunfire against the wooden boards. Near by, in Luzhniki Park, a group of middle-aged citizens sets out on a supervised 10-km walk, picking berries along...