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...least three other hijack attempts aboard Soviet civilian aircraft, all involving live gunfire. In 1966, three would-be hijackers were shot at by a Soviet pilot, indicating that crew members are armed at least some of the time. Last June authorities arrested a number of Soviet Jews in Leningrad who were allegedly plotting to escape official harassment by hijacking an airliner...
...society, special groups receive special treatment. Ballet dancers and athletes have a wing of their own in the Moscow Central Institute of Traumatology; the Central Committee of the Communist Party and top government officials have their own hospital and polyclinic. Medical treatment tends to be best in Moscow and Leningrad; it deteriorates in proportion to the distance from the major cities...
Different Priorities. Russian medicine differs greatly from American in emphasis and approach, especially in regard to anesthesia. Russian doctors prefer local anesthetics, particularly in appendectomies and uncomplicated deliveries. Says Polina Kachalova, senior physician at Leningrad's No. 2 Hospital: "We believe general anesthetics are more harmful and that recovery is quicker with local anesthetics." Though surgery is often more traumatic as a result, few Russians seem to complain...
Emergency Stations. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Soviet medicine is its system for emergency care. Each city has a central station (reached by dialing 03) that dispatches ambulances from local substations. Leningrad, which handles as many as 1,800 calls on a winter day, has 120 ambulances at 16 stations spotted about the city. Officials boast that an ambulance can be on the scene from seven to nine minutes after a call is received. Ambulances carry equipment for emergency surgery, care of cardiac patients and "reanimation" in cases of near death. They also carry a medical doctor...
...grandeur in prisons, glory in ruins. (In his memoir, Inside the Third Reich, Speer notes that Hitler took into account how his edifices might look as ruins a thousand years later.) And a debased 18th century neoclassicism, in fact, has long been the universal language of political power from Leningrad to Paris-and even Washington...