Word: leningraders
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...would come in and see about financial aid for her latest venture, and I would tell her, `I don't see how you will be able to do that'," Illingworth continues. "Then she would pop in two or three weeks later and tell me she was headed for Leningrad or Berlin, or somewhere else...
...much help," admitted Nancy, who was recovering from breast-cancer surgery and mourning the recent death of her mother. "Their face-off was extraordinary," said one who saw the pair in action. "They didn't seem to understand each other." As a result, Nancy decided to tour Leningrad this week only if Raisa did not come along. Instead, Mrs. Reagan's official escort will be Soviet President Andrei Gromyko's wife Lidiya. Perhaps compatibility charts should have been drawn: Raisa, a Capricorn ("overexacting, rigid"), vs. Nancy, a Cancer ("touchy, unforgiving...
...women seem largely undisturbed by issues of power, self-worth and recognition," says Smolowe. "They simply endure." Still, their prospects have improved dramatically under Gorbachev, notes Reporter-Researcher Sally B. Donnelly, who saw the plight of Soviet women while she was a student at the State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. "Today Soviet women are earning higher salaries, and some are able to take advantage of flexible work hours that allow them more time for family responsibilities," says Donnelly. "I think Gorbachev realizes that women are crucial to his economic reforms." Soviet women, including a certain TIME reader we know, probably...
Many seem resigned to that situation. "Women are not suited for administrative positions overseeing men," says Maria Shaulov, 39, who was an architect in Leningrad before moving to New York City last October. Her view is typical even among the educated. "Somehow I feel that for a woman to be the boss is against the natural order...
Soviet authorities were peeved by Reagan's invitation to the refuseniks. Said Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky: "This is hardly aimed at improving mutual understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R." In Leningrad two dissidents who had been invited to Spaso House were questioned by the KGB until their train left for Moscow...