Word: leningraders
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...Imagine Franklin Roosevelt going on nationwide radio hook-up . . . and saying the following three months after Pearl Harbor: 'My fellow Americans, Hitler's armies are smashing at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. Russia will be knocked out of the war in the course of the next six to eight weeks . . . The Japanese have just destroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl Harbor and we see no way to stop them...
...adventurous, Eastern Europe provides a wide range of possibilities, from the art treasures of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum to mountain climbing in the Caucasus to inspecting the Transylvanian castle of Vlad the Impaler, the model for Dracula (just turn right at the Borgo Pass). "East Germany is probably the best single buy in travel right now," says Bern Marcowitz, vice president of the Cortell Group, a New York tour organizer who offers a 15-day, four-country tour that starts in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Cost: $712. "Eastern Europe in general is more inexpensive, and it's attracting a lot of Americans...
...also present some painful problems. "What would life be like if we couldn't lie at all," he wonders, "if there were no way we could ever hide our feelings?" One clue to the possible --and eager --beneficiaries of such a world came when Ekman delivered a lecture in Leningrad. Two well-dressed Soviet men asked Ekman many intense questions about his work, then identified themselves as workers in "an electrical institute responsible for interrogation...
...last year's Supreme Soviet session, Gorbachev spent a good deal of time whispering to former Leningrad Party Boss Romanov. The man in charge of heavy industry, which includes defense plants, Romanov is considered a hardliner of the sort favored by the military. He was widely rumored to be a candidate for Defense Minister when the job opened up last year with the death of Dmitri Ustinov, but instead Marshal Sergei Sokolov was chosen. Should the reportedly ailing Sokolov retire or die, Romanov could become the next Defense Minister...
Romanov possesses an abrasive personal style, usually directed at underlings. Members of a U.S. Senate group that met with him in Leningrad in 1978 were shocked at his surly treatment of an interpreter. There is also a scandal in his past: he has been dogged by stories that he borrowed priceless china from Leningrad's Hermitage museum for a daughter's wedding reception and that some pieces were broken. But he is a realist in politics. "Romanov has a controversial reputation, but he will remain a loyalist unless Gorbachev makes a major mistake," says Simes...