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...Soviet students are slotted into distinct scholastic groups; only one of every five applicants wins entry into one of the country's 63 universities or 800 technical institutes. Competition is especially stiff for the top universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions...
...U.S.S.R. handles as many cases as it can by outpatient treatment. Nonetheless, statistics gathered in Leningrad and Moscow indicate that 1½% of the population is in mental hospitals at any given time, for an average stay of 60 days. The comparable U.S. figures are .8% and 30 days. Western visitors are generally impressed by the large number of staff members available. Says Dr. Gerald Klerman, the U.S. Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health administrator: "There are a good many nonprofessionals feeding, walking and checking on patients. They use the hospital system as a way to keep down unemployment...
...rhetoric of women's lib may be little known in the U.S.S.R., but the battle of the sexes seems to be heating up. One recent underground feminist publication issued by bitter women in Leningrad attacked the typical Soviet husband as a brutal, drunken, selfish lout. The document charged that "the male contribution in the home is almost nonexistent. Any man who even knows how to hammer a nail is considered a rarity...
...burglary, and one out of ten murders. In Georgia last year two girls of 15 were charged with killing two other teen-agers just to get their prized blue jeans. In Belorussia, eleven youths were arrested after a rampage in which they beat a policeman to death. In Leningrad vandals thought to be youths smashed 29 statues in the garden of the Summer Palace...
...Leningrad study found that in most families of youthful offenders one or both parents had a drinking problem. According to an official Soviet report, 84% of young people begin drinking before the age of 16. Because of the high divorce rate and because most wives have jobs, youngsters are too frequently left to their own devices. The days of the extended family, when Babushka (Grandmother) was a stabilizing influence, are disappearing...