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DIED. Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Leningrad and Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...
...Mark Dymshits, 38, Eduard Kuznetsov, 30, and nine others, all but two of them Jewish, were tried in Leningrad for planning to hijack a Soviet airliner to Sweden. Although the group never set foot on the plane, Dymshits and Kuznetsov drew death sentences, commuted to 15 years' imprisonment. The others received sentences ranging front one to ten years...
...seat amphitheater and other facilities for the event. As newsmen and chess aficionados from all over began to gather, much of the early betting was not on who would win but on just how many of the Soviets accompanying Anatoly Karpov, 27, the slim, intense defending champion from Leningrad, were actually intelligence agents. The chief of the Russian group, Victor Baturinsky, an ex-KGB colonel who heads the Soviet Chess Federation, was surely not saying-and would scarcely let Karpov utter a word either. "We are here to play chess, not to talk," he scowled to newsmen. "Even...
Though they are a generation apart, Korchnoi and Karpov both grew up in Leningrad, and both are products of the vast Soviet chess bureaucracy. The U.S.S.R. promotes the game as "a weapon of intellectual culture." A network of chess clubs has produced, at latest count, 4 million players, among them 608 masters and 38 grand masters...
Nicholas Bloembergen. Rumford Professor of Physics, decided to cancel his planned three-and-a-half week tour of the Soviet Union in June, which included a lecture in Leningrad and visits to several laboratories around the country...