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...gimpy stride of a man who had one artificial knee and was about to get another. Suddenly the old Ford Administration political warriors in that audience of more than 4,000 could remember him striding through the snows of Vladivostok in borrowed overshoes, headed for a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev...
...when it seemed so strong and monolithic. Throughout the '70s and most of the '80s, the Soviet Union was what political scientists call a "rational actor," a single entity with a clearly identified central leadership and a predictable, if often disagreeable, pattern of behavior. Sharing the planet with Leonid Brezhnev was no fun, but the West knew that by dealing with him, it could manage its relations with a nation of 280 million...
...Leonid Fridman '92, president of SONG, says Fritschel and Finkelstein should be proud. In fact, he insists that he and his fellow nerds are labeled anal "only by our enemies." The epithet has derived from "pure envy by those orally fixated Harvard students," he says, explaining, "Anal people tend to succeed in life. Others are just envious. It's nothing else...
Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the prototypical born-again nationalist, is in the habit of referring to all Soviet weapons in his republic as "ours." He enjoys pointing out that Ukraine would be the third largest nuclear power on earth, after the U.S. and whatever is left of the U.S.S.R. Kazakhstan would be fourth. Belorussia would be in the next echelon with Britain, France and China...
...goes well with Sobchak's economic reform plans, Chubais predicts a rise in the standard of living in the city by the end of 1992. The question is whether St. Petersburg residents will have the patience to wait that long. Leonid Keselman, a sociologist who specializes in public opinion surveys, believes they will. "The people of this city have suffered for a long time without hope," he says. "Now they have something real to hope for." If Keselman is right, it may be only a matter of time before Peter the Great's old capital reclaims its place among...