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...your review "Blood Relatives" [Aug. 9] you say that our brother Alexander Pasternak was a member of Stalin's secret police, the Cheka. As an architect who designed one lock of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Alexander was employed by the Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1936. The NKVD not only controlled all construction projects, like the canal and the metro, but had also taken over the functions of the Cheka. Accordingly, the NKVD uniform that Alexander was obliged to wear carried unpleasant associations, associations he detested because he was afraid of one department being confused with another, more...
...dominant force in the economy but one that has not responded strongly to previous Disney-style fantasy. While 75% of Florida visitors today do not attend Disney World, 80% of this group say that they would be attracted to a center like Epcot. Thus Disney should retain a powerful lock on the American imagination. His heirs can still say, as Walt used to, endlessly, "I count my blessings." -By MichaelDemarest. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Orlando
...able to go to the mountain (Fuji, that is), but the mountainous Takamiyama came to the Lady. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to Asia, was ready to tussle with Japanese officials over matters of state. The Tetsu no Onna (Iron Lady) was not, however, prepared to lock arms with Japan's heftiest Sumo wrestler, Takamiyama, whose name means Mountain of the Lofty View. The 6-ft. 4-in., 448-lb. colossus, born Jesse Kahaulua in Hawaii and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, disarmed Mrs. Thatcher by cuddling her hand in his great paw. "Your hands...
...have come before the council in the past two years, and none have even reached a final vote. Fortunately, the council still has time to act before MIT finalizes plans for the area and becomes protected by law from any subsequent zoning changes. If necessary, the council members should lock themselves in their chambers with the principals and not emerge until a settlement is reached. The time has come for the council to live up to its elected responsibilities...
...commander for a face-to-face meeting with the G.I., it seemed possible that he was not, as the Communists claimed, under their "warm protection" after having "requested political asylum." Late last week, however, the Army concluded officially that White, 20, had shot open the guard-post lock. If, in fact, he walked across the DMZ voluntarily, it would mark the first defection by a U.S. soldier in Korea in 17 years, and the fifth since the Korean War ended...