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Gorbachev's chief political rival, Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, had a darker name for it: "the beginning of the end." That gloomy prognosis suggests that Gorbachev will meet with staunch resistance in conservative quarters if he bows to Lithuania. Andrei Makarov, a well-placed Moscow lawyer, says that the conservatives are milking the messy political situation and that Gorbachev was actually backed into going to Lithuania when, on a suggestion from opposition leader Boris Yeltsin, the Central Committee voted for Gorbachev to head the delegation. In Washington, however, a top Kremlinologist cautions that any talk of Gorbachev's political demise...
...Western sports pages are lousy with Soviets, who are lousy only at baseball. Three more hockey players from the vaunted Red Army team resigned their commissions last week. By the grace of a fresh understanding between Moscow and the National Hockey League, stars Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov are now free to negotiate with the teams that drafted them: the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames (which already employs Sergei Priakin). Only one Soviet applicant has felt the need to defect. Alexander Mogilny saw Buffalo and just couldn't live anywhere else. Shrugging everything off, Soviet...
...last major obstacle to freedom was a towering ridge of Arctic ice, 400 yds. wide and 30 ft. high. The Soviet icebreaker Admiral Makarov, which had been heading home when it was diverted to aid in the rescue, took nearly a day to reduce the barrier to rubble. By late afternoon a sister ship, the Vladimir Arseniev, plowed within 400 yds. of two California gray whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into...
Despite public demands that the trial be turned into an expose of the Brezhnev era, Defense Lawyer Andrei Makarov last week denounced any attempt "to try to judge Brezhnev under Churbanov's name...
...times normal. Officials at last week's news conference said that 135,000 people have been evacuated from an area of more than 300 sq. mi. around the plant. Previous / estimates were 100,000. The evacuees will eventually be housed in 52 villages, most of them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people, and sponsoring agencies, like local farm collectives, are giving them food and clothing. The evacuees were forced to abandon their contaminated belongings when they...