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...could the Maxim Gorky, which was equipped with radar and other modern navigational aids, encounter so serious a mishap? Norwegian experts suggested that the ship, commanded by Captain Marat Galimov, who apparently was on his first voyage in the Arctic seas, may have been cruising at excessive speed. When it struck the ice, according to Senja captain Sigurd Kleiven, the Soviet ship was steaming at about 18 knots in an area where Norwegian maritime officials say no more than 3 to 5 knots is advisable at this time of year. Said Bjorn Sorensen, a Lutheran parish priest on Spitsbergen...
...revolution is fixed in the collective psyche of the nation. Ask any Frenchman to free-associate: he automatically recites, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." Then comes a torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...
Despite all the ferment, there is some reason to question whether fundamental change has taken place. The psychiatric leadership is still old line. The All-Union Scientific Center for Mental Health is headed by Dr. Marat Vartanyan, a longtime protege of Snezhnevsky's. And Moscow's Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, which has been responsible for many of the forced hospitalizations, remains under the command of Dr. Georgi Morozov, as it has for decades. Critics doubt there can be any real reform until those two leaders and others trained by Snezhnevsky are replaced...
...tremendous impetus to mankind's progress" that came from the French and Russian revolutions. "But," he added -- and a listener should always lean forward when Gorbachev begins a sentence with that conjunction -- "today we face a different world, for which we must seek a different road to the future." Marat may have been bemused, but Lenin most likely froze in mid-scowl...
Although the political ideas are overwhelmed by the tide of general insanity, the play on the whole is gripping and provocative. Simonne Evrard sits in her spectators' box, coolly removed from the raging inmates. In one corner, Marat squats in his tub. In the other, Sade leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual...