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...Olga Korbut, 23, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and now works for the Byelorussian State Sports Committee, and Leonid Bortkevich, 28, lead vocalist of Pesnyary, the Soviet Union's top folk-rock group: a son, their first child; in Minsk. Name: Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...events. The book assumes, for example, that Iran, led by the Shah, would support NATO strongly.) As this history develops, open revolt among the satellite nations and within the Soviet Union splits the country into republics, but not before an ICBM destroys Birmingham, England, and a counter-strike obliterates Minsk. The realignment after the war leaves Moscow's former do main Balkanized and at peace, but Africa remains tumultuous. Depending on what course China-Japan takes, say the generals, it seems likely that the conflict leading to World War IV may not be be tween East and West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FOSMEF | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has been trying to "forget the bad things." But last week, testifying for the first time in public about President Kennedy's assassin, she recounted their life together, from the day they met at a dance in Minsk to the time of his death, two days after he killed Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Facing the Bad | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...that U.S. intelligence sources would find Oswald's reasons for wanting to return to the U.S. credible. It never explains, however, exactly why the KGB was willing to help Oswald be repatriated or why it aided his Russian wife Marina, the niece of a military official in Minsk, in going to America with him. Nor does it imply that Oswald acted on KGB orders in killing President Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Was Lee Oswald a Soviet Spy? | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

MARRIED. Olga Korbut, 22, petite, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics; and Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with a popular Byelorussian folk-pop group called "Pesnyary"; she for the first time, he for the second; in Minsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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