Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glasnost has made the shortages seem even more acute. Soviet publications have lately devoted page after page to the plague of consumer shortages, documenting their intensity in editorial columns and letting readers vent their rage in letters sections. "Shortages attack us literally from all sides," complained the daily Vechernyaya Moskva. "It seems that soon it will be difficult to name an item that doesn't fall into a shortage category...
...unauthorized journal of comment whose editor had served nine years in prison for his dissident views, was being allowed to circulate freely. In a country for so long enmeshed in secrecy, a publication openly printing what it pleased was certain to be quashed. In early August the paper Vechernaya Moskva (Evening Moscow) accused the new journal of waving "anti- Soviet banners." The future for Glasnost and its editor, Sergei Grigoryants, looked bleak indeed...
...meaning openness or public disclosure), has survived and expanded. Two weeks ago, the second edition of the magazine, now up to 184 pages, was distributed. Among the articles: details of new emigration rules and recent actions by the KGB -- subjects barely covered by the official press. Whether the Vechernaya Moskva article was intended as an official warning is unknown. What is certain is that only two years ago Grigoryants would have been bundled off to a labor camp. Instead, like the editors of the country's 8,500 approved newspapers and 1,500 magazines, he remains at liberty to test...
Last week the Soviets struck back. They barred American diplomats from bathing at Nikolina Gora beach, an hour's drive west of Moscow on the Moskva River. "It is unfortunate that the Soviet government has taken this position," said Mayor Parente, "but I will have no further comment until I meet with the State Department." Talks between Glen Cove and Foggy Bottom officials were scheduled for next week. Complained State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, as much to Moscow as to Mayor Parente: "The U.S. Government is making every effort to have the prohibition by the Glen Cove authorities lifted...
Basketball has long been a wasteland at Harvard, but those days seem emphatically over. Crippled by the worst facility this side of Moskva--the ancient and decrepit Indoor Athletic Building--the hoopsters could not convince any serious ballplayers to spend four years here. But the team has a new arena under construction. Briggs Cage, a few good recruiting years under its belt, and a first-ever Ivy championship within reach. Look for coach Frank McLaughlin (the Bronx's Ambassador to Harvard) and his squad to give traditional powers Penn and Princeton a run for the laurels this year...