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...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...
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...
...Moskva, a Soviet carrier, steamed closer to Lebanon in obvious support of the Syrian troops. At the same time, the aircraft carrier Independence and two other U.S. warships sailed through the Suez Canal into the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier Forrestal was also in the area, with a task force that included 1,500 U.S. Marines. The State Department instructed American embassy employees in Beirut to send their dependents home, and advised other Americans to leave. Calling U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert a conflict "a long shot," Secretary of State Alexander Haig warned gloomily: "Time is running...
...were some less than bright spots. Super Series '79, a media extravaganza in the guise of a three-game battle between the Soviet National Team and the best the NHL had to offer, ended in a humiliating 6-0 victory for the poised, tireless, quick-passing rink-rats from Moskva amd environs. Attendance declined notably in some NHL cities, and why Colorado still has a franchise when about 5000 fans show up per game--some by accident, no doubt--remains a mystery...