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...Kremlinologists scrutinized the lineup of Politburo members waiting to greet Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski, they noticed a subtle, but possibly important, change. Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a burly, longtime crony of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's, occupied the No. 3 position in the receiving line. Only Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, whose presence was required by protocol, stood closer to the ailing Soviet leader. The white-maned Chernenko's commanding position set off speculation that he had won a round or two in the behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the 75-year-old Brezhnev. At the same time...
Indeed, the Soviets are eager to have the meeting demonstrate that the crisis over Poland has passed. In a conciliatory speech, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov said last week, "The Soviet Union is not seeking confrontation. We are doing everything we can to direct the course of events into constructive dialogue." Haig, mindful of appearing soft on the issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...
...born in Russia and father of an associate professor of music and director of the electronic music program at Harvard. The piece lasts a mere five minutes but has enough zest to make up for the Tanayev (which isn't all that bad). In fact, Alexander Tcherepnin's father, Nikolai Tcherepnin, taught Prokofiev, although the trio was composed before Alexander had written his most mature works, stemming from his interest in the music of Japan and Shanghai in the 1930s...
...French style. Taneyev visited Paris in 1877-78; Tcherepnin did the same in 1921 because of political troubles in Tibilisi, where he had moved. The Tcherepnin trio shows the influence of contemporary French composers like Darius Milhaud. But the trios resemble each other only insofar as Tcherepnin's father Nikolai was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, who had been friends with Taneyev. It is unlikely, though, that Taneyev had a significant influence on Rimsky-Korsakov, who composed 'Flight of the Bumble Bee" (destined to become the theme song of The Green Hornet...
...nuclear stations generate 5.6% of the country's electricity. By 1990 the Soviets hope to meet a full one-third of energy needs in the country's European region through nuclear power. Yet an occasional dissenting voice can be heard. In October 1979, Atomic Engineer Nikolai Dollezhal and Economist Yuri Koryakin published an article in the theoretical journal Kommunist that warned against building more reactors in the heavily populated European region. The article's obvious warning about the safety of Soviet atomic-power plants did not please the Kremlin. A group of top-level Soviet scientists...