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...part of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to upgrade the quality of Soviet life. Part of the magazine's expected appeal is that it publishes sewing patterns of its fashion offerings, which Soviet homemakers will be able to copy. Another factor that probably found favor with Moscow's officialdom is that Burda shuns articles on sex and politics, traditional Soviet taboos. At first the new Burda edition will be printed in West Germany, but the plan is to begin printing in Moscow within two years and reach a circulation of 1 million...
...opponents of change. A very profound and serious movement has begun, and a very profound and serious struggle lies ahead. Between the people who want these changes, who dream of these changes, and the leadership, there is a layer of officialdom that does not want changes and does not want to lose some rights associated with privileges...
Botha was in France to dedicate a museum to the South African dead in the two World Wars, but even those ceremonies were skipped by the French Secretary of State for Veterans. If French officialdom seemed intent on ignoring Botha, , others were not. In Paris, three bombs exploded at the headquarters of companies with links to South Africa. No one was hurt. The terrorist group Action Directe took responsibility for the blasts...
...Mousam never voted, drove a car, paid taxes or performed any of the other everyday tasks that might ordinarily call her to the attention of Boston officialdom. Nevertheless, thanks to a city census taker who spotted her name on the front door of her home, Mousam received a summons last month ordering her to report for jury duty in August. Since Mousam ignored the summons, along with an enclosed form that permits prospective jurors to offer reasons for declining to serve, her housemates, Social Workers David Christian and Lia Graceffa, took charge. Christian checked a box indicating that Mousam could...
With speculation about Chernenko running wild, Soviet officialdom finally took a clumsy hand. Last Thursday, Stuart Loory, the Moscow-based American correspondent for Cable News Network, was summoned to the press department of Moscow's Foreign Ministry, where Official Spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko handed him typewritten answers to four questions on U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations that Loory had submitted to Chernenko on Jan. 9. The unsigned document, Loory was told, came from the Soviet leader himself. It reiterated standard Soviet positions: "serious and purposeful" discussions with the U.S. about nuclear-arms reductions were possible, but only if tied to restrictions...