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...signals Moscow did not send. As the Soviets watched the Ortega campaign unfold, they thought the Sandinistas should steal the opposition's thunder by seconding Chamorro's promise to end the hated ! military draft, but Moscow never communicated its analysis. "We don't interfere in someone else's elections," Pavlov deadpans...
...think of the telephone purely as a secular voice thrower, it arrives in the mind at its most irritating. For example, no one has yet devised a pleasant way for a telephone to come to life. The ring is a sudden intrusion, a drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones...
Soviet psychiatry began to take shape in the 1920s and drew especially on the work of physiologist Ivan Pavlov (whose experiments on conditioning, particularly with dogs, gave the term Pavlovian response to the English language). His followers largely rejected the work of Sigmund Freud and other Western theorists and looked for physical rather than psychological causes of mental problems. That emphasis led Soviet psychiatrists to rely on drug treatment, work therapy and re-education rather than psychotherapy...
Despite the cold, Soviets are drawn to the area by the riches. "We have all the elements of the periodic table, and we have them in industrial quantities," declared German Pavlov, curator of the Magadan geological museum. The most important of those, by far, is gold. Magadan is thought to contain the major part of the Soviet Union's vast gold reserves, although Magadanians are extremely coy in discussing the subject. Nikolai Selyutin, director of the Karamken gold mine, artfully dodged all questions...
...half jesting in 1976 when he first mentioned to then President Harold Heinold the idea of staging pig races as a way to promote the company's name. "He looked at me and said, 'Work it out for next year.' Just like that." Holding read up on how Pavlov had trained his dogs and then set up a makeshift starting gate, put a food pan at the finish line, rang a bell and chased the pigs to the pan. "I did this 20 to 25 times, three times a day," he says. "After four days, the pigs had figured...