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...events leading to the release of the sub were a mixture of high drama and low slapstick. For six days, Commander Pyotr Gushin refused to leave his stranded vessel to talk to the Swedes. Not until Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko allowed Gushin to cooperate did the commander relent. The skipper and his navigation officer emerged, asked for and were allowed permission to shower, and then settled down to claim during a seven-hour interrogation that they had hit the reef because their compass had failed...
...navy picketboat to the scene, but then the pace quickened. Armed with submachine guns, Soviet crewmen paced the deck of the sub, a diesel-powered relic from the 1950s, which lay stranded like a great gray whale. Swedish Commander Karl Andersson boarded the intruder and talked to Captain Pyotr Gushin, whose increasingly melancholy air bore a remarkable resemblance to that of Actor Theodore Bikel, the beleaguered commander of the Soviet sub in The Russians, etc. Andersson emerged to say that the Soviets "blamed their accident on an error of navigation." Then he added sarcastically: "It's pretty hard...
With the last strains of the Pathétique, the festival is over. But the shade of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky will not be satisfied until a healthy Suzanne Farrell dances Mozartiana again. -By Martha Duffy
...Europe's most ambitious nuclear program, has 16 reactors in operation, an extra 32 under construction and 13 more in planning. The Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced at the meeting that his country had recently made a major technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion. If the Soviets could construct a successful nuclear fusion reactor, it would deliver about five to ten times the power of a now commonly...
...sleek Cuban boxing machine, Teofilo Stevenson, 29, won his third straight heavyweight boxing championship-although for the first time in his Olympic career, two opponents actually lasted the full three rounds. In the finals Pyotr Zayev, a stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 191 Ibs.) Soviet, even had the audacity to hit the towering (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) Stevenson a few times before the inevitable loss...