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...personal computers is being limited to places like classrooms and community centers where it can be monitored and supervised. The reason for the caution is that the personal computer threatens the Kremlin's tight control over what the Soviet people see and read. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "The Russians can't easily accommodate computer technology because it gives too many people too much information." Secrecy is so vital to the Soviet system that printing presses or even photocopying machines are unavailable to the average citizen. Since personal computers attached to printers...
...offset agricultural shortages, the Soviet Union depends on imports. Moscow is expected to buy up to 52 million tons of grain, including at least 20 million from the U.S., in the period from July 1984 through June 1985, an increase of 52% over the previous year. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "A very sad fact about Soviet agriculture is that it really does produce enough food to feed the people. But the methods of preserving, transporting and distributing that food are so archaic that the losses are phenomenal...
...Western diplomat in Moscow: "I really think Chernenko is there just to keep the political mechanism going until they decide what to do. For the moment, it looks like a collective leadership with everyone very much in charge of his own portfolio." According to Middlebury College President Olin Robison, who has had frequent dealings with high-level Soviet officials, collective leadership in the Politburo has gradually grown more diffuse since Chernenko took office. Says he: "There is no longer any strong personality at the center. The people around Chernenko are stronger than...
...unofficial kickoff to the series, the magazine also sponsored a reading last night by Mary Robison, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and author of works including "Oh!" and "An Amateur's Guide to the Night...
Subdued hope is the most ebullient of Robison's emotional promises, but her restrained wit and craftsman's ear for dialogue make An Amateur's Guide to the Night a quiet treat. It doen't light up new arenas of expression, but it does help establish her as a master of the minister and a portraitist...