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...boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens of the Soviet capital jokingly observe that even his surname, the same as the Russian imperial family's, works against...
...runs the accepted version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser...
...Prince Claus and Crown Princess Beatrix, they have been rather cozy with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Romanov since their visit to the Soviet Union in 1972. Romanov is a regular guest at Drakestein (the couple's chateau). German-born Claus, who once served in Hitler's army, has been labeled the "Red Feldwebel" (sergeant) by Conservatives and supporters of Prince Bernhard. At a recent diplomatic banquet in The Hague, Beatrix was overheard scolding a foreign diplomat for his snide remarks about the Soviets' disastrous grain harvest. "Why," she said, "should one always emphasize the Soviet Union...
...Nicholas and Alexandra, few failed to be impressed by the author's empathetic handling of hemophilia. The disease, characterized by uncontrolled bleeding, threatened the life of the young Czarevitch, made the lives of his father and mother into a nightmare, and helped lead to the fall of the Romanov family. By dealing with the Czar and Czarina as distraught parents, the book transformed them from foolish pawns of history into figures of personal tragedy...
Hemophilia is thought of as a disease of the monarchy because England's Queen Victoria, a carrier, passed the trait along to some of her children and had two granddaughters marry respectively a Romanov and Spanish Habsburg. Yet the disease is anything but royal and far from rare. It affects one out of every 20,000 males and can strike anyone-even those with no previous hemophilia history-who inherits the genetic defect preventing the production of certain blood fractions involved in the clotting process. Hemophiliacs do not bleed more easily than others; they merely bleed longer. They...