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...Western position in the postwar world. At least when the British ran out on their responsibilities in the gulf in 1971, they turned it over to an ally. But now Pell and others would like to offer the Soviets, who have been lusting for the gulf since Romanov days, a share of it. Gratis...
...molded thehistorical trends of Russian life into theirpaintings. It's sometimes hard to remember that atone time the visual arts were understood torequire a serious political and social content,when the political content of modern American arthas rarely risen above the fatuous. But even ifone can't tell a Romanov from a roman candle, theFogg's exhibit is an admirable introduction to theweltunshauung of a nation far tooimperfectly understood in America...
...recent months Gorbachev has been removing Brezhnev-era holdovers with a blend of maneuver and muscle. Grigory Romanov, the Politburo member responsible for the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex, who reportedly tried to block Gorbachev's rise to power and became the target of a whispering campaign about alleged alcoholism, retired from the Politburo last July. One day later Andrei Gromyko, who had served as Foreign Minister since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since...
...which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride a horse...
...work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still rare: only two hospitals and 23 out-patient centers serve Moscow, a city of 8.5 million people. According to widespread rumors, one recent patient was Grigory Romanov, Gorbachev's erstwhile competitor for the party leadership. After resigning from the ruling Politburo last July, Romanov, long thought to be a heavy drinker, is believed to have checked into a drying-out program...