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Mintoffs assault on the church may be designed at least in part to distract attention from economic problems. The unemployment rate has been estimated at close to 20%, and tourism is down. Despite the huge trade deal with the Soviets, not a single ruble's worth of merchandise has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malta: School's Out | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

The titles of the three theses were: "Strength and Wealth: Dostoyevsky's Bionic Hero or Six Million Ruble Man," by K. Brothers, Princeton class of '82, "Liquification and Deconstructionism. The Image of the Blender in Proust, Flaubert and Joyee," by Petrarcha Checker '85, and "The Naked Eye and Other Images...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: April Fool's Theses | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

Without spending a ruble, the Soviets, who have been slow to react in the past to propaganda opportunities, have swiftly and adroitly exploited the European antimissile movement. Seizing upon a series of unfortunate slips of the tongue on the part of the President and other top U.S. Administration officials, Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

The Administration has toned down its rhetoric over El Salvador, but it has yet to calm renewed fears among Third World countries everywhere, particularly in Southern Africa, that the U.S. is now inclined to treat them solely as pawns on the Soviet-American chessboard. America's recent sizable donations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time To Move From Sloganeering To Statesmanship: | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

The letters to the editor of Pravda serve as an important forum for Soviet citizens to air pet peeves, make suggestions and scold their less virtuous countrymen. "Every day in the school snack bar, Sasha gets change from a five-ruble bill," wrote a schoolteacher from the Moscow region earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sincerely, Ivan | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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