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Since there is no marketplace for medicine in Russia, patients are recommended to a hospital through their polyclinics, then treated in the hospitals by doctors specializing in their illnesses. Individuals are free to consult recognized specialists or to pay a one-ruble ($1.11) fee and go to special centers for...
The new, low-profile military figures neatly match the Kremlin's current diplomatic stance of a powerful but benign peacemaker. Yet there is far more to Soviet arms spending than appears in the budget. Funds for H-bombs and advanced weapons like multiple-warhead missiles are customarily tucked into...
Trousered girls with candles, and boys in caps and unbuttoned raincoats, cigarettes between their teeth (there must be many faces in the picture, primitive, cheeky faces, with their ruble's worth of self-assurance and five kopecks' worth of understanding-though some are trusting, simple-mouthed) crowd around...
Co-sponsored by the New York Times, the race started normally enough. "I cranked and the engine started," recalled George last week with a touch of awe. "We sped down Broadway to Times Square and into the biggest crowd of people I ever saw." Exactly 41 days, eight hours and...
As for recent times, only eight of the world's 120 currencies (those of the U.S., Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Panama and El Salvador) have survived the 23 years since the end of World War II without a formal devaluation, according to Manhattan Currency Expert Franz Pick. Since...