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Svetlana Stalina was not alone last week in winning her freedom from Russia. A Soviet appeals court lifted the three-year labor-camp sentence imposed last December on Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of Little Rock, Ark., who had been convicted of stealing an antique statue of a bear from a...
The offer is tempting. Whereas the ruble is officially pegged at $1.11, the tourist can get it on the black market for anywhere from 25? to 66?. But it is also dangerous, as two young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25...
As a warning to black marketeers all over Russia, excerpts from the trial were broadcast over the state radio net work. Unlike the kangaroo courts of the Stalinist past, however, the proceedings seemed fair enough. State Prosecutor Aleksandr Borodankov went out of his way to point out that the U.S...
Ivan's Future. The Kremlin's gropings toward ruble sanity have not gone unrecognized in Washington. Last week President Johnson, moving to ease East-West tensions, announced a dramatic liberalization of trade with Moscow and the satellites, removing hundreds of items from the list of goods that American...
While Labor's left was pecking away at Harold Wilson for supporting the U.S. in Viet Nam, there came a diversionary coo from his own kitchen. Wife Mary Wilson, best known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash...