Word: semashko
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...street, they began pushing us into two separate ambulances. I was taken to Semashko Hospital, the medical center for the Gorky region, while Lusia was taken to Hospital No. 10, a run-down facility on the Oka's left bank. But until I actually saw Lusia again, I was under the illusion we were in the same hospital. I was put in a semiprivate room. My roommate introduced himself as secretary of a district party committee. A third bed and patient had been placed in the entry leading into our room. These men were both genuinely...
...subject that came up in every interview was my attitude toward Gorbachev and perestroika. In 1985, while still confined in Semashko Hospital, I watched one of Gorbachev's early television appearances, and I told my roommates, "It looks as if our country's lucky. We've got an intelligent leader." My initial, positive reaction has remained basically unchanged. Gorbachev, like Khrushchev, is an extraordinary personality who has managed to break free of the limits customarily respected by the party bureaucracy. What explains the inconsistencies and half measures of the new course? The main stumbling block is the inertia...
...were kept under constant surveillance by police. Neighbors and shopkeepers were barred from talking to them. Bonner and Sakharov, 64, were separated at least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital, where Soviet doctors resorted to force-feeding him through the nose. The couple tried to get out word of their plight, but their messages were often altered to give the impression that all was well...
...equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing the sad fact that the Russian team was "inadequately prepared physically, tactically, and especially technically." Noted Grigoriev sadly: "The fast break, once our most dreaded weapon, is now used only sporadically, and chiefly against our weakest opponents...
...Trotskyite dribblers, Soviet basketballers returned to the task laid down by Soccer Fan Khrushchev at the 21st Party Congress- preparing for the withering away of the state in the world of sport. Best guess was that this goal was being pursued without the advice of ex-Optimists Spandarian and Semashko, who had already taken just about all the withering a man can stand...