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Some press reports suggest that Soviet authorities are using the disease as a means of dissuading citizens from having contact with foreigners. If so, the strategy is probably working. On one occasion, people in the Siberian town of Bilibino objected to the use of a bathhouse by a group of Western journalists. & African students in Moscow, already feeling somewhat lonely, report that the AIDS scare has made life even more isolated. "I used to hear people say 'Monkey' behind my back," says a Senegalese student. "Now I hear them say 'SPID,' " the Russian acronym for AIDS...
Aksyonov knew from clouds. His father, a Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...
...desert, when the movie turns Ishtary. But Glen, Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson (Broccoli's stepson, who serves as co- screenwriter and co-producer) have wrapped a few nifty surprises in the security blanket of genre familiarity. The gasbag KGB agent is smuggled out of Czechoslovakia through the Trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. A professional killer and a British guard stage the best kitchen fight since the gremlins got microwaved. The requisite ski chase sends Dalton and D'Abo bobsledding down the slopes in her cello case. Throughout, the film forfeits sniggering humor to accentuate action and character. As Bond...
...strike, the fun-loving slugger turned to the beloved umpire and quipped, "But, comrade, Marx said that when workers controlled the means of production, there would be no more strikes!" The joke was considered so funny that Jabov was not jailed at all but merely sent down to the Siberian League for attitudinal readjustment...
Once the leafy pastime of a derided fringe group, birding has developed into a go- go sport with wide appeal to active and sedentary aficionados alike. From feeding chickadees in the backyard to hunting Siberian rubythroats in the Aleutian Islands, birding offers aesthetic delight, the joys of puzzle solving and the chance to sublimate avarice through the compilation of a life list...