Word: siberians
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Elsewhere, some frightened citizens are resorting to less elaborate precautions. In the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights, Nuns Mary Assumpta and Augustine Marie recently enrolled their Siberian husky Tanya in the nearby Inter national School for Dogs. For about $500 per pet, that academy teaches normally docile canines to bark, growl and bite. "We've had occasions when there have been people trying doors," says Sister Mary of her 32-bedroom convent. At the school, Head Trainer Howard Denton said business stayed strong even during the recession. "Any dog can do protection," he asserts. "I've trained poodles...
...Soviets have let a handful of their Siberian Pentecostals go; they are looking, or pretending to look (it is still hard to tell which) for a way of pulling their occupation troops out of Afghanistan. The Reagan Administration, in addition to cautiously welcoming these and other Soviet steps, is making a few of its own: resuming consular negotiations and sending a delegation off to Moscow to negotiate "confidence-building measures," like upgrading the hot line. The two countries have agreed on a major sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. The State Department is musing about how to engage...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Viktor Korchnoi, 52, tempestuous Soviet chess grand master who defected in 1976; and Beta Korchnoi, 50, who emigrated to Switzerland last year with their son Igor, 23, after the young man spent 30 months in a Siberian labor camp for refusing military service; after 25 years of marriage; in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi, who twice lost world championship matches to erstwhile Countryman Anatoly Karpov, pleaded with Leonid Brezhnev to allow his family to leave in 1978, though he was linked romantically with his Austrian-born manager, Petra Leeuwerik...
...commission aims to ban commercial whaling completely by 1986. Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the commission's recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, the Rainbow Warrior steamed across the Bering Strait to the Siberian whaling village of Lorino. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior grabbed film that other members had shot and jumped...
...Siberian Seven, as they came to be known, were a continuing source of U.S.-Soviet friction. When one of them had to be hospitalized during a hunger strike and subsequently received permission to emigrate, the remaining six voluntarily left the embassy basement. Upon their arrival in Vienna last week, the Pentecostals expressed joy at being in the West but regret that tens of thousands of fellow believers were still waiting back home for exit visas. -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow