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...that of its estimated 106 million followers in the Soviet satellites, Pope John Paul II has often bluntly denounced antireligious acts. Last week the Pope issued a 47-page encyclical honoring Cyril and Methodius, two 9th century saints who were missionaries to the Slavs. In it the first Slavic Pontiff made a plea for freedom of worship in Eastern Europe. Praying to God on behalf of the Slavs, he declared, "May they follow, in conformity with their own conscience, the voice of your call." John Paul noted, however, that the church posed no threat to any state. Continuing his prayer...
...choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
...enormous windfall for the Soviets. Pentagon officials still shake their heads over the guile of Soviet engineers who, as they toured a U.S. aircraft factory during the 1970s, would wear sticky-soled shoes to pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard, was put to work making the army transports that now convoy Soviet...
Jones, who speaks Russian and concentrates in Slavic Studies, credits Kendall for sparking his interest in promoting better relations with the Soviets through nonpolitical means. He and John Lockwood, the UVM junior who helped Jones organize the publicity, attended Kendall's lecture on U.S.-Soviet business relations at the Business School last year...
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