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Then we received a telegram saying that the trial of Alexei Smirnov was beginning. On May 12, I went to Moscow. Smirnov would be tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...
...government daily Izvestia quoted a cruise-ship seaman, identified only as "Helmsman Smirnov," as saying "We saw the bulk carrier in the distance. The duty officer started calling it by radio. We took its bearing and realized that the ship would cross our path. After a few moments came the Pyotr Vasev's answer: 'Don't worry. We shall steer clear of each other. We shall do what is needed.' " Yet the freighter failed to change course. Another newspaper report charged that the Admiral Nakhimov's captain was negligent. Both captains were arrested and are in custody pending the outcome...
...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...
...neophyte, in a frenzy of excitement. West Germany's Matthias Behr faced Italy's Mauro Numa. Behr had returned to competition after a hiatus that followed a shattering 1982 fencing accident in which the broken blade of his foil killed the reigning 1980 Olympic champion, Soviet Vladimir Smirnov. Numa took the gold, Behr the silver and Cerioni the bronze. The final bout was won by Numa only after a lightning series of touches, seesawing in the last 28 seconds of a ten-minute contest...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...