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...Anyone caught lighting up in shops, cinemas, sports arenas or hotel lobbies in Novosibirsk risks a ten-ruble (about $13) fine. In Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, quick eateries and bars no longer permit smoking. Proclaiming itself the first "no smoking city" in the U.S.S.R., the Black Sea resort of Sochi has banned smoking in all restaurants, government offices, taxis, schools, hospitals and recreational areas. It is even illegal on beaches (except one set aside for foreigners). Says Sochi Chairman V.A. Voronkov: "I must warn smokers that henceforth they will feel uncomfortable in Sochi...
...snapshot and memory; Gorky's mother died of starvation In Soviet Armenia after the family had fled the Turkish massacre. Gorky remained obsessed by the tragedy all his life. In the years before he hanged himself in 1948, he painted abstract reveries from his past like Garden in Sochi...
...would also bring to nearly 400 the number of people who have died in Aeroflot katastrofy in the past five months. Just nine days earlier, a turboprop Ilyushin-18 carrying 106 known passengers and crew crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi. No bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug...
...twelve lines on its back page. The Soviets had to acknowledge the tragedy because there were 38 Chileans and five Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked out only after Aeroflot sent letters of sympathy, and symbolic, empty urns to the victims' next of kin, along with 300 rubles ($333) each in compensation. The Soviet obsession with secrecy-especially about major accidents-naturally breeds suspicions that there may have been other air crashes that went...
...meeting was surrounded by the usual secrecy; non-Communist observers are not even certain whether it was held at Sochi or 40 miles away at Pitsunda. Presumably, the conferees touched on a wide range of foreign policy problems -Berlin, the Soviet setback in the Sudan, China. What most interested Kremlinologists was the final conference communique containing a short but sharp denunciation of "leftwing and right-wing opportunism." Translated, that means China on the left and Yugoslavia and Rumania on the right...