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...campaign thrilled a long-suffering public, it enraged the party privilegentsia. Yeltsin biographers Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova quote a transcript of a meeting of party propaganda functionaries who berated his "Napoleonic ambitions." "Khrushchev tried to send us up the river too," one was quoted as saying...
...there. After a planned space walk was canceled Tuesday because the cosmonauts were unable to open the hatch, officials on the ground turned off the audio system that lets reporters listen in on the radio traffic. ?You?re not supposed to listen to that,? snapped Mission Control Chief Vladimir Solovyov. ?You will get the news from...
...sensitive? Well, the string of accidents that turned Mir into a global joke began just over a year ago, and Solovyov is bound to be wary of a repeat performance. Especially when the news is pretty embarrassing: Not even Nikolai Budarin, the strongest cosmonaut of the current crop, could open that darn hatch -- and he broke three wrenches trying. ?I am somewhat distressed that we have failed to open the hatch,? Solovyov conceded. That?s an understatement. The space walk now has to wait until a new stock of wrenches is sent up in the next cargo ship -- and Mission...
...nearly six hours Michael Foale and Anatoly Solovyov walked in space, peering and poking at the shell of the airless Spektr module, looking for holes to plug. They found none. "To our great regret, we have found nothing which could be interpreted as a puncture," said Vladimir Solovyov, chief of Mission Control in Moscow. Though plenty of damage was visible, the ruptures themselves were not apparent...
...Even without their version of Hal, the crew has enough oxygen and food for the moment. And the docking, performed manually by new commander Anatoly Solovyov, was successful. That, at least, is an improvement...