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...Soviet Sailor...
China's wise leader Deng Xiaoping made a good impression on European readers like me. Mikhail Gorbachev should take lessons from Deng and also foster a market economy. It would help bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to the Soviet people. Western politicians should intensify their relations with this newly developing China. Carsten Jaeger Wiesbaden, West Germany Spy's Smile...
...sweet rewards of his pugilistic toil, no clouds on his scar tissue. There then lumbers into sight a giant threat not just to his well-being but to all that he--we--holds dear. Yes, literally a giant. Replacing Mr. T in this thankless role is a humongous Soviet called Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Behind this wild bull of the steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship but the superiority of its system over that of the decadent West. Apolitical Rocky does not care...
...which his wife (Talia Shire), representing quietism, doubts the necessity of vengeance, so that Rocky can inform her that a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Arduousness follows, an endless subverbal sequence in which the hero trains in the vast primitive fastness of the Soviet wilderness, with only his own fighting spirit to sustain him as he chops wood, lifts rocks and runs up the highest mountain for a socko finish. Crosscut with this lonely ordeal are shots of Drago, who has an entire collective of helpers and all the latest electronic and chemical gizmos working...
...Soviet agent in the batch was Ronald Pelton, 44, a communications specialist for the National Security Agency for 14 years. He allegedly began selling secrets to Moscow shortly after his retirement in 1979. His total estimated payment...