Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander Podrabinek, an underground-newspaper editor who was once exiled to Siberia for nearly six years for examining Soviet psychiatry in a book titled Punitive Medicine, contends that the changes are strictly cosmetic. Even though the special psychiatric hospitals are nominally controlled by the civilian Ministry of Health, he notes, the guards are still military personnel and the doctors commissioned officers. Says Podrabinek: "The only thing that has changed is the label." He claims that new language in the regulations has actually given the government even greater latitude to misuse psychiatry. Under the old rules, "mentally ill" people could...
Lobstermen in Kennebunkport, Me., are boiling mad about special arrangements for one of the neighbors. They learned last week that the U.S. Coast Guard will enforce a 500-yd. "security zone" in the waters around George Bush's summer home on Walker's Point, site of some of Maine's best lobstering. Whenever the President is in residence, Coast Guard cutters will stop and search lobster boats seeking to enter the zone. Even more frustrating to the 40 or so lobstermen affected: the cutters' propellers tend to get snarled in the traplines, resulting in dozens of lost traps...
Every so often, a story is so important, so dramatic, that TIME devotes a special issue to the subject. Such is the case this week as we explore how Mikhail Gorbachev has transformed the Soviet Union -- and how much remains to be done. Led by Moscow bureau chief John Kohan, eleven reporters and five photographers spent four months crisscrossing the country in pursuit of their stories. "Wherever we went, glasnost opened doors for us," says Kohan. "There are opportunities for journalists that would have been unthinkable a few years...
...nomenklatura, or ruling class. Says Eldar Shakhbazov, deputy minister of finance in Azerbaijan: "The first layer of opponents of perestroika are people who would lose their economic privileges." Not only might they be shifted to less desirable jobs, but the nomenklatura fears that reform may also eliminate the perks -- special stores, food sources, even schools -- that make them the Soviet Union's pampered elite. Those privileges are a touchy matter. When Pravda published a letter from a reader complaining about nomenklatura perks, Ligachev chided the paper for admitting that the privileges even existed...
...Says Sukachev: "If I had his house and his car, he could have my 3,000.") Still, success has its problems. "It's really dangerous when people start to praise you for doing the things they used to slam you for," he notes. The band now risks losing the special edge to its sound that developed from the tension of fighting for the right to play its music...