Word: stanislavskiy
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Seven years and innumerable appeals later, Edwards' pertinacity finally paid off. Last week, as the Soviet freighter Stanislavskiy rested in its Toronto berth, Sheriff Joseph Bremner trotted up the gangplank and informed Captain Yuri Surnin that he was seizing his ship until the bill was paid. Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, yowled that the boarding had been carried out by "police thugs acting like medieval pirates." But when Edwards also took actions to freeze the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Moscow warmed to the possibility of a settlement of the original bill plus interest, court...
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