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Sure enough, what began as a zany stunt swiftly escalated into a major crisis for the Soviet military command. Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who returned to Moscow on Friday from East Berlin, where he and Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov had been attending a Warsaw Pact summit, acted decisively. The next day Gorbachev convened an emergency meeting of the Politburo in the Kremlin. After that session, the Politburo fired Sokolov, 75, and Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov, 63, who headed the nation's air- defense system. Sokolov was replaced as the top Soviet military leader by General of the Army...
...more somber. At week's end, said an aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the government had not received "so much as a police blotter" report from the Soviet Union about the incident. Officials were worried not only about the fate of Rust but also about the impact of his stunt on Soviet-West German relations. One senior Bonn diplomat called the timing of Rust's flight particularly unfortunate "against the background of the present arms discussions and everything else at stake in the world at the moment...
...Moscow, accompanied by an escort of journalistic cautions. Life in Moscow is a postgraduate course in skepticism for correspondents. When Gorbachev telephoned Sakharov in December to free him from nearly seven years of internal exile in Gorky, most of the initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire is only a mirage and warning against gullibility...
...afraid that this project is turning into a publicity stunt, and I don't like it," City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said, reiterating comments made by councilors Francis H. Duehay '55 and William H. Walsh. However, both Duehay and Walsh said they personally supported the visit...
...Peter Timmer '63, then a sophomore, and several friends decided to give the gun a new home in the main dining hall, Timmer said. "We were quite proud of ourselves," Timmer said. "The thing must have weighed over half a ton." Timmer discourages other freshmen from attempting the same stunt, suggesting that, "there must be better pranks...