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...middle of winter, look at their hats. Don't be surprised if the language they are speaking is not English, or if the hats are big, black and furry. The language you hear is Russian, and the hats are most likely beaver, made in the USSR...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: From Leningrad With Love | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

Following these years of personal psychological and mental preparation, and after receiving final permission to leave the USSR, the first physical step on the great adventure comes when Misha and Tatyana step onto the Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airliner and wing their way over the Iron Curtain to Vienna...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: From Leningrad With Love | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...just a cultural phenomenon. Most Soviet Jews, says Taube, are interested in Jewish customs, but for ethnic rather than religious reasons. He continues, "Some American Jewish leaders become upset because they don't see enthusiasm in a pure religious sense. They don't understand that in the USSR Judaism is not a religious problem...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: From Leningrad With Love | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...paid off. The cigar-chomping humorist is now syndicated in 550 newpapers. Occasionally the USSR's Pravda or Izvestia prints one of Buchwald's columns--they especially like ones critical of the administration. "Every once in a while I get an angry call from the State Department, and they'll say, 'Do you know the Soviets used your column this morning?'" To which Buchwald said he always replies, "Stop them...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Art Buchwald: Portrait of a Sometimes Unfunny Man | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

...warned however, the conflict could provide the Soviet Union with an excuse to intervene in Iran under the terms of a past treaty, but Bisharat doubted the USSR would resort to such an option because "that would invite a global conflagration...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Experts Call Iran-Iraq Clash An Iraqi Drive for Dominance | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

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