Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in 1981, Moscow bristled in near fury at Solidarity. A * "counterrevolution," snapped then Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. "A Trojan horse of imperialism!" cried the official media. As the trade union's protests roiled Poland, Soviet troops massed threateningly along the countries' common border. Finally, when General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed Solidarity with martial law, TASS said approvingly, "The authorities are taking necessary measures to restore tranquillity...
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (NBC, April 16-18, 9 p.m. EDT). Phileas Fogg, that globe-trotting Victorian gent, is back in a remake of the Oscar-winning 1956 film based on Jules Verne's novel. Pierce Brosnan, Lee Remick and Peter Ustinov head the proverbial all-star cast...
Over there was Norman Mailer chatting with Yoko Ono. Through the lobby strode Gregory Peck wearing a name card. Gregory Peck with a name card? Where are we? Claudia Cardinale was a stunning sight in a tailored black-and-white-striped suit. Peter Ustinov moved grandly about, with all the bearing and intonation of one of his best-known characters, Inspector Hercule Poirot. "I can't believe it," said an awed American tourist as she gawked around the lobby of the Kosmos Hotel. "This could be Hollywood." Or, the way things are these days, it could be Moscow...
...reception Gorbachev shook hands with Yoko Ono and praised the contributions she and her late husband John Lennon had made to the peace movement. Mailer quipped that he had "cemented a peace pact" over dinner with Novelist Gore Vidal, with whom he has frequently feuded. Ustinov complained that a reporter from Radio Luxembourg woke him at 2 a.m. to ask what Gorbachev was going to say in a speech later that day. Everyone feasted on mounds of fresh strawberries -- a delicacy virtually unheard of in midwinter Moscow...
...Party Boss Romanov. The man in charge of heavy industry, which includes defense plants, Romanov is considered a hardliner of the sort favored by the military. He was widely rumored to be a candidate for Defense Minister when the job opened up last year with the death of Dmitri Ustinov, but instead Marshal Sergei Sokolov was chosen. Should the reportedly ailing Sokolov retire or die, Romanov could become the next Defense Minister...