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...Aviv's Palace of Culture was tense with the hope of a long deferred promise about to be gloriously fulfilled. Valeri Panov and his wife Galina Ragozina were making their first appearance in the West, after two years of enforced idleness in Leningrad waiting for emigration visas. After a sparkling pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the audience of 3,000 relaxed, relieved to discover that the two dancers easily reestablished their reputations. Said one fan: "He took off like a jet." And when the Panovs completed the program with Valeri's own choreography...
Playing on foreign ice, the Soviets showed that they were individually better conditioned and collectively better coordinated than their slick, freewheeling Canadian counterparts. Their intricate, puck-control game often confounded N.H.L. defense men; flashy Forward Valeri Kharlamov, who scored three goals in the first three contests, may be as good as the N.H.L.'s best. Whatever the outcome of the series, Russia has established itself as a hockey superpower, a worthy match for the men whose forebears invented the modern game...
According to the FBI, Valeri says that Fleisher was present when all five suspects planned the robbery and split the loot...
...Valeri seems to have spent most of his life walking into and out of jails. He spent several years in the Shirley Industrial School (a Massachusetts reform school) until March 1966, when he walked off at the age of 17 to join a traveling circus. Six months later he was captured and returned. A year later he was arrested again for burglary and sent to Walpole where he was paroled this June with intentions of attending Northeastern in the fall...
...interview with the Herald-Traveler Friday, Bond said "I'm sure Valeri has told them a lot. Fortunately, he doesn't know a great deal. Incidentally, Valeri ought to be shot if he's implicated with people like Fleisher." Why is Bond criticizing Valeri for associating with Fleisher when Fleisher allegedly helped Bond escape...