Word: vasili
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicists and chemists can earn the ultimate recognition: a Nobel Prize. Why not accord the same honor to environmental scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by everyone from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Peskov | suggested that the first environmental Nobel be given posthumously to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped alert the world to the pollution threat...
...Moscow Weight Loss Clinic, the first ever in the Soviet Union. Since it opened earlier this year, the center has treated some 4,800 clients ($15 for the first visit) with a regimen of strict diet and exercise, and boasts a waiting list of 35,000. Founder Dr. Vasili Vorobyev, author of the best-selling diet book Good Health, estimates that 20% to 50% of Soviets are overweight. "People exercise too little and eat too much," he says. Vorobyev has already opened two more clinics and has plans for a fourth. Jane Fonda, are you listening...
...sets party policy. Gorbachev, however, overhauled the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, which oversees the day-to-day running of the country. Boris Ponomarev, 81, in charge of relations with nonruling Communist parties, retired from both the Politburo, where he was a nonvoting candidate member, and the Secretariat. Vasili Kuznetsov, 85, the frail First Vice President, gave up his alternate Politburo seat...
Dressed in a dark blue suit and blue-striped tie, Gorbachev stood at the head of a receiving line in the white-and-gilt Hall of St. George. Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and First Vice President Vasili Kuznetsov were by his side as he greeted the foreign dignitaries. Gorbachev looked his guests in the eye, occasionally giving a visitor a two-handed grip or flashing a reserved smile of recognition...
...eminent among the new émigrés is Vasili Aksyonov, 51, who departed from the Soviet Union in 1980 with two major novels in manuscript and a head full of ideas for new work. Since settling in the U.S. he has finished two more novels, both of which are scheduled for American publication. "I've got no time for nostalgia," says Aksyonov in fluent English. He teaches a seminar in Russian literature at Goucher College near Baltimore, and once a week his reviews of new U.S. fiction are broadcast to the Soviet Union over the Voice of America...