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...piece orchestra. Mostly the repertory is taken from the Kirov's gallery of classics-Swan Lake, Giselle, La Sylphide, La Bayadère-but there are a few modern works, including Maurice Béjart's Bhakti and a new work choreographed by Oleg Vinogradov, the Kirov's director. To Vinogradov the mix is about right. "This company is good enough to do any kind of choreography," he says, "but we are proud of our reputation as a museum, a Hermitage of choreography. Here the classical repertory in its entirety is preserved...
...proposal was first made during a Nov. 18 meeting in Tehran between Vladimir Vinogradov, the Soviet Ambassador to Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi...
...Vinogradov argued that the growing discontent of fundamentalist, right-wing clergymen with Khomeini's policies, together with what he called the "CIA-backed leftists" of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (People's Crusaders), had brought Iran to the brink of a civil war. Vinogradov told Mousavi that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign...
...following day Mousavi briefed the Ayatullah on Vinogradov's proposal, then officially informed the Soviets that it was under consideration. Khomeini is known to be deeply suspicious of Moscow for its role in crushing Islamic revolutionaries in Afghanistan, and is wary of allowing Iran to become a strategic pawn of either superpower. But growing numbers of the ruling clergy are beginning to believe the Soviets can be used for protection and economic assistance without compromising Iranian autonomy...
...days later, the irrepressible Vinogradov got a similar lecture from the speaker of the Majlis, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. As the two men entered the parliament building in downtown Tehran, Iraqi Soviet-built MiG-23 fighters roared overhead. "What is it we hear?" asked Vinogradov. "Your own MiGs," retorted Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen...