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...bailiffs were simply executing a court order, said Alexei Volin, a senior government spokesman, so "one should not talk about any change in the freedom of the press in Russia." Opposition politicians expressed the usual outrage, though this time there was a tinge of fatigue in their voices. "For the first time since the Brezhnev years I feel a constant, low-grade sense of shame for my country," said Vladimir Lukin, deputy speaker of the Duma, or lower house of parliament. Few, however, believe the affair will cause more than a ripple of protest inside Russia or beyond...
...coach initiated a mentoring program called TeamMates, pairing 25 of his Cornhuskers with 25 children. The goal was to have these college athletes-cum-mentors stay with their charges from the kids' first year in middle school through the last day of high school. Recalls former offensive guard Steve Volin of his coach: "He always stuck by people who others thought should be tossed in the gutter." The Osbornes kicked off TeamMates in 1991 with $10,000 of their personal savings. Since then, they've contributed $400,000 more, most for college scholarships. Former running back George Achola remembers...
...going along on the bank robbery. In his final instructions to the jury, Judge Carter said: "The law does not permit jurors to be governed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion." Plainly, some Americans were still swayed by sympathy for Patty. "I'm really taken aback," said Sylvia Volin, an artist in Bergen County, N.J. "I thought everything was removed from her hands the moment she was kidnaped. My sympathies are with her." Patty's ex-fiancé, Steven Weed, told TIME: "I was more surprised by the speed of the verdict than by the verdict itself...
Late in the week, three important Finance Ministry officials-Volin, Chepeliovsky and Rabinowitch-were executed, all charged by the Soviet "political police" with "abetting speculation tending to depress the chervonetz...
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