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...child, I was taught not to peek into other people's windows or read other people's letters. I feel embarrassed and disturbed that I was forcefully exposed to someone's private matters. ZOYA KINSTLER Tampa...
...Women's Committee, which submits to the government proposals on legislation affecting females, is seeking to increase the number of day-care centers (currently there are 3 million children without places) and build greater flexibility into work schedules. Some factories have begun to experiment with six-hour shifts. Says Zoya Pokhova, who heads the Committee: "Our goal is that women with young children should have shorter work hours...
Although Gumbel handled most of his encounters with aplomb, he was flummoxed by Zoya Zarubina, a member of the Soviet Women's Committee. She snorted derisively at his questions about the general exclusion of women from high Soviet office and in imperious, almost unaccented English contended that Soviet women are more likely than U.S. women to receive equal pay for equal work...
...island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown that childless or one-child families, superficially suitable to working parents in the urban centers of European Russia, are not in the greater interest of society if we starve the future of Russian leaders"); Major...
...each of physics and geography, four years of chemistry, one year of astronomy, ten years of shop and mechanical drawing and up to seven years of foreign language (most frequently English and French). Apart from languages, the humanities are largely taken up with the detailed study of Marxism-Leninism. Zoya Malkova, the director of the Institute for General Pedagogy in Moscow, defends the standardized curriculum as "one way toward the equalization of our society...