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Dubinyak told the Krasnaya Zvezda military daily there was still intermittent gunfire in the city but gave no details. In a statement broadcast on Radio Moscow, the general said "there are forces here with an interest in maintaining tension at the highest level...
Judging from the way the Soviet press covered the news, it seemed more likely that Ogarkov had been abruptly sacked and left in limbo. The official army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ran a large photograph and biography of the new Chief of Staff, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, 61, on the front page and relegated Ogarkov to a few lines of tiny print. Pravda buried the announcement of his departure on the back page...
...part of the process of establishing his authority, Chernenko has been the beneficiary of a campaign to bolster his image. Photographs have been distributed showing the grandfatherly leader in informal poses that recall Brezhnev. The day before Chernenko was elected President, Krasnaya Zvezda, the Defense Ministry's official newspaper, published an article that patched what had been a large hole in the new leader's career: his military record. Chernenko did not fight on the front lines in World War II, but, according to Krasnaya Zvezda, he did battle bandits and anti-Soviet rebels while guarding the border...
...insist that they will not return to the table in Geneva until the new Pershing II and cruise missiles that were installed in West Germany, Britain and Italy last year are removed. To underscore Soviet concern about the new weapons, the official newspaper of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Krasnaya Zvezda, reported last week that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff...
This week the toes that bind the Continent belong to the aggressive voetbailers of Amsterdam's Ajax club and to the graceful giocatori di calcio of Turin's Juventus team. When they meet on traditionally neutral territory in Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda (red star) stadium, it will be a classic confrontation of styles. Ajax, shooting for a third successive cup victory, epitomizes a relentless, free-flowing new style of "total football." Attackers defend and defenders attack interchangeably. Juventus, winner of 15 national titles and known as the "grand old lady" of Italian soccer, represents the conservative, traditional...