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...dangerous territory, as the Japanese demonstrated with their bizarre multicolored tie-dyed cloaks. The Austrians looked as if they'd prepared for the wrong Games and had come in their winter uniforms. The Russian and Polish teams seemed to have bought their wardrobes from the cheapest outfitters in downtown Smolensk or Gdansk. The winners in the fashion stakes were definitely, and hardly surprisingly, the Italians, who went for simple, classic style with a twist. Both men and women wore elegantly cut dark jackets over trousers or skirts in half a dozen bold colors. The ensemble effect was striking and bright...
Goldman said the University has acquired valuable Soviet documents before. Perhaps the most famous of these is the Smolensk collection, seized from the Germans--who had stolen it from the Soviet Union--at the end of World...
Still, Goldman said the O'Neill collection will be even more valuable than the Smolensk collection, as it contains nearly 200 times more information and offers information on the entire Soviet state, not just the city of Smolensk...
Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
...black marble monument stands in a grove in the Katyn Forest outside Smolensk, a memorial to the more than 4,000 Polish officers massacred at that spot during World War II. But the dedication etched in the marble tells a lie that mocks the very lives it memorializes: "To the victims of Fascism -- the Polish officers shot by the Hitlerites...