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With all the talk of opposition, a relatively new word in Soviet politics, the conference is seen as a heavyweight contest: Reformer Gorbachev in one corner, bureaucratic conservatism in the other. "It is a game of perceptions," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "If afterward the perception is that the conservatives have scored some points, it will be a setback for Gorbachev. If the perception is that perestroika is irreversible, a lot of fence sitters will join Gorbachev's bandwagon...
...Popoff says that God speaks directly to him because he's an anointed minister," said Randi afterward. "Three things amaze me about that. First of all, it turns out that God's frequency -- I didn't know that he used radio -- is 39.170 MHz, and that God is a woman, and sounds exactly like Popoff's wife Elizabeth." Last year, shortly after Randi published his book The Faith Healers, which included a chapter on the Popoff investigation, donations to Popoff's TV ministry dropped so sharply that he declared bankruptcy...
...deciding game of Boston's series with Atlanta, Bird made such an improbable wrong-handed hook shot that he demanded the ball back on the next play, explaining later, "I wanted to see how hot I really was." Missing only once, he scored 20 points in the closing quarter. Afterward, players for both teams mentioned an unnatural "look" in his eye. As the next series started, it was gone...
...some hardships for which the Zeimans could not prepare Vera. A few years ago, Vera was with her parents when they were seized by the KGB and held for questioning about their contacts with foreigners. "I was so scared I couldn't tie my shoelaces," Vera remembers. For weeks afterward, she screamed in her sleep at night...
...outcast, Yuri was forced to take the only job he could find: plumber at a maternity hospital. Not long afterward, he was injured in an oxygen-tank explosion. Since then he has suffered headaches and double vision. Doctors say he may need brain surgery. But, as Vera points out, "it's easier to get a ticket to the moon here than a brain scan." During a hospital stay last month, Yuri contracted hepatitis from a needle. The U.S. embassy has asked Soviet authorities to allow the family to leave so Zieman can get treatment not available in the U.S.S.R...