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The pre-eminent Soviet expert on Asia, and China in particular, was Mikhail Kapitsa. Erudite and capable, gregarious and jovial, Kapitsa would undoubtedly have moved faster if he had not received a black mark in his dossier and a deep scar on his head when, as Ambassador to Pakistan in...
Along with its seclusion, an important factor in the Kremlin Hospital's location is its proximity--only a quarter-mile--from Moscow's $117 million U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center. The center's director is the eminent cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, who is also a full member of the Soviet Central Committee...
While a random lottery poses many problems satisfaction with the present system continues to rise. The Whitla Verba survey from the spring of 1983 showed that on a scale of 1 to 5 I representing high satisfaction with the present system, students average 'a 1.9 in 1983 compared with a...
Beckett, whose consciousness is already perched in the higher altitudes, holds that his stage directions are not embellishment but requirements fundamental to his play's radical astringency. And the play's the thing, he insists. Brustein, the eminent former head of the Yale University School of Drama, counters that theater...
The scheduled departure of forceful conservatives left many members of the New Right dismayed. Those whose stature stands to increase: Baker, a moderate whose pre-eminent position in the West Wing is now undisputed; Richard Darman, a capable Baker ally and legislative strategist; and Craig Fuller, an aide to Meese...