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...embassy acquiesced with alacrity, and late last month a Lincoln Continental bearing West Virginia plates (the embassy had requested the license number beforehand, along with the route to the college) arrived in the capital to collect Oleg and Ksana Benyukh and Oleg and Irina Shibko. The driver was Calvin Carstensen, director of community education at the college, and when he met his passengers they handed him a map with a route sketched out that flummoxed him. To go their way would inflate the normal driving time-4½ hours-by half again or more...
...Oleg Benyukh, chief of the information department at the Soviet embassy and the leader of this delegation, opened by saying there are "too many things that divide us," so he would prefer to spend the evening talking about the "things that will unite us." He added, "I'm of the opinion that the Americans know about my country many times less what we in my country know about the U.S." He said Americans were more interested in themselves than in their neighbors, let alone foreigners. The audience did not make a sound...
...first question, when question time came, was whether there was nature preservation in the Soviet Union. And Benyukh said yes, adding sorrowfully that "there are poachers everywhere in the world now." The second question: What surprises had they found when they first came to this country? Oleg Shibko, first secretary of the embassy, said the friendliness and "your high level of life." Benyukh then took the floor and said that despite all the criticism he had heard about it, "I love New York...
...cast--and dialogue--are international enough to put Cafe Pamplona to shame. Oleg Yankovsky plays a Russian poet named Gortchakov, who is in Italy to write a book about a 17th-century composer, Gortchakov is accompanied by an interpreter, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano). Like Fellini, another comsummate stylist, Tarkovsky seems to have chosen his cast primarily for their visual qualities--particularly Giordano, who has the Surrealist-Madonna looks to complement the Surrealist-pastoral scenery forming the backbone of this film...
Last week it was Washington's turn to throw a somewhat ungraceful feint that left all involved feigning outrage. On the very day he was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles, the State Department rejected the visa application of Oleg Yermishkin, Moscow's designated attaché to the Summer Games. Yermishkin, who served as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles...