Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Soviet energy policy has been plagued by bureaucratic infighting and indecisiveness. No fewer than 15 different government ministries are involved in energy policy. Indeed, it was not until late 1977 that the Communist Party authorized an all-out program for oil exploration and development, necessitating a rush of orders for U.S. equipment...
...even if their nuclear program goes as planned, the Soviets will still need oil, and lots of it. If they cannot produce enough energy to meet their own needs, they have two alternatives, neither of which bodes well for the rest of the world. They could use their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital...
Around 5 p.m., Dunayev rehearses his program on-camera. "If it is good, I use the tape," he says. "If not, I do it live." Then he writes an entirely new script for his 10 p.m. show. "It's hell," he says. "You can't repeat either the first program or the evening news [a half-hour show aired at 9 p.m.]. Ten or 15 years ago, it would have been easy, because you could say, 'The bloody imperialists did such and such.' But now we realize it's not black and white...
...coaches agree that she can often be much less than charming. The only thing that justifies her moods are the results. In Montreal four years ago, Kim not only won two individual gold medals but scored two all-but-unprecedented perfect tens -one in the floor exercise program and one in her specialty, the vault. In Fort Worth last December she took the all-round women's title. Kim, now training near her home in Minsk, is the odds-on favorite for further honors in the 1980 Olympics. But she is not so sure. Kim will...
...regarded as therapy, but the pens and decorative chains are sold to help the center financially. A basement room decorated with film and travel posters is the center's Sobriety Society -the Soviet equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous. There a young reformed drunk is sanding wood for a remodeling program that will expand the society's facilities to include billiards and Ping Pong...