European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday october 15,1987 columns today s crossword Kab refs about tarnished image b Russell Baker the Kab is worried about its image. Honest it was in the sunday times of London. The pkg b is offering a big Money prize 3,000 rubles Tor Best Book or movie showing what a great outfit it is. This has to do with glasnost. Everything on the other Side of the Iron curtain has to do with glasnost these Days. Which raises the question when did you last hear anybody say Iron curtain All right you Sil it pal Buchanan s knee and hear i Day and night but most of us Aren t that Lucky. I Haven t heard anybody say Iron curtain for i Don t know How Long. Who keeps track of things like that dear diary May 1971.1 heard Iron curtain for the last Lime anyhow. I Haven t heard it for years. Don t know Why. It s a Winston Churchill coinage and a line one bul it seemed to fade out even before glasnost. Note by the Way that most americans Tatkin about glasnost make it sound like Glass nosed this is amusing Only because of the american term hard nosed which is used to describe people who Don t like glasnost or anything else about the soviet Union. Around Washington you can hear things like he shard nosed on but Back to the going of Iron if it had lingered on would friends of glasnost now be taking the Metal out of it calling it something like the beaded curtain or the cheesecloth curtain to keep abreast of the International political fads Why do i care because i m interested in that prize the Kab is offering. It would be Sweet for an american capitalist Hack to snatch those 3,000 rubles from right under the noses of Russia s Foremost literary Comrade. You probably would t have a Chance of winning though if your manuscript contained dated words. Re member As a writer even for the american Market you must always keep up with the latest revisions of history if you want to sell. With glasnost history a being revised right before our eyes. Consequently a Lotof Good robust old fashioned vocabulary is now disappearing from american speech and May even be officially banned by the russians. So. If your aim is a Book Guss Ying up the image of the Kab and painting its agents As regular up to Dat Guys you Don i want them talking like those antique Square tailored thugs Stalin kept around to shoot peo ple who annoyed him. For instance suppose my Book has a scene in which the Kab hero Igor has connived to Man Euver an american presidential candidate into a weekend with Beautiful Young soviet brain surgeon aboard the yacht going ape. The gorgeous heroine of soviet brain sur Gery is under orders to stun the candidate with he Beauty and while he is gaga open his Skull and give him a brainwashing using a Pink rinse. Now suppose Igor is hiding under the bed with the shampoo and the rinse when he hears familiar foot Steps on the deck overhead and recognizes the tread of the brutal hard nose International munitions King and hater of peace. Once upon a Lime Igor could have called softly to his surgical accomplice Paster Grushenko a fascist beast is drawing a Chase would have ensued and hero and heroine having made it safely Back behind the Berlin Wall Igor would have said does t it make you feel warm All Over to be Back inside the Good old Iron curtain i m not certain but i suspect if Igor gets caught nowadays saying fascist beast he will find himself in mighty deep trouble at the Kab office. How far Glas nost permits the Kab to go in disciplining him Don t know. Maybe they Send a note Home to his Mother. As for Igor saying Iron curtain i realize that would t Sil Well in Moscow unless the Kab could be persuaded it would help the Book to sell bigger than i reworks of or. Leo Buscaglia in the United states. And what other Market could possibly interest an image minded Kab after All chances of improving the Kab image i Russia can t be very Good due to its having spent two or three generations rummaging through everybody s people sentenced to siberian labor. That american Best seller Market though could mean everything the big instead of Mere rubles. And with a swinging Bond like Kab hero who is bankable hence Fil Mable he could do for soviet rus Sia what rambo has done for Sylvester Stallone. But not i suspect if he says Iron Yurchenko repeats Cia criticism Moscow up mustachioed double defector Vitaly Yurchenko who dramatically lied his Cia handlers in november 1985 is Back in the shadowy world of intrigue. In a published interview he said he now works in the foreign ministry department handling Security at soviet missions abroad. Speaking to the soviet new times weekly in his third interview since i dramatic return to Moscow nearly two years ago after 93 Days in Cia hands yur Chenko revealed a few More details of his new life at Home and warned that Moscow is doing All it can to track Down other soviet citizens who disappeared in the West and bring them Home. He said he is collecting material for a possible Book on his . Experience. The first six months following Marc tits i spent in the Hospital and at b sanitarium. The doctors were putting me right. The psychotropic drags the Cia fed me had crippled my he gave no details of his new Job. But accused thecia of mistreating and drugging soviet citizens it had abducted in the West As in his Case in 1985. 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