16 Missoulian, Monday, July 18. 1988 INTERNATIONAL Documentary lets Poles glimpse; the personal side of Gorbachev By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press The film did not show Gorbachev in the village, which has been closed to foreigners since his rise to power. A Stavropol artist who painted a picture of the town told The Associated Press that the house where Gorbachev was born is no longer there. The film showed Mrs. Gorbachev, a stoijt woman in a peasant shawl and with a gold-capped front tooth, sitting beside a simple round woodes table, apparently at her home.
It was the first known interview with Mrs. Gor? bachev. The film gave no indication when it was conducted. "In 1944, Misha was in fifth grade," she referring to her son by the common nickname fot Mikhail. "He couldn't go to school because he didn't have shoes." She said she received a letter from her husband, Sergei, a soldier at the front, instructing her to whatever you can, but buy shoes for Misha.
He must study." i "I went to the market and sold whatever il could, and with the money 1 earned, I bought a pair of combat boots for 1,500 rubles," she said, "and I took him to school." Since the war, the ruble has been revalued twice, making 1,500 wartime rubles worth 15 rubles or about $25 at the current exchange rate. Gorbachev's mother said the headmaster told her the boy had already missed three months of school and couldn't catch up with his class. But she quoted young Misha as promising, "I'll make it up." She said her son earned his diploma with honors. WARSAW, Poland Mikhail S. Gorbachev's mother says her family was so poor during World War II that her son missed three months of school because she couldn't afford to buy him shoes.
Maria Gorbachev's portrayal of her family's hardship was contained in a revealing, Soviet-made documentary broadcast by Polish state-run television during Gorbachev's visit last week. The 47-minute program raised the veil on Gorbachev's personal life higher than anything shown in his own country, where the media generally avoid mention of unofficial activities of the Soviet leadership. The television program, narrated by a Polish announcer with Russian comments translated into Polish, consisted largely of clips of Gorbachev's public appearances and offered a generally flattering portrait of the Soviet leader and his vision of "pere-stroika," or restructuring. Most revealing, however, was the glimpse into Gorbachev's peasant upbringing and the hardships imposed by World War II, reminders of which dot the Soviet landscape and consciousness nearly, 50 years after the Nazi invasion. The film showed a war memorial in the Soviet leader's home district, with six Gorbachevs listed among those who died in combat.
The narrator said that whenever Gorbachev has a chance, he returns to his home village of Privol-noye in the Stavropol region of southern Russia. His mother, Maria, still lives there. American gets asylum in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW (AP) An American citizen was granted asylum in the Soviet Union after claiming he was harassed by U.S. intelligence agents, Soviet media reported Sunday.
The government daily Izvestia and the official Tass news agency identified the man as Glen Michael Sauter. Izvestia said Sauter asked for and received asylum because he was being "unfoundedly persecuted" by U.S. agents. Neither Izvestia nor Tass gave any other details about the defector or the alleged incidents that reportedly prompted him to turn to Soviet authorities. The newspaper said Sauter's appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, or the Soviet parliament, for refuge in the Soviet was motivated by his wish "to hide from U.S.
secret services which unfoundedly persecuted him." "Guided by humane considerations, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR complied with the request of Glen Michael Sauter and granted him asylum in the USSR," Izvestia said. U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Gilbert said American diplomats were not contacted about the incident and were unfamiliar with the man or the circ*mstances surrounding his flight. "Our position is that Americans are free to travel wherever and whenever and we would have no comment on a defection," said Anita Stockman, a spokeswoman for the State Department in Washington. A duty officer at Izvestia said he did not know how to contact Sauter and that the editorial offices responsible for the publication were closed until Monday.
In January, Theodore and Cheryl Branch of Erie, sought asylum while on a tourist trip to the Soviet Union. AMOClflttd Prtss RABBI MENACHEM BURSTIN examines a squid in Jerusalem to see if dye it produces meets religious standards for a ritual abandoned 1,500 years ago. Jews seek rare snails to revive ancient ritual By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press Soviet poet's verse finally sees print MOSCOW (AP) A leadine small photo of the poet taken at going through now." used was lost. "Now we are looking for it," said Burstin, of the prestigious Mercaz Harav religious seminary. "We want to revive the mitzva (biblical command)." Israel's chief rabbis, who rule on religious issues, have not given the go-ahead to renew the ancient practice and are awaiting Burstin's findings before they consider it, said Zalman Quittner, a spokesman for the rabbis.
Interest in the mollusk mystery was roused when Burstin appealed in a religious newspaper, "Erev Shabat," for seminary students to seek out the rare snail, known as the Janthi-na or "violet snail" because of its purple-blue color. JERUSALEM Orthodox Jews are scouring Israel's Mediterranean beaches for a rare snail that produces a blue dye they say is needed to revive a religious ritual abandoned 1,500 years ago. The snail hunt was prompted last week by Rabbi Menachem Burstin of Jerusalem, who is trying to recreate a process once used to dye a single thread of the Jewish prayer shawl in accordance with a biblical command. Jews were forced to abandon the practice in the fifth century, Burstin said, when Roman authorities banned all but the ruling class from wearing colored clothing. The recipe for the dye Kovalev said he recognized the poems as among those Daniel wrote in prison.
The trial of Daniel, now 63 and ailing, and fellow writer Andrei Sinyavsky marked the start of a harsh crackdown on dissident political views and writings. Daniel spent five years in prison and labor camp following his conviction for unauthorized publication of his works abroad. He worked in Kaluga and Moscow after his release from exile but refrained from dissident least 20 years ago. "Yuli Daniel prose writer and poet. Yuli Daniel war veteran and a man of difficult fate," the magazine said.
"Before you are his first publications after a break of more than 20 years." The verse published by Ogonyok was markedly less political than the satires that led to Daniel's arrest and conviction in 1966, but prominent dissident Sergei Kovalev termed the publication an important step in the "interesting and complicated processes we are literary magazine on Sunday became the first Soviet publication in more than 20 years to print the poetry of Jewish satirist Yuli Daniel, whose controversial verse led to his imprisonment in the mid-1960s. Friends of Daniel said the writer was unaware of the publication of five of his poems in the magazine Ogonyok because he has been in a coma for a month after a series of heart attacks. The weekly published Daniel's work on page 30, along with a TV TONIGHT Democrats kick it off tonight FAYE ZUCKERMAN KCFW I I 1 I I (3) (BO HE (5) (9) (21) CD (12) (10) (16) (15) (11) (13) (20) (6)0 (21(g) (41 (g) (19) (17) KMX I KECI CNN NICK LIFE DISC ESPN USA USPS CBN WTVS VYTBS KHQ KREM KXLY AE WGN WOR 5:00 ABC News News Democratic Can on TV Foley Square Conquest SportsCenter Airwolf Street Remington Business Rpt.lAndy Griffith Bob Newhart Oprah Win- on the Prairie JourneyAdv. Barney Miller Barney Miller :30 News NBC News National Con- Double Dare Easy Street Baseball Reading Steele Black Journal Andy Griffith Lose or Draw frey Peo. Court Survival Benson Movie: 6:00 CBS News News vention RoomDaddy Cagney La- Perspective America's WWF Prime Sherlock Crazy Like a Adventure Death of a PM Magazine News News Footsteps Movie: "Ver- "Death Wisrr :30 Fortune M'A'S'H Mister Ed cey True Adv.
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i The Democrats convene to-J night at Atlanta's Omni for the political party's 40th national convention. Business to be accomplished during the opening day in-1 eludes welcoming remarks by Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta; the keynote address by State Treasurer Ann Richards of Texas; and reports from the credentials and rules committees. CNN (at 3) kicks off gavel-to-gavel coverage of the convention in which 3,800 delegates are ex-, pected to be in attendance. Bernard Shaw and Mary Alice Williams co-anchor the coverage, which includes live interviews from the convention floor. (C-3jPAN's coverage is gavel-to-gavel starting at 3.) At 7 p.m.
live coverage begins on ABC, CBS and NBC. Peter Jennings and David Brinkley co-anchor on ABC and are joined by news analyst George Will and Tom Wicker of The New York Times, who present analysis and commentary. Sam Donaldson, Brit Hume and Lynn Sherr report from the floor. NBC plans to broaden its coverage this year by airing via For CBS News, veteran broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite and Bruce Morton offer commentary and analysis. Dan Rather anchors the live coverage with Charles Kuralt, Bill Bradley and Diane Sawyer supplying reports from the floor.
Cable calls "ALF," NBC (KHQ) at 6 p.m.: The zany alien gets to run around as himself on Halloween satellite two-way discussions and debates with political experts and Republicans not attending the convention. According to NBC News president Lawrence K. Grossman, "The result will be a town-meeting format. We are providing a broader editorial canvas." Tom Brokaw anchors NBC's coverage with John Chancellor providing commentary and Connie Chung acting as the correspondent at the podium. night.
So he decides to drop in on Willie's (Max Wright) costume soiree and becomes the life of the party. ALF immediately impresses Willie's boss, which angers the party's host. Repeat. "American Masters," PBS (KSPS) at 10 p.m.: Bandleader-pianist-composer Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) innovated swing music during the 1920s and 1930s in New York City. Two-part "A Duke Named Ellington" (concluding next Monday at 9) chronicles the composer's celebrated career and serves up delicious samples of Ellington's great musical sound.
You'll hear such songs as "East St. Louis Toodle-oo," "Black and Tan Fantasy," and "Perdido." Part 1 examines Ellington's career until the 1950s. Included is a report on his early years as a bandleader in Harlem's legendary Cotton Club. ADVICE CONVERSATION ABIGAIL VAN BUREN PAUL MOOMAYV Ph.D long as I feel good. TILLIE SCHIFF, DELRAY BEACH, FLA.
DEAR TILLIE: Count your blessings, by gum! DEAR ABBY: I know this will be too late for Father's Day, but I had to write. You advised us to write a letter to our fathers telling them how much we appreciate them, and why. Well, what do you do when your father does not speak to you or acknowledge your letters? Ever since I made the choice to move in with my boyfriend, my father has not spoken to me. I have written to him, but my letters have not been answered. I (and my boyfriend) have tried to talk to him.
He refuses to speak to either of us. We intend to get married next year. If our financial situation is such that we can afford a small wedding, we will have one. If not, we will drive to some small chapel and get married. It hurts me to know that my father cannot even give me his best wishes.
I know he thinks my move was a stupid one, but I have never been happier. FEELING FATHERLESS MENTAL HEALTH DEAR ABBY Toothless wife grateful to husband trained to be an expert. But the fact is that much of our expert knowledge is little more than opinion in fancy dress opinion based on experience and careful thought, but opinion nevertheless. Psychologists are experts at behavior, and even if we can't predict it, we are supposed to be able to describe it. Yet much of our description is really just labeling.
You may remember a game that was popular number of years back, where the point was to find, good and bad labels for the same trait or behavior in yourself and somebody else: I'm firm, you're rigid; I'm flexible, you're wishy-washy; I thrive on relationships, you're afraid to be alone; I'm rational, you have no feelings; I'm spontaneous, you have np impulse control. Psychologists sometimes fall into the same game; the trouble is, we don't always realize we're doing it, especially if we have camouflaged the whole thing with diagnoses. Generally, behaviors and cognitive patterns are' not good or bad, functional or dysfunctional, healthy or pathological. There are exceptions to that, of course. We generally agree about extreme behav tors such as murder, torture, sexual abuse and being a bore.
But otherwise, the "goodness" or "badness" of a behavior is a function of the observer, or of the context. The point I am drifting toward (I plan ahead, you beat around the bush) is that all of us need to beware of labeling behaviors without considering tWe context. That's especially important to me when I look at a type of behavior that falls under the general rubric of "defenses." When I was getting my training, I was taught to see defenses as bad, as methods stubborn, tricky clients had of avoiding dealing with their problems; or with their secret impulses, or even and this of course, was the worst cf all with my efforts to help them. The passage of time has given me a different perspective. I have come to realize that so-called defenses are simply patterns of behavior that may be perfectly reasonable in some contexts and perfectly unreasonable in others.
Next week I'll talk about some of those behav- Slapping on a label obscures situation Before I was a psychologist, I was a journalist; and that earlier incarnation has affected my views about psychology. Take the role of journalist itself: A reporter's professional stance toward the world, if he or she is doing the job right, is, "I am not impressed." That's necessary because the world is full of "experts" who try to impress reporters with distortions, hyperbole and downright lies. A reporter's job is to get the facts, which requires an ability to sift through the bullpoop. Good reporters come into the job fully armed with that attitude. The same person, working someplace where respect for authority is demanded a bank, the military might well get into a lot of trouble, wind up seeing a psychologist and be diagnosed as someone with a neurotic complex about authority.
Same person, same attitudes, same behaviors, but different "diagnosis." As a psychologist, I carry my old reporter's attitude toward experts. This places me in an interesting position because, as a psychologist, I have been DEAR ABBY: I just read the letter from "Revolted in Maine," whose husband refused to wear his dentures. She said, "Looking at him is offensive, and watching him eat is unbearable." Believe me, if that's the only thing wrong with him, she's a very lucky woman. I think she wants out of her marriage. I'm 71 and Abe is 78, and we've been married for 45 years.
I don't wear my dentures, either, and I haven't wprn any for more than 10 years. I had four sets made by four different dentists and I couldn't wear any of them, but I didn't give up. I went to three more dentists, and the last one told me to quit wasting my money because there are thousands of people like me who just can't adjust to wearing dentures, no matter what. Eating without teeth is no problem for me. There are only two items I can't eat raw carrots and nuts.
I'm a lousy cook and a worse housekeeper, but Abe never complains. He takes me out for dinner every night and says he doesn't care how I look, as DEAR FEELING: How old are you? Are you self-supporting? How old is your boyfriend? Is he self-supporting? If you are both of legal age and are self-supporting, I would say that a pair of adults are responsible only to themselves for their actions. Your father has every right to be disappointed in your decision and disapproving of your lifestyle, but in punishing you, he is also punishing himself. What a sad commentary. Time is so precious.
CONFIDENTIAL TO GETTING INVOLVED IN GLOUCESTER, Nobody said it better than Cheryl Lavin and Laura Kavesh, co-authors of a wonderful little book, "Tales From the "Don't be the first one in a divorced man's post-divorce life. They cry on your shoulder, you provide hours of free therapy, you patch them up, and when they're all better, they say thanks and off they go to someone not associated with all the pain.".
