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42 million documents and 4000 hours of tapes seized when he was forced
to resign in 1974. New York Times A9 (September 15, 1992).
61 Los Angeles Times A4 (February 22, 1992); New York Times 1 (March 14,
1992), A4 (April 7, 1992). In August a Greek capitalist bought the paper,
which resumed publishing three times a week. Los Angeles Times A6
(August 12, 1992). Other previously subsidised journals saw subscriptions
fall as prices soared: Novy Mrdropped from 2.5 million to 250,000,
Znamya from 1 million to 250,000, Druzhba Narocfovfrom 1.2 million to
90,000. Remnick (1992). The cost of newsprint rose from a heavily
subsidised 300 rubles per ton to 29,000 in July 1992. When Komsomolskaya
Pravada sought resubscriptions at a more realistic price, only a few
hundred thousand of its 13 million former readers signed up. Gambrell
(1992). Noting that it had published Doctor Zhivago, The Gulag Archipelago,
and 1984, Novy Mir appealed to the West to contribute $190,000 a
year because its costs were twice its subscription income. New York
Review of Books 61 (October 22, 1992).
Moscow sought to rent Red Square to advertisers for the spring festival
that has replaced May Day, asking $1 million for bilboards on three sides
and two dirigibles stationed above. Even this new-found passion for profit
had its limits: nothing was to deface St. Basil's Cathedral or Lenin's tomb.
New York Times A7 (April 24, 1992). But there were no takers.
62 New York Times s.1 p.6 (March 22, 1992); Los Angeles Times A11 (April
13, 1991), F1 (March 26, 1992). For $3180 Russia is now offering
photographs of strategic American sites taken from a spy satellite with a
resolution of less than 2 meters. New York Times s.1 p.8 (October 4,
1992).
In Poland, railway station bookstores sell horoscopes, parapsychology
and soft-porn like Fanny Hill and Emmanuelle; translations of Canadian
Harlequin romances sell 1.5 million copies a month. Among novels, the
sequel to Gone With The Wind topped the best-seller list, followed by
Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins. The first translation of Mein Kampf sold
out 20,000 copies days after a court refused to block publication; copies
were quickly resold for three times the cover price. New York Times Book
Kewew14(July 12, 1992).
Democratic capitalism may have similar consequences in the third
world. The opposition press in Zimbabwe has introduced a "Page 3 Girl,"
one of whom recently posed topless in black transparent pantyhose, a
string of beads, and a headscarf, with a caption saying "she is a traditionalist
and would like other girls to feel the same way." Harare feminist
groups were furious. Weekly Mail 15 (April 24, 1992).
63 Whittle Communications distributes Channel One to 7.1 million students
in 11,000 government schools in 45 states (and to private schools in three
others). It provides the video equipment free on condition that schools
require students to watch the daily 12-minute news programme. Whittle
earns $630,000 a day for four 30-second commercials. The California
Superintendent of Education, California Congress of Parents, Teachers
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