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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19MR. STANKEVICH GOES TO WASHINGTON
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- He's been compared to the young Jimmy Stewart, he favors
- jeans and sneakers, and his command of American political
- history is better than that of some people on Capitol Hill. Word
- is that Sergei Stankevich, 37, the deputy mayor of Moscow, may
- soon be appointed Soviet ambassador to the U.S., replacing
- coup-tainted Viktor Komplektov. Once a professor of American
- politics, Stankevich has put his knowledge of U.S.
- constitutional procedures to good use as an outspoken reformer
- in the Congress of People's Deputies and as a back-room tutor
- to Boris Yeltsin. Mikhail Gorbachev, who once regarded
- Stankevich as an irritant, may now view him as an asset, given
- his political savvy, telegenic charm and easy command of
- English.
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