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- <text id=91TT0826>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: "Gorby's Girls"
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- "Gorby's Girls"
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reforms have provided an
- unusual twist on the old story about girls who leave home
- seeking fame, but wind up exploited in the big city. Eleven
- young Soviet women emigrated to Toronto in January, lured by the
- promise of high-priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up
- working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women,
- billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as
- virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day.
- Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and
- called police. While the Soviet strippers face deportation,
- local citizens are offering financial help and even proposals
- of marriage. Immigration officials, who charged the club owners
- with hiring illegal workers, are investigating reports that many
- other Soviet women may have been imported to Canada through
- similar scams.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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