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- June 25, 1990: Does He Dare To Drink A Toast?
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> DOES HE DARE TO DRINK A TOAST? Novelist Valentin Rasputin
- strikes many as an odd choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's
- new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and
- speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to
- some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have
- discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa
- Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the
- Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin?
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- </article>
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