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<text id=90TT1687>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Does He Dare To Drink A Toast?
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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<body>
<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
</p>
<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?
</p>
</body>
</article>
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