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Russian youth against traditu By Bruce B. Ritchie This article is the second part of a two-part series. The author is a senior journalism major who recently returned from a trip to the Soviet Union as part of a mass media tour. rr* I. _ A' ^ ^ . / J ?_ LI' f I ine jirsi pan oj mis story was puoiisnea Monday. In Yalta, a beach resort and Black Sea port city, a small outdoor cafe at the end of a i i 11. i uuaruwai* was pupuiar wuii yuung ouvicis. A reel-to-reel player played Russian and East European versions of Western music. An occasional song by Rod Stewart, Elton John or The Alan Parsons Project played while the crowd sat on wooden chairs around tables loaded with champagne and cognac glasses. College-aged Russians in Yalta were more eaeer to talk and less eager to buy than in Leningrad or Moscow. Volva and Victoria, both about 19, were eager to know all about the United States. They asked in halting English what New York was like, what my favorite books were, what my father's occupation was and what my university was like. ANOTHER INTERESTING youth was Lucie (not her real name), a 22-year-old nurse who rented an apartment by herself ? a rare privacy. Lucie paid a man to marry anrl Hivnrre her sr> she rnuld keen an anart ment alone. Her apartment had a single bedroom with a bathroom and kitchen shared by four families. Lucie, elegantly dressed in designer jeans, boots and a French blouse, said she had been HEY QIRi IS YOUR Bi REALLY RE cno cooit rvn grn/r eyebrow waxing "^rn^rtll eyebrow & lash tinting individual lashes_/ by' i nail jewels j \ scultpured J / \ . / --mi (our specialty) PEDICURE \ \ L & COL FINI j~j riHIortH"' is rebel )nal lifestyle a problem pupil in high school because she wanted to be a writer and was bored by history and math. "My teacher called my mother one day and said 'Your Lucie will never be a good Soviet girl. She does not listen in class and she does not care about patriotism. She will always be a problem,' " Lucie said. Lucie said she dealt in the black market, buying icons from sailors and reselling them on the market for a $10,000 markup. She was jailed three times in two years; her longest imprisonment was 10 days last December. After a hunger strike, she was rplp^cpH anH omnlnupH ac a nurcA Pirninn QC\ 1 VIVUOVU U1IU VllipiV J VU UJ U 1IU1 OVf VU1 111115 y V rubles ($130) a month. "I WILL eat bread and water if I have to," she said. "I won't go back to jail." Lucie, like other Russian youths, longs for a Western lifestyle. They see glimpses of the West in fashion magazines and Western music. A girl in Leningrad said, "I now have friends in New York," while trying to convince me to marry her for pay so she could leave the Soviet Union. "They love it over there. I want that life." I left the Soviet Union without mv T shirts, caps, buttons and cigarettes, but a lot more questions. Will these teen-agers be the loyal throng for the future of the Soviet Union? "We will, because our parents did and their parents did," Lucie said. "It's what is expected of us. It's something you as an outsider would never understand." srlS^ JTs jrC -'1 ll ADY 35$ S O 1 Celebratioi iV*" Wee FflBOLO Free [ ial & cosmetics uanm/ san soucis' nappy ??cRM Thursda\ MANICURE KILLER CINI LINE WAXING I ?> ^ THE I PLUS Venfrilt 1PPER & LOWER EG WAXING DavjcJ pazz, and celebrate v specials... umbia'sonly Thursday - Heini total PriHa\/ . u ann\/ I SHING SALON ' '1 ' '"Yf ' Saturday - Millei I-SII60 Coming soon. OILY STREET t Off Devine) AT. 9 AM-6 PM 1 II sb^^BKBB^- . . ^Bkhb3bHBZB|H USC student Bruce Ritchie stands in front of Red Square. Ritchie, a senior journalism majc the Soviet Union as a member of a mass me Look for I literary ma; later this ; eene Street IB iv \ 1 Anivprsarv SB n Continues.. . 1 1 Inesday 1 Bj as KNOBS I )raft 8-10 I Hour 10-12 I a/i f and Friday I i? f WHALES I iturday j I ROYS ? \Y/?^ f t w^us. V7 i iiuid. gggg man vith our anniversary MsKl eken $ 1.00 |y ^ hour Miamteuose (im" m r/Miller Lite 75c TEST PRI Vectors !'IC,,US, Fof Information AJb /*" # # In Mnrfi Than 1f?*i il?l cruise-o-matic I Corbett-Urquia I True of America | I ! I m' ifi? i - - |g ggjjgl . 1 BHHHHI ^ MhiIMIB St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's >r recently returned from a trip to idia tour. JSC's . gazine ; WCCIV ! COCKY 1 Night I \ Shirts I \ $"7.95 I Call Days Eveningi ? Weekends sfewiGeu-H. fflPUIN cational Center eparation 1419 Pendleton St. S SINCE 193A Tel OIA YU70 X^I, ?-# out Other Cent?r? or US Citltt & Abroad e NY State CAll TOU fWEt: i00 223 17?2 ^ ? J