Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 28, 1991 TAG: 9103280265
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Kasparov, 27, a vocal opponent of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, said he is convinced that communism will die by itself in his homeland, without outside help.
"If you leave us alone, within a year, there will be no Gorbachev, there will be no Communists. There will be something else. It will happen," he said Monday.
Kasparov was in the Los Angeles area developing a series of chess videotapes and software.
Born in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, Kasparov said his defeats of former world chess champ Anatoly Karpov mirrored the struggle between the old order and the new at home.
"Chess is black and white," he said. "Karpov, Kasparov, pro and anti. I didn't have my anti-communist ideas at that time. That came later. All our matches were a step ahead of the changes in the country."
\ Roy Acuff, 87, expects to return to the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville, Tenn., this weekend after taking two days off for eye surgery.
Acuff had the glaucoma surgery on his left eye and did not perform on the show last Friday or Saturday. He had similar surgery on his right eye a year ago.
Acuff has appeared on the program since 1938.
\ Ted Turner, whose 24-hour Cable News Network reshaped broadcast journalism, will receive an honorary degree and give the main address at Tufts University's 135th commencement May 12, the Medford, Mass., school said Wednesday.
Tufts also will award honorary degrees to singer Harry Belafonte, medical author Oliver Sacks, novelist Dick Francis, South African civil rights leader Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Indian educator Moonis Raza and Dr. Etienee-Emile Baulieu, credited with developing the RU-486 anti-pregnancy pill.
"Ted Turner, through his cable television empire, has opened channels of dialogue and promoted better understanding of humanity's problems throughout the world," Tufts President Jean Mayer said.
by CNB