abstract:Ivan was a western lowland gorilla born in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. He spent the first 27 years of his life in a 14'x14' concrete enclosure on display for the public at the B&I Circus Store in Tacoma, Washington.
" While Boris Pugo, the new hard-line Latvian communist recently appointed Minister of the Interior, denied authorizing the building take-over, Ivans said "such a move would need the Kremlin's go-ahead -- at least tacitly.