ROLFING WITH YELTSIN.

Focuses on Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin's United States trip and its sponsor Esalen, a personal-awareness mecca in Big-Sur, California. Places visited by Yeltsin; Criticisms against the Yeltsin visit; Background on Esalen which played a major role in popularizing Gestalt therapy, encounter groups, rolfing and tai chi; Esalen's sponsorship of such trips through its San Francisco, California-based Soviet-American Exchange Program; Aim of the program to spread alternative peacemaking; Esalen's pioneering "space bridges," video conferences between people in the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Troubling possibilities of Yeltsin's visit.