Word: adzhubeis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his interview with Izvestia's Editor Aleksei I. Adzhubei, who is also Khrushchev's son-in-law. President Kennedy made a deliberate decision to speak quietly, without bombast or belligerence. As a result, the two-hour interview, carried nearly verbatim by Izvestia, produced little earth-shaking news. Much of the U.S. press gave it a better front-page display than did Izvestia (see cut),* but President Kennedy was satisfied that he had accomplished his aim of giving the Russian people a reasoned explanation of the U.S. position...
...Fair Opportunity." The great threat to peace, Kennedy told Adzhubei, "is the effort by the Soviet Union to communize. in a sense, the entire world. If the people of any country choose to follow a Communist system in a free election, after a fair opportunity for a number of views to be presented, the United States would accept that. What we object to is the attempt to impose Communism by force, or a situation where once a people may have fallen under Communism, the Communists do not give them a fair opportunity to make another choice...
...communicated his views to the U.S. newspaper public; Kennedy himself has had no such access to the Russian people. But last week the President finally got a chance, and a good one. In the first presidential interview ever granted a Russian newsman, he talked for two hours with Aleksei Adzhubei, who is both editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev...
...idea for the interview originated with White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who suggested it to Russian press attachés. Word eventually came back that Khrushchev liked the notion, and Adzhubei duly presented himself at Hyannisport, along with Interpreter Georgi Bolshakov, editor of the Russian English-language magazine U.S.S.R. He brought along a doll for Caroline Kennedy and, for John Jr., another doll with weighted bottom that returned upright each time it was punched over. "This doll is like the Russian people," said Adzhubei. "You can keep pushing it down, but it will always come...
While a White House stenographer and U.S. interpreter monitored the conversation, Adzhubei and Kennedy discussed Berlin, disarmament, nuclear testing and foreign trade. At talk's end, Kennedy apologized for having let it run too long. "No," said his guest, "our people are used to reading long stories." Talking later to U.S. newsmen, Adzhubei remained in good humor. The 37-year-old editor gave a thumbnail sketch of himself: "According to the American doctrine, I met the pretty daughter of the man who was to become Premier. That's how my career started." He bristled at suggestions that...