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...Huang had arrived from Peking with a message from the Chinese leadership expressing a desire to speed up consultations designed to normalize relations between the two Communist giants. Following his meeting with Andropov, Huang conferred for 90 minutes with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. The same day, Pravda Editor Viktor Afanasyev told a group of visiting Japanese journalists that both Peking and Moscow might agree to reduce their military forces along the Soviet-Chinese border. Though just such a proposal has been expected by diplomats since Brezhnev made overtures to Peking earlier this year, the timing of Afanasyev's statement...
Until now, the best-known of these consciences ripened in central and northern Europe, thanks largely to the pioneering work of the Grimms (in Germany) and Alexander Afanasyev (in Russia). Calvino's collection throws open a sunny window to the south. A tale told in the Black Forest differed, apparently, from the one that was related on the shores of the Mediterranean. The three little pigs did not make it to Italy; they became three grownup girls named Catherine, Julia and Marietta. Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading...
...battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...
Each morning at 11, Afanasyev and his 30 deputy and department editors meet to make final changes in that day's edition and to lay out most of the following day's paper. All decisions are made with the party in mind. A full member of the party Central Committee, Afanasyev has direct access to top government leaders, including Leonid Brezhnev. The paper's two dozen departments (divided by geographical area and subject matter) are in close contact with the party's propaganda department and with government bureaus. Yet Afanasyev denies that everything in the paper...
...whole of Soviet light industry." But his voice is only one in a rising chorus of criticism directed at classic Marxist economics. Lately Pravda and other Soviet publications have carried articles by economists branding the Soviet system "obsolete" and advocating a more or less free market system. Sergei Afanasyev, a deputy premier of one of the Soviet republics, fortnight ago came out for "material stimuli" as a necessary mainspring of the Russian economy. Lev Leontyev, an economist of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, from which initial opposition to Liberman's theories came, recently advocated the profit motive and payment...