Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union it was a case of the unthinkable becoming reality: Glasnost, a 55-page unauthorized journal of comment whose editor had served nine years in prison for his dissident views, was being allowed to circulate freely. In a country for so long enmeshed in secrecy, a publication openly printing what it pleased was certain to be quashed. In early August the paper Vechernaya Moskva (Evening Moscow) accused the new journal of waving "anti- Soviet banners." The future for Glasnost and its editor, Sergei Grigoryants, looked bleak indeed...
...paper's ebullient journalists sometimes seem to get a little ahead of their sources. At a recent press conference, an Izvestia reporter rose to challenge a Deputy Foreign Minister's comment that there had been an increase in emigration for the purpose of bringing together families. Why, asked the reporter, are more of these families "not being reunited on Soviet territory instead of abroad?" Grumbled an abashed minister: "I would have thought we could expect a more convenient question from a representative of Izvestia...
...superiors. "In all my activities, I did not act without approval," he said on a radio show. In a separate newspaper interview, Eitan asked, "Do the people responsible appreciate the fact that I agreed to assume the responsibility?" If so, they are not saying so. Israeli officials had no comment...
...five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or cleaning fluid to suffocation with a plastic bag or pillow. Police have refused to comment on the case, pending completion of the grand jury investigation...
...extremely irritating to realize that the only time Harvard's oldest newspaper can find the space to comment of PBHA is when they print error-laden pieces of sensationalist trash. Nordhaus's editorial speaks of "serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters," but I really don't feel Nordhaus is in any position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar...