Word: danchev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dropped from the government yesterday were Petko Danchev, a deputy premier, and Stoyan Ovcharov, minister of economy and planning Both were Zhikov supporters who were ousted as non-voting members of the Politburo on Thursday...
Listeners to Radio Moscow's English-language service last Monday could hardly believe what they were hearing. "The population of Afghanistan plays an increasing role in defending the country's territory against Soviet occupants," Announcer Vladimir Danchev declared in his hourly news roundup. He went on to quote Afghan tribal elders as saying that Soviet activities endangered "the security of the population of Afghanistan." An hour later Danchev repeated the same bulletin. During the next hourly summary, he reported that the Afghan population was playing a greater role in defending the country "against bands infiltrated from the Soviet...
...Radio Moscow spokesman ambiguously described the startling deviations from the official Soviet line as a "personal mistake." An executive for the service, however, said privately that "anything like that has to be an act of sabotage." The question was, By whom? Radio Moscow news programs are prerecorded, so Danchev's broadcast could have been edited, mistakenly or mischievously, without his knowledge. The doctored tape could have slipped through once, and perhaps even twice. But that would not explain the third suspicious broadcast, which differed markedly from the first two. Because staffers at Radio Moscow's English service...
...British Broadcasting Corp., which picked up the revealing reports in its routine monitoring of foreign radio transmissions, experts said that Danchev had made a similar mistake a week earlier. That broadcast also concerned Afghanistan. One Western diplomat was convinced that the mistakes were deliberate. Said he: "It represents the first time that the Soviet media have rebelled against the Kremlin's policy in Afghanistan...
...Danchev, he was promptly taken off the air after the gaffes were discovered. Late last week he was reportedly dismissed by Radio Moscow, and the broadcast agency was said to be planning stricter controls over its announcers...