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Thrown out of Russia last week: Associated Press Correspondent Roy Essoyan, 39, the fourth American to be expelled since April 1956. Essoyan's official sin: "A rude violation of Soviet censorship." Best A.P. guess was that the "violation" was Essoyan's dispatch in August saying that Khrushchev's proposal to refer the Mideast crisis to the U.N. was a "major retreat...
...State Department's wholly logical explanation for the spaceman stories: they had apparently been inspired by an Orson Wellesian rocket opera broadcast Sunday by Radio Moscow. Next day, in an intercontinental missive to editors, the A.P. said its two Moscow staffers (Bureau Chief Harold K. Milks and Roy Essoyan) heard the rumors well before the Wellesian broadcast and let them age 48 hours before breaking the story. Their "reliable" sources: "An Eastern European correspondent, then another, and then a Western correspondent who reported hearing it from a third East European correspondent," and finally "a Western embassy." If the world...
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