Word: gennadi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going to tell me it's a fight between Soviet troops and Afghan troops. It's a fight between Afghan troops and Afghan troops," said Gennadi Gerasimov, head of the Information Department of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, after a speech at Emerson Hall...
Last month the Soviets arrested Daniloff forspying. The United States government said thatarrest was a response to the indictment of SovietU.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov on espionage charges.The result of these dual arrests was a more thanmonth-long diplomatic standoff that led toincreased tensions in Soviet-American relations...
...force it at least to put the journalist on trial. It is possible, of course, that Daniloff could then be sent home, expelled rather than released. But the only terms on which Moscow so far seems willing to do even that would be a trade of the reporter for Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee whose arrest for espionage in New York City triggered the frame-up of Daniloff in Moscow a week $ later. And the Reagan Administration has sworn never to accept a straight swap of a real spy for an innocent American...
Just as Daniloff was getting sprung from Lefortovo, U.S. marshals in New York City, where it was early afternoon, escorted Gennadi Zakharov from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to a Brooklyn federal courtroom for a hearing that took all of three minutes. The Soviet U.N. employee stood ramrod- straight and stone-faced as Judge Joseph McLaughlin read the espionage charges against him. Zakharov said only, "Not guilty." The judge then told him that "contingent on the prior or simultaneous release of Nicholas S. Daniloff," he too was being let go in the custody of his ambassador. Other conditions also were nearly...
Whatever the lingering mysteries about the Kremlin's motives in the Daniloff case, there is no doubt that the crisis was precipitated by the arrest of their man at the U.N., Gennadi Zakharov. Precisely because they are so obsessive about the clandestine side of their national-security policy, the Soviets take very seriously the task of getting their spies who have been nabbed out of the hands of FBI and CIA debriefers. If retrieving Zakharov meant disrupting the chance of a summit, well, too bad. But first things first. And in this case, as in so many others before, that...