Word: izvestia
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...paid off. The cigar-chomping humorist is now syndicated in 550 newpapers. Occasionally the USSR's Pravda or Izvestia prints one of Buchwald's columns--they especially like ones critical of the administration. "Every once in a while I get an angry call from the State Department, and they'll say, 'Do you know the Soviets used your column this morning?'" To which Buchwald said he always replies, "Stop them...
...proposal seemed unlikely to satisfy either of the superpowers. A skeptical Vance endorsed it tepidly as an "important suggestion." To no one's surprise, Moscow rejected it outright. "The illogicality of such a proposal is obvious," scoffed the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia, charging that the idea had been "borrowed from across the Atlantic Ocean...
...initial Soviet reaction also involved sticks. Said Soviet newspaper Izvestia: "The Carter Doctrine is an attempt to revive President Theodore Roosevelt's 'big stick' policy. [It portends a] rapid and global interference with a view to suppressing the national liberation movement of the peoples and protecting the colonial interests of the dollar empire...
...Said one State Department official: "Being exiled to Gorky is a little like being sent to Detroit; it ain't great but it ain't so bad." Still, the Soviet press attacks on Sakharov suggested that he might ultimately be charged with high treason. The government newspaper Izvestia, for example, claimed that the physicist had "repeatedly blurted out things that any state protects as an important secret" to U.S. diplomats and correspondents. Some Soviet officials, however, assured Western journalists that Sakharov would not stand trial and might even be able to continue his work as a scientist...
...more hostile to the interests of peace, detente and equitable cooperation among states. At present, this policy of interference in domestic affairs and encroachment on people's rights is shown in relation to Iran, but tomorrow in relation to other sovereign states." Alexander Bovin, a senior writer for Izvestia, warned, "It is time for the U.S. to learn to behave with greater modesty. That will be better for both America itself and the whole world." The man in the Moscow street often echoed his leaders' sentiments. "Why are you pushing us around?" asked an economics teacher. "Afghanistan...