Word: izvestia
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...Garcia will serve merely as a fueling station for American ships and a landing strip for reconnaissance aircraft. Inevitably, there has also been speculation that the base might be used for nuclear submarines and strike aircraft, including the new B-l supersonic bomber-a fact that may have prompted Izvestia 's castigation of the U.S. project last week as "totally unjustified" and dangerous to detente...
...that the authorities do just that. After his banishment, the letter-writing campaign continued with a new twist. Demands for his punishment were replaced by expressions of gratitude that Kremlin leaders had up rooted "the traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow from there. Other minor miracles were performed by letter writers from Minsk and Kiev: their messages of approval were also received several days ahead of schedule. Such transparently clumsy...
...wake of these protests, the ten-day-long Soviet press campaign against Sakharov came to an abrupt halt. Instead, the Soviets set out to placate Western opinion. In an attempt to forestall possible disruption of the European Security Conference talks in Geneva this week, Izvestia published assurances that the meeting would take place "in a favorable psychological climate." Then, in a dramatic gesture of conciliation, the Soviets stopped jamming Voice of America, BBC and West German Russian-language broadcasts to the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1968. This was a major concession to Western nations participating...
...massive Soviet press campaign was mounted against the two towering spiritual leaders of Russia's "democratic movement," Physicist Andrei Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With an evident absence of spontaneity, hundreds of indignant letter writers spewed forth abuse against the two intellectuals in the pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert program. Violinists David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan wrote that Sakharov is "stirring up the dying coals of the cold war." Dmitri Shostakovich, who once praised Stalin...
Even more significant, perhaps, is the Soviet treatment of Watergate; it has received only brief mentions in Pravda and Izvestia. Both in Moscow and in Eastern Europe, party cadres have portrayed the affair as a conspiracy by American "reactionaries" to sabotage Nixon's rapprochement with the Soviet Union. One lecturer claimed there was a parallel with John Kennedy, who, he said, was assassinated because he intended to improve relations with the Soviet Union...