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...past that the NATO treaty, which guarantees an allied riposte to any attack on West Germany, makes the clauses obsolete. Nonetheless, all three decided to put it in writing for the Kremlin after the Russians coupled their Czech invasion with an intense propaganda attack on Bonn. Both Pravda and Izvestia responded to the allied notes with fresh complaints of West German "militarism and revanchism...
...times have changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that...
Fact Observed. Communist nations were first to moralize about American violence. Contending that on-camera political assassination had become "a real American way of life," Izvestia declared that "Imperialism carries violence within itself." Russian Poet Evgeny Evtushenko warned: "You're firing at yourself, America. If you go on, you'll really kill yourself." Hanoi had a particular worry, reflecting its view of Kennedy as a man determined to halt the war. "American imperialism," said North Vietnamese Trade Leader Hoang Quog Viet, will now "run berserk on the battlefields of Viet Nam" as a result of the shooting...
...Kremlin carefully chose the occupants of the 200 or so seats in the Moscow city courtroom. It excluded everyone but half a dozen relatives of the defendants and twelve or more Soviet journalists, whose reports never appeared in Pravda or Izvestia. Outside the courthouse, in temperatures that reached 50 below zero, protesters crowded against police barricades and dashed from door to door through the swirling snow, only to be turned away because they lacked official passes. Police pushed back a thin, weather-beaten man several times until someone yelled: "What kind of disgraceful situation is this? The father of Galanskov...
...blithely denounced such Western institutions as "the expense-account lunch and the English Channel" He poured vodka, wine and brandy at the Minsk Hotel and "a number of restaurants" for a visiting science correspondent from London's Sunday Times. And, most satisfying of all, Moscow's own Izvestia ran a frontpage interview with him appropriately titled: "Hello, Comrade Philby...