Word: izvestia
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...relations. "It all depends on the other side," he added. Instead, the Russians impugned China's worth as a true Communist nation by spelling out for the first time China's activities in blocking the flow of Soviet arms to Viet Nam. "Abusing the geographical situation," charged Izvestia, "Mao Tse-tung and his group use every means to try to break transportation lines between the U.S.S.R. and North Viet...
...protest was prompted by accusations of blackmail and espionage made last month by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia against Marshall Shulman, an associate of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Schulman at the time was on a month-long visit to Moscow to discuss disarmament problems with Russian academic circles...
Robert F. Byrnes, professor of history at Indiana University, said in a letter that Izvestia's "unwarranted and irresponsible" attack jeopardized a program of scholarly exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Byrnes is chairman of the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, an organization formed in 1955 to negotiate and administer exchanges of students and scholars with the Soviet Union...
Schulman, who has been studying disarmament theories among scholars in Moscow for the past three weeks, was accused by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia last Saturday of attempting to brainwash and blackmail a Soviet scholar at Harvard in 1964 into defecting to the United States. Schulman denied the charges...
Pravda and Izvestia were providing some of the most detailed-and accurate-reports as the Red Guards continued their odd operations. The whole Cultural Revolution, charged Izvestia last week, is "a monstrous discreditation of the ideas of Marxism-Leninism...