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Lately, such attacks on tyrannical officials have become commonplace in the Russian press. Thousands of letters of complaint pour in daily to the editorial offices of Pravda, Izvestia and other papers. If a letter is published-and many are-the writer is assured some kind of redress: an official mentioned in a newspaper complaint is required to answer it. Sometimes the private gripes blossom into a full-fledged editorial discussion of substantive issues: economics, or crime, or agriculture, or juvenile delinquency. It all adds up to impressive evidence that some of the shackles have been removed from the Soviet press...
...Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Molotov all served time on Russian newspapers and used them to consolidate their power. "No tool so flexible," said Stalin, referring to the press, "is to be found in nature." Today, some 7,000 of these tools-ranging from the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, to crude factory handouts-are published in 121 languages in Russia...
Nkrumah said he'd be delighted to go, but demanded that Commonwealth-member Australia first withdraw her 900 troops from South Viet Nam. Even Moscow got into the act with an Izvestia editorial that took the Commonwealth to task for a lack of "clarity." After all, the Russians sniffed, how can a fact-finding committee be truly impartial if it doesn't even condemn the U.S. in advance? "There is no demand [in the proposal] to withdraw American troops from Viet Nam," chided Izvestia, "nor to stop the barbarian bombardments of North Viet...
...planners than No. 9's manage, Y. S. Taraskin, who in 1964 had been buffeted by no fewer than 30 changes in target figures, 17 revisions of cost estimates, and 13 switches in his budget allotments as decreed by central planners. Taraskin is a happier man today, for Izvestia announced a spectacular first-quarter for No. 9 under Libermanism. Daily coal production soared to 2,041 tons, a 33% increase over the expected 1,520 tons. Earnings rose, wage costs were reduced even as workers got bigger bonuses out of their one-half share in profits. Izvestia seemed almost...
...tongue is legendary, was the very model of a cultural ambassador. When fans nearly jostled him off his feet at the Moscow Conservatory, he blithely passed the episode off as "a warm and interesting experience." The feeling was mutual; critical acclaim for the orchestra was nothing short of rapturous. Izvestia was alternately "enthralled," "fascinated" and "inspired...