Word: izvestia
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...their freighters was laced with 20-mm. cannon shells as two boatloads of anti-Castro exiles staged a hit-and-run raid on the north coast Cu ban port of Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band of Cuban professional men, and the Second Front of the Escambray, one of Castro...
...first time in history, a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church last week received a ranking Soviet leader. The Pope was John XXIII, an intuitive man more concerned with the fate of Catholics back of the Iron Curtain than with scoring political points. The Communist was Izvestia's Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who can carry a message directly and informally to Khrushchev because he is married to Khrushchev's daughter...
...Izvestia, which occasionally prints revealing news for its cautionary effect, last week told the story of a defector named Aleksandr ("Sasha") Mirilenko. Sasha was the 18-year-old son of a Ukrainian cultural worker and his teacher wife, both Communists. Always daydreaming about life outside Russia, Sasha started collecting foreign stamps and writing to collectors in other countries. As his pen pals began telling him about the good things on the other side of the Iron Curtain, Sasha's allegiance to the Young Communist League began to falter. He went to the Black Sea resort of Yalta, where...
...frontier between Russia and Turkey. He got within a few yards of his goal. One night last November, as Sasha tried to clip his way through the barbed-wire frontier fence, a flare shot into the sky, alarm bells began to jangle, and border guards grabbed Sasha. Moralized Izvestia: "This character, a quite exceptional phenomenon in our country, has become a renegade, betrayed his friends, parents and country. Let him answer before Soviet justice...
...great prison accounts of a Dostoevsky or an Ivo Andric. Even its political significance, which is considerable, should not be exaggerated. Stalin may be fair game for critics in Russia, but the Communist Party and ideology are still off limits. Another novelist, Victor Nekrasov, was recently reprimanded by Izvestia (TIME, Feb. 1) for his comments on traveling in the U.S. He made the mistake, scolded Izvestia, of "painting a fifty-fifty picture of American life," and even "applying his fifty-fifty rule to a comparison of America and Russia...