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...government newspaper Izvestia, in a front-page article from New York yesterday, said the U.S. administration was preparing intensively for the meeting with Gorbachev. "There is a basis to suppose that the administration will not only listen but propose something in return," the paper said...
...around the Soviet Union. No wonder. In a startling admission last week, a sheepish-sounding Soviet official said the Kremlin has deliberately falsified virtually all maps of the country for the past 50 years on the orders of the secret police. Chief Soviet Cartographer Viktor Yashchenko told the newspaper Izvestia, "Roads and rivers were moved. City districts were tilted. Streets and houses were incorrectly indicated...
...canceled all traditional history exams, which are based on old-party-line texts. Instead, it ordered ungraded, open "discussion" groups of the sort held in Middle School 734, where teachers could judge their students' actual knowledge of the past. A June 10 editorial in the government daily Izvestia championed the decision and took the opportunity to blast the authors of old-line histories: "Immeasurable is the guilt of those who deluded generation after generation, poisoning their minds and souls with lies." (Never mind that the pre-glasnost Izvestia had long done the same...
...Izvestia, in its report on the hijack, quoted the note as saying: "Fly to a capitalist country [London]. Don't fly any lower. Otherwise we'll explode a bomb...
...Izvestia quoted witnesses as saying one hijacker died in the bomb blast, two others committed suicide, and Mrs. Ovechkin had been shot dead by some of her fellow hijackers...