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...President authorized the latest proposal just a week after he had tried, in his speech to the U.N., to shift the focus of world attention to issues like regional conflicts. He also gave an interview to five Soviet journalists--the first such session since John Kennedy spoke with an Izvestiya editor in 1961 --sat for questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the White House to announce his new arms initiative. For their part, the Soviets showed signs of new flexibility about their own proposals, suggested they might halt work on a controversial radar facility...
Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...Washington TASS man, Alexander Shalnev. Could he come in and please close the door? a wide-eyed Shalnev asked. The Kremlin would accept the offer--well, sort of. Speakes & Co. wanted assurances the President's words would actually get to the Soviet people. The Soviets would only say that Izvestiya had "indicated an interest" in publishing the interview. Reagan said go ahead...
...unable to sneak away from work frequently delegate the task of buying alcohol to wives and girlfriends. "What makes women stand in line?" the government daily newspaper Izvestiya asked recently. "Is the desire to preserve a good home atmosphere an impossible feat without the usual tipple? Is it a mistaken sense of bravery or of female weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could...
...open to Soviet journalists. Getting no immediate answer they asked again, and again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team...