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...Soviet press fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps...
...greatest happiness is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin constitution, each article of which is sacred for us." So declared Izvestiya three decades ago. Last week there loomed on the horizon of Soviet citizens a new constitution-Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's proudest creation and the product of 15 years of labor and behind-the-scenes controversy...
There was no joy in the Soviet Union, whose leaders had assiduously courted Mrs. Gandhi as an ally. Russian newspaper readers were not told of her loss for two days after the results were known. Then Izvestiya lamely explained that she had been beaten because of "mistakes and excesses" committed since the emergency was declared. Until last week, the Soviets had had nothing but praise for her tough emergency measures, and had attacked her opponents as "reactionaries" and "black marketeers." Now, said Izvestiya, Moscow was looking forward to friendly relations with the new government...
...Peretous," the nom de plume of a writer of the Moscow Izvestiya, gave the lie to rumors of the impending entry of Bolshevikland into the League of Nations...
...largest is the Izvestiya (News) which, together with the Moscow Pravda (The Truth), is the official Soviet organ. But no part of the press can be said to be independent of the Government. The last press conference was held in the Kremlin, and no ordinary person enters the Kremlin. Bukharin addressed the conference, saying: " Thanks to our press, which has always furthered the recruiting power of our slogans and made the exalted nature of our ideals clear to the masses, we have been able to devlop our power and to strengthen our Soviet system...