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In 1956, after long decades during which the number of U.S. correspondents in Moscow was severely limited, a large group was once again admitted. Since then, about a dozen of them have been thrown out for a variety of offenses. Last week the Washington Post's Stephen Rosenfeld, 33...
During their first days in Moscow, reporters have the eerie feeling that they are being followed. They are. Ostentatiously so. The Russians want them to know they are on probation. "I was tailed the first two weeks, day and night," says Sam Jaffe, who arrived in Moscow in 1961. "After...
Dubious Tips. Moscow is painfully aware of all the words cabled by Western correspondents. Copy is not regularly censored, but each cable is sent to various bureaus that scrutinize stories for offending passages. Punishment by banishing comes later. "You've got to say to yourself every time you write...
But the reporter who plays ball reaps some rewards. Tips come to him from Russian journalists, who have usually been put up to it by their editors. In this way, Jaffe was the first Western correspondent to learn of Khrushchev's ouster. The leaks are often dubious. In the...
So long as the action is confined to Madcap Melba charming a cop out of giving her a parking ticket, or a gangster into surrendering a restaurant phone, the story is readable enough and lively. But Rona Jaffe intends more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to...