Word: kharlamov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks, Moscow's 50-man corps of Western correspondents has buzzed with an exciting rumor. Last week rumor became official fact. Abruptly summoned to the Foreign Ministry building by Ministry Press Chief Mikhail Kharlamov, the newsmen were told that 43 years of direct Russian censorship were...
...most veteran news hands were less than dazzled by the announcement. As if to confirm their suspicions, Spokesman Kharlamov went on. It was true, said he, that the official censorship agency, Glavlit, would stop blue-penciling outgoing copy, but the correspondents would be expected to go on policing their own dispatches-and save a copy of every transmission for authorities. Said Kharlamov blandly: "The new procedure will complicate matters for some correspondents and make their work harder. Now it is all your own responsibility...
...languages (Russian and English). While Western spokesmen -the U.S.'s earnest Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, Britain's smooth Peter Hope and France's witty Pierre Baraduc-were stuck with reporting the actual facts of the conference, Russia's lively Mikhail A. Kharlamov labored under no such handicap, tirelessly and articulately peddled the Communist line...
Displaying a showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
...after day in his briefings, Soviet Press Officer Kharlamov repeated his claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded...