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Western criticism only served to make the Kremlin more defiant. Soviet newspapers have run cartoons depicting Reagan as a blind cowboy and a bloody-fanged gorilla. Vitali Kobysh, a Kremlin information official, gave a five-minute TV commentary in which he said: "It is likely that no one will ever know details of the assassination of President John Kennedy or black civil rights fighter Martin Luther King, but everything is already known about the [airliner]." The outrageous implication was that U.S. secret services had staged all three tragedies and covered their tracks successfully in the Kennedy and King deaths...
Adam B. Ulam professor of Government, gets a different sort of treatment. Ulam is a well-known Sovietologist, which Kobysh says is synonymous with "antiSoviet" here...
...Kobysh's description of their interview, Ulam appears tense, unfriendly 9and difficult to communicate with. He is not quoted as saying much--no more, anyway than his interviewer who finds it impossible to "retrain from polemical questions...
Ulam said yesterday that "the whole thing was completely inaccurate." In particular he dented Kobysh's statement that specialists on Eastern Europe tend to be "filled with hatred" for countries they are emigres from Ulam was born in Poland...
According to Kobysh, "there was irony in his voice, but his face became spotted with...