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Spivak's abrasive behavior toward guests has both pleased and enraged viewers. (He once snapped at Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan: "Don't filibuster; we have only two minutes left.") Spivak denies any malevolence in his questions: "I never try to catch a man. I will never try to trick him." But Spivak will hold a guest's previous public statements against him if he seems to be waffling. "A man had better be prepared to justify or explain his changes of position," he says. Such grilling can exhaust its targets. George Meany, no stranger to rough...
...Soviet elite has been conspicuously represented among the journal's contributors as well as among its subscribers. Former President Anastas Mikoyan's son Sergei, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's daughter Lyudmila Gvishiani, Brezhnev's daughter Galina, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoly have all written on American affairs for the institute. A frequent contributor himself, Arbatov may write an article on the 1972 election, based on his upcoming trip...
...Kremlin leaders have their dachas within the same compound. The most prominent dachnik, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, has a weekend getaway spot near Barvikha, where he entertained Richard Nixon during the Moscow summit meetings. Former President Anastas Mikoyan has retired to Zubalovo, an estate surrounding a manor house decorated with marble statues, tapestries and stained glass. In czarist times it belonged to an oil millionaire; Joseph Stalin later expropriated the estate and included one of its mansions among his nine dachas around Moscow and in his native Georgia...
...interrogation and humiliation of his purged Ukrainian party chief, Stanislav Kosior. There is also an authoritative description of the death of Stalin's prewar Aviation Minister, Mikhail Kaganovich, a Jew whom Stalin accused of collaborating with the Nazis. The man was summoned to the office of Anastas Mikoyan, one of Stalin's most durable aides and later Foreign Minister and President of the U.S.S.R., now retired and writing his memoirs. When Kaganovich was confronted with the false evidence against him, he asked permission to use Mikoyan's toilet, where he put a bullet through his head...
Died. Major General Artem I. Mikoyan, 65, co-designer of the Russian MIG fighter planes and brother of long-time Politburo Member Anastas I. Mikoyan; in Moscow. MIGs take their name from the surnames of Mikoyan and Mikhail I. Gurevich, who in 1940 built the MIG-3, which became the backbone of the Soviet high-altitude fighter force. Their MIG-15 became the Communist mainstay in the Korean War, while the supersonic MIG-21 is presently the first-line fighter for most Communist and many Arab air forces. Over the years, Western airmen have given the MIGs generally high marks...