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While agreeing that the internal Soviet telephone system urgently needs improvement, Western experts doubt the Soviet explanation. They see the elimination of direct international dialing as part of a general Soviet crackdown on communications with the outside world. Last month the Kremlin expelled Newsweek Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, accusing him of unethical journalistic practices. The Soviets arrested several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch...
...action came as a shock. Though American reporters have always faced official harassments, none had been expelled since 1977, when George Krimsky of the Associated Press was forced out after giving extensive coverage to Soviet dissidents. The "charges" against Nagorski, which he denied, included impersonating a Soviet deputy editor on one occasion and a Polish tourist on another, and violating travel restrictions. Colleagues in Moscow insist that his real crime was diligence. Says Nagorski: "The authorities especially dislike a reporter who zeroes in on the feelings of ordinary people." Washington officials view the expulsion as a warning to the Western...
...entirely a surprise to Newsweek 's Moscow Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, 35, when he was summoned to the Foreign Ministry press office early last week. Nagorski, a veteran Asia hand, speaks Russian with ease, unlike most of the other 25 U.S. correspondents in the U.S.S.R., and has shown a flair for finding stories that irk the sensibilities of the Kremlin. This month, for instance, Newsweek carried Nagorski's report on the anxieties of draft-age youths in Tajikistan, a republic bordering the Soviet client government of parlous Afghanistan. Earlier he had detailed the fondness of ranking bureaucrats...
...custom, the State Department retaliated for the ouster. Last week it barred re-entry to the U.S. by Melor Sturua, the vacationing chief Washington correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya. In theory Sturua could return if the Soviets reinstate Nagorski's credentials, but that prospect is considered unlikely. Indeed, Newsweek has already reassigned Nagorski to Rome...
Beginning this past year, the party has sought a dialogue with the U.S. Last summer the PC approached members of the Council on Foreign Relations stationed in Como, Italy. One staff member, Zygmunt Nagorski, was enough impressed by the PC's candor and sincerity--and moderation of outlooks and political demands--that he wrote an editorial that appeared in the New York times arguing for a more constructive policy towards the PC. He observed that...
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