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Reader Alexei Perevoshchikov, a representative of the Novosti Press Agency in Moscow, stated ((LETTERS, May 25)), "The Soviet Union demands the punishment of war criminals, for whom it recognizes no statute of limitations . . ." We will believe this statement if the Soviet Union begins to punish its own war criminals. The Soviet Union concluded a treaty with Hitler and, with Nazi permission, occupied the Baltic States and part of Poland. Only when Moscow re-establishes independence in these countries will confidence in the Soviet Union be restored...
...created by landing his Cessna Skyhawk 172 on the edge of Moscow's Red Square two weeks ago, there were signs that the Soviets might deal leniently with Mathias Rust, 19, the newly famous West German aviator. No less an insider than Valentin Falin, head of the official Novosti press agency, initially predicted that the "young man will soon see his parents and friends." But as the week wore on, the Soviets seemed to grow less and less inclined to let Rust off the hook, or for that matter to dismiss his unprecedented feat as an innocent, if dangerous, stunt...
...Novosti Press Agency...
...Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger." According to Gale, "thousands" of Ukrainians could suffer radiation-induced cancer in the future...
Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...