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...will need in 1980, some viewers will probably find the national political conventions to be little more enlightening than other made-for-television productions. "It's a noisy, big show and a very peculiar way to choose your leader," sniffed one biased observer in Kansas City last week, Novosti Press Agency Correspondent Gene Gerasinov. "In my country, we have our conventions in the daytime...
...study of Soviet terror, as mere "concentration-camp folklore." In addition, vituperative articles by prominent Soviet writers about Gulag have appeared in the New York Times and France's Le Monde. These and other "exclusives" appearing in the Western press were all arranged by the Soviet news agency Novosti in an obvious attempt to discredit Gulag...
Solzhenitsyn's response was quick in coming. In a statement issued to Western correspondents last week, he identified Novosti as a "reliable branch" of the secret police and accused Soviet authorities of "standing on their lies behind a fortress of newsprint." He declared that "world public opinion has thus far kept them from killing the author of Gulag or even from imprisoning him. That would indeed be a confirmation of the book. But there remains the time-honored method of slander and personal vilification that is now being vigorously pursued...
Most galling to Solzhenitsyn was the Christian Science Monitor interview with his boyhood friend Nikolai Vitkevich, who was summoned by Novosti from his home in the Caucasus to Moscow to talk with the Monitor's correspondent. Vitkevich accused Solzhenitsyn of being guilty of the same crime of informing on friends for which the author damns others in Gulag...
...correspondent for Novosti wondered about the possible injurious impact on Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's re-election bid next month. President Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs termed it "a national disaster." Dick Beddoes of the Toronto Globe and Mail, who had boastfully predicted a clean Canadian sweep, ate his column-after coating the newsprint with a thick layer of borsch...