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...drastic change in newspaper styles can be traced directly to the Yugoslav Communist Party's plain and plodding official newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
...capitalist style. They sponsor every imaginable promotion gimmick from beauty contests to lotteries. They take unprecedented liberties with the party speeches and production figures that are the standard fare of most Communist journals, and the space they save is larded with crime, sex and show business. Every clay, Vecernje Novosti devotes its center spread to busty beauties, and often adds a disingenuous caption: "What the decadent Western press is sending...
Already swarming with familiar names, the Soviet fourth estate had another: Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko, 34, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son, who abandoned a bright diplomatic career as Russia's embassy counselor in London to become deputy department chief of the Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source...
Molodtsov's translator, Spartak Beglov of the Moscow news feature agency Novosti, said that Soviet delegates did not see how the United States could stop another country's ships without going...
...rival was Novosti (News), a second news agency that as yet possesses little more than a name and an aim: "To expand the exchange of information between the Soviet Union and foreign countries." One of its charter members with a name of his own: Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. There is plenty of room for expansion of journalistic enterprise. Though impressively big (900 men), Tass is a party-lining sloth whose correspondents are used abroad for propaganda purposes as often as for reporting. Khrushchev may have been prompted to put a fire under Tass by his brushes...