Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moscow does not suffer defeat graciously-at least if its treatment of Boris Spassky is any clue. Since his 1972 loss to Bobby Fischer in the battle for the world chess championship, Grand Master Spassky, 38, has been snubbed by the Soviet government, denounced by Pravda and denied visas for travel abroad. Recently, however, all that has begun to look like a minor prelude to the latest problem Spassky's government has created...
...Legion convention in Minneapolis, President Ford declared that détente "is not a license to fish in troubled waters" and that the Portuguese must solve their problems "in an atmosphere free from the pressures of outside interests." Studiously ignoring the Kremlin's substantial aid to Portuguese Communists,* Pravda charged that "NATO interests" and "reactionary forces" were meddling in Portugal and called for solidarity with Cunhal's Communists...
...farm machinery and the lack of spares. By one count, 450 harvesters in three Novosibirsk districts alone are laid up at present for want of parts. Krokodil, the satirical weekly, recently ran a cartoon showing a farm worker running a lottery to get a spare part for his thresher. Pravda complained that harvesters manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk plant in Siberia are so sloppily assembled that more than half have to be fixed at farm repair shops...
...career of his second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, was typical. At its premiere in 1934, critics called it a masterpiece, "the first monumental work of Soviet musical culture." So it remained for two years -until Stalin took in a performance and found the opera wanting. Pravda reacted quickly: "The music quacks, grunts, growls." Lady Macbeth was shelved,* and the composer publicly admitted his aesthetic error...
...Soviet reaction to Helsinki, U.S. officials made much of the fact that Pravda and Izvestia published the entire text of the Helsinki declaration, including the Basket Three section dealing with civil liberties, travel and the exchange of ideas. Washington was disappointed, however, that the Soviets still seemed to be resisting the granting of multiple-entry visas to journalists-a commitment explicitly mentioned in Basket Three...