Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returning to the U.S., Kennedy offended the Soviets by announcing the good news about the families at a press conference. Pravda retorted that "certain American politicians" who interfere in Soviet domestic affairs would be "resolutely turned down." That rebuff does not necessarily mean that the families will not eventually be allowed to leave, but it will be on Soviet terms-a reminder of the perils of mixing domestic politics with foreign policy...
Then in Annapolis last month, Carter gave a speech that attempted to be both tough and accommodating at the same time. Moscow, predictably, chose to hear only the contentious half and issued a blast at the U.S. through Pravda. If the difference between the Vance and Brzezinski views were not enough, Moscow must have been astonished-and delighted-when Ambassador Andrew Young chose this of all weeks to venture the ab surd idea that the U.S. had "hundreds, perhaps even thousands of ... political prisoners...
...example, where Carter had bluntly offered the Soviets a choice of "confrontation or cooperation." Vance smoothly asserted that both sides would be "making choices between an emphasis on the divergent elements of our relationship and an emphasis on the cooperative ones." He referred to the tough Soviet reply in Pravda to Carter's Annapolis speech. Growled Pravda: "There is no end to attempts at interfering in our country's internal affairs. The ties and contacts between the two countries are being restricted by unilateral U.S. actions." Vance commented noncommitally: "We are studying [it] with careful attention...
Indeed, it was not Cuba that was continuing to worry the Administration last week but the Soviet Union. The Pravda commentary to which Vance had referred warned that the "present course" of U.S. foreign policy "is fraught with serious dangers." The article attacked Brzezinski by name, claimed that bilateral Soviet-U.S. negotiations were being "deliberately slowed down" by Washington and warned that U.S. support for human rights in the Soviet Union was "particularly disastrous for mutual confidence." Even as State Department officials were weighing Pravda's words, the Russians displayed a degree of disdain for international opinion unusual...
...Soviets profess to be confused by Carter's policies, which Moscow's weekly New Times complained are "changeable as the weather." But they are also openly angry. The Pravda commentary, which is viewed by Western experts as the official Kremlin response to Carter's Annapolis address, denounced the President for presenting the most "preconceived and distorted" analysis of Soviet "realities" since the days of the cold war. The shrill rebuttal by the Communist Party daily also charged that Carter was "whipping up the arms race" and "exaggerating in every way the elements of rivalry and belittling...