Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party newspaper Pravda added no commentary of its own in reporting the statements by the Soviet Defense Ministry and the East German and Czech governments Monday night that "preparatory work is being started for depolyment of missile complexes of operation-tactical designation...
...statement to reporters by Viktor Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party daily Pravda, chastising Soviet military leaders for waiting six days before admitting the airliner was shut down...
...will be treated as a full day's absence. The penalties for overindulging in vodka are just as harsh. Anyone found drunk on the job may be summarily fired and will have to pay for damaged goods or lost production. Describing the new decrees, the party daily Pravda blamed not only workers but also managers who did not "set an example of discipline, proper organization of their work, or full use of their working time...
...announcement, published in Pravda, might come as good news to Soviet factory managers who complain that they are hamstrung by too many orders from Moscow. The new regulations, effective early next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also...
...Washington-based official had explained U.S. policies on Soviet television since former President Richard Nixon addressed the Soviet nation in 1974. It was a small victory for the Reagan Administration, which has become increasingly upset about the access that Soviet officials have to U.S. television. Last month, after Pravda rejected an article by U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman, the State Department decided to apply direct pressure by denying the Soviet Central Committee's U.S. expert, Georgi Arbatov, permission to speak to the American press during a visit to the U.S. Said a senior State Department official after...