Word: pravda
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...meaningful that you decided to hold the book party at a restaurant named Pravda...
...response to the Soviet ad blaming the U.S. for blocking arms control, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman made light of the ploy, cracking, "We've not had similar success in placing ads in Pravda." In fact, the U.S. has found itself on the defensive in the game of public diplomacy. When the Soviets proposed a moratorium on nuclear testing last month, the U.S. awkwardly demurred, insisting that the ban would not be verifiable without on-site inspection. Gorbachev promptly retorted that the ban could be verified with existing satellites and seismic devices. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes huffed last week...
Instead of the customary caricature portraying him as an American cowboy brandishing nuclear missiles, the front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda carried a shot of Reagan chatting informally with Gorbachev in front of a blazing fire. The Geneva encounter also provided Reagan's debut on Soviet television, which carried the summit's closing ceremonies in full as well as uncensored coverage of Gorbachev's press conference. In Moscow, television stores quickly filled with passersby curious to get a look at Reagan in action...
...strike strained relations among America's allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that impression perhaps, Pravda printed an interview with the maverick Libyan last week, in which he gave lavish thanks to Party Chief Mikhail Gorbachev for his support. Nevertheless, the Soviets remain wary about attaching themselves too closely to a Libyan regime that is mercurial at best. Moscow zestfully pounced on the opportunity to denounce Washington...
Soviet officialdom treated the visit with a mixture of politesse and disdain. In the days leading up to the Moscow concert, there was no mention of the Horowitz visit in either Pravda or Izvestiya, only a brief announcement in the newspaper Sovietskaya Kultura. Soviet musical commissars explained the lack of coverage by observing the concert was already sold out. "We think of him as an American pianist," said Tikhon Khrennikov, the all-powerful first secretary of the Soviet composers' union, who nevertheless went to the concert. In response to the American attack on Libya, the Soviets boycotted a dinner...