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...year ago, while he was still ostensibly editor of Pravda, hulking Dmitry Shepilov earned himself an overnight reputation as a diplomat by setting up Egypt's arms deal with the Communists. Accordingly, when Shepilov, now Soviet Foreign Minister, set out three weeks ago to revisit the scene of his original triumph, European chancelleries nervously braced themselves for further Soviet coups...
...back in Moscow, fledgling Foreign Minister Shepilov had little to show for his trip and instead preferred to talk of the "urgency" of "what one calls 'normalization' or what I would call 'rapprochement' between the United States and the U.S.S.R." But the ex-editor of Pravda soon showed that he had never been much of a newspaperman himself. "The U.S. press and radio," he said, "is still a Niagara of all sorts of lies and slanders. These irresponsible elements, which poison the atmosphere, should be muzzled...
...Wall. Last week Moscow's Pravda startled its readers by reprinting Dennis' article. It added a footnote explaining that Dennis was commenting on "material which the U.S. State Department has published in the press, calling it Comrade Khrushchev's report to the 20th Congress." Spread through three pages of Pravda, pasted on wall newspapers, it was the first official public acknowledgment in Russia of the existence of the speech and the juicy issues it raised. In this backhanded way, though not yet in possession of Khrushchev's chilling facts and figures, Russians could in passing learn...
...managed to get himself photographed tossing one of Nasser's young sons in the air. They seemed a trifle annoyed at the enthusiastic applause he got from ordinary citizens, a trifle embarrassed to find him the only Foreign Minister present-when they invited him, he was still only Pravda's editor. But Nasser himself found time in the week's hectic schedule to spend long hours with him in earnest talk. As the talks went on, Western embassies began to get carefully planted "leaks" on the generous terms of Shepilov's offers...
...that great changes have taken place in Russia." But when he complained that he had been misquoted in the U.S. press as saying that he and the Russians were going "arm in arm," U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen pointed out that that was exactly how he had been reported in Pravda. Tito looked a little taken aback. He had only wanted to say. he insisted, that he and the Russians had marched arm in arm in World...