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Force? Last week the new Majlis had been sitting since mid-July and there was still no action on oil. Moscow struck-verbally. Pravda screamed that Gavam was trying to sabotage the deal and warned him against following that "dangerous road." His attitude, Pravda averred, was "dictated by certain foreign circles." Soviet Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov pounded on Gavam's desk, demanded immediate action. Gavam answered smoothly that the matter would have to wait its turn on the parliamentary schedule...
Between New York and Moscow, words like "slave" and "phony" flew back & forth. The New York Times's pugnacious managing editor and Sunday columnist, Edwin L. (for Leland) James, and the Communist Pravda's choleric co-editor, David losifovich Zaslavsky, were locked in battle...
James had started it. When a Soviet delegate to the U.N. Economic and Social Council solemnly asserted that only in the Soviet system was there a free press, James exploded: "Propaganda gone crazy." Zaslavsky retorted with half a page of invective in Pravda. James came back this week with a challenge: "There are some millions of your own countrymen in ... concentration camps. . . . Why not exercise your freedom by giving the world a picture of these camps. . . . [If you do] I would be willing to apologize for calling you a phony...
...council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander P. Morozov (ECOSOC) and Lieut. General Alexander P. Vasiliev (Military Staff Committee). Gromyko works as hard as any man on his team. "Oh," says Mme. Gromyko with a nice sense for the hierarchy of toil, "Andrei does...
...Moscow, Pravda called it "the widely circulated, most reactionary American magazine...