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...interview with Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, Brezhnev rejected President Reagan's proposal, made earlier this month, that the two leaders meet informally in New York this June after the disarmament talks at the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, the Soviet President proposed a "well-prepared" summit meeting with Reagan at a neutral site, such as Switzerland or Finland, some time next fall. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes responded that Reagan still hoped to see Brezhnev in June. "Right now there is no change of plans," Speakes said...
After announcing a competition in Pionerskaya Pravda, the Soviet equivalent of the Scout newspaper, Govorukhin received up to 400 letters a day. From a pool of several thousand, he chose an unknown ten-year-old for the part of Gekel-berry (the Russian pronunciation of Huckleberry) and a professional child actor to play the wily Tom Sawyer...
Whatever the speculation abroad, the Kremlin was clearly intent on creating the impression that-his vacation not-withstanding-Brezhnev was still in command. The front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda dutifully printed, under Brezhnev's signature, messages to several world leaders. In a birthday note to Vietnamese Party Leader Le Duan, also 75, Brezhnev hoped that his comrade might enjoy "good health, years of long life and new successes in your vigorous activity." He might very well have wished himself the same...
...Pravda charged that "the leaders of the P.C.I. speak of aspirations to struggle for peace, but at the same time they slander the principal, fundamental force in this struggle: the U.S.S.R. and its socialist allies." The PC.I.'s "position against world socialism," said the article, was "an aid to imperialism, to anti-Communism and to all forces hostile to social progress...
Many Italian Communists believe the schism is irreversible. Giorgio Napolitano, leader of the Communist bloc in Parliament, said last week that the Pravda attack "represented such a violent, drastic condemnation that one cannot see how it could be reversed." Others still see some possibility of a future rapprochement. Said Camilla Ravera, 93, one of the last surviving founders of the Italian party: "This will be an episode, but in my life I have seen many of this type...