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...point of the propaganda is plainly to extract advantage for the Soviet Union and embarrass the U.S. as much as possible. From the beginning, U.S. protests were to no avail, as Soviet broadcasts into Iran encouraged the captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...
With negotiations at such a delicate stage, the Carter Administration was outraged to find that the Soviet Union was trying to stir up new trouble for the U.S. with Iran. Powell and State Department Spokesman Trattner berated the Kremlin over a charge in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda that the U.S. was getting ready to use military force in Iran. On instructions from President Carter, Muskie took the unusual step of summoning Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a scolding, terming the newspaper account "scurrilous propaganda" and warning that it could have "lasting effects on U.S.Soviet relations." Speaking for Carter, Powell...
Anyone with a penchant for genuine vodka will find the third sentence insipid. Shostakovich wrote the explanation after he composed the symphony in 1937, probably as an attempt to be restored to favor with Soviet officials after earlier compositions had been attached in Pravda. Unfortunately, most of Friday afternoon's audience, skewed as usual toward the elderly, probably took the composer at face value...
Seven years and innumerable appeals later, Edwards' pertinacity finally paid off. Last week, as the Soviet freighter Stanislavskiy rested in its Toronto berth, Sheriff Joseph Bremner trotted up the gangplank and informed Captain Yuri Surnin that he was seizing his ship until the bill was paid. Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, yowled that the boarding had been carried out by "police thugs acting like medieval pirates." But when Edwards also took actions to freeze the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Moscow warmed to the possibility of a settlement of the original bill plus interest, court...
...paid off. The cigar-chomping humorist is now syndicated in 550 newpapers. Occasionally the USSR's Pravda or Izvestia prints one of Buchwald's columns--they especially like ones critical of the administration. "Every once in a while I get an angry call from the State Department, and they'll say, 'Do you know the Soviets used your column this morning?'" To which Buchwald said he always replies, "Stop them...