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...Soviet press, meanwhile, continued its campaign against "antisocialist elements and Western imperialist propaganda." In particular, Pravda blasted AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other U.S. labor leaders for sending aid to "antigovernment" Polish strikers and labor unions. The American leaders, warned Pravda, "are profoundly mistaken in thinking that their interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign Polish state will go unnoticed...
Some details of the policy changes that Brown plans to announce have already been leaked, and they have drawn sizzling denunciations from Moscow. Thundered TASS: "Madness," "Maniacal." Cried Pravda: "Nuclear blackmail." But NATO allies of the U.S. welcomed the change. Said a British official crisply: "We agree with it. It enhances deterrence." Said a French official: "We are in favor of anything that improves U.S. credibility...
...that there are no civil rights in the U.S.S.R.? After all, you, a known enemy of that system, continue to publish in Pravda. One can only envy such tolerance!" He referred to your in correct identification of me as someone who "sometimes writes for Pravda. " At first I thought that the information was just a very amusing misprint - I have long stopped contributing to Pravda. Then I thought, thank God, TIME is not published in Moscow. In my days there, some editors of Pravda lost their jobs for far more innocent misprints. During the Stalin era many journalists ended their...
...public service, Pravda editors often look into reader complaints. "I have long dreamed of buying a samovar," wrote one frustrated consumer from Stavropol. "How often have I searched in stores with, alas, no results." A resident of Zaporozhye wrote that her stores carried a model for 25 rubles, but added: "It looks like a galvanized bucket with a spigot." Pravda approached the proper ministry for an explanation and printed its response: 28 models were available, and "much is being done to improve their external appearance," said a spokesman, adding that samovars had not been overlooked in the latest Five-Year...
Since then, however, his work has begun to seem monotonous and eccentric. Two years ago, in an unusual article in Pravda, the much beloved Liepa accused Grigorovich of showing a "disrespectful attitude" in his sweeping revisions of traditional productions like Romeo and Juliet...