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...immediate cause was an ignominious defeat at the hands of Spain in the European basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness...
Grave Consequences. By week's end Soviet policy was noticeably hardening. Reacting to the reports of Israeli strikes on a Soviet ship, Pravda warned that grave consequences for Israel could result from Russian casualties. The Soviets were also unhappy with President Nixon's vice-presidential nomination of Representative Gerald Ford, whom they know to be a strong supporter of Israel. But, on balance, U.S. officials concluded that Soviet policy still reflected caution. Commented one White House official: "The real test will come when the Arabs are doing badly and the Soviets have to decide what...
...Soviets reportedly removed their advisers-an estimated 3,000 strong-from Syria. No public explanation was offered, but some observers believed that Moscow took the action after failing to convince the Damascus government of "the futility of embarking on military adventures." Nonetheless, Moscow publicly supported the Arabs. A Pravda article said that the war was "carefully prepared and planned in Tel Aviv...
...editorial, Pravda heaped abuse on the Peking leadership, charging Mao Tse-tung with waging a "frantic struggle against the socialist countries." At a speech in Tashkent two weeks ago, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev complained that China had ignored several Soviet offers of a non-aggression pact, the latest made last June. Said Brezhnev: "It is characteristic that the leaders of the People's Republic of China, who scream throughout the world about some Soviet threat supposedly hanging over them, didn't even bother to reply to this concrete proposal of the Soviet Union...
...Moscow announced that it had belatedly ratified two 1966 U.N. General Assembly covenants on human rights. One of them declared that "everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own." But there was less in the Russian action than met the eye. Analyses of the covenants in Pravda and in Novoye Vremya, a weekly publication dealing with international affairs, argued that the wording of the U.N. documents justified the Soviet Union's right to limit not only emigration but the free flow of ideas and information as well...