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...Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...
...excoriates the republic's Economy Minister for "complete passiveness and impotence"; he did not make chemical and pulp plants install antipollution devices required by law. Izvestia is complaining about a metallurgical plant that has illegally "poisoned" the air of Rustavi, near Tbilisi. In Russia's far north, Pravda says, an oil-drilling crew did not take "the most basic precautions" to avoid polluting the Pechora River...
Russian critics are also challenging timbering practices. "We used to care for our forests," a forestry official says in Pravda. "But now we are mainly lumberjacks." Even in a nation with 30% of the world's timber, the annual ov-ercutting, four experts warn, means that "the exhaustion of forests reaches farther north every year." The results: "Erosion is intensifying, river levels falling and climate changing for the worse...
...businessman in years, no small amount of it generated by Hammer himself. In the West, he has given glowing descriptions of his negotiations; in Moscow, his aides have telephoned American newsmen with breathless accounts of his progress. His Soviet trips have won extremely rare recognition in Pravda and Izvestia, favorable editorials in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and a pair of red-white-and-blue enamel cuff links presented by President Nixon...
...policy has stirred new respect for the paper that local conservatives once dubbed the "St. Pete Pravda" for its liberal views. "The Times has never been known to show both sides in the past," says Republican Congressman C.W. Young. "Now they're doing it." State Senator Richard Deeb, an opponent of busing to promote integration, adds: "It doesn't hurt half as much when they blast me when they spell out my side...