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...Sovietskaya Rossiya daily said the four-man flight crew, led by Pilot First Class Valentin Kupriyanov, kept their heads when confronted by the hijackers' demands...
Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
...SCARY THING happened in New York last month. The Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya declared. "The United States has demonstrated to the world its incompetence as the country responsible for the headquarters of the United Nations." And at the U.N., many an American friend had to admit that for once, the commentary in this polemical journal struck a faint chord of truth. How could the Soviets put the United States on the defensive before the international community just three weeks after a Russian jet ruthlessly destroyed a passenger airliner with 61 Americans aboard? The answer lies in the unfortunate actions...
...line with Andropov's determination to impose better labor discipline, the daily Sovietskaya Rossiya announced a new drive to round up alcoholics, tramps, drug addicts and other "social parasites" for treatment in special camps, to be followed by "corrective labor." The newspaper Trud (Labor) said that industrial managers would be held responsible for reporting alcoholics to the authorities...
Amanda McKerrow, 17, was asleep in her room at the Rossiya Hotel off Red Square when her coach, Washington Ballet Company Founder Mary Day, called with the news: "We've hit the jackpot-it's the gold." The 5-ft. 3-in., 90-Ib. dancer had tied for top honors last week in the 16-to 19-year-old category of the quadrennial Moscow International Ballet Competition, the first American to be so honored. "We didn't go for fire-works," says Amanda of her final-round pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Partner Simon...