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There are, of course, rather obvious reasons for taking such a tack. As Editor Daniel Kraminov of the Soviet weekly Za Rubezhom bluntly put it: "A few years ago, certainly, we would have underlined more strongly the dirtiness of American political life. Now we are observing an old Russian proverb which says: 'Never throw mud into the house you are about to enter...
...Chicago, the visitors were taken on a motor tour of the suburbs, passed a trailer court and asked how much rent the tenants paid and how they disposed of their sewage. Daniil Kraminov, editor of the weekly Za Rubezhom (Abroad), was interviewed by Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, and noted, with some malice, an example of nepotism in the U.S. press: "Our delegation visited the New York Times, and we learned how you have to be a son-in-law to get promoted. Adolph Ochs made his son-in-law publisher and now [Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is making...
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