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...launched the era of glasnost, the news agency faced a new challenge: to enhance its credibility by reporting more aggressively, more thoroughly and more accurately than ever before. Nowadays the agency's attitude is reflected in the instructions given by Grigory Arslanov, 55, director of TASS's coverage of socialist countries, to his staff in Bucharest: "I gave them one order. Write the truth and describe the real situation there...
...matters in Czechoslovakia, where a playwright has become President; in East Germany, where a Leipzig conductor, Kurt Masur, was a spiritual leader of the peaceful revolution; in Lithuania, where a musicologist is seeking to lead his land out of the Soviet Union. And it matters in Paris, where the Socialist Mitterrand has undertaken a series of cultural public-works projects that have enhanced the quality of life in the world's most beautiful city...
...attempts to foist a market economy and multiparty democracy on Russia. "Adopting Western political values and thinking has just led this country to disaster," explains Nash Sovremennik editor Stanislav Kunyayev. "The children and grandchildren of the leftist radicals who put Russia through the meat grinder in pursuit of socialist happiness want to do the same thing in the interests of capitalism...
...Democrats and Republicans have to lie; if they told you the truth, you would tell them to go to hell...Because of my pro-socialist, pro-gay, pro-Black stance, I was not covered by the newspapers. I was white-outed...
WORLD: With communism fading in the East bloc, Castro faces his toughest challenge as he clings to his socialist vision...