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Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...Edward Djerejian, a deputy press secretary, were rankled. Soviet propagandists spouted on U.S. television. Gorbachev's TIME interview saturated the media. Speakes and Djerejian, trying to find a way to get Reagan equal time, prepared a letter suggesting a Reagan interview. They pressed it on Gennadiy Shishkin of TASS when he came by the White House in September. He read it on the spot and did not reject the idea. The world was changing...
...weeks of silence. Then on Saturday morning in a deserted White House, Peter Roussel, another deputy press secretary, was suddenly aware somebody was standing at his door. It was the Washington TASS man, Alexander Shalnev. Could he come in and please close the door? a wide-eyed Shalnev asked. The Kremlin would accept the offer--well, sort of. Speakes & Co. wanted assurances the President's words would actually get to the Soviet people. The Soviets would only say that Izvestiya had "indicated an interest" in publishing the interview. Reagan said go ahead...
...Soviets were outraged. The news agency TASS condemned the Katakov killing as an "atrocity that cannot be pardoned." Israel, TASS added, was indirectly responsible because it was the "prime cause of internal Lebanese strife." In Paris, where Mikhail Gorbachev was meeting with French officials, a Kremlin spokesman said that the Soviet leader was doing "everything possible" to free the three remaining hostages...
...would be open to Soviet journalists. Getting no immediate answer they asked again, and again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort...