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...momentous. The agreement indicates that increased trade, or the prospect of it, really can soften dug-in political positions. The Russian press so far has made no mention whatever of Soviet commitments to increased emigration by Jews and other minorities; instead, it contends that, in the words of one Tass correspondent, U.S. businessmen "believe that trade with the Soviet Union can be an important factor in solving present American economic difficulties." The truth seems to be that Soviet leaders are so anxious for American trade and technology that they have made the unparalleled decision to submit to outside monitoring...
When Western newsmen first picked up on the story, Soviet newspapers angrily dismissed the reports as "threadbare inventions" of the "bourgeois press." A Tass commentary also contained a thinly veiled reprimand to Tito for lending credence to the rumors that the Soviet Union had been interfering in Yugoslavia's domestic affairs. In a characteristic display of the point-and-counterpoint diplomacy that keeps Yugoslavia straddled between East and West, Tito began backtracking...
...judge by the Soviet news treatment of Richard Nixon's fall from power, the former President was an innocent hounded from office by political enemies and the press. For months, Tass and Pravda completely ignored the scandal, presumably to avoid embarrassing Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who had personally aligned himself with Nixon in negotiating détente and who had three times held summit meetings with him. When the official press finally noted Nixon's resignation, it did so with such a mixture of fantasy and fallacy that an American would have a hard time recognizing the familiar...
...Moscow last week, the disengagement agreement was hailed, astonishingly, as a Soviet-Syrian accomplishment. There was no mention of Kissinger's efforts in Soviet press reports. Instead, Tass insisted that "the Soviet Union has tangibly contributed to the achievement...
...first volume of his memoirs was published in the West, he could truthfully tell an irate Arvid Pelshe, chairman of the Party Control Commission, that he had never "turned over" his memoirs to anyone. Under pressure from Pelshe, Khrushchev made a statement to that effect, which was issued by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, in November 1970. Ironically, it was the first time since his downfall that the former leader's name had appeared in public print in the U.S.S.R...