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Export Crimp. The Soviet reaction to the House action was immediate and angry. The news agency Tass called the amendments "interference in Soviet affairs" and the work of "cold war advocates," which was "at variance with detente." Certainly the amendments do threaten to impede the growth of U.S.Soviet trade. Administration officials have estimated that, by substantially reducing tariffs on such Soviet products as vodka and motorcycles, M.F.N. might increase Soviet exports to the U.S. by $10 million to $25 million a year −a considerable addition to Soviet shipments to the U.S., which in 1972 were only $95.5 million...
More telling, perhaps, was the treatment in the Soviet press of President Nixon, who, for an American politician, has hitherto been afforded extraordinary deference. After the U.S. military alert, an unusually blunt statement by Tass accused Washington of "absurd" reports about the Soviet military alert intended to "intimidate" the U.S.S.R. Soviet newspapers, which had virtually ignored "Vatergatski," even began hinting to the Russian public that Nixon might not survive in office...
...official in the Washington office of the Soviet news agency, Tass, yesterday declined to respond to the statement...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin went on trial in Moscow last week charged with subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...
From all indications, his trial in Talaya, near Magadan, 4,000 miles from Moscow on the Asian coast and well out of bounds of foreign newsmen, was little more than a judicial pretense. His wife, who Tass reported had been allowed to attend his trial, was in fact barred from the courtroom. She saw her husband only as he was hustled to and from court in police cars. As for the charge of compiling "fabrications," that apparently consisted of Amalrik's notes on his experience in prison...