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...resolve, the KGB arrested Dissident Alexander Ginzburg in a telephone booth. Hours later the Kremlin ordered the expulsion of George Krimsky, a Russian-speaking American reporter for the Associated Press who had been zealous in covering dissident activities. In swift retaliation, the U.S. State Department deported a Washington-based Tass correspondent (TIME, Feb. 14). This brought a response with a touch of Soviet surrealism worthy of Orwell or even Lewis Carroll. The Russians denounced the U.S. for failure to adhere to the provisions of the Helsinki agreement...
There was no waffling, however, in the Administration's retaliation against the Krimsky expulsion. Deploring the "step backward from the objective of Helsinki," the State Department gave Washington-based Tass Correspondent Vladimir Alekseyev a week to pack his bags...
...rights stand, Pravda pointed to a plenitude of starving children, black ghettos, bugging and police surveillance in the U.S. and to other "brazen violations of the rights of American citizens." At the same time, the Soviets sought to blame Washington's criticisms on a Jewish conspiracy. Writing for Tass, Political Commentator Yuri Kornikov charged that "Zionist organizations" in the U.S. were more and more a major source of "anti-Soviet noise about the question of civil liberties in the U.S.S.R...
Both Santiago and Moscow quickly tried to make capital out of the exchange. At a Washington press conference, Chilean Ambassador Manuel Trucco declared that 383 Chilean political prisoners had also been freed recently, neglecting to mention that 650 others are still behind bars. In Moscow the official press agency, Tass, jubilantly reported that the Soviet government had provided Corvalán with the "opportunity of coming to the U.S.S.R.," without mentioning Bukovsky. At week's end one respected Latin American newspaper. Buenos Aires' La Opinion, commented: "The exchange demonstrates that Santiago and Moscow have very similar concepts about...
...Soviet Union. Newspapers daily headlined Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's long record of accomplishments. He was festooned with medals from the Communist states of Eastern Europe. His life was depicted in a documentary film, his collected speeches were issued in new editions, and the official news agency Tass carried a synopsis of his career that covered eleven feet of Teletype paper. These celebrations underscored Brezhnev's position as the sole survivor among the big-power leaders of the past decade. Lyndon Johnson, Charles de Gaulle and Mao Tsetung are dead. The two men with whom he fashioned...