Word: toon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviets clearly hoped that the Whitney-Piper episode might scare other Western newsmen off the dissidents story. But as U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told some American reporters in Moscow: "Knowing you as I do, I can't think their action will have that effect...
...last Wednesday morning, Vance responded in kind. He guided the Russians to the side of the 25-ft.-long teak table that faced the windows, giving them a good view of the water-skiers cavorting on Lake Geneva, and of the sun. However, the American delegation-Vance, Ambassador Malcolm Toon, Chief Arms Negotiator Paul Warnke and others-did have to face a wall ornamented by three almost blinding LeRoy Neiman sport prints...
...July 7. Complained Whitney after the hearing: "The way we were treated raises serious doubts about whether participating in this trial is advisable. If we are not able to defend ourselves, then the aim of this trial is not justice. There is some obscure political purpose." U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told U.S. correspondents in Moscow that he thought the Soviet intent was clear: "This is an effort to get a message across to you people that unless you confine your quotations to official Soviet sources, you run a risk of being charged with slander...
Most foreign correspondents in Moscow agreed with Toon that the action was a new effort to intimidate them and to discourage their reporting on Soviet dissidents. Yet when asked by newsmen in Washington whether reporters covering the 1980 Olympics in Moscow will be similarly harassed, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin snapped: "You know perfectly well what is slander and what is not." He said there will be "no harassment that will hurt doing your job as newspapermen...
...return, Crawford was released in Moscow in the custody of Ambassador Toon. During his 15 days in jail, his precise job with International Harvester Co. had been somewhat inflated in Moscow...