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...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...
Middlebury College Malcolm Toon, LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union...
Jimmy Carter's personal letter of anniversary congratulations was handed to Brezhnev by U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon during a friendly, hour-long chat last week in the Kremlin. Brezhnev told Toon that there was "a definite change for the better in relations" between the two countries, but he emphasized "the urgency of finalizing" a SALT accord. Indeed, that message was underscored by the anniversary's military parade, which showed that however hopefully the Soviets talk about world peace, they are amply prepared for other eventualities...
...regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend the most. The U.S. had already dribbled out many of its concessions during the past nine...