Word: viktor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggested to Mr. Shultz, in fact, an exact deal that would lead to the meeting of Mr. President with our general secretary, in the autumn or at the end of the year," Viktor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms control official, said on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley...
...Soviet corner were Soviet Ambassador to the United States Viktor Karpov and Deputy Chief Minister Evgeny Kutovoy...
...When Viktor Berkhin, a reporter for the monthly magazine Soviet Miner, was arrested last July on charges of "hooliganism," cries of foul came from an unlikely Big Brother. None other than the mighty Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, rushed to Berkhin's defense with two articles setting out the details of his arrest, 14-day detention and the police search of his apartment. Pravda charged that Berkhin's only crime was that he had done his job too well, riling local authorities by exposing government corruption in a coal-mining region of the Ukraine. The paper concluded that...
...startling and unprecedented conclusion. The KGB official who had engineered Berkhin's arrest was fired, and there were warnings that more dismissals were in the offing. Even more surprising was the way the firing was announced: on the front page of Pravda. In a statement signed by KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, the offending officer was castigated as a discredit to his profession. Chebrikov pledged to take measures to "ensure the strict observance of law" by state security forces...
While President Reagan declared in a Baltimore speech, "Let's not look back and place blame," U.S. arms specialists worked on a package of proposals for Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, to present to Viktor Karpov, head of the Soviet delegation in Geneva...