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Gorbachev, dressed in a gray suit and red striped tie, spoke for 20 minutes, a relatively brief period, at the beginning of the nightly news program Vremya...
Despite glasnost, the Soviet public had only a limited view of the proceedings. Official press accounts stressed that the investigative report blamed flagrant breaches of safety rules for the accident. The nightly television news program Vremya (Time) showed a few minutes of the opening day without mentioning that the defendants had denied some of the accusations. Subsequent sessions were not reported...
Goldman said Vremya, the Moscow evening news report, had aired pictures of picketers outside the ABC building, but had not shown excerpts from the series. He said the Soviets would certainly not show the entire film. Pipes agreed, and said selections for public viewing would probably be those most easily interpreted as propaganda...
...month when it allowed Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov to return to Moscow after seven years of internal exile in the city of Gorky. The Soviets lost little time in trumpeting the prodigals' homecoming. Their arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport was prominently shown on the nightly TV news program Vremya. The TASS news agency gravely intoned, "Many former Soviet citizens, duped by Western propaganda into leaving for capitalist countries, have been allowed to return home." Taras Kordonsky, 39, a musician who could not find work in the U.S., was quoted by TASS as saying, "Ruthlessness and violence and the feeling...
Moscow's new media celebrity is Joseph Mauri, 58, of New York City, who has become something of a regular on Vremya (Time) during his expense-paid tour of the Soviet Union. Muscovites first saw him last April as the star of The Man from Fifth Avenue, a 90-minute Soviet-made documentary about poverty in New York. The film shows close-ups of homeless men, then cuts to a specialty shop that sells chinchilla bedspreads, bottles of $1,500 perfume and designer pistols. Mauri, who acts as tour guide, is portrayed as a prime example of American capitalism...