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...Charlie Wick's idea a year ago. The USIA director penned a letter to the chief Soviet spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, about having their two leaders talk to the Soviet and American people directly over television. There was no answer from Moscow. At the Geneva summit eleven months later, Wick was walking offstage from a ceremony when he ran into Zamyatin, whom he had never met "I didn't answer your letter," Zamyatin confessed with a sheepish smile. Replied Wick: "I was wondering if you read your mail." Both men laughed. The spirit of the moment had seized them and, more...
Another hardy survivor of Kremlin politics is Leonid Zamyatin, 63, a representative to the press who has served five Soviet leaders dating back to Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. He has headed the Communist Party's International Information Department since 1978, a job that makes him the General Secretary's top spokesman. After Gorbachev ascended to power, Zamyatin was rumored to be out of favor, but he has reappeared on the job in a dramatic way, managing the spectacular presummit public relations blitz that has put the Soviets in good position for the Geneva meeting...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
...sale." Faced with the G-7 decision that no hard cash would be offered yet, the Soviets shifted gears. "It would be naive," spokesman Vitali Ignatenko assured reporters, "to say that we expect President Gorbachev to come away with black limos filled with money." Soviet Ambassador to Britain Leonid Zamyatin passed the word that Gorbachev was reworking his economic reform plan...
...Friday, Soviet Ambassador Leonid Zamyatin was called to the British Foreign Office in London and told that 11 Soviets were being expelled for "activities incompatible with their status," a Foreign Office spokesperson said...