Word: zamyatin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin, their chief press secretary, leaned back in his nighttime encounters with Jody Powell and spouted the Soviet line with a certain disdain. After all, he had regularly chewed up past U.S. press secretaries: Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, Ron Nessen. Powell, the Vienna (say Vye-an-uh), Ga., debater, was clearly superior. His voice and manner were more forceful, he refuted the Soviet charges with facts and a down-home touch of nastiness, zinged his adversary with some humor. The thought crossed several minds that Zamyatin, like the other Soviets, had been too long in his iron cocoon...
...resignation, it did so with such a mixture of fantasy and fallacy that an American would have a hard time recognizing the familiar Watergate events. Worst of the distorted Soviet accounts was a special half-hour television program conducted by two of Russia's best-known journalists, Leonid Zamyatin, 52, head of the official news agency Tass, a sophisticated man who has spent considerable time in the U.S. (including ten days last May); and Valentin Zorin, 50, a hard-lining television commentator...
...Russian listeners heard was something Nixon's last-ditch defenders in the U.S. would have been embarrassed to offer. The commentators referred several times to the "socalled Watergate affair" without once explaining it or even suggesting that Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
...Zamyatin: I would like to emphasize that the impulse for this affair came after the Democratic Party suffered defeat. It was in fact used as the chief weapon in the interparty struggle, and it was given the coloration of a conflict between the Executive, in the person of the President, and the legislative power, represented by the Congress. Even more because of the result of the 1972 elections, a Republican President had a Congress which was in fact Democratic. Because in the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Democrats had the overwhelming majority. This created a situation in which...
...Zamyatin: Yes, a certain background. But to this was also added the propagandistic background. I was recently in the U.S. with a Soviet parliamentary delegation, and we had the opportunity to observe all the emotional heat that was being created round the President and round this entire affair through the U.S. mass information media. A very definite brainwashing of U.S. public opinion was taking place both on radio and television, and certainly not in favor of the U.S. President, for internal political motives. Throughout this whole campaign, the chief motive was an internal political one. Here I would cite...