Word: zamyatin
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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...