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...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: Yes, but I only speak for the government. Next question...
...Zamyatin: We have 200 correspondents in this country, and they write what they want. We have freedom of the press here...
...Zamyatin (between his teeth): Well, I could say some things about your country...