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Last week the Communist Youth organ Komsomolskaya Pravda baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about...
...late September in the town of Voronezh, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. There it zapped a 16-year-old boy with a gun that made him disappear temporarily. Pelted with questions from skeptics, TASS stood by its story. Said an agency official huffily: "It is not April Fools' today." Sovietskaya Kultura, a Communist Party paper dedicated to the arts, ran the story, claiming it was following "the golden rule of journalism: the reader must know everything...
...leading Soviet actor, Mikhail Ulyanov (who often plays his eponym, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin), cited a now famous letter, printed earlier this year in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, from a Leningrad schoolteacher that criticized glasnost. Ulyanov warned that all too many intellectuals "snapped to attention and waited for the next orders" as a result of its publication, convinced that the period of openness was about to end. Others, unhappy with glasnost, criticized the Soviet press for carrying the campaign too far with its newfound appetite for muckraking. Calling those who produce such fare "princes of extremism," conservative Novelist Yuri Bondarev...
...Sovietskaya Rossiya daily said the four-man flight crew, led by Pilot First Class Valentin Kupriyanov, kept their heads when confronted by the hijackers' demands...
...Under those conditions, the only decision that could be taken was to render the criminals harmless," Sovietskaya Rossiya said...