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...accolades that can come his way is to be reprinted, uncensored, in Russia. Last week this distinction befell a newcomer to the ranks of political correspondents: James A. Wechsler, 45, of the liberal New York Post (circ. 343,140). Without changing a line, Russia's two leading dailies, Pravda (6,300,000) and Izvestia (2,300,000), carried in full the second part of a two-part Wechsler profile of President John Kennedy...
Corridor Incidents. But despite Gromyko's willingness to confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts...
From the start, Ulbricht was a brassy enemy of the intellectuals who had captured control of the party in the early 19205. Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells...
...Reasonable. These strident remarks, which made the world's headlines, were mostly passed on the vodka circuit, in those little diplomatic huddles that are the Soviet equivalent of Meet the Press. Many of the remarks were more muted by the time they were printed in Pravda. What Khrushchev wanted to convey to his own people was delivered earlier in a formal nationwide radio and television address, scrupulously similar in staging, and even in tone, to the previous week's "fireside chat'' by President John Kennedy. Natty in silk tie and bemedaled grey striped suit, Russia...
...early Moscow morning, long queues of Russians lined up at the city's newsstands to buy a copy of the big story spread over nine pages of Pravda. At home, millions huddled around TV and radio sets and presumably listened as long as their curiosity or patience lasted, as announcers droned out the news for five straight hours...