Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused American newsmen passed up their own trial; a movie projector sat where defendants normally do in the seedy Moscow courtroom. While Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun vacationed in the U.S. last week, Soviet Judge Lev Almazov ruled that they had disseminated "libelous information denigrating the honor" of Soviet TV employees. Specifically, they had quoted sources doubting the authenticity of a dissident's confession broadcast on Soviet...
...When Whitney and Piper return as planned within the next month, they may be subjected to Soviet harassment. Whether Moscow takes further action may depend on what Washington does. By way of not-so-veiled threat, the State Department summoned a Soviet diplomat to "discuss" the status of the San Francisco bureau of the Soviet press agency, Tass. But the Administration had not decided whether to make any retaliatory gestures beyond the moves that President Carter had made after Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky's conviction: he canceled the sale of a Sperry Univac computer to Tass and placed all American...
...Soviet move against the two newsmen, the New York Times's Craig R. Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold D. Piper, was unwarranted and unprecedented. The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti-Soviet activities, even though their dispatches appeared only...
...guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three years in prison. As part of its coverage of the trial, Vremya broadcast a taped confession by Gamsakhurdia. Whitney and Piper both wrote stories quoting Gamsakhurdia's friends as contending that the broadcast confession did not reflect his real views and seemed to have been fabricated...
During a 15-minute court hearing, Piper and Whitney were given two days to prepare written answers and a list of defense witnesses. Back in court at week's end, they protested to Judge Lev Almazov that they had not had time to obtain lawyers or analyze the charges. Almazov, who appeared irritated because prolonging the case would delay his vacation, set the trial for July 7. Complained Whitney after the hearing: "The way we were treated raises serious doubts about whether participating in this trial is advisable. If we are not able to defend ourselves, then...