And every Soviet journalist knows that journalism particularly is considered to be an instrument of state interest.

The trips often include a major speech, and Soviet journalists said today that they expect one this week.

Such points of confusion left Soviet journalists demanding to know at a later news conference what the real plan was.

I want to thank the Soviet and foreign journalists.

Asked if he planned a serious dispatch on the event, the Soviet journalist nodded.

It deals with a real issue: the difference between American and Soviet journalists.

Soviet journalists, when they appear on American television, are usually more adroit than that.

The answer, we think, will be no; the question is, how will the Soviet journalists say it?

"I don't know how they will do it," a prominent Soviet journalist said afterward.

- but, of course, Soviet journalists didn't need telling how to phrase it.