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The Press: Expulsion in Russia

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Thrown out of Russia last week: Associated Press Correspondent Roy Essoyan, 39, the fourth American to be expelled since April 1956. Essoyan’s official sin: “A rude violation of Soviet censorship.” Best A.P. guess was that the “violation” was Essoyan’s dispatch in August saying that Khrushchev’s proposal to refer the Mideast crisis to the U.N. was a “major retreat.”

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