Reporters: Muffled in Moscow

In 1956, after long decades during which the number of U.S. correspondents in Moscow was severely limited, a large group was once again admitted. Since then, about a dozen of them have been thrown out for a variety of offenses. Last week the Washington Post's Stephen Rosenfeld, 33, became the third to be ejected this year (after ABC's Sam A. Jaffe and the Baltimore Sun's Adam Clymer). Rosenfeld himself had done nothing to wear out his welcome. But the Post had published The Penkovsky Papers*—and out went Rosenfeld. His departure was one more reminder that whether the cold war...

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