Press: The View from Dunayev's Desk

A top TV journalist can call it as he sees it, within limits

Just after 6 p.m. and again at 10 p.m. every weekday, crisp white letters on Soviet television screens announce Today in the World, a 15-minute blend of international news and commentary that is one of the most watched shows in the U.S.S.R. Vladimir Dunayev, 51, one of Today's regular hosts, describes the day's events—half smiling here at the absurdity of Western posturing on the Afghanistan question, curling his lip there to show contempt for U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The commentator is low key but sardonic, a...