Soviet Censors Block TV Show
Soviet broadcasting chiefs barred the country’s most popular television news show from airing a program Friday night about the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
Alexander Lyubimov, the host of “Vzglyad,” said he had planned to interview Shevardnadze speechwriter Sergei Tarasenko and personal assistant Temuras Stepanov. Instead, he said he was summoned to a two-hour meeting with the chairman of state radio and television, Leonid Kravchenko, and was told that “Vzglyad” could not go on the air because of the “current political situation” in the country.
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