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MONDAY, SIFTIMAIll 14, 1990
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Memoirs from the late Rus-
sian leader Nikita Khru-
shchev (right) may end the
debate over the guilt or in-
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Julius and Ethel Rosen-
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tapes thanked them for
helping the Soviets develop
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Page 48
The Post plays up the Rosenbergs.
The Rosenbergs Still
Muster Media Attention
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
I
t's intriguing that 37
years after their execu-
tion, the case of Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg still com-
mands media attention.
On Monday and Tuesday,
newspapers around the
country printed reports that
Nikita Khruschev's forth-
coming memoirs claim
that the Rosenbergs had
given the USSR "very
significant help in ac-
celerating the production of
our atomic bomb . . . Let my
words serve as an expression
of gratitude to those who
sacrificed their lives to a
great cause of the Soviet
state .. ."
In the early 1950s, the
Rosenbergs were a cause
celebre for many American
liberals and leftists. They
claimed not only that the
Jewish couple was being
framed by the federal
government, but also that
the government's case
against them was partly
motivated by anti-Semitism.
No paper this week played
up the Khruschev memoirs
Arthur J. Magida is a senior
writer for our sister news-
paper, the Baltimore Jewish
Times.
as much as the tabloid New
York Post, whose Monday
headline announced in
1%-inch letters:
"Khrushchev to Rosenbergs:
"Thanks for A-Bomb
Secrets."
Inside was a 13-inch-long
story about Mr. Khruschev's
claims, plus an 11-inch-long
account of the Rosenberg's
son calling the late
premier's words "absurd."
That same day's New York
Times had a five-inch-long
item about the Khruschev
memoirs. Buried on page A8,
this reported that Fidel
Castro had urged the Soviet
Union to attack the United
States in 1962 because he
feared an American invasion
of Cuba during the Cuban
missile crisis. There was no
mention of what Mr.
Khruschev said about the
Rosenbergs.
On Tuesday, the Times
had a story on Page 3 about
the Rosenbergs. Lou Cola-
suonno, the New York Post's
managing editor, said his
paper gave the Khruschev-
Rosenberg story such pro-
minence because "this is a
great, natural New York
story. There's still an on-
going debate about their in-
nocence, although it doesn't
go on in every bar in the city.