A careful survey here of the Soviet press since the end of the special session of the General Assembly on the Middle East last month has shown little abatement of the virulent anti-Israel propaganda of the Soviet Union, dashing hopes that the Soviets might be trying to induce the Arab countries to adopt a more realistic position about a settlement with Israel.
The survey showed that comments on Israel in some Soviet newspapers were almost unprintable in their abuse and others are plain anti-Semitism. The hopes had been raised by the fact that the Soviet Union voted with the United States on the procedural resolution ending the special session, a resolution the Arabs had opposed.
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