Word: tanjug
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...Tanjug news agency, the mouthpiece of the Serbian government, was attacking the American media for spreading what it says are fabricated stories of intimidation, mass execution and rape in the rebellious province of Kosovo. In poorly-translated English, the Serbs were trying to put their own spin on the war news, detailing the destruction caused by NATO bombing...
...demonstrators shouting "Give us our dead!" filled the city's bloodstained streets. As word of the killing spread, marchers turned out in towns throughout the country. Because of the government's total control of travel and communications, rumors often replaced information. East European news agencies such as Yugoslavia's Tanjug and, in the new world of glasnost, even Moscow's TASS and East Germany's ADN, became important sources of news. They reported that Rumanian army troops had joined in some of the protests, that more soldiers had been executed by the Securitate for refusing to fire into crowds...
...late evening report, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said Romanian security forces took full control yesterday of Timisoara, just 30 miles from the Yugoslav border. Ceausescu flew to Iran earlier in the day for a three-day official visit...
...Austrian President did win a victory of sorts last week when the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported that a 1942 telegram that allegedly dispatched Yugoslav civilians to transit camps on Waldheim's orders was a likely forgery. But that must have been cold comfort to Waldheim, who has found that while he can try to forget his past, others will...
...that his funeral attracted leaders from both East and West blocs, and from the Third World, in almost equal numbers. Official mourners came from 123 countries: four Kings, 32 Presidents and other heads of state, 22 Prime Ministers, more than 100 secretaries or representatives of Communist or workers parties. Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency, summed it up simply: "The summit of mankind...