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...winds to continue the search for survivors of the Ocean Ranger's 84-man crew, which included at least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies had been recovered from both vessels...
...Daimler-Benz last week confirmed rumors that it is indeed negotiating with the Soviets to build what would be the world's largest truck plant on the banks of the Kama River, 560 miles east of Moscow. The West German automaker also announced that Soviet Automobile Minister Aleksandr Tarasov will go to Stuttgart later this month to discuss the project. As a spokesman for Daimler-Benz put it: "Good economic relations can be the foundation for improvement of the political situation...
...Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov, 36, a blond, stubby correspondent for Izvestia. Canada accredited Tarasov after an urgent request that came straight from the Kremlin. After depositing his wife and young daughter in a modest apartment in Ottawa's Sandy Hill district, Tarasov scraped up an acquaintance with a minor government functionary...
...this man, Tarasov's inquisitiveness seemed to exceed the requirements of journalism, and he confided his suspicions to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Baiting their trap with a harmless but official-looking document, the police let the government man trade it to Tarasov for cash...
...Communist newsman doubling in espionage, Izvestia's Tarasov joins a far-ranging company. Since World War II, Soviet correspondents have been expelled on spy charges from Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia. Testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1956, a former Russian intelligence officer who defected that year estimated that some 80% of the Tassmen scattered around the world serve the Russian government as spies. Vasily Tarasov is reputedly the first Izvestia reporter to be unmasked-a distinction that may or may not earn him credit points with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei -Khrushchev...