Word: tass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Russians also permitted CBS Radio's correspondent Bill Worthy to begin broadcasting directly to the U.S., the first regular short-wave news broadcasts from Moscow since 1947.* From the official Russian news agency, Tass, have come stories about the possibilities of increased cultural and sports exchanges with the West. Tass also has carried glowing accounts of the touring Russian agricultural delegation in the U.S. (TIME, August 1), but has not published dollars and cents figures on the income and wages of U.S. farmers and farmhands. In an article on the tour, Pravda said: "There is need...
Censorship was also slightly relaxed; visiting newsmen were allowed to telephone their stories from their hotel rooms. Russia's official news agency, Tass, was also easing up. Tass allowed the Moscow Associated Press and United Press bureaus to buy its service so that they could read Russian news as it came off the teleprinter in their own offices. But reporters permanently assigned to Russia still found their movements carefully held in check. And most of the newcomers were reporting little that was new. Even Columnist Stewart Alsop, who arrived in Russia last week after "writing personally" to Khrushchev...
...Four conference had spread around the world. One of President Eisenhower's preconference conditions was met when the French Parliament completed ratification of the Paris agreements (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Moscow Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin turned on his propaganda machinery and granted an interview to a Tass reporter. Said Bulganin: "The Soviet government takes a positive attitude to the idea of a great-power conference as expressed by the President of the United States, if [such] a conference would contribute to the lessening of tension in international relations." In Washington Bulganin's announcement was greeted with the cool...
...Washington Tass correspondents are not invited to Cabinet officers' background sessions, but do attend full-dress press conferences, including those held by President Eisenhower...
Among the 750 Washington reporters who hold White House press cards, two are correspondents for the Russian official news agency, Tass, and one is a correspondent for Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Three weeks ago, to illustrate an article titled "Where Russians Can Go in the U.S.," weekly U.S. News & World Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine...