Word: tass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Oct. 18--Lunik III has transmitted back to earth mankind's first pictures of the far side of the moon, the official Tass news agency announced yesterday. The official announcement said Lunik was "completing its first revolution around the earth" at 11:50 a.m. on its return trip from the moon...
...While rounding the moon, pictures were taken of its far side, which is invisible from the earth," Tass said. "The results of the scientific measurements and photographs are being processed...
...arrangements were pure Mao dynasty. All 19 excursionists were carefully chosen on the basis of docility: reporters from Pravda, Tass, Poland's Trybuna Ludu, North Korean news agencies, Britain's Red Sheep Alan Winnington (the London Daily Worker), along with Author Anna Louise Strong, doyenne of U.S. Red-liners, who was accused by the Kremlin in 1949 of working against Communism-an error for which Moscow later abjectly apologized. (For the Tibetan junket an oxygen tent was taken along for 74-year-old Journalist Strong, but the heady political climate of captive Tibet made it unnecessary...
...kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
Khrushchev told a rally at Kiev today that whether there are positive results at Geneva or not, a meeting of the Big Four heads of government will take place. His remarks were distributed Tuesday by the official news agency Tass and broadcast by Moscow radio...