Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic news was buried in a routine Tass broadcast servicing newspapers in Central Asia. Picked up by an alert U.S. monitor in the Middle East, it was flashed to Washington, arrived at the White House just as President John Kennedy was leaving for a press conference in the auditorium...
...Russian spaceship was aloft, flashed word to Western tracking stations around the world. (In Hyannisport, it was 2 a.m.; President Kennedy had been alerted the night before that the Soviets had started a countdown for a manned shot, and was not awakened.) It was more than an hour before Tass interrupted radio and television programs to tell the Russian people of the new Soviet space triumph. By then, Titov, orbiting at 17,750 m.p.h., had finished one full 88-minute trip around the earth and dutifully reported by radio that all was well...
...Geneva-Communist diplomats have refused to believe that the U.S. would carry out its halfhearted threats to defend either Laos or embattled South Viet Nam with force of arms-and U.S. negotiators have been unable to prove them wrong. Aware now that the U.S. at last means business, Tass, in its bitter response to Kennedy's speech, insisted that the West had exaggerated Russian responsibility for the Berlin crisis. Khrushchev, who could well remember Stalingrad,* well understood Jack Kennedy's pointed reference to the beleaguered city, and he might indeed think twice about his intransigence, and suggest negotiations...
Gagarin, dubbed the "first cosmonaut" the American press, was in orbit in outer space for an hour and 29 minutes, the time needed by his rocket to circle the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour, Tass reported...
...expand the exchange of information between the Soviet Union and foreign countries." One of its charter members with a name of his own: Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. There is plenty of room for expansion of journalistic enterprise. Though impressively big (900 men), Tass is a party-lining sloth whose correspondents are used abroad for propaganda purposes as often as for reporting. Khrushchev may have been prompted to put a fire under Tass by his brushes with the aggressive reporters of the West. But the chance that Novosti will ever peddle undoctored news is about as remote...