Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian press is about as competitive as a Russian election. The state not only controls all newspapers but gets along with a single news service, Tass. Last week, in one of those mysterious gyrations of the Russian bear, a group of Soviet journalists met in Moscow for the express purpose of organizing a competitor to Tass...
...insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility was real enough for the U.S. State Department to express "serious concern" about the continuing Russian airdrops of supplies to the Kong Le rebels-while pointing...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...
...most key areas of the world, China's efforts are still overshadowed by Russia, but Peking is clearly struggling for a separate identity. In the Middle East, where Mao's recognition of the Algerian rebel government helped to woo Arab sentiment, Hsinhua has displaced Tass as the chief fountainhead of Communist "news." This year for the first time Red China set up its own big separate industrial exhibition in Baghdad. Many Iraqi nationalists say that it was Peking's Communist agents, not Russia's, who whipped up the local Reds to bloody excesses...
...comes convinced that a war of nerves can be too risky-or that the irresponsibles he has encouraged may get out of hand. Last week Khrushchev gave an interview to the left-wing Cuban newspaper Revolución, and just to make sure everyone got the point, had Tass circulate it six days later. Key passage: "The head of the Soviet Republic noted that he would like his statements regarding aid to Cuba in the case of armed aggression against that country really to be symbolic...