Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the Soviet press resumed its attacks against Prague. In a Moscow dispatch, Tass reported that the counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia had assumed such great proportions that workers who were loyal to socialism lived in fear for their very lives. A Polish army newspaper chimed in with a report that revisionists and Zionists in Czechoslovakia refused to give up their fight against Communism...
...reformers to shape their own socialist destiny. When Prague was overrun, he condemned the Soviet attack as "justified by nothing" and defiantly warned a cheering crowd of some 100,000 Rumanians in Bucharest's Republic Square that "tomorrow, perhaps someone will call this rally of ours counterrevolutionary too." Tass was quick to oblige, charging that Rumania, along with Yugoslavia, was "actively" helping "the antisocialist forces in Czechoslovakia." There were ominous intelligence reports of a massive deployment of Soviet troops on Rumanian borders, maneuvering in the same fashion as those that jumped into Czechoslovakia...
...word editorial, Pravda offered detailed criticism of the behavior of the leading Prague progressives, describing Dubcek as a "betrayer of Communist ideals." Pravda was particularly severe in condemning the plans for a party purge; it spoke of "an atmosphere of real pogrom and moral execution." After the takeover, Tass even claimed that the secret party congress in Prague was a reactionary attempt to take over the government?a feat that was hardly possible while So. viet tanks were in the streets. To prevent the real story from reaching their own people, the Russians began to jam the Voice of America...
...Johnson had become annoyed by the North Vietnamese penchant for making proposals through the press rather than through diplomatic channels. At the President's orders, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach called in Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and delivered a caustic protest over Tass's violation of diplomatic etiquette. At the White House Presidential Press Secretary George Christian said: "Those acting in good faith will not seek to make this a matter of propaganda...
North Viet Nam's reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats...