Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's mobilization order, as every U.S. call-up has invariably done, proved of immense concern to the Russians. Almost immediately, Tass was on the air denouncing it as "a threatening act." More significantly, the move was greeted with some concern by Kosygin and his entourage, who were in New Delhi for the 18th anniversary of India's independence. In the wake of the U.S. call-up, Kosygin let it be known that the Kremlin's top leadership is more interested in a settlement than its underlings had let on. Kosygin's aides even hinted that...
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...announcement following the feat, Tass hinted windily at the purpose of the unmanned docking maneuver. The mission, it said, was a step toward the "creation in orbit of big scientific space stations capable of carrying out complex and multifaceted exploration of outer space and planets." Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory, agreed that this was "a logical explanation." But Lovell, as well as other Western observers, believes that the space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform circling the earth. All this is necessary...
...situation in China, reported the Soviet news agency Tass last week, "increasingly resembles civil war." Fighting between the supporters and the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution spread along the thousand miles of Yangtze River from Chungking in the western mountains to Shanghai on the Pacific coast...