Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During four days of Castro-Kosygin talks, Cubans read or heard almost nothing of what went on. The only hint came at midweek, when Tass reported that the discussions were "frank"-a favorite Soviet euphemism for disagreement. Toward the end of the meetings, however, the two men apparently worked out some of their major differences. The day Kosygin left Havana, airport roads were lined with Russian and Cuban flags, an honor guard boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Castro gave his visitor a parting abrazo...
...were shot down near Hanoi by antiaircraft fire, which is the heaviest ever experienced in any war. The pilots were Colonel James L. Hughes, 40, of Iowa, Lieut. Colonel Gordon A. Larson, 40, of Minnesota, and Lieut. James R. Shively, 25, of Texas. According to the Russian news agency Tass, they were paraded through the streets of Hanoi, where they were greeted by "shouts of anger," then forced to appear at a press conference. The treatment was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the humiliation of prisoners...
...Sergei Georgievich Lapin, 55, a protege of Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, was promoted to director of Tass, Russia's news agency and principal propaganda organ. Tass not only serves Russian newspapers internally but has a worldwide network of 200 men in 93 countries, including four in Washington, is often accused of using them for other purposes than news gathering. A onetime Tassman (1945-55) who later switched to diplomacy and became Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapin has spent the past two years as ambassador to Red China, but has been absent from his post for months because of Chinese demonstrations...
...Never before in all the history of the Soviet state has such an unbridled anti-Soviet campaign been conducted in any country, even those most hostile to the Soviet Union." The malefactor thus condemned last week by Tass was Red China, whose sparks of civil chaos are falling more on its onetime Communist allies than on anyone else...
...Diplomatic Nose. The Russian embassy in Peking bore the brunt of the Chinese assaults. Since Chinese students and Russian police clashed two weeks ago in Red Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a nonstop "witches' sabbath" of "violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge on the Soviet people." Dancing around a bonfire, the demonstrators stuck effigies of Brezhnev and Kosygin to crosses and set them afire, railed at the Soviet embassy staff cowering inside as "filthy swine, hyenas, rascals and scoundrels." The nearly...