Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tass reported that Red Guards raged through the capital of Peking, sacking and seizing ministries, arresting people at will and generally adding to the anarchy. One Red Guard detachment even arrested another in Peking, and one of the arrested guards turned out to be none other than Chen Siao, son of Chen Yi, Red China's Mao-lining Foreign Minister. Against Mao's teen-age Red Guards, the anti-Mao establishment mobilized tens of thousands of indus trial workers, gave them pay raises and bonuses and sent many of them into Peking or other big cities to protest...
Next day the two targets were hit again, but even before the pilots suited up a second time, Teletypes were clattering around the world. The Soviet correspondent for Tass in Hanoi, the resident Agence France-Presse reporter and Radio Hanoi all claimed that the U.S. raiders the previous day had, as Tass put it, bombed "residential areas within the Hanoi city limits" for the first time, setting houses afire and killing, said Hanoi, more than 100 civilians...
...Tass the Soviet Press agency, transmitted a 500-word article Tuesday saying that "American Professor Marshall Schulman is expected to leave Moscow tomorrow after certain facts of his unseemly activities were made publicly known last weekend...
...Tass added that Schulman "persistently tried to penetrate certain academic centers...
...relatives three times a year, receive letters once a month, and be "paroled" only to a less severe camp. Since neither man is especially robust, long hours spent chopping trees and doing other heavy outdoor labor under sub-zero winter conditions could prove fatal. As far as Pravda, Tass and Izvestia were concerned, that would hardly be too harsh for what Tass described as "dirty foam brought up by the turbulent stream of life...