Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ouster. The leaks are often dubious. In the spring of 1964, word went out from a West German wire service that Khrushchev was dead. The story was picked up by papers around the world. Later, the Germans explained that the leak had originated with the Russian news service, Tass. Suspicious correspondents decided that the Central Committee, already scheming to depose Khrushchev, had sent out the news to test world reaction ahead of time...
Gemini 5 had more military research assignments than any previous civilian space flight-a fact that caused Moscow to talk and squawk more about Gemini 5 than any earlier U.S. space mission. Moscow's Tass at first charged that the U.S. was recklessly gambling with the lives of the spacemen on an ill-prepared mission. When it became clear that Gemini would succeed and lead the U.S. far along on its timetable for reaching the moon, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, tried to deflate the news by proclaiming that nobody knows enough about...
Behind the Masses. In Stalin's time, any party hack might wind up working for a newspaper. Today, journalism departments at 18 universities turn out 950 graduates a year. Tass, the official news agency, exchanges news in New York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen...
With modest fanfare, last week the Russians launched their first space shot aimed at landing an unmanned vehicle softly on the moon. After a successful mid-course correction of trajectory, Tass announced that the spacecraft Lunik V was expected to touch down on the lunar plain called the Sea of Clouds at 10:15 p.m. Moscow time. And there were proud hints that this time the flight might not end in the destructive crash that has marked all previous Russian and U.S. moon shots...
Then came the report that Lunik V had landed in the area of the Sea of Clouds five minutes ahead of schedule. "During the flight," said Tass, "a great deal of information was obtained which is necessary for the further elaboration of a system for soft landing on the moon's surface." No further explanation was offered, but most non-Soviet experts suspected that Lunik V's retrorockets had not ignited, and that the spacecraft had crashed on the moon while traveling at 6,000 m.p.h. Such a failure to slow down would account neatly for the early...