Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing the launch, the Soviet news agency Tass added that two of the manned ships "have carried out an approach to each other." Tass did not say that they docked, however...
...this late date to make an issue of his reporting. Foreign diplomats and correspondents in Moscow surmised that the Soviets wanted to make an example of him in the hopes of discouraging similar reporting by other newsmen. In retaliation, the U.S. at week's end ordered a Tass correspondent based in Washington to get out of the country within 48 hours...
...minutes before it too died out. Only the Russians could tell how successful their two latest Venus shots had been and how much information had been gathered about the enigmatic planet. Whatever they learned, the Soviets undoubtedly left some mark on Venus. On board the Venus 5 capsule, Tass reported, was a marker bearing a bas-relief of Lenin and the Soviet coat of arms...
...Provocation. So far, there is no sign that the recent shooting will be used for similar purposes. But Russians are alarmed by the Tass description of the event as "a provocation." In Communist jargon, that is the term for an anti-Soviet political act that is usually the result of a conspiracy and consequently calls for severe countermeasures...
...world's first crew exchange in orbit, serving notice to Americans that Russia has not given up in the space race. Jubilant Russians could point to their first manned-flight breakthrough in a long while. By the time the two vehicles separated 4 hrs., 35 min. later, Tass was hailing "the world's first experimental space station." Then Shatalov, Khrunov and Eliseev landed Soyuz 4 safely some 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow, within sight of recovery helicopters. This display of reentry accuracy overcame the perils of the snowy landing site's 31-below-zero cold, making...