Word: tass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows how this American-Chinese venture will end." So remarked the Soviet press agency Tass last week in the wake of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's nine-day whirlwind tour of the U.S. The Tass observation was certainly valid. The Chinese leader's candor and expansive personality had charmed the American public, and most of the visit's achievements were on that psychological level. But few concrete answers emerged to some of the tough questions raised by Jimmy Carter's policy of normalizing relations with Peking...
...activity in the Parrot's Beak salient and other border areas, and was eventually repulsed (see map). This time it was clear that Hanoi was determined to overrun the entire country, and it was eagerly cheered on by Moscow, which is supplying most of the arms and advice. Tass, which had praised the Pol Pot regime as recently as October 1977, last week excoriated it by quoting at length from Western publications critical of Cambodia, and added that Pol Pot was "pursuing a policy of genocide...
...Carter stated on TV that he had received a message from Brezhnev indicating that improved U.S.-Peking ties would neither hurt SALT nor "endanger our good relationship with the Soviet Union," Moscow quickly pointed out that the note had also expressed reservations about the new American policy. According to Tass, Brezhnev had in fact warned that "the Soviet Union will most closely follow what the development of American-Chinese relations will be in practice...
...Kremlin, of course, subscribes to neither interpretation. In an angry commentary last week, Tass charged that "the causes of the delay should be looked for in the U.S., which has deviated from the coordinated principles of holding SALT talks." It accused Washington of, among other things, seeking "supremacy in strategic armaments, thus obtaining unilateral advantages...
Baker said the visit comes "at a very important time" for the United States because of the continuing talks on SALT II, the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday. He said he was confident the Senate would ratify a treaty...