Word: tass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the commune talked twice with Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet press attache in Georgetown, about a possible move, but a memo of that meeting shows the Russians offered little encouragement. Russian consular officials and a Russian doctor also visited Jonestown, which was the object of a favorable report by Tass. In the past few months, Russian language classes were held at the commune. Members had to recite Russian phrases, like "good morning," before receiving their rice-and-gravy meals...
...were arrested and jailed in Delano, Minn. They were charged with trespassing on the right of way of a 427-mile high-voltage power line long opposed by many farmers and environmentalists. When word of Reed's arrest was flashed to a shocked Soviet public, the news agency Tass dispatched a special correspondent to cover the trial...
...turn, the Russian news agency Tass lashed out at the U.S. after CIA Director Stansfield Turner remarked that though events in Iran stemmed from "genuine dissent," he was "sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...
...addition, the 22.5 million Overseas Chinese are being used as Peking's secret weapons, Tass alleges. According to one dispatch, they are being deployed by Peking as a "fifth column to undermine security and public order in Burma, Malaysia and the Philippines." (Though most of the insurgents in Malaysia are ethnic Chinese, there is little evidence that they are acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations...
China's domestic policies have not been spared. Says the Soviet ideological journal Kommunist, China is wracked by "general social disorder, economic chaos and discontent." Tass charged that the Chinese people have suffered "a sharp drop in living standards, while millions have been repressed or exiled." The news agency also accuses Peking of grossly favoring the Han Chinese majority while mistreating its ethnic minorities...