Word: tass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Harry Freeman, 71, Brooklyn-born managing editor in the U.S. for Tass, the Soviet news agency; of cancer; in Manhattan. After working for such leftist publications as the New Masses and the Daily Worker, Freeman joined Tass in 1929, writing about many aspects of American life for Soviet readers. In testimony before a Senate investigation committee in 1956. he took the Fifth Amendment when questioned about espionage activity...
...four cosmonauts were to work together for five days on various experiments, Tass said. Then the two newcomers would return to earth early this week. They would leave behind Soyuz 26's Yuri Romanenko, 33, and Georgi Grechko, 46, to continue endurance tests and perhaps to break the U.S. astronaut record of 84 days in orbit. If all goes according to plan, the Soviets will have shown that they can keep a permanent observatory in the sky, staffed by relays of spaceships bringing up fresh supplies and personnel. By contrast, during the U.S.'s comparable Skylab missions...
...Moscow at 7 one night last week were startled to hear the massed voices of the famed Bolshoi Theater chorus in a fortissimo rendering of their long-lost national anthem. Not for 20 years had the rousing hymn been sung in public in the U.S.S.R. Now, the press agency Tass announced, it would be broadcast on radio throughout the Soviet Union at 6 a.m. and 12 midnight daily and at the start of each day of television programming. The anthem will also be transmitted regularly by loudspeakers in public squares and parks, on trains and street corners and in sports...
...Soviet press fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps...
...Carter sees it, the Kremlin, while waging a propaganda battle with the U.S., continues to pursue the fundamental Soviet interest in SALT and détente. Brezhnev's letter and his dressing down of Toon were "decidedly less strong than the Tass account of the affair," noted a top White House aide. Besides, Brezhnev's meeting with Toon had its constructive side. TIME has learned that Brezhnev had put off meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss...