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Gagarin, dubbed the "first cosmonaut" the American press, was in orbit in outer space for an hour and 29 minutes, the time needed by his rocket to circle the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour, Tass reported...
...Russian press is about as competitive as a Russian election. The state not only controls all newspapers but gets along with a single news service, Tass. Last week, in one of those mysterious gyrations of the Russian bear, a group of Soviet journalists met in Moscow for the express purpose of organizing a competitor to Tass...
...expand the exchange of information between the Soviet Union and foreign countries." One of its charter members with a name of his own: Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. There is plenty of room for expansion of journalistic enterprise. Though impressively big (900 men), Tass is a party-lining sloth whose correspondents are used abroad for propaganda purposes as often as for reporting. Khrushchev may have been prompted to put a fire under Tass by his brushes with the aggressive reporters of the West. But the chance that Novosti will ever peddle undoctored news is about as remote...
...insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility was real enough for the U.S. State Department to express "serious concern" about the continuing Russian airdrops of supplies to the Kong Le rebels-while pointing...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...