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...control of the armed forces but at the same time avoiding the risk of a public showdown. Communist newspapers in Europe blossomed out with obviously inspired stories that the marshal was slated for "an important new post." On the afternoon of Zhukov's return to Moscow, Tass and Radio Moscow reported his arrival with all the flowery detail they reserve for VIPs...
...accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...
...Saturday his TU-104 brought him back to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where Marshal Malinovsky and other armed forces officials-but no high-ranking Communists-were on hand to meet him. Six hours later TASS issued its bulletin. Fifty minutes after that Radio Moscow broadcast the report as the 15th item in its evening news program...
...week long, Moscow's propagandists bellowed charges that the U.S. was egging Turkey on to attack Syria. "No one," declared Tass, "should doubt that if Syria is attacked, the Soviet Union . . . will take all necessary measures...
...Tass, Russian news agency, said it had been authorized to make the statement. This means in effect that it was issuing an official declaration of Soviet policy...