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...tone of the interview quickly shifted as Shalnev, the former White House correspondent for the Soviet news agency Tass, questioned Goldman repeatedly about his well-publicized predictions that Gorbachev would soon be driven from power...
Even the Soviet air force is getting into the act. Last week TASS reported that 60 military planes have been commissioned to speed produce from the southern farm belt to major cities. Said Colonel General Vyacheslav Yefanov, chief of Military Transport Aviation: "Combat readiness will by no means be reduced." But the long lines at the grocery store...
...Tass quoted Shevardnadze as saying the lessons from the incident were "difficult and bitter," adding that the events were "detrimental" to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform policies...
...republic's Communist Party newspaper Zarya Vostoka, in an editorial carried in part by Tass, placed part of the blame for the bloodshed on Georgia's party leaders, saying they couldn't escape responsibility "When a political decision taken by the leadership was carried out, unfortunately, in such a way that it led to heavy moral, ethical and human losses...
...Georgian party's ruling Politburo described the situation in Tbilisi as "strained," with universities and schools still closed by boycotts. Tass said factories and public transport were working normally...