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...meeting, Mikhail Gorbachev offered to eliminate Soviet shortrange nuclear weapons in Europe, which the official news agency Tass said went beyond arms control proposals he made last week...
...Soviet news agency Tass, however, said U.S. allegations of Soviet espionage were a "cock-and-bull story" and that the Pentagon came up with the "spy scare" in an effort to undercut the State Department...
...Soviet Union last week conducted its first nuclear experiment in 18 months, after saying repeatedly that it would soon resume nuclear testing because the U.S. was doing the same. The news agency TASS announced that scientists had detonated a 20-kiloton bomb in Kazakhstan, near the Chinese border...
...startling bulletin was issued from the headquarters of TASS, the official Soviet news agency, just before Christmas last year: students had rioted in Alma-Ata, the capital of the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, during the previous day and night. Cars and a food store were burned, TASS said, and townspeople had been "insulted." Never before had the Soviets, who blamed the protests on "nationalist elements," reported such violence so frankly and promptly. The revelation was seen as another sign of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness. Still, Western journalists have long been barred from Alma-Ata -- until last...
...also praised ABC's decision to broadcast excerpts from a similar Soviet film, called "TASS is Authorized to State...