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Simultaneously, the Kremlin was also putting forth an unusually hard propaganda line against the U.S. This included publication of a book charging that the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 religious cultists took their lives by drinking cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid, was the work of the CIA. TASS also resurrected totally fantastic and absurd allegations that the AIDS virus was created by U.S. scientists in a Maryland germ-warfare laboratory...
...allowed Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov to return to Moscow after seven years of internal exile in the city of Gorky. The Soviets lost little time in trumpeting the prodigals' homecoming. Their arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport was prominently shown on the nightly TV news program Vremya. The TASS news agency gravely intoned, "Many former Soviet citizens, duped by Western propaganda into leaving for capitalist countries, have been allowed to return home." Taras Kordonsky, 39, a musician who could not find work in the U.S., was quoted by TASS as saying, "Ruthlessness and violence and the feeling that you could...
...added: glasnost, or openness. In a major domestic initiative, Gorbachev tried to let some light shine in on his country's press, arts and politics. Formerly untouchable subjects such as prostitution in tourist hotels and drug addiction were suddenly reported candidly and fully. In December, TASS, the state-run news agency, took the unprecedented step of carrying reports about violent, antigovernment demonstrations in the southern republic of Kazakhstan...
...Americans are somehow spreading the aids virus got a boost last week when the Philippine government asked the U.S. to station only "AIDS-free" personnel at American military bases there. Reason: some 20 bar girls have been infected by the AIDS virus, presumably after sexual contact with U.S. servicemen. TASS quickly -- and gleefully -- reported the item...
Directed by Nadia Tass...