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...Moscow, the official Soviet news agency Tass carried a dispatch on the Shultz Gromyko statement in its English language service...
...ways tried to keep secret the launching of its unmanned rockets carrying military satellites. In fact, not until 1978 did the U.S. admit that it flew any spy satellites over the U.S.S.R., even though their existence had been widely known for well over a decade. The Soviet news agency TASS usually announces missions just after they have been completed - successfully. Last week, the Soviets launched an unmanned model of their own space shuttle, a small, reusable winged space plane that orbited the earth once and splashed down in the Black...
...made tragedies grows, concern is rising everywhere that industrial safety standards are often higher in the U.S. than in developing countries, and that some U.S. firms may have opened plants abroad to take advantage of the disparity. Indeed, the accident in India touched off a wave of anticapitalist rhetoric. TASS, the Soviet news agency, called the disaster "the logical consequence of the general policy pursued by multinational corporations, which market low-quality products and outdated technology in developing countries." Said a U.S. embassy official in New Delhi: "This is a feast for the Communists. They'll go with...
...psychological advantage appeared to be tilting toward the coal board. One reason was the disclosure late last month that the N.U.M. had sought financial assistance from, of all sources, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Last week in London, Scargill unabashedly made a similar appeal for assistance at the Soviet embassy. TASS said that Soviet miners have contributed half a million pounds to the British miners' union. The strike was also weakened by last month's decision of the smaller mine safety supervisors' union not to join the N.U.M. walkout. If the supervisors had struck, all of Britain...
Tikhonov blandly assured Shultz that TASS was only quoting "outside sources" and that the allegations did not reflect the Kremlin's official view. A State Department aide characterized the exchange somewhat differently. Said the official: "There was a lot of shouting." Some Western diplomats in Moscow speculated that the Soviet charges were meant to deflect attention from Italian Judge Ilario Martella's report indicting three Bulgarians (and by implication the Soviet KGB) for conspiring to murder Pope John Paul...