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...responses to the unequivocal evidence of what had happened. After remaining virtually silent on the matter for almost two days, the Soviet Union finally issued a labored account of an "unidentified plane" that had "rudely violated the state border and intruded deep into the Soviet Union's airspace." TASS admitted that Soviet interceptors had "fired warning shots and tracer shells along the flying route of the plane," but refused to acknowledge shooting it down...
...capsule to form a single orbiting complex. The linking of the Cosmos with Salyut 7 has doubled the amount of working space available to cosmonauts aboard the space station. In addition, the latest Cosmos has thruster jets that enable it to change the orbit of the whole complex, leading TASS to dub it a "space tugboat." It also has a bell-shaped descent module, a detachable section that can ferry materials and experiments back to earth-something that the Soviets previously could not do with the cramped Soyuz...
...fighters remain in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Arafat has had to move his base of operations to Tunisia while trying to win support from Arab leaders and the Soviet Union. The P.L.O. leader could take little comfort in the news from Moscow last week. According to a TASS report, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested in effect that Arafat seek an accommodation with Assad. After touring P.L.O. camps in Tunisia last week, Arafat gave an interview to TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. Excerpts...
...Soviet news agency TASS reported John Paul's pilgrimage without mentioning the Solidarity demonstrations, saying only that the visit was of a "religious character." But Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stressed in a speech to the Supreme Soviet
...Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow's active rumor mills began to speculate that he had lost another behind-the-scenes power struggle with Andropov. But once the more than 300 members of the powerful Central Committee had retreated to their semiannual closed-door meeting last week, the official Soviet agency TASS revealed the dramatic news that none other than Chernenko was delivering the keynote address...