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When the Soviets first reacted to Reagan's speech, through the official news agency, TASS, it was with the customary assertions that the U.S. aims at "gaining military superiority and pressing the Soviet Union into unilateral disarmament." The Soviet response, however, did not reject the new proposals outright. Indeed, some Western diplomats in Moscow feel that the Soviets may be grudgingly prepared to make a deal, if not on START, at least on the issue of limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe...
...underscore Andropov's authority, the Soviet news agency TASS announced last week that Nobel Peace Prizewinning Physicist Andrei Sakharov, exiled to the city of Gorki since 1980, would not be allowed to accept an invitation from Vienna University to teach there for a year. The ostensible reason: Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, knows too many state secrets...
...appeal that had been sent to him and to President Reagan by a group of distinguished U.S. scientists and arms experts who are campaigning for a ban on the development of weapons in space. The Soviet leader's letter, which was released by the Soviet news agency TASS last week, appeared to be part of a broader effort by the Kremlin to undercut the Reagan Administration's plans to launch an extensive research and development effort to produce new weapons aimed at destroying offensive warheads and enemy satellites in space...
...Swedish government has marshaled extensive evidence to support its case, including videotapes of tread marks on the sea floor, but it admits that it has no direct proof of the charges against the Soviets. The official Soviet news agency TASS denied the accusations, calling them "baseless propaganda," and even some Western intelligence experts suggest that the Swedish navy may have made the claims to deflect criticism of the unsuccessful search last fall. But many Western officials believe the Swedes, who have agreed to share information on the incursions with NATO...
...Luftwaffe planes bombed London's Houses of Parliament. The revisionist versions in the diaries coincide with the Soviet version of World War II: an untrustworthy Britain, more at ease with fascism than with Communism, primed to betray its alliance with Stalin. On Saturday, however, the Soviet news agency TASS dismissed the diaries as "a dirty falsification" designed to promote fascism...