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...acrimonious Senate debate over the nomination could further erode confidence in the U.S.'s ability to deal seriously and intelligently with arms control issues. Already sensing a propaganda plum, the official Soviet news agency TASS jumped on Adelman's reported anti-arms control views as "a scandalous development." Adelman was proof, TASS said, that Reagan had been "appointing incompetent persons to high offices...
...flight in obviously debilitated condition. Soviet TV clips showed the cosmonauts being helped into a hot whirlpool bath. Even though they had exercised daily, the prolonged weightlessness left their muscles so flabby that for a week they were barely able to walk. Five weeks after the landing, TASS, the Soviet news agency, reported that they were in the Caucasus continuing "to undergo rehabilitation...
Nonetheless, the Soviet Union seized on Nakasone's comments to launch a small-scale propaganda attack of its own. Such moves by the Japanese, said the Soviet news agency TASS, would "make Japan a likely target for a retaliatory strike" and thus could lead it to "a national disaster more serious than the one that befell it 37 years ago," when U.S. planes dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...active unofficial peace organization that sprang up last June under the name Group to Establish Trust Between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Its members have been harassed by the KGB for spontaneously forming a pacifist group outside the ranks of the official Soviet Peace Committee. Then, late last year, TASS launched a strong anti-Semitic attack on the pacifists, several of whom are Jewish. Though there is no evidence that the peace group members have a pro-Israeli bias, TASS made the claim that "while supposedly fighting for peace, they openly regret that they did not have an opportunity...
...arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall. Rostow's dismissal, reported TASS, the official Soviet news agency, "can be viewed abroad as another evidence of utter confusion in the Reagan Administration's approach to the question of restricting the arms race...