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...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
...Soviet news agency TASS called the allegations a "big lie." American officials answered that the evidence would be submitted to a United Nations panel investigating chemical weapons. Five additional samples from Southeast Asia are currently being analyzed, and officials think they will show that the toxins were also used in Laos. Intelligence specialists are seeking evidence to confirm widespread reports that Soviet forces have used the poisons, known as T2 toxins, in Afghanistan...
...fledged political convention, complete with floor fights, rousing speeches and foot-stomping ovations. Before the 892 delegates had finished their work late last week, they fired off a volley of provocative resolutions that struck at the very heart of Communist authority- both at home and abroad. That action stirred TASS, the Soviet Union's news agency, to charge that Solidarity was engaged in "an anti-socialist and anti-Soviet orgy" and was preparing for a seizure of power...
...Soviets reacted to the Solidarity resolutions with an outburst of angry invective. The appeal to the workers of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, said TASS, was an "openly provocative and impudent" act engineered by "a whole conglomeration of counterrevolutionaries of every ilk, including agents of imperialist secret services, all who hate socialism and the people's power in Poland...
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...