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...Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt that Suslov expressed strong disapproval of the independent trade union concept. The question undoubtedly came up as well during Jagielski's meeting with Brezhnev the following day. Whatever political advice the Soviet leader gave, TASS announced that Moscow's deliveries of food and manufactured goods would be stepped up to ease Poland's crisis...
Moscow has given only scant news coverage to what it euphemistically termed the Polish "work stoppages." A report by the TASS news agency stressed Gierek's warning that "action against political and public order cannot and will not be tolerated in Poland." In a revival of an old cold-war tactic, the Soviets last week resumed the jamming of Western radio broadcasts, apparently because of the wide play being given to Polish events...
Some details of the policy changes that Brown plans to announce have already been leaked, and they have drawn sizzling denunciations from Moscow. Thundered TASS: "Madness," "Maniacal." Cried Pravda: "Nuclear blackmail." But NATO allies of the U.S. welcomed the change. Said a British official crisply: "We agree with it. It enhances deterrence." Said a French official: "We are in favor of anything that improves U.S. credibility...
...where several dozen Western athletes protested the customary 11 o'clock closing. As disco infernos go, it was pretty mild stuff: some boozy scuffling with Soviet police, a lot of hollering, a small-scale food fight. But Soviet officialdom took it very seriously, as a headline from TASS, the state news agency, made clear: THEY SHOULD BE THROWN BEHIND BARS...
...they are not always the uplifting tracts that Marx and Lenin envisioned as the people's literature. New police and spy thrillers and science fiction are snapped up by fans on publication day. The country's top mystery writer is currently Julian Semyonov, 48, whose latest, Tass Is Authorized to State ..., was published in an edition numbering 100,000 copies. It is the stirring tale of intrepid KGB agents vs. the CIA in an unnamed African country-manifestly Angola...