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...these too are controlled by the party. The Supreme Soviet is elected every five years; there is just one slate of candidates: the party's. In March 1979, when the Supreme Soviet was last chosen, 99.99% of the eligible voters were said to have cast their ballots. TASS, the Soviet news agency, declared: "By their unanimous voting for the candidates, the Soviet people expressed complete support for the domestic and foreign policies of the Communist Party and the Soviet state...
...beginning reporter, and he earns every ruble. On days when he is doing Today in the World, Dunayev arrives in his well-appointed office on the north side of Moscow by 10 a.m. and begins reading Western publications. One of his two assistants monitors the major news services ("TASS is rather late sometimes, so I have to rely more on Western agencies," Dunayev says), while the other assistant lines up film, still photographs and other visual material. Dunayev begins by outlining his lead stories, keeping "one or two lively items in reserve, just to cheer people up after telling them...
Moscow had wasted no time in trying to get on the good side of the post-Tito government. On the eve of the funeral, Brezhnev and his Kremlin party sat down with Doronjski and Koliševski for what Tass, the Soviet news agency, called a "warm, comradely" meeting. China, which under Mao Tse-tung had long condemned Tito's "revisionism," similarly acted almost as though it had never differed with him. The first major head of government to arrive in Belgrade was Chairman Hua Guofeng, who grandly praised Tito for "great contributions to the proletarian revolution...
...Tehran's streets to gloat over America's discomfort, Iran edged ever closer to new economic and diplomatic collaboration with the Soviet Union, the menacing neighbor to the north that Khomeini had recently denounced. Handed an irresistible propaganda opening by Carter, the Soviet press made the most of it. TASS accused Carter of an "abortive provocation" that could have caused "mass bloodshed and the death of the hostages"?lives TASS claimed the U.S. President was willing "to sacrifice for his election interests." Carter's misadventure also shifted international attention away from the invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviets' problems...
...particular concern to Washington was how Moscow would react. The Kremlin's answer came swiftly, and reflected the deterioration of U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The attempted rescue, said the official Soviet news agency, TASS, was an "armed provocation against the Islamic Republic of Iran." In the kind of stinging personal attack that was shelved during the heyday of détente, TASS accused Carter of being guided by "purely egoistic and narrow political considerations." Stated the news agency: "This new dangerous venture was undertaken by the President in a vain attempt...