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When a reporter phoned the Soviet foreign ministry to inquire about the Moscow crash twelve hours after it happened, an official replied: "What crash?" It was another six hours before Tass, the official news agency, reported the disaster, and still another 18 hours before Pravda covered it in twelve lines on its back page. The Soviets had to acknowledge the tragedy because there were 38 Chileans and five Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked...
...mostly if it creates a shift in the Middle East stalemate. Last week the move appeared to have come so suddenly that no one else involved was prepared. The Israelis, normally alert, were caught by surprise; Premier Golda Meir delayed any assessment pending further word from Sadat. In Moscow, Tass waited a full 24 hours to comment, a sure sign that the Kremlin had not worked out answers ahead of time. The eventual explanation for the swift departure of Soviet personnel from Egypt was lame: "Now [they] have completed their functions, and the sides deemed it expedient to bring back...
Fischer's demands and demeanor did not sit well with the Russians or the chess community. Tass, the Soviet news agency, complained about the "disgusting spirit of gain that Fischer carries around with him. It is characteristic that his spokesmen are lawyers and not chess players. Wherever Fischer is, money ranks first, pushing aside all sporting motives." Said The Netherlands' Max Euwe, former world chess champion (1935-37) and the president of the Fédération des Echecs (F.I.D.E.), the world governing body of chess: "I don't like Mr. Fischer in our chess world...
...telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., in an attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization. The source was later identified as a distant, starlike quasar. When Cambridge Astronomer Anthony Hewish and his assistant Jocelyn Bell in 1967 recorded blips coming from space at precise intervals, they playfully named the sources LGMs (for Little Green...
...physics for ten years he was drafted into the Soviet Army at the beginning of World War II. He served as an artillery officer in East Prussia and Germany, was decorated twice for bravery, and then sentenced to ten years in a labor camp hauling logs and laying bricks. Tass called his offence a "baseless political charge," probably incurred by speaking derogatorily of Stalin. In 1953 Stalin died and Solzhenitsyn was released from camp and exiled to East Asia with millions of other political prisoners. Following Krushchev's repudiation of the Stalin regime in 1956 Solzhenitsyn returned home to Rostov...