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...announcement following the feat, Tass hinted windily at the purpose of the unmanned docking maneuver. The mission, it said, was a step toward the "creation in orbit of big scientific space stations capable of carrying out complex and multifaceted exploration of outer space and planets." Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory, agreed that this was "a logical explanation." But Lovell, as well as other Western observers, believes that the space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform circling the earth. All this is necessary...
...situation in China, reported the Soviet news agency Tass last week, "increasingly resembles civil war." Fighting between the supporters and the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution spread along the thousand miles of Yangtze River from Chungking in the western mountains to Shanghai on the Pacific coast...
During four days of Castro-Kosygin talks, Cubans read or heard almost nothing of what went on. The only hint came at midweek, when Tass reported that the discussions were "frank"-a favorite Soviet euphemism for disagreement. Toward the end of the meetings, however, the two men apparently worked out some of their major differences. The day Kosygin left Havana, airport roads were lined with Russian and Cuban flags, an honor guard boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Castro gave his visitor a parting abrazo...
...were shot down near Hanoi by antiaircraft fire, which is the heaviest ever experienced in any war. The pilots were Colonel James L. Hughes, 40, of Iowa, Lieut. Colonel Gordon A. Larson, 40, of Minnesota, and Lieut. James R. Shively, 25, of Texas. According to the Russian news agency Tass, they were paraded through the streets of Hanoi, where they were greeted by "shouts of anger," then forced to appear at a press conference. The treatment was a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the humiliation of prisoners...
...Sergei Georgievich Lapin, 55, a protege of Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, was promoted to director of Tass, Russia's news agency and principal propaganda organ. Tass not only serves Russian newspapers internally but has a worldwide network of 200 men in 93 countries, including four in Washington, is often accused of using them for other purposes than news gathering. A onetime Tassman (1945-55) who later switched to diplomacy and became Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapin has spent the past two years as ambassador to Red China, but has been absent from his post for months because of Chinese demonstrations...