Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since his arrival in Moscow 2½ years ago, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Robin Knight has been regularly denounced by the official news agency Tass and a number of daily newspapers, especially for his articles on racism in the U.S.S.R. The weekly Soviet New Times called Knight "a boot-level journalist," and a Soviet journalism review included him in a "gallery of rogues...
Soviets rejected the protest and, according to Tass, charged that Knight started a drunken brawl and later concocted the story about his wife being molested. The Soviets, meanwhile, lodged a protest of their own, accusing Peter Harm, Moscow correspondent of Business Week, of vandalizing his hotel room in Ashkhabad two months ago. Hann denied the charge...
...Tass News Agency said a malfunction in the "approach correction power unit" of the space capsule caused the last minute cancellation of the docking with the space station. Two Soviets, Vladimir Lyakhov and Valerie Ryumin, have been orbiting in Salyut 6 for six and one-half weeks...
...People's Liberation Army to Hitler's invading Wehrmacht in World War II. A film frequently screened on Soviet television showed Chinese officers shouting frenzied battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists and foreheads. Pravda and Tass described alleged Nazi-like atrocities committed by Chinese in the war zone. According to Literary Gazette, "Chinese soldiers hang the wounded, cut open women's stomachs, drown children in swamps, tear babies apart...
What angered the Carter Administration as much as anything else about the embassy affair was the way in which the Soviet Union tried to exploit the incident for its own ends. The official news agency Tass charged that the embassy attack had been inspired by remnants of SAVAK, under orders of the CIA, to create a pretext for U.S. intervention. The Soviet press further declared that Washington was trying to provoke a split in Iran between the new regime's "religious section" and the "left forces...