Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Declaring that such practices are "not congruent with the spirit of the times," TASS last week announced new regulations that drastically curtail the honors. No longer, for example, will party officials regularly receive medals on their birthdays. But the Kremlin has not totally lost its shine for accolades. TASS also announced the creation of 15 new awards, including People's Teacher of the U.S.S.R. and Merited Worker of Industry...
...Soviet garrison pulled out. The guerrillas overran the government defenders and freed the prisoners at the local jail, but failed to capture the heavily defended airport. Within two days government reinforcements closed in, and Soviet aircraft went to work. After three days of fighting, the mujahedin withdrew; according to TASS, twelve Afghan troops and 173 insurgents died (the latter figure possibly includes civilian casualties). The Kunduz affair apparently triggered a shake-up in the Afghan military. TASS reported that Najibullah had appointed a new Defense Minister and army chief of staff...
...geographically part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan but whose people are predominantly Armenian. After five months of protests by Armenian activists who wanted the enclave to become part of the Armenian Republic, the ruling council of Nagorno-Karabakh voted unanimously last week to secede from Azerbaijan. According to TASS, the council also decided to rename the area "the Artsakh Autonomous Region of Armenia" and to be governed by Armenia...
...Mikhail Gorbachev made an effort to signal its tolerance and even show some enthusiasm for Christianity. The General Secretary has, for instance, taken to lacing his speeches with references to the lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...
Cover: Photograph from TASS...