Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Likewise, Soviet officialdom is warming toward American values. Michael Jackson's Pepsi ads are on the air, McDonald's is opening 20 restaurants in Moscow featuring "Bolshoi Maks," and the TASS news agency has entered into a joint venture with an American firm to produce souvenir summit T shirts with the TASS TOP 20 music logo on the back...
Emboldened by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for reform, the new party had demanded free elections and independent trade unions. The crackdown underlined that there are limits to the amount of glasnost that the system will tolerate. Said TASS: "The group is nothing more than a bunch of scandalmongers...
Gorbachev was moving to consolidate support before a crucial Communist Party conference that is to be held in two months. TASS reported last week that he had met party leaders from the Soviet Union's 15 republics over the previous two weeks. He was trying to sell unsettling political reforms such as fixed terms of office for party leaders and competitive elections for party posts. At the same time, Gorbachev was reportedly ready to shake up the Communist leadership at a Central Committee plenum meeting scheduled to take place before the party conference. With Ligachev weakened, Gorbachev...
...There is certain to be a signed agreement on political normalization," Tass quoted Gorbachev as saying while he toured a collective farm near Tashkent after the meeting. "I think both Pakistan and Afghanistan will come to agreement, and that we and the Americans will agree to be guarantors...
...joint communique, distributed by Tass news agency, published on the front page of the government newspaper lzvestia and read during the nightly news program "Vremya." It omitted criticism of position taken by Pakistan and the United States at the Geneva peace talks. This omission could mean some behind-the-scenes compromise has been forged...