Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...Soviets were outraged. The news agency TASS condemned the Katakov killing as an "atrocity that cannot be pardoned." Israel, TASS added, was indirectly responsible because it was the "prime cause of internal Lebanese strife." In Paris, where Mikhail Gorbachev was meeting with French officials, a Kremlin spokesman said that the Soviet leader was doing "everything possible" to free the three remaining hostages...
...announcement from the Soviet news agency TASS was deferential in tone. Nikolai Tikhonov, it said late last week, had resigned as Premier of the U.S.S.R. In a letter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, TASS reported, the 80-year-old Politburo member, who has held the premiership since 1980, declared that his health had "considerably deteriorated lately" and his doctors suggested retirement. Named to replace Tikhonov was Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, a rapidly rising star who was appointed to the ruling Politburo only last April. He is its second-youngest member after Gorbachev...
...would be open to Soviet journalists. Getting no immediate answer they asked again, and again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort...
Moscow brandished its stick 24 hours later. TASS portentously declared itself "authorized to state" that if the U.S. goes forward with an impending test of an advanced antisatellite (ASAT) weapon, which Gorbachev considers a potential component of a Star Wars defense, "the Soviet Union will consider itself free" not just to test but to deploy its own ASAT. The stick, however, was not especially menacing. The State Department pronounced the Soviet threat to have "little practical meaning" since the Soviet ASAT is already operational; in any event, American experts consider it crude and slow. The Pentagon announced that it would...