Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their morning reading of Pravda. There, on the front page, was a photograph of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa -- rare exposure indeed for a Soviet First Lady. Just a day earlier Raisa Gorbachev had been mentioned briefly in a story distributed by the Soviet news agency TASS...
...results were soon evident. Within three hours the official news agency TASS announced that Gorbachev had increased the membership of the Central Committee's policymaking organ, the Politburo, from ten to 13. In the process, he diluted the influence of the Kremlin's Old Guard, which now constitutes less than half of the Politburo membership. He also mildly flouted Kremlin protocol by leapfrogging two of his nominees to full Politburo status without benefit of an interval of nonvoting candidate membership. Finally, in his plenum speech, Gorbachev reaffirmed that the infusion of new blood at the top was part and parcel...
DESPITE ITS SELF CONTRADICTIONS, the Columbia protest has enjoyed an undeniable publicity bonanza. Since the blockade began, the Columbia campus has been overrun with reporters. The students 60s-style stand has captured the attention of media organizations ranging New York Times, the Associated Press, the BBC, and Tass, the official Soviet news agency...
While calling the incident "regrettable," the Soviet news agency TASS blithely declared that "the entire responsibility for it lies fully on the American side." Top Pentagon officials bluntly warned the Soviet embassy's military attaches in Washington that their conduct was unacceptable and served notice that they want more explicit ground rules for the esoteric practice of cross-surveillance . Said one high official: "The system only works if both sides follow the rules...
Moscow's reaction to the Senate vote was reasonably muted. Soviet media continued to describe the MX as a "first-strike missile." Not surprisingly, the official Soviet news agency TASS accused the Senate of "bowing to unprecedented pressure from the Reagan Administration and the U.S. military- industrial complex." The MX vote had no immediately discernible effect on the talks in Geneva. U.S. and Soviet spokesmen announced that they had reached agreement, as planned, on dividing into three negotiation groups, one each to consider strategic weapons, Euromissiles and space arms...