Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 800 of the estimated 1,200 people aboard the trains were missing, according to Tass, which described the explosion as a "tornado of fire." Many of the passengers were seriously injured by burning liquified gas, the TV report said...
...determination to keep the real imperialists from Europe out of the Western hemisphere, is irrelevant. Noriega is Uncle Sam's creature as well as his nemesis. Some Administration officials made a brief, silly attempt last week to blame the Kremlin for exploiting the trouble. Their only evidence: TASS, standing the story on its head, reported out of Panama that Noriega's opponents had cheated at the polls and fomented violence. Hardly anyone would have noticed the ludicrous dispatch if the Administration hadn't publicized...
...footage of the protesters only on the day their leader left China, and even then the events were presented as two completely different stories. During Gorbachev's stay, Soviet television had blacked out the demonstrations. However, within minutes after Gorbachev boarded the plane in Shanghai and headed home, TASS carried its first detailed story on the crisis. What the Soviet press has yet to report, of course, is what Gorbachev, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and the other members of the Soviet diplomatic team really thought about their extraordinary visit. Quipped a Soviet journalist: "We will never really know the true...
...tone of the interview quickly shifted as Shalnev, the former White House correspondent for the Soviet news agency Tass, questioned Goldman repeatedly about his well-publicized predictions that Gorbachev would soon be driven from power...
Even the Soviet air force is getting into the act. Last week TASS reported that 60 military planes have been commissioned to speed produce from the southern farm belt to major cities. Said Colonel General Vyacheslav Yefanov, chief of Military Transport Aviation: "Combat readiness will by no means be reduced." But the long lines at the grocery store...