Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been by a tightening of control at including efforts to silence Nobel Prize Recipient Andrei Sakharov The Kremlin has more than matched its deeds with angry, at times hysterical, A veritable Niagara of insults and threats continues to flow from the pages of Pravda and the tickers of TASS. The Reagan Administration is accused of plotting "covert subversive activities and terrorism," engaging in a "campaign of blackmail and threats," and "thinking in terms of war and acting accordingly...
...President also declared that he was "prepared to halt, and even reverse" the deployment of U.S.-built intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could reach a satisfactory arms-control agreement. Those offers were quickly dismissed by the official Soviet news agency TASS as "glib" and "hypocritical." On the Normandy beachhead, Reagan tried again. Said he: "There is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union...
...West. The Kremlin categorically rejected Genscher's plea for a resumption of the Geneva arms-reduction talks that the Soviets broke off last November to protest NATO's deployment of new missiles in Europe. Only a few hours before Genscher's arrival, the Soviet news agency TASS published a lengthy interview with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, in which he warned that the new NATO missiles "increased the probability of a nuclear conflict." In retaliation, Ustinov said, the Soviets had dispatched to U.S. coastal waters additional submarines carrying nuclear missiles that could strike American cities within ten minutes...
...apparently was contained in a telegram from Bonner to Sakharov's three children in Moscow. The last definite word about the couple came two weeks ago from Irina Kristi, a family friend. After a visit to Gorky, she reported that Bonner was being prevented from leaving the city. TASS, the Soviet news agency, accused the U.S. embassy of masterminding Sakharov's hunger strike and plotting to give Bonner political asylum. A senior U.S. official confirmed last week that two embassy officers met with Bonner during her last visit to Moscow in April. He said that Bonner left behind...
Significantly, only two days later TASS released a statement in Yuri Andropov's name effectively proclaiming that Soviet patience was at an end: "If anyone had any illusions about a possible evolution for the better in the policy of the present American Administration, such illusions have been completely dispelled by the latest developments." Not long after that, the Soviets stomped out of the arms-control negotiations in Geneva. The immediate pretext was the arrival of new U.S. missiles in Western Europe. But, as a Soviet spokesman made clear last week, "there was a generalized decision that our leaders could...