Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Soviet Union seized on Nakasone's comments to launch a small-scale propaganda attack of its own. Such moves by the Japanese, said the Soviet news agency TASS, would "make Japan a likely target for a retaliatory strike" and thus could lead it to "a national disaster more serious than the one that befell it 37 years ago," when U.S. planes dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...active unofficial peace organization that sprang up last June under the name Group to Establish Trust Between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Its members have been harassed by the KGB for spontaneously forming a pacifist group outside the ranks of the official Soviet Peace Committee. Then, late last year, TASS launched a strong anti-Semitic attack on the pacifists, several of whom are Jewish. Though there is no evidence that the peace group members have a pro-Israeli bias, TASS made the claim that "while supposedly fighting for peace, they openly regret that they did not have an opportunity...
...arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall. Rostow's dismissal, reported TASS, the official Soviet news agency, "can be viewed abroad as another evidence of utter confusion in the Reagan Administration's approach to the question of restricting the arms race...
...again] preparing a war against the socialist community." A day later, Radio Moscow predicted confidently that Sergei Ivanov Antonov, one of the Bulgarians fingered by Agca, would be released after testimony from witnesses that Antonov had been at his Balkan Airlines office at the time of the shooting. TASS implicitly dismissed speculation that the Soviets were motivated to kill the Pope by his support of Poland's Solidarity trade union. In fact, the agency said, the Soviet Union was being victimized by John Paul, who is "conservative and rigid...
...happens, the Soviet leadership last week had only a single opinion to offer on Pope John Paul II. The official TASS news agency condemned the Pope for his "conservative and rigid" attitude toward the Soviet bloc. TASS also denounced the Vatican for using the "cover of religion" to engage in "antiCommunist propaganda on a broad scale." The Vatican said it had "no comment or reply" to that sound of one bell ringing in the Kremlin...