Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responded. At Leonid Brezhnev's funeral last November, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went out of his way to give his Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua, a cordial welcome. After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from Moscow by Wu Xueqian, a former Deputy Foreign Minister, the switch reflected no change in policy...
...Jersey Senator Bill Bradley throws his hat in the Presidential ring for 1984,daclaring: "With Fritz laid up, I'm the best we've got." The Soviet news agency Tass observes. "Only in America could a spaceman and a basketball player be fighting for the chance to run against a former unemployed actor for President...
Stung by the speculation, Bulgaria for the first time has explicitly denied involvement. At an unusual Sofia press conference, the director of Bulgaria's state news agency charged the West with a frame-up "aimed at influencing the sentiments of millions of Catholics." The Soviet news agency TASS rejected "absurd insinuations" linking Moscow to the plot. Even many Western analysts, while convinced that the Soviets often act through Bulgarian proxies, believe the assassination attempt was too sloppy to have been directed by the KGB. Says a West German intelligence official: "I cannot believe that the KGB would do something...
...Andropov started his second week in office, Kremlinologists watched every move for hints of possible changes in style or policy. The day before the inconclusive session of the Supreme Soviet began, party officials and editors across the Soviet Union had closely monitored bulletins from the government news agency, TASS, for word from a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. In theory, all decisions from the Politburo must be ratified by the Central Committee, and it was thought that Andropov would use the closed-door session to announce changes in the top ranks of the leadership...
...that will determine the course of world diplomacy is that between the U.S. and the Soviets. In the first week of the new Kremlin leadership, that crucial face-off has taken a small turn for the better. But already, there is a cacophonous counterpoint to the gentle mood music: TASS, the official Soviet news agency, huffed that Shultz's press conference indicated that the Reagan Administration remains committed to "a course of confrontation." If the new civility is not to give way once again to angry rhetoric, flexible and imaginative diplomacy will be required on both sides...