Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain enough time to bring the Polish crisis solidly under control. Significantly, press coverage of Poland was muted throughout the East bloc last week. TASS even reported that the Jaruzelski government seemed to be restoring order...
Indeed, Soviet patience seems to be wearing steadily thinner. Official press organs throughout the East bloc were continuing their attacks on Polish unions and dissidents. The Soviet news agency TASS charged last week that "counterrevolutionary forces" in Poland had launched a "frontal attack" on the Communist Party. Soviet diplomats in Western Europe have been circulating the same message in their private conversations. Said one senior official at the Soviet embassy in Bonn: "The point has been reached when it is a waste of time to negotiate [with Solidarity]. It's time to get tough...
...provide for our defense first," is the common rebuttal to any attack on the Soviets' ailing economy. But in choosing this method to justify their regime, the Politburo is forced to continue the paranoia and xenophobia of a war atmosphere. The enemy is NATO, China and the CIA. TASS depicts the United States as obsessed with disrupting the Soviet way of life. The Soviets are told that we spend twice what they do on armaments, and most believe...
Still, Moscow will tolerate no fundamental challenge to Communist power in Warsaw. Last week TASS, the official Soviet news agency, said that "anti-Soviet opposition forces" in Poland increased in the past week and that "the unions are trying to destroy Socialism." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star pointedly reprinted a commentary from Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu warning against the "dangerous game" the Solidarity strikers were playing. Prague's Rude Pravo charged that Walesa had received orders from Pope John Paul II to initiate the latest round of labor unrest...
...agreement over the hostages began to take shape last month, the Soviets seemed to be worried about a rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran. Said TASS: "What is in the making is another U.S. holdup of Iran." Two weeks ago, TASS reported that the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iran from bases in Egypt, Pakistan or Oman. The fabricated report was thought to be an attempt to scuttle the negotiations. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie summoned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and demanded a halt to the "scurrilous propaganda." Dobrynin appeared embarrassed, but TASS responded by warning...