Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist world and one-fourth of U.S. oil imports. That would cause economic chaos in the West, and Carter said last week that the U.S. was determined to keep the strait open, implying that it might organize an international fleet to do so. The Soviet news agency TASS thundered that "the U.S.A. is speeding up preparations for armed interference in the Persian Gulf area" and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie warned that the situation "could even escalate to the point where the unthinkable hostilities may take place"-meaning, presumably, a U.S.-Soviet nuclear confrontation...
...loss of a carefully nurtured Iranian connection. Thus Moscow contented itself with asking both countries to stop the fighting quickly. If they did not, the Soviets warned, the U.S. would take advantage. "While calling by word of mouth for neutrality in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict," the Soviet news agency TASS said after the New York meeting between Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, "Washington is in fact building up tensions and making a choice between direct interference in the Iranian-Iraqi conflict and the possibility of launching international intervention in case the war between Iran...
...censorship or arbitrary control of information should be abolished" and that "accurate, faithful and balanced reporting... necessarily involves access to unofficial as well as official sources of information." The only recorded dissent from these ringing endorsements of press freedom was that of the Soviet representative, Sergei Losev, director of TASS...
...Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt that Suslov expressed strong disapproval of the independent trade union concept. The question undoubtedly came up as well during Jagielski's meeting with Brezhnev the following day. Whatever political advice the Soviet leader gave, TASS announced that Moscow's deliveries of food and manufactured goods would be stepped up to ease Poland's crisis...
Moscow has given only scant news coverage to what it euphemistically termed the Polish "work stoppages." A report by the TASS news agency stressed Gierek's warning that "action against political and public order cannot and will not be tolerated in Poland." In a revival of an old cold-war tactic, the Soviets last week resumed the jamming of Western radio broadcasts, apparently because of the wide play being given to Polish events...