Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier, in an interview with the Soviet news agency Tass, Gorbachev signaled that he and Cuban President Fidel Castro are prepared to work for improved East-West relations, indicating some softening in the Cuban leader's anti-Americanism...
Gorbachev told Tass a central topic of histalks with Castro on Monday was the "new thinking"in Soviet foreign policy--an approach that seeksto ease world tensions by reducing militarycommitments abroad and negotiating settlements ofregional disputes that threaten to bring thesuperpowers into conflict...
...Raisa Gorbachev becoming the prima donna of perestroika? In rare coverage of the Soviet leader's wife, TASS quoted her last week as she spoke out on her husband's reforms and the role of women in world peace at a Moscow reception honoring International Women's Day. "Soviet people are putting into practice plans of revolutionary restructuring," the Soviet First Lady said. "We want our public life . . . to be worthy of a human being...
...main highway connecting Kabul to the Soviet Union, which Soviet troops had used to withdraw, remained open, according to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and Bakhtar, the Afghan news agency, Tass said more than 100 trucks carrying Soviet food and supplies were bound for the Afghan capital...
...canned goods. Akopyan's tale sparked a full- scale media blitz, and he was featured in news reports worldwide. But the daily Izvestia sensed a hoax and found holes in Akopyan's account; none of the other five "survivors," for example, could be found. At week's end TASS confessed it was unable "to confirm with full certainty the authenticity of the story...