Word: tasses
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...