After several hours a Tass correspondent, hailed by those checking documents, went to the studio of Rumanian television.

"Two human streams" are connecting the protest square with other parts of the city, Tass correspondents reported in detailed dispatches devoid of political characterization.

A Tass correspondent in Havana covering a "deep socio-political crisis" in El Salvador reports, "No final decision has yet been taken."

Tass correspondents said that with much of their staff on vacation in the Soviet Union, the extra help came at a time when they desperately needed stories.

This evening a dispatch from Dushanbe by a Tass correspondent, Galina Gridneva, said that the figure of 1,000 was only preliminary and could go higher.

"Toward evening, large groups of people began to gather again in different parts of the city," a Tass correspondent reported tonight.

"In the fifties, as you know, I was at the UN under him cover as a Tass correspondent," Klimenko said.

Max Alpert, also a Tass correspondent, is the acknowledged pioneer of Soviet photojournalism.

The local police watched indifferently, a Tass correspondent reported.

Yuzhin was assigned by the KGB to monitor student activities under the cover of a Tass correspondent.