Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not move effectively toward ending it. In any case, the White House now believes that a new phase of serious negotiation with Hanoi promises to begin soon in Paris. Both directly in public and elliptically in private, the North Vietnamese are not simply contenting themselves with scoring propaganda points but are starting to go further. They are pressing for details of some of Nixon's eight points...
...overseas correspondent of the New York Times declared that "Bolshevism is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern materialism.' . . . Native attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before...
...might consider scaling down its nuclear presence on Okinawa. This presence alarms not only China but also Japan, which has residual sovereignty over the Ryu-kyus. Alleged U.S. "colonial" rule there feeds Peking propaganda and incites those Japanese who demand both the return of the islands and the abolition of U.S. bases in Japan. Such a scale-down might be strategically risky, but the U.S. could compensate in part by relying on the deterrent of its submarine-borne Polaris and forthcoming Poseidon nuclear missiles...
...early 1944, Artillery Captain Fielding was transferred to the OSS and shipped to Italy, Algeria and Yugoslavia to do propaganda work behind enemy lines. After a narrow escape from an ambush on the Dalmatian coast, he was discharged as a major with a citation that credited him with arranging "more than 30,000 voluntary enemy surrenders." He returned to civilian life as a roving journalist, and as he roved, he discovered that no travel guide catered to his all-American life style...
...vaunted force de frappe. He also pledged a "profound change" in foreign policy, and to work for a united Europe for the "future of our youth." In domestic affairs, Poher offered "draconian economic measures" to defend the franc, an end to government influence over the state television network, whose propaganda broadcasts had "chloroformed the country," and abolition of the Ministry of Information...