Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Moscow, the Ryazan branch of the Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
...fedayeen, condemned Lebanon and accused the U.S. of provoking the trouble by supporting Israel. Privately, Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Dobrynin told the State Department that Moscow wanted to cool the crisis in Lebanon. Washington, unwilling to accept Moscow's private assurances while the Soviets were scoring public propaganda points, angrily dismissed the Russian charges of U.S. provocation. Israel, meanwhile, announced that it was raising the maximum age for military reserve duty from 49 to 55. It also issued its own communique announcing "concern for Lebanese territorial and political integrity." No one doubted that the Israelis were prepared...
Project Cambridge would find the means to program computers to handle the mass of accumulated data about radical movements and underdeveloped countries. It would place previously unusable information within the reach of any policy maker. The Com-Com Project was designed to develop the means of dispersing propaganda in communist countries and in the insurgent areas of non-communist countries. The International Communism Project, originally funded by the CIA. provides the government with an independent analysis of intelligence information about radical and revolutionary movements...
Negligible Propaganda. What triggered the Communist slaughter? Many Hue citizens believe that the execution orders came directly from Ho Chi Minh. More likely, however, the Communists simply lost their nerve. They had been led to expect that many South Vietnamese would rally to their cause during the Tet onslaught. That did not happen, and when the battle for Hue began turning in the allies' favor, the Communists apparently panicked and killed off their prisoners...
...Saigon government, which claims that the Communists have killed 25,000 civilians since 1957 and abducted another 46,000, has made negligible propaganda use of the massacre. In Hue it has not had to. Says Colonel Le Van Than, the local province chief: "After Tet, the people realized that the Viet Cong would kill them, regardless of political belief." That fearful thought haunts many South Vietnamese, particularly those who work for their government or for the Americans. With the U.S. withdrawal under way, the massacre of Hue might prove a chilling example of what could lie ahead...