Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away. In the tradition of Lisbon in World War II and Beirut through the course of Middle East conflicts, Bangkok is a marketplace of intelligence and Asia's foremost rumor mill. In hopes of assembling a credible montage, diplomats and newsmen sifted through a cacophony of refugee reports, propaganda releases and tidbits of hearsay from stateless businessmen and drifters. The results were sometimes useful, but often not. Besides the Haiphong bombing, Bangkok "sources" served up the war's next most misleading report: the withdrawal of China's troops on Feb. 19 after just three days...
...Hieu describes what he termed the government's strategy for preparing the public for the nationalization of key industries. "If they want to monopolize the fish industry in Saigon, they order the fishermen not to send their fish to Saigon. The prices shoot skyhigh, and the government launches a propaganda campaign blaming the capitalist monopoly fish industry and then they take it over," Hieu says. Hieu also charged that the Hanoi government periodically publicly executes scapegoats to combat public uproar over the prohibitive prices on the black market...
...situation in Iran was of great concern to the United States," and "as soon as they determined for themselves that the Shah had no chance, they immediately found that this was a terrible, corrupt, pro-American and generally horrible government." Moscow then directed much effective anti-U.S. propaganda into Iran. In the months ahead Moscow will be sharply looking for other such opportunities...
Since China's normalization of relations with the U.S., the Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China...
...because Harvard hockey now finds itself beyond propaganda and beyond excuses about referees and scheduling. After a season in which the squad suffered its lowest winning percentage (.296) since 1940-41 and the most losses in history, "We'll get 'em next year!" has taken the form of a punchline, not an exhortation...