Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese easily outmaneuvered Peking in the propaganda war if not on the battlefield. They issued virulent denunciations of Chinese conduct, including alleged atrocities and biological warfare. Radio Hanoi claimed that Chinese warplanes bombed factories, power plants and communications centers, inflicting "terrible" damage and civilian casualties, and that Chinese artillery fired "chemical shells" at border targets. Backing up its ally, the Soviet Union accused Chinese troops of indiscriminately burning down villages and shooting women and children. Pravda, in a dispatch from Lang Son, alleged that a Chinese unit intercepted a civilian bus on a country road and executed all the passengers...
With so obvious a propaganda advantage, the Soviet Union at week's end had essentially limited its counterattack against China to a fusillade of words. Pravda ventilated Soviet "wrath and indignation" at the Chinese aggression. Without making a specific threat, Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov reaffirmed that the U.S.S.R. "will honor its obligations under the treaty of friendship and cooperation with Viet Nam." Official press and radio also charged the U.S. with connivance in the Chinese attack. Emphasizing that the Chinese invasion was launched "almost the next day" after Teng Hsiao-p'ing's return from Washington, Pravda protested that...
...long as the Vietnamese forces can hold their own, the Soviets will probably prefer to reap the propaganda benefits of restraint. The danger is that if the Chinese were to press the war too far, moving against Hanoi or Haiphong or indicating an intention to stay on Vietnamese soil, the Soviets themselves would not want to appear weak and would feel compelled to act. If so, what would they do? Administration experts say the Soviet options are many. They could mount a major resupply of Vietnamese forces, dispatch large numbers of military advisers, or even take direct military action...
...ambulance. On it was the dead body of an Iranian man, apparently an employee of the embassy; the front of his shirt was soaked with blood from a gunshot wound. All the while, Khomeini's people were trying to clear the area of journalists. "This is bad propaganda for the government," said...
...Moscow, Ambassador Malcolm Toon called on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and expressed U.S. displeasure over the affair. Toon pointedly asked Gromyko to "consider the damaging effects of such propaganda on stability in Iran and on U.S.-Soviet relations." He was referring to the current SALT negotiations; an agreement may be ready for signing in the spring by Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Western diplomats in Moscow believe the Soviets are as concerned as the U.S. about the chaos in Iran. Says one: "They have no better idea of what is going to happen in Iran than Washington does...