Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a year in total isolation. He was tortured for days on end and, by his own count, was reduced to total submission 15 times. But he also thwarted his captors on quite a few occasions. In 1969, when the North Vietnamese were about to use him in a propaganda film, he battered his face to a puffy pulp with a wooden stool and chopped off his hair with a razor, slashing his scalp in the process. The enemy no longer found him photogenic...
WASHINGTON--The Carter administration announced yesterday that it will conduct normal diplomatic relations with the new government in Iran and criticized the Soviet Union for spreading anti-American propaganda in that nation...
...went unreported. With rigid discipline, the Chinese press portrayed Teng's host country as America the beautiful, a land apparently without poverty, blessedly free of political or racial strife, a perfect industrial model for the new China. As filler, Chinese TV stations even dipped into footage from U.S. propaganda films showing fruitful U.S. farms and factories...
...Hill stock from $34 a share to $40, or a total of almost $1 billion in cash. But he promised not to make a tender offer to stockholders unless the majority of McGraw-Hill's board approved the bid- or at least agreed "not to oppose it by propaganda, lobbying, litigation or otherwise...
...Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the chief of the Agency, sent a secret memo to President Truman on June 27, 1950. Hillenkoetter warned Truman that although the USSR would not attack Iran directly it would intensify its efforts "to build up subversive forces within Iran and...weaken the country by means of propaganda, border activities and diplomatic pressure." For the moment, however, the CIA was not unduly alarmed because the newly appointed government of General Ali Raumara maintained firm support for the United States...