Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guarded optimism, hurt feelings and "black propaganda...
...Austria had stormy repercussions in Israel. The Egyptians have barely concealed their frustration with Premier Menachem Begin, who they believe has no interest in negotiating for peace. Asked whether he met with Peres to try to split the Israeli government, Sadat termed the charge "the kind of black propaganda with which Menachem Begin tries to inflame the Israeli people." In a speech marking the 26th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Sadat declared: "It is possible to establish peace in hours. The only obstacle is Mr. Begin, who thinks he can have peace and guarantees and land. Peace, yes. Guarantees...
...leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries are uniting to frustrate their schemes." By week's end Keng had completed similar whirlwind propaganda visits to Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, where local leaders received him with the bemused formality that reflected continuing policy differences with China...
Frieden told 40 students they were helping out in a "Patty Hearst simulation" and could choose a simple task (listening to a propaganda tape) or a more humiliating and painful one (being blindfolded and bound, and given electric shocks). All students were given personality tests. Those whose self-esteem was bolstered by praise for their performance chose the tape. But students who were derided (sample comment: "It's clear you really don't have very good social skills") overwhelmingly chose to be bound and shocked...
Apparently the most popular psy-war technique in Viet Nam was the most traditional-leafleting. General William Westmoreland was said to be so enthusiastic about the printed propaganda that he wrote some of the pieces himself, and in one typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle...