Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more of the Clinton plan will be carried out overtly by diplomats, bankers and even disk jockeys. To compete with Milosevic's formidable propaganda machine, the U.S. Information Agency plans to ring Serbia's border with six radio transmitters that will beam Western news programs into the country 24 hours a day. Last month Robert Gelbard, U.S. special envoy to the Balkans, flew to Serbia's rebellious republic of Montenegro to meet with some 20 Serbian opposition leaders and plead with them to join forces against the regime...
...while Milosevic?s supporters have a vested interest in believing their own propaganda, the fact is they weren?t entirely defeated. After all, the peace deal codified in last week?s U.N. Security Council resolution involves considerable compromise on both sides, and NATO?s fundamental war aim, which was protecting ethnic Albanians from persecution in Kosovo, has demonstrably failed -- witness the streams of refugees -- and will take years to be reversed...
...government. But with critics in the West watching closer than ever for signs of a China they can hate, official Beijing is on edge. In one of the rare allusions to the anniversary by Chinese officialdom, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao warned about the West's "anti-China propaganda." "In the political turmoil which took place in 1989, some of the anti-Chinese forces played an inglorious role. They did not have their way, and they will not have their way now." At a time of a slowing economy and rising unemployment, Beijing feels it must have its way this...
However, it would be wrong to see the protests as mere expressions of government propaganda. The fear of U.S. hegemony is real, and now that Beijing is trying to cool the protests, it is finding it difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. Many protesters are convinced the May 7 bombing was intentional: while we take American benevolence for granted, residents of other countries may look at continued U.S. dominance with apprehension. Any policy that shows a willingness to use force to achieve humanitarian ends frightens countries with human rights problems. Intervention on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians...
Tyrants like Hafez Assad, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein and Milosevic didn't have to check with anybody before they cut a deal with Jackson. They just did it, providing him with instant gratification and themselves with a propaganda bonanza that typically includes the reverend's fervently imploring the U.S. President to give them a call. If Jackson were to bad-mouth the butcher with whom he was just holding hands and praying, the next one just might turn him away...