Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EASTERN EUROPE. Inequalities persist, there are vital problems ... The great unresolved question survives: that of democracy and of conflicts and contradictions that a unilateral propaganda machine dissimulates but does not resolve...
...Yugoslav Foreign Minister Miloŝ Minić's speech of welcome to the 150 delegates who assembled in Belgrade last week for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Wishing the dignitaries a pleasant stay, Minic warned against "sinister forces" that oppose detente and engage in "propaganda campaigns" and "terrorism...
There has also been much counter-propaganda on human rights, ranging from the legitimate to the preposterous. On the subject of the free flow of ideas, Russian journalists have rightly pointed out that the U.S. has not widely distributed the text of the Helsinki document, as stipulated in the accords. A Warsaw newspaper complained that while Polish TV ran 2.3 hours of American movies every week last year, U.S. viewers were allowed to see only 6.4 hours of Polish films in the entire year...
...blacks and other minorities in the U.S., accusing Carter of "closing his eyes to the suffering of tens of millions of U.S. citizens who are without rights." Earlier, Tass had accused Carter of "using the most absurd and wild concoctions borrowed from the stock in trade of reactionary bourgeois propaganda." At his press conference last week, Carter observed: "I believe that the pressure of world opinion might be making itself felt on them, and perhaps I'm kind of a scapegoat...
Even before the UNESCO endorsement, a press pool was formed by nonaligned nations last July. Today as many as 47 national news agencies are exchanging reports, though most of the pool's copy is self-serving propaganda. Not many Western journalists take the effort seriously. Says Reuters Managing Director Gerald Long: "They're zero competition for us." So far, perhaps. But within a month after the Indian news agency Samachar joined the nonaligned-nations' pool, the agency dropped both U.P.I. and West Germany's Deutsche Presse-Agentur. If UNESCO continues to lend its prestige and expertise...