Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures are worse than wooden: the neurotic physicist, dashing American agent, villainous Russian spy and confused but loving heroine are all solid concrete stereotypes that wouldn't even pass muster in a remake of "The Adventures of Superman." And the dialogue, which seems borrowed from a 1952 State Department propaganda pamphlet, doesn't help--one hardly knows whether to laugh or cry at the following outburst from the American heroine to her Soviet tormentor: What's the matter, Ivan? Too used to muscle-bound, hod-carrying Russian women? Can't get used to the idea of a liberated gal from...
...only a handful of troublemakers who are cleverly using the Western press to draw attention to themselves and are in turn being used by Western governments to stir up trouble in Communist countries. Last week Pravda accused the West of dangling dissidents "on the fishing rod of bourgeois propaganda" so as to distract "the masses from the deep crisis in the capitalist system...
...demanding that all complicity with the CIA be terminated and that all UCLA-CIA correspondence be published. An SYL-initiated committee at U Cal. Berkeley organized a picket and demonstration drawing over 250 participants around the slogans "CIA/NSA Recruiters off campus!" and "Abolish the CIA/NSA!" At Yale, an SYL propaganda campaign protesting the upcoming appearance of CIA recruiters on campus resulted in the cancellation of those scheduled interviews. Here in Boston, the super spy agency must be opposed by a militant protest action. "Abolish the CIA/NSA...
Fernandes, the socialist leader whom Gandhi has yet to release from prison, sees the election as a ruse designed to generate favorable propaganda in the West. From prison last week he castigated the Janata Party and other opposition leaders for participating in "the sham election." Even through the thick prison walls, Fernandes' message came across loud and clear: participation in the March elections, so long as emergency rule remained in effect, would serve only to legitimize the Gandhi regime, a legitimization it most certainly does not deserve...
...Power. Carter's advisers insist that he is serious and not seeking propaganda dividends when he advocates nuclear disarmament. It is this kind of idealism that worries many. Example: Richard Burt of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies warns that "the very high hopes of Carter's Administration are likely to be dashed" once he understands how highly Soviet leaders regard raw military power as an instrument of international relations. "The Kennedy people got disillusioned, then they got angry, and finally they overreacted," notes Burt, referring to the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations that culminated...