Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yuri Andropov called the Reagan letter a "propaganda game" and said that it contained "nothing new." In effect, Reagan had made the summit meeting contingent on Andropov's accepting the President's "zero option" proposal, under which the U.S. would cancel plans to deploy 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe starting late this year if the Soviet Union dismantles all 342 of its SS-20 missiles, most of which are aimed at Europe. Said Andropov: "That it is patently unacceptable to the Soviet Union is already generally recognized...
...more show than substance to his letter. When reporters aboard Air Force One en route to St. Louis asked whether he was trying to send new signals to the Kremlin through his letter, the President replied with startling candor. "No," he said, "I was simply responding to their vast propaganda effort...
...scene in which the Vice Headmaster turns Dini's classroom upside down looking for dirty postcards as the boys stands at attention. The scene drags on and on until the audience gets the same awful, sinking feeling as the boys on the screen. As a piece of anti-communist propaganda such a moment is effective; as a piece of art, it is simply unpleasant...
...talks, Nitze declared that the U.S. "was certainly not locked into the zero option," but repeated Reagan's conviction that the plan was "the best way to achieve the peace and security that mankind desires." The silver-haired veteran U.S. negotiator also denounced "recent Soviet propaganda activities" that sought to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European partners. Said Nitze: "The NATO nations cannot be held hostage to nuclear blackmail at the hands of the Soviet Union...
Nonetheless, the Soviet Union seized on Nakasone's comments to launch a small-scale propaganda attack of its own. Such moves by the Japanese, said the Soviet news agency TASS, would "make Japan a likely target for a retaliatory strike" and thus could lead it to "a national disaster more serious than the one that befell it 37 years ago," when U.S. planes dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...