Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American weapons from crossing the Atlantic. Toward that end, the Soviets might, if necessary and if possible, cut a last-minute deal with the U.S. on INF. But they have at least as much hope for success through a campaign of pressure and propaganda directed at the Europeans...
...that Reagan either was not serious about arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall. Rostow's dismissal, reported TASS, the official Soviet news agency, "can be viewed abroad as another evidence of utter confusion in the Reagan Administration's approach to the question of restricting the arms race...
...sides agreed on a compromise formula that permitted both to claim a measure of victory. Israel dropped its insistence on the word normalization and instead accepted the more neutral phrase "a framework for mutual relations," which would include "liaison, ending of hostile propaganda, the movement of goods, products and persons, and communications." All the main points on the agenda, it was agreed, would be regarded as equally important and would be discussed concurrently "in the light of their interrelationship." Israel would be able to stress "termination of the state of war," while Lebanon could emphasize "complete withdrawals...
...Miskito populations began to rise up. The Ministry of Defense said in its propaganda that the people who were fighting us were former national guardsmen [Somoza supporters], not Miskitos. On June 5, I participated in a firefight that was said to be with guardsmen, but it was really with Miskitos. They lost no one. We lost 19 men, officers as well as enlisted men. Twenty-two more were wounded. Only I and one other man were not hurt or killed. The regional chief of staff and his escort staff ran when the fighting started. When he decided to leave...
...Supervisor Kenneth Hahn called the gift "generous," but took pains to add, "In no way does this mean that the agonies and frustrations of unemployed American autoworkers have gone away." A local labor union official complained that Toyota's gift "is another way that foreign companies, with their propaganda, are influencing the American people." He observed, however, that creative charity of this kind was "something the American industry neglected...