Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, such tough-sounding language might give way to calls for compromise if there is no sign of progress in Geneva. U.S. officials pointed out that the East bloc has been talking about a nonaggression pact for more than 25 years and dismissed the Prague plan as a propaganda exercise. The Warsaw Pact proposal, however, was tailored not for the Pentagon but for public opinion in Western Europe, where peace protests are expected to spread as the NATO missile deadline approaches. If Reagan did not dismiss the Prague offer out of hand, it may be because Administration officials are becoming...
There is a sharp division of opinion in Washington as to how the U.S. negotiators in Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...
...Soviet leadership last week had only a single opinion to offer on Pope John Paul II. The official TASS news agency condemned the Pope for his "conservative and rigid" attitude toward the Soviet bloc. TASS also denounced the Vatican for using the "cover of religion" to engage in "antiCommunist propaganda on a broad scale." The Vatican said it had "no comment or reply" to that sound of one bell ringing in the Kremlin...
...Europe and driving the American military presence from the Continent. Kennan is too sanguine about the extent to which Soviet power has been-and might be again-an effective instrument of intimidation. But he is quite right that strident, bellicose countermeasures have played into the hands of the Soviet propaganda and diplomatic campaign to split NATO...
...what to do about martial law, but it looks as if General Wojciech Jaruzelski intends to lift it in name only. The government will still be able to imprison opponents without trial, militarize industry and ban unauthorized public gatherings. Said a Western diplomat: "The whole exercise is primarily for propaganda purposes, but I am not sure if it is intended more for the Polish people or for Western governments...