Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the faculty and students who were at the University during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
While Calvi was being prosecuted for the illegal export of capital, police raided the sumptuous Arezzo villa of Licio Gelli, a Tuscan-born businessman with financial and right-wing political links to South America who served as Grand Master of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Police found Calvi's name, along with those of other prominent Italian and South American politicians, military officers and businessmen (including Sindona), on the secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through...
...ingratiating as his book, is Richard Sennett, 39, better known as an omnivorously brilliant professor of sociology at New York University. Sennett's hero, Tiber Grau, finds the folktale version of the frog story "pessimistic" and "not entirely clear." Grau is at this point a propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation's folklore. In his revised version, the frogs croak so loudly in unison that they frighten less organized animals away. Says Grau: "A society which does not possess its people's dreams...
...fact-finding mission to the Middle East were in agreement in their perceptions of the situation there and that they acted in concert in dealing with leaders of the warring factions. That was clearly not the case. From the beginning, I saw the meeting with Yasser Arafat as a propaganda ploy by the P.L.O., and I chose not to attend it. I immediately denounced the document that Congressman Pete McCloskey obtained from Arafat as nothing new and possibly a harmful deception...
...conservative Saudi leadership, already wary of unrest among the country's Shi'ite minority, fears the trouble Khoeyniha will bring in his wake from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. Already the Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia has secretly been printing and stockpiling millions of propaganda tracts. Their message: "reactionary" regimes like Saudi Arabia are hand-in-glove with the enemies of Islam, and Muslims everywhere must unite and overthrow their "lackey governments." As a security measure, the Saudis are banning Iranian pilgrims from visiting Shi'ites in the east on their way to Mecca...