Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federalist, a series of essays churned out for New York newspapers under the group anonym "Publius," was frankly designed as propaganda and used to persuade doubters in state conventions to ratify the nascent Constitution. The pieces appeared at the rate of two to four a week. Hamilton, who hatched the idea, dashed off "Federalist No. 1" in October 1787 aboard a sloop on the Hudson and cranked out the 85th and last in May 1788, after Jay had fallen too sick to write and Madison had decamped for Virginia to fight the ratifying battle there. "Whilst the printer was putting...
...party plenum demolished any doubts about Gorbachev's strength in the Kremlin by appointing three of his supporters to full membership in the Politburo. Half of the 14 men who now sit on the ruling body are regarded as Gorbachev allies. Most notable was the elevation of Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev, 63, who has overseen the Soviet media campaign to promote reform. In addition, General Dmitri Yazov, 63, the new Defense Minister, was made a non-voting member of the Politburo. His predecessor, Marshal Sergei Sokolov, 75, was dismissed in disgrace last month over the military's failure to prevent...
...swing, it will be difficult to win public support for military budget increases. In West Germany, for example, 72% of respondents in a U.S.-sponsored survey registered approval for Soviet arms control diplomacy, compared with only 9% for U.S. efforts. Says Eberhard Schulz, a West German Sovietologist: "Gorbachev's propaganda has really reached people...
...mind to understand the feelings of other peoples and the reasons that lead them to contrary points of view. Above all, informed and active citizens will always be our strongest safeguard against public figures who would drive us into ill-considered foreign adventures by rhetoric, half-truths, and artful propaganda...
Nonetheless, a war atmosphere suffuses the border regions despite Kabul's insistence that the area is under its control. Propaganda junkets were escorted by armored personnel carriers and half a dozen military jeeps. In Khost, a large wooded park has been discreetly converted into an army camp. "As you can see," General Farouq announced without irony, "people are ! leading their normal lives." If so, it is an extremely harried existence...