Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMIDST OPPOSING BARRAGES of propaganda, proposals and counter-proposals, policies and punditeering, there is hope that something of lasting benefit may yet come out of this week's summit meeting. Soviet officials have given the State Department a list of Russian spouses of U.S. citizens who will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union, and while this move can easily be dismissed as politically motivated, insincere, and cynical, it may very well be the only lasting success of the frenzy of summit diplomacy that has gripped the two superpowers for several weeks...
...letter from Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 to President Reagan opposing arms control agreements at the summit should have come as no surprise; the Reagan administration has never been firmly behind arms control. Like the Soviets, this White House has myopically viewed the summit as a prime propaganda opportunity. Don't expect statesmanlike achievements from such cynics...
...propaganda excesses preceding the summit have been surpassed only by the frenzy of media hype surrounding the event. The excitement of the thousands of journalists covering the story is way out of proportion to the summit's likely outcome. There may be an agreement at the summit on curtailing chemical weapons. There may be other arms control accords. Both superpowers may even decide to abide by such agreements. Perhaps years of antagonism and jingoism will give way to cordial relations. Perhaps all this will happen in the six hours of summit talks planned at Geneva...
...prosecution, headed by Justice Department lawyer Joseph F. Lynch, claims that Sokolov's writing was virulently racist and that the German army awarded him medals for his work. Lynch said Sokolov's paper had a circulation of 100,000 and was therefore a highly effective propaganda weapon...
...bombs. Both offered freezes and reductions on missiles in Europe. But on closer scrutiny, the underlying differences remained so significant that it was still hard to tell if both sides were motivated by a sincere desire for an arms-control agreement as well as by their continuing quest for propaganda advantage. The two nations still disagree, for example, on how to define the warheads to be included in the limit of 6,000 nuclear charges. And even if both could agree on reducing offensive weapons, the Soviets are still insisting on a trade-off: cuts in missiles in return...