Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a 16-year hiatus, the Pentagon wants to begin producing new chemical weapons again to replace its aging stockpile of existing ones. The White House contends that the Soviets have used chemical munitions in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and claims that the Gorbachev proposal is merely a propaganda move aimed at winning support in Europe before his summit with Reagan in November. While that may be the case, the Administration continues to find itself faced with agile Soviet diplomatic gambits that could give the Kremlin a public relations advantage, particularly among America's European allies...
Gorbachev continued his propaganda blitz with some carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
...propaganda, Gorbachev did appear to open one possibly fruitful avenue for negotiation. In the TIME interview, he drew a distinction between "fundamental" or laboratory research into Star Wars weaponry, which he conceded "will continue" because there would be no way to verify a halt, and the building of "models or mock-ups or test samples," which could be stopped by a verifiable agreement. Byrd found this a welcome contrast to the previous "stonewalling" of Soviet negotiators, who had insisted that SDI research of any kind must cease as the prelude to an arms-control deal. It could point toward...
...billions of radios, but that hardly guarantees everyone will listen. In pro-Soviet North Yemen, for instance, only 14% of listeners tune in Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they assumed the opposite--that there was very little...
Absolute control over the means of production gives the Soviets a great advantage in the propaganda war. The Kremlin can shape, time and fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...