Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason, said Gorbachev, is that in the roughly two months since he agreed to a November summit meeting with President Reagan in Geneva, the U.S. has rejected every overture from the Soviet Union, such as its proposals for moratoriums on tests of nuclear and antisatellite weapons, as "one more propaganda exercise by Moscow." Because of this "shortage of responsibility" in Washington, relations between the superpowers "are continuing to deteriorate, the arms race is intensifying, and the war threat is not subsiding...
...driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting the U.S. to reply to what it views as Soviet propaganda "according to the principle of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' " For example, Gorbachev went on, if Moscow announced a suspension of nuclear tests (as it did seven weeks ago), "you Americans could take revenge by doing likewise. You could deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending...
When he remarks, for example, that he and his colleagues are "quite exacting and self-critical," is there the faintest suggestion of dissent in the Politburo and perhaps of shuffles soon to come? He teases the Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
...Soviet Union, where ideas, like almost everything else, are controlled by the state, the word is propaganda. In the U.S., Government officials prefer to talk of "public diplomacy," a term less offensive to free-speech sensibilities. But however they describe it, both superpowers are engaged in an all-out war of words and images aimed at winning hearts and minds around the globe...
...Propaganda--the methodical spreading of information to influence public | opinion--can take many forms, from a government-approved interview in Pravda to a carefully couched answer at a Washington press conference, from a story planted in a foreign newspaper to a State Department white paper. The line between manipulating mass opinion and enunciating policy, between p.r. posturing and legitimate diplomacy, can be shadowy indeed. Most official declarations, be they from the Kremlin or the White House, have a mixed purpose...