Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photographs of St. Peter's Square taken moments before he shot the Pope, Agca identified Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov. It was the first time he had claimed that the former representative of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines was in the square at the time of the shooting. Agca also accused Propaganda Due, a / secret Italian Masonic lodge, of the 1983 kidnaping of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee in hopes of winning Agca's freedom through a prisoner exchange. He insisted that the girl was still alive...
Terrorists thrive on publicity. Their pawns are not only prisoners, but also unwitting or undisciplined news organizations. Only the media can deliver an international propaganda forum. With the cooperation of the media, a small band of hijackers can manipulate a superpower. Without it, they fail in obscurity...
...Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, on the advice of his assistant Richard Perle, contended that the Soviets have repeatedly violated SALT II and must be penalized by a U.S. repudiation of the treaty. Secretary of State George Shultz and Special Arms Adviser Paul Nitze argued against handing the Soviets a propaganda victory. The Joint Chiefs of Staff contended that SALT II has resulted in at least some Soviet restraint in stockpiling offensive weapons, and that the U.S. would be at a disadvantage in an all-out arms race. The Chiefs pushed for various "gray-area solutions," one of which the President...
...anniversary has also been used as a propaganda tool against the West. Soviet victory speeches have minimized the U.S. Lend-Lease program, which provided Moscow with more than $10 billion in food and war materiel between 1941 and 1945. At the same time, the Soviets have portrayed West Germany and the U.S. as Hitler's successors. Soviet commentators have accused the West Germans of "revanchism," or wanting to retake German territories lost in the war, and have condemned Reagan's Bitburg visit as paying homage to the Nazis. The Soviets gloss over Moscow's nonaggression pact with Hitler, which lasted...
...suspension of the country's 15-month-old military draft. The move, coming only a week after imposition of a U.S. trade embargo against Nicaragua, was interpreted by some as a potential peace offering from the Sandinistas to a hostile Reagan Administration. Others preferred to see it as a propaganda ploy, aimed at influencing opinion on Capitol Hill...