Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space race; the Soviets are also concerned that the U.S. holds an advantage in high technology (see box). Another theory was that the Kremlin leaders had been confident that Reagan would reject talks on space-weapon limitations, which he has generally opposed, and thus would give Moscow propaganda points. In that, they failed...
...scolding: "The tradition has been not to criticize the United States from foreign platforms particularly from countries hostile to the United States." Secretary of State George Shultz pronounced his own verdict on what he called Jackson's "disruptive " diplomacy. Castro, said Shultz, had used Jackson to score "a propaganda victory...
...Soviet news agency TASS began releasing the proposal to the world. Whether or not the offer was a ploy, its publication forced the Administration to produce an immediate response. Said one official: "If we rejected the move, or said we would study it, they would have scored a propaganda coup...
...Reagan, he contends that an outright ban on antisatellite weapons would be impossible to verify, and has pushed the idea of developing an ultra modern defense against incoming missiles. The Administration, however, was thinking about proposing some kind of limitations when the Kremlin beat it to the propaganda punch. Each side is anxious to depict the other, particularly in the eyes of Western Europeans, as being recalcitrant on the subject of arms control...
R.A.F. Veteran Derek Robinson, however, provides no propaganda romance. Within a year, the flyers' innocence has crashed in flames. By September 1940, most of Hornet squadron are dead, burned out or mad. Christopher Hart III, an egalitarian American volunteer, tells them, "Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice." They do, and turn from chivalrous adolescents into cynical hawks. After flying hundreds of missions in a month, a dazed pilot hears of Churchill's famous R.A.F. speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...