Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Among the confederates listed by the coalition are a communications firm run by right-wing Publisher Richard Viguerie and the Elderly Korean-American Association of Orange County. Balsiger's group planned to organize demonstrations near 100 Olympic sites and to distribute 500,000 leaflets. A small squadron of propaganda planes was to buzz the city, each pulling a banner having 5-ft.-high letters, with exhortations like STOP THE GENOCIDE IN AFGHANISTAN or REMEMBER KAL 007. The coalition planned to rent billboards to encourage Soviet defections ("Wish to defect? Telephone ..."), and some 500 "safe houses" in the Los Angeles...
Clear illustrations came in the examples of the 1936 and 1972 Olympics, when the Nazis and Palestinian terrorists, respectively, sought to utilize the international prestige and attention accorded the Games to stage propaganda and terrorism. While their vicious actions will never be forgotten, these actors hardly garnered any lasting amount of prestige of legitimacy. Moreover, most people still remember these Olympics for the heroic performances of athletes like Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, and Olga Korbut...
...cynic might view this recent phenomenon as a propaganda ploy by members of the self-important Baby Boom generation. They were the coolest generation while they were under 30, and they intend to remain the coolest now that they are approaching middle...
...jurisdiction over the issue, which arose after revelations that the CIA had actively helped mine Nicaraguan harbors. But Washington's lawyers joined in the legal fray after the court refused to dismiss the Nicaraguan plea. Whatever else might ensue, the Nicaraguans seemed to have won an initial propaganda victory by forcing the U.S. to appear before the United NationsŸsponsored body...
...their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story," he says, "and the propaganda will take care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe of actors, are invited to perform privately before a privileged all-white audience, Fugard surprisingly accepts. But instead of the scheduled comedy, the company presents The Coat, a jolting play about a black man unfairly sent...