Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to a recent Justice Department decision to label three Canadian films as political propaganda, a professor at the Medical School has collected about 70 signature from colleagues for a letter protesting the move...
...Maxam of the Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Institute explained that the films "are about destructive agents-hydrogen bombs and acidic rain-that could kill trillions of living organism. We assert that the Canadian films are statements of this profound concern and as such can not be propaganda...
...well: he published an article in the Times Weekly magazine in Taipei that described the mandatory birth control program in Chinese villages. The article was illustrated with photographs of women in advanced states of pregnancy who were about to have abortions. Peking saw the article as anti-Chinese propaganda. Zhao Fusan, a top official of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, warned Kenneth Prewitt, president of the Social Science Research Council, that if Mosher were not disciplined, there could be "negative consequences" for scholarly exchanges. In February 1982, Fusan asked Stanford to "deal with this matter sternly...
...these attempts to shield the public and policymakers from the facts about such currently debated issues directly oppose the Constitution. The clauses of the Foreign Agents Registration Act which deal with "political propaganda" must be eliminated. They are an egregious violation of the First Amendment, which insures free speech and the free flow of information. Fortunately, the government's attempts to stifle debate have in this case instigated more lively and widespread discourse...
...recent U.S.-Canadian agreement that may lead to the testing of unarmed cruise missiles over Canada makes both these topics of particular interest to Canada. The extensive protest of the propaganda" ruling in Canada as well as the United States--where suits have been filed challenging the validity of the Foreign Agents Registration Act--could damage our presently friendly relations with our neighbor...