Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...conspicuous change has occurred in the press. While still censored, newspapers and magazines now print real news along with government propaganda. Says Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka (circ. 285,000): "During the past few months, we have published all the articles that were confiscated by the censors over the past two years-well, maybe not all, maybe we've got two or three left." Polityka, which is edited by a member of the Central Committee, recently ran an unexpurgated interview with Walesa and other prominent members of Solidarity. Poles are a bit overwhelmed by this...
...February a seven-member international commission, including some prominent Afrikaners, recommended against autonomy because Ciskei was too poor to stand on its own. Undeterred, Ciskei Chief Minister Lennox Sebe launched a propaganda campaign urging his people to vote for freedom. Critics charged that Sebe had become a puppet of South Africa interested mainly in enhancing his own power. Responded one of Sebe's ministers: "We are not just a group of blacks in South Africa. We are a nation. As blacks in South Africa, we have no rights. We are just pigs...
...pronged propaganda assault kept Solidarity on the defensive-just as Moscow had hoped. Union leaders felt compelled to issue a statement denying that Solidarity was trying to spread "chaos and anarchy." Said the union: "We believe that negotiations are the best way to meet understandable worker demands and defend social interests." After months of steadily intensifying demands, Solidarity's leaders late last month declared a moratorium on strikes and urged the impatient rank and file to give the government some breathing space. Not only was the strike moratorium being heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more...
...characterized them as "vague, inequitable and unworkable in practice." The Indian government prudently announced that it needed to study Brezhnev's scheme before venturing an opinion. But the Indian press was outspoken. Said The Hindu of Madras: "The plan is little more than the Soviet Union's propaganda points customarily aimed at the U.S. and now dressed up as a 'peace doctrine.' " The Indian Express of New Delhi pointed out the obvious: Brezhnev's proposals, if carried out, would undermine the Western military presence in the region but would leave the Soviet position untouched...
...like INCAR begin to examine Wilson's, and only Wilson's, work closely before calling for the removal of his course from the Core Curriculum. I am neither supporting nor condemning Wilson's theories. I am simply asking that we base our opinions on facts, rather than highly emotionalized propaganda. A. Brent Truitt...