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...leadership is aware that the people are tuning out. Brezhnev has complained that the state's "strong and qualified propaganda apparatus" is not doing a good job. "Not infrequently, newspaper material, television and radio broadcasts are not convincing enough, lack a serious overall view." He urged "ideological front workers" to improve their product, especially in the highly simplistic presentation of foreign news. Meanwhile, Pravda editorialized last year against "the fear of discussing the problems facing our society, the tendency to smooth over and avoid unresolved problems, to blur real shortcomings and difficulties...
...bombings focused on both Kach and a little-known shadow world of underground terrorist organizations. One anonymous telephone caller to an Israeli news service claimed responsibility for the West Bank explosions in the name of the "Israeli Freedom Fighters Movement-TerrorAgainst Terror." Nobody, not even the Israeli security apparatus, seemed to know much about the identity of such groups...
...fundamental and jolting shift in policy that will do very considerable political damage to the economic policymaking apparatus. If you go out and promise the American public that there will be a balanced budget in fiscal '81 and it isn't done, where does that put political support the next time it is required, which...
Council for the Defense of the Constitution, the important agency that oversees the internal security apparatus. Promoting Bakarić out of turn might provide the country with a respected transitional leader. It would also imply that the Yugoslavs have less than full confidence in the main principle of the collective leadership-namely, that no one man can succeed Tito...
...past three months instead of rising 5% as originally targeted by the Fed, economists thought the central bank might be ready to turn on the money tap once again. This seemed to be confirmed when the Federal Reserve announced that it was dismantling some of the credit control apparatus it had built in March. At that time, the Federal Reserve began charging major banks a three-point interest-rate surcharge on funds they borrowed from it; that levy was eliminated last week. There were also strong expectations that Washington might be preparing to discard the rest of the credit curbs...