Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot take in earnest the assertions that the SDI would guarantee invulnerability from nuclear weapons, thus leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons. In the opinion of our experts (and, to my knowledge, of many of yours), this is sheer fantasy. However, even on a much more modest scale, in which the Strategic Defense Initiative can be implemented as an antimissile defense system of limited capabilities, the SDI is very dangerous. This project will, no doubt, whip up the arms race in all areas, which means that the threat of war will increase. That is why this project...
Propaganda--the methodical spreading of information to influence public | opinion--can take many forms, from a government-approved interview in Pravda to a carefully couched answer at a Washington press conference, from a story planted in a foreign newspaper to a State Department white paper. The line between manipulating mass opinion and enunciating policy, between p.r. posturing and legitimate diplomacy, can be shadowy indeed. Most official declarations, be they from the Kremlin or the White House, have a mixed purpose...
...global village a reality. The polarization of nations along East-West lines has intensified the ratings war. Totalitarian states, by virtue of their complete control over the media, are relentless producers of propaganda. Democracies are sometimes gullible consumers. Complex issues can be twisted and made dangerously simple by clever opinion shapers, and if the masses can be moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes. As real war becomes increasingly costly and nuclear war barely thinkable, East and West must duel with words. "Ideas are weapons," declared V.I. Lenin more than half a century...
...means of production gives the Soviets a great advantage in the propaganda war. The Kremlin can shape, time and fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...
...court ruled, in a 10-to-3 vote, that use of the testimony would violate constitutional protections against self-incrimination because the men had not been read their rights. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Claudio Teehankee argued that to have warned such high-ranking officers of their rights "would have been ridiculous, if not bordering on officiousness and impropriety." Since his own testimony is the most damning evidence against Ver, last week's ruling is widely expected to result in his acquittal...