Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report passed through the censorship of Egypt, now engaged in a violent propaganda war with Iraq. The sketchy account provided few details. But if the report is true, it could foretoken a new cold war explosion over the Middle East...
From Baghdad each day, the nation is treated by television to a noisy assizes when a fanatic army colonel, Fadhil Mahdawi, rants against the "traitors" in the dock. Press censorship is now in the hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...
...long-held U.S. attitude was that a summit conference was useless if it was nothing but a forum for propaganda; before any summit could live up to expectations, foreign ministers should explore the possibilities of genuinely solving cold-war issues. Harold Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed...
General Chang planned to score a political as well as military victory. In addition to Chinese troops, he intended to take the field with 14,000 Red-trained Tibetans. And io make further propaganda, he asked the Dalai Lama, the nation's religious leader, to demonstrate his solidarity by lending his 5,000-man bodyguard to the expedition. The 23-year-old Dalai Lama, though a virtual prisoner of the Reds, politely refused...
...time, the U.S. was on the defensive in the radiation fallout controversy, and Russia certainly would have made propaganda hay out of a story that the U.S. was planning to explode atomic bombs over the South Atlantic. Some scientists told Baldwin that if he printed the story, the furor might well force the U.S. to stop the tests. But it could also be argued that Baldwin had a duty to tell the American public in advance about an event that might have serious international implications. Baldwin decided to stay mum.* Says he simply: "It was a question of whether...