Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet propaganda has tried with some success over the years to tar the U.S. as a villain for carrying out nuclear tests and to whitewash the Soviet Union as a do-gooder for demanding a nuclear test ban. In a speech last week, Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby demolished the Soviet we're-on-the-side-of-the-angels pose. He pointed out that in October-six months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests...
Both sides--government and rebel--claimed victories in rival propaganda broadcasts from stations 200-odd miles apart. There was no independent confirmation of any victory claims. Late tonight the government radio added a new twist--it began to ignore the revolt entirely...
Khrushchev & Co., old Moscow hands concluded, had suddenly recalled their huge propaganda investment in presenting Russia as the world's most peace-loving power...
...Pakistan has kept its firm Western alignment, but Ayub has gone to unprecedented lengths to soothe his country's bitter quarrel with India. He has stilled the strident propaganda of the country's radios, last month became the first Pakistani leader to attend the Indian High Commission's Republic Day celebration in Karachi. After a recent border incident he said mildly: "If our chaps are at fault, we will take action against them...
...zealous concealment of satellite attempts (a field, incidentally, in which we do not seem to be able to give much succor to the Soviets) fosters an atmosphere inimical to the public knowledge needed to run a democracy. If the Armed Forces stop treating much of their experimentation as mere propaganda they might avoid both premature fanfares and damaging secrecy...