Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House photo opportunities. The Washington summit will occupy three days -- Dec. 7, 8 and 9 -- and is designed to be a no-frills, hardworking session confined to the capital rather than the far-ranging tour of the U.S. that Reagan had envisioned. That could have been a propaganda disaster for Gorbachev: night after night Soviet television viewers would have been treated to the sight of their leader amid capitalist luxury that sharply contrasted with their own dreary surroundings. Moreover, with no agreement on Star Wars, says Soviet Analyst William Hyland, the "Soviets don't want to invest the political...
...contras' civilian leaders are seeking their own accommodation with a peace process that until now has largely excluded them. Last week three civilian leaders, including Alfonso Robelo, visited the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose to request passports for a return home. It was mainly a propaganda ploy, and the request was refused, but that may soon change. "On Nov. 5, or maybe a few days before," predicts a State Department official, "the Sandinistas will announce they will meet with the contras." Indeed, Managua is filled with rumors that some sort of compromise will be announced after Ortega returns from Moscow...
...WEEKS ago, a Congressional investigating body concluded that the Reagan Administration had breached restrictions on the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes. Since 1985, the body found, the State Department has been illegally conducting a "covert propaganda" operation to "favorably influence" public support for the Nicaraguan contras. While this may appear to be one of the more insignificant revelations to emerge in connection with the Iran-contra scandal, it in fact illustrates a dangerous trend toward the politicization of previously non-political entities...
Voice programming, comprised mainly of news, sporting events, and editorials, has remained basically intact. The content though, has become increasingly conservative. Voice, in moving dangerously close to outright propaganda, has drawn criticism from American observers and communist listeners alike...
...summons," he said. Envoys elsewhere in the region observed that Ortega's announcement followed a Soviet decision to supply Nicaragua with an additional 100,000 tons of badly needed oil this year, and questioned whether recent strains between Moscow and Managua had been anything more than a propaganda ploy...