Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to be a democratic place, and every view should be given a fair hearing. This would hold water if the University were a disinterested party and functioned democratically. As it stands, Harvard has a vested interest (to the tune of over $200 million) in doing some favorable propaganda for the South African government. It also is not a democratic institution, since policy decisions are unilaterally made by the Corporation, with negligible input from the rest of the community (and zero input from the student body). Indeed, in the last Board of Overseers' election, there was an attempt to manipulate...
...descent to Khost's dirt airstrip is gut wrenching, a series of dizzying circles, jigs and S-turns as once again the planes pop flares in rapid succession. Last week Soviet-built government transports delivered 60 journalists from India, the Soviet bloc and the West on a propaganda tour aimed at dispelling "rumors" of intense fighting in the area. Unfortunately, the tight security around the reporters only betrayed the government's fear of the guerrillas. Soviet-made Mi-24 helicopter gunships whirred protectively overhead, sweeping across the surrounding terrain. From a distance came the echoes of explosions...
...walls and huts of the Afghan hamlet of Seluddinkala, ten miles from Pakistan. Army officers claimed it was fired at an Afghan plane by a Pakistani F-16. Missing its target, it fell close to Seluddinkala. The incident became the latest salvo in the stepped-up Soviet-Afghan propaganda war against Islamabad and Washington. An Afghan official warned of "grave consequences" if Pakistan continued its "repeated border instigations and violations." For its part, Kabul denies ever purposely violating Pakistani airspace...
...Words are slippery," warned Historian Henry Adams. The word propaganda has slipped quite a bit. At one time it described any information, true or false, that was spread to promote a cause. But today nearly everyone understands it as referring to distortions of the truth. That did not sway the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It ruled 5 to 3 that the Justice Department could invoke a World War II-era law to label as "political propaganda" three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, including a 1983 Academy Award winner. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens...
Increased pursuit of child sex abusers raises concerns about damaging false charges. -- "Propaganda" labels do not chill free speech...