Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After two-and-one-half years of empty talk and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan administration it hurt to see the propaganda and bombast with which that administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff, a citizen like us who was imprisoned only a short time," said Anderson...
While these incidents varied greatly in nature and scope, they had key features in common: first, the Kremlin's concern with security takes precedence over propaganda and diplomacy alike; second, when the Soviet Union reacts to a perceived threat to its security, it tends to overreact, sometimes brutally; third, if the Soviets' overreaction leads to a crisis, they are quick to blame the U.S.; and fourth, the disruption has always proved temporary...
...Americans in the years after World War I were too busy finding bootleg gin to think about more exotic intoxicants. Marijuana began arriving in large quantities in the 1920s and '30s, smoked by Mexican immigrants who came North looking for jobs. Pot, too, was regarded with horror. One 1936 propaganda film called Reefer Madness warned the nation's youth that smoking the "killer weed" was a direct road to hell, suicide or at least insanity...
...Nemeth, 63, is his second in command in the party hierarchy and presumably a contender, though Kadar slyly enjoys appearances that deceive. Other possible candidates: Ferenc Havasi, 57, a chief economic official, who is said to believe that unemployment should be officially recognized; Karoly Grosz, 57, a Kadar disciple; Propaganda Boss Janos Berecz, 57; and Foreign Affairs Specialist Matyas Szuros...
What Bok has, now, however, is a reprieve with the summertime, the small band of activists who have set up a propaganda factory outside his office are gone. The alumni are off sailing, fishing, working on their tans...