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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
"Debt of Honor" [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"A Jack Ryan Novel"
Tom Clancy
BERKLEY paperback 1994
$8.99 U.S.
Page 41
"Jack, you were evidently right about this Clark fellow. What do we do about him?"
"I'll leave that up to the DCI, sir. Maybe another Intelligence Star for him," Ryan suggested, hoping that Durling would forward it to Langley. If not, maybe a discreet call of his own to Mary Pat. Then it was time for fence-mending, a new skill for Ryan. "Mr. Secretary, in case you didn't know, our people were under orders to use nonlethal force if possible. Beyond that, my only concern is the lives of our people."
"I wish you'd cleared it through my people first," Hanson grumped.
Deep breath, Ryan commanded himself. The mess was of State's making, along with that of Ryan's predecessor. Having entered the country to restore order after it had been destroyed by local warlords - another term used by the media to give a label to common thugs - the powers-that-be had later decided, after the entire mission had gone to hell, that the "warlords" in question had to be part of the "political solution" to the problem. That the problem had been created by the warlords in the first place was conveniently forgotten.
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"Foreign Affairs"
The Foreign Body (1966)
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UK 16 September 1966
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Foreign Affairs (TV series 1966)
The Foreign Body (#1.1)
Release Date: 16 September 1966 (UK)
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Sunday, August 21, 1994
Classic Clancy -- Jack Ryan Returns, And The Bad Guy This Time Is Japan
By Melinda Bargreen
"Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy Putnam, $25.95
He's back!
Yes, all you fans of "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games," and the rest of Tom Clancy's bestselling techno-thrillers. Clancy's newest, "Debt of Honor," is poised to assault bestseller lists yet again - not as a submarine, silent and stealthy, but as a nuclear warhead, the same kind that the Japanese are . . . oops!
We don't want to give away the plot here, though there is plenty of plot to give away, in what is probably Clancy's most complicated and ambitious international potboiler yet.
After the mean-spirited and sadistic "Without Remorse," it's a relief to have that novel's claustrophobic atmosphere lifted in a novel that will be long remembered for its energy and exuberance. Unfortunately, "Debt of Honor" also will be remembered for its xenophobia. Japanese villainy - corporate, political and military - is the central threat here, and there are so many racial slurs that you may think you're reading World War II propaganda.
Back in the land of acronyms
We're also back in the world of Clancy's favorite military-bureaucratic abbreviations: CINCPACFLT and ComSubPac and SSNs and ICBMs and ADCAPs, all rallying like mad to save America once again. So are the heroes of Clancy novels past, including the indomitable Jack Ryan, submariners Mancuso and Jones, and a certain mysterious CIA operative named John Clark, the alias of one of Clancy's favorite protagonists.
Clancy balances his politically incorrect plot by bringing in large numbers of women in key positions, from Ryan's prize-winning surgeon wife to important submarine and CIA operatives. The women are mostly paper figures, however, there just to provide feminine pronouns.
What sets this all in motion is a land purchase by a Japanese businessman named Yamata. With nice economy of structure, Clancy makes this purchase the subject of his first sentence: "In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war."
It certainly would, except that by the time you've followed Clancy's line of reasoning through hundreds and hundreds of densely plotted pages, it doesn't seem odd at all; indeed, it makes sense.
Nobody, but nobody, is better than Clancy at the "gathering storm" technique of thriller fiction. Like a master chef, he starts simmering one pot after another on a vast stove-full of burners, returning occasionally for an adroit stir of the action in the nuclear sub, or the Japanese baths, or the international currency market - even the inner sanctum of the Oval Office.
Yes, it is the president, the well-meaning but militarily inexperienced President Durlin - any echoes, here? - who calls Ryan off the golf course and into action as national security adviser. And Ryan proceeds to advise like crazy, treading where the president will not dare, juggling coups in Africa and on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as all the other battle stations of air, land and sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/22/business/media-business-autumn-nears-publishers-brace-for-glut-big-name-titles.html
THE MEDIA BUSINESS; As Autumn Nears, Publishers Brace for a Glut of Big-Name Titles
By SARAH LYALL
Published: Monday, August 22, 1994
August is a slow and languorous month for publishing. Employees go on vacation, new books are released in a trickle and most companies in New York close at lunchtime every Friday so the editors can head for the Hamptons.
But this is the calm before the storm, because publishers are actually resting up for the big fall season. Autumn for publishing is like summer is for Hollywood: it is the time when many of the year's splashiest titles are released, bookstores are full of customers and everyone in the industry hopes to find a hit that will carry through until Christmas.
The months between September and December are always crowded with new books by big authors, and this year, booksellers and publishers say, the season looks to be particularly full. A Flood of Titles
The rush has already started with Tom Clancy, whose latest book, "Debt of Honor," has been shipped by its publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons. The enormous first printing of two million copies began reaching stores Wednesday.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1994_1219067
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Staff, wire reports
MON 08/08/1994
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Another Clancy tale
If the ground rumbles Aug. 17, it may be because an estimated 2 million copies of Tom Clancy's new yarn, "Debt of Honor" (Putnam), are scheduled to be laid down in stores. The novel, which received a starred rave in last week's Publishers Weekly, puts the hero, Jack Ryan, in a war of wills set off by what the reviewer calls "a power-hungry Japanese financier."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (1994) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan. In this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government (controlled by a group of corporate tycoons known as the Zaibatsu) goes to war with the United States.
The Japanese plan has three major components. First, units of Japan's Self-Defense Forces occupy the Marianas Islands, specifically Saipan and Guam. The invasion, conducted with commercial airliners, is virtually bloodless. Meanwhile, during a joint military exercise, Japanese ships "accidentally" launch torpedoes at two of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers and two submarines at the conclusion of a joint U.S.-Japan naval exercise, destroying both submarines and crippling the carriers. This drastically reduces the U.S. capability to project power into the western Pacific.
An immediate retaliation is forestalled by the second element of the Japanese plan: an economic attack. Even as the military mission begins, the Japanese cabal engineers the collapse of the American stock market by exploiting flaws in the program trading systems at major brokerages, and then deletes all trade records. With a massive economic crisis, and panic and chaos in America's homeland, it is hoped that America will be too distracted to quickly respond to Japan's military adventures.
Japan immediately sues for a peaceful settlement, offering international talks and seemingly free elections in the Marianas, in attempt to stall and delay an American military response. Negotiators also secretly reveal to the Americans that Japan has obtained nuclear ballistic missile capability.
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AMBUSH IN MOGADISHU
"Ambush in Mogadishu" tells the story of the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam. On October 3, 1993 elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed by Somali men, women and children armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The Rangers were pinned down in the most dangerous part of Mogadishu, Somalia and taking casualties. What had started out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid--turned into a tragic firefight that lasted seventeen hours, left eighteen Americans dead, eighty four wounded and continues to haunt the U.S. military
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc_information_dissemination
Eastern Bloc information dissemination
Eastern Bloc information dissemination was controlled directly by each country's Communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda organs. State and party ownership of print, television and radio media served as an important manner in which to control information and society in light of Eastern Bloc leaderships viewing even marginal groups of opposition intellectuals as a potential threat to the bases underlying Communist power therein.
In the Eastern Bloc, the state owned and operated the means of mass communication. The ruling authorities viewed media as a propaganda tool, and widely practiced censorship to exercise almost full control over the information dissemination. The press in Communist countries was an organ of, and completely reliant on, the state. Until the late 1980s, all Eastern Bloc radio and television organizations were state-owned (and tightly controlled), while print media was usually owned by political organizations, mostly by the local Communist party.
"Debt of Honor" [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"A Jack Ryan Novel"
Tom Clancy
BERKLEY paperback 1994
$8.99 U.S.
Page 971
The 747 touched down even earlier than the pilot had promised, which was fine but wouldn't help on the connecting flight. The good news for the moment was that the first-class passengers got off first, and better still, a U.S. consular official met Clark and Chavez at the gate, whisking them through customs. Both men had slept on the flight, but their bodies were still out of synch with the local time. An aging Delta L-1011 lifted off two hours later, bound for Dulles International.
Captain Sato remained in his command seat. One problem with international air travel was the sameness of it all. This terminal could have been almost anywhere, except that all of the faces were gaijin. There would be a day-long layover before he flew back, doubtless full again of Japanese executives running away.
And this was the remainder of his life, ferrying people he didn't know to places he didn't care about. If only he'd stayed in the Self-Defense Forces - maybe he would have done better, maybe it would have made a difference. He was the best pilot in one of the world's best airlines, and those skills might have ... but he'd never know, would he, and he'd never make a difference, just one more captain of one more aircraft, flying people to and from a nation that had forfeited its honor.
