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Aucbvax.1775 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!SAUNDERS@USC-ISIB Tue Jun 16 11:55:54 1981 Gromyko and Goebbels So the tactic of the Big Lie is still in use: If one's propaganda is sufficiently outrageous, an honest hearer who allows any "benefit of doubt" will have swallowed a lesser falsehood entire.

Gromyko has learned well from Goebbels.

"The fact is that the USSR has taken the course of implementing at any price its plans of stationing new missiles, tanks, radars, and troops in Eastern Europe," Mr. Gromyko should have said. "It is to this, and not to negotiations, that priority has been given for decades. It is necessary and possible - I stress necessary and possible - to effect a turn toward an effective containment of the arms race and achievement of the disarmament of the West."

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