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From earliest times, hostile propaganda has been in wide use among men & between nations; it has also been deeply resented & even violently resisted. But only recently has the world developed a system of principles & norms designed to curb & even to outlaw its use. Similar to the evolution of internat'l rules intended to proscribe aggressive war, the culmination of the movement to curb internat'l COMM considered dangerous to peace has come only in the 20th cent. Attention has focused not only on propaganda leading to acts of subversion & to outright aggression & war, but also on propaganda that is defamatory of a sovereign state & of its leaders & representatives. So extensive is this body of norms that today, as the hostile propaganda between nations continues unabated, esp in times of stress, the real need is not so much for more rules to be drafted or new treaties to be signed & ratified. What we require is the establishment of authoritative & acceptable means for the interpretation of the existing norms & their effective enforcement. HA.

Richard Clutterbuck: Guerrillas and terrorists. - London, 1977 + Robert A. Friedlander (ed.): Terrorism: documents of international and local control. - Dobbs Ferry/N.Y., 1979 + Brian M. Jenkins: International terrorism: trends and potentialities, Santa Monica/Cal., 1978 + Jillian Becker: Hitler's children: the story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang. - Philadelphia, 1977 + Yonah Finger Alexander (ed.): Terrorism: Interdisciplinary perspectives. - New York, 1977 + J. Bowyer Bell: A time of terror: how democratic societies respond to revolutionary violence. - New York, 1978 + J. Bowyer Bell: Terror out of Zion: Irgun Zuai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine underground, 1929-1949. - New York, 1977

Prepared by the Department on foreign economic problems of capitalism, Institute of the world economy and international relations, U.S.S.R. academy of sciences.