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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Indonesian journalist Aliaswad Saleh told University of Mississippi audience that Communist propaganda exaggerates Southern racial violence reports; his State Department tour altered expectations of discrimination and lynchings, criticizing US info outreach vs. Communist media control in Indonesia.
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UNIVERSITY, Miss. - (INS) A visiting Indonesian journalist said Monday at the University of Mississippi that Communist propaganda has "grossly exaggerated" reports of racial violence in the South.
Aliaswad Saleh, publisher and editor of the Pontianak Pembangun (Construction) in West Kalimantan (Borneo), said that he expected to find severe racial discrimination, including lynchings, in his tour of the South as a guest of the State Department.
He said, however, that his tour of the region has resulted in a change of some of his opinions.
He added: "The Communists are doing a much more effective job of telling Indonesians their side of the issues than is your information service."
This, he said, is due mainly to the fact that the Communists own 20 per cent of the newspapers in his country.
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A visiting Indonesian journalist, Aliaswad Saleh, publisher and editor of the Pontianak Pembangun in West Kalimantan (Borneo), spoke at the University of Mississippi, stating that Communist propaganda has grossly exaggerated reports of racial violence in the South. He expected to find severe racial discrimination including lynchings during his tour as a guest of the State Department but changed some opinions after the tour. He added that Communists are more effective at telling Indonesians their side of issues than the US information service, due to owning 20 percent of newspapers in his country.