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Show Soviet Propaganda Pictures Football As Murder, Mayhem WASHINGTON Soviet propaganda propa-ganda is in constant search for -some phase of American life to ridicule. The latest is a picture of American football as a carnival of murder and mayhem. The Soviet radio also doesn't like American lady wrestlers or macaroni maca-roni eating contests. According to radio Moscow all these things are part of a capitalist plot to whip the toiling masses into a "bestial" frame of mind for World War III. As a horrible example, the radio cites conditions at the University of Michigan, where, it says: "Players are often carried from the football field to the hospital or even straight to the cemetery." Football promoters in the United States are so profit-hungry that they are trying to turn every game into a fight, the Moscow radio said. "Football players are forced obediently to carry out the orders of their bosses under the threat of unemployment," the radio said. "For the men who treat sport as a money-making proposition, people's peo-ple's health and lives are of no concern." con-cern." Nothing like that exists in the glorious sports world of the Soviet lUnion, listeners were assured. , The athlete in the United States lis just the tool of the Wall Street jbosses. "Let the people become used to (seeing death," the Russian an-nouncement an-nouncement explained. "Let them J learn to attack each other. This is the reasoning of the business men. After this training, it will be easier to send them to the shambles." The Moscow listener got this word picture of a women's wrestling match: "Two women enter the ring and start pummeling each other. This lasts until one of them faints. The spectators of this barbarous affair are few, but they pay well, and this is just what the profiteers want." |