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Allegations that the dean of Boston University's College of Communications censored a report about an Afghani resistance news organization have renewed debate in a long-running controversy over academic and journalistic ethics, university faculty members said this week...
...January of 1986, Boston University received federal funds to send BU personnel to Pakistan to train about 30 Afghani reporters, photographers, and video camera men for the Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC). The organization aims to provide information usually censored by Afghanistan's state-run press to the Western news agencies...
Goldman said that the BU faculty members in Pakistan had taught the Afghani rebels the basics of good journalism regardless of political ideology. "What we've tried to do is teach them to be objective, to be independent and to confirm their stories. We'd be just as willing to help the Sandinistas, Cubans or the Soviets develop an independent media." Original Ballots Found From Allegedly Corrupt Student Election...
Immediately following a lecture by Gerasimov on a variety of issues relating to Soviet-American affairs, Charles M. Brockunier '62, a Cambridge resident who said he has actively supported the Afghani resistance movement since 1981, began posting pictures of Afghani children allegedly mutilated by Russian troops...
...cited other Soviet atrocities, including setting children on fire, throwing Afghani citizens out of helicopters, and bombing villages...