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...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...
...tried, in his speech to the U.N., to shift the focus of world attention to issues like regional conflicts. He also gave an interview to five Soviet journalists--the first such session since John Kennedy spoke with an Izvestiya editor in 1961 --sat for questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the White House to announce his new arms initiative. For their part, the Soviets showed signs of new flexibility about their own proposals, suggested they might halt work on a controversial radar facility and offered an exit visa to Yelena Bonner, the ailing wife...
...report by the BBC that Bonner had arrived in Vienna yesterday was incorrect, her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich, said in a public statement yesterday...
Radio Moscow's 37,500-kW transmitters can reach billions of radios, but that hardly guarantees everyone will listen. In pro-Soviet North Yemen, for instance, only 14% of listeners tune in Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they...
Alasdair Milne, the BBC's director general, called the disclosures "greatly overdramatized." But BBC journalists fear that any link with MI5 could feed suspicion that the corporation is a government front...