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...Arab countries, where illiteracy rates run high, radio is heavily relied on as a source of both entertainment and information. Almost every family can afford a cheap transistor, which is able to pick up most of the high-powered stations-including special services of the Voice of America, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Albania's Radio Tirana-as well as local broadcasts. On the night of a speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Cairo streets echo with the sound of his harsh voice...
...Another, almost accidental victim of the affair was Conservative Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne, who was briefly suspended by the Daily Telegraph after he told a BBC interviewer that the British public "didn't give a f-" about the Lambton case. Worsthorne was soon back in print, but the paper advised him that for the next month he should not appear on television until after the bedtime of British children...
THURSDAY: The Battle of Culloden (1964) Highly imaginative documentary-style recreation of the last full-scale battle fought on British soil from director Peter Watkins whose BBC Special "The War Game," about the prospect of nuclear warfare, petrified millions. CH.2. 8 p.m. B-W. 90 min. (May be pre-empted by Senate Watergate Hearings, which may also petrify millions...
...intensity of overseas interest in Nixon's Watergate speech was exemplified by the British Broadcasting Corporation's TV network: it stayed on the air more than two hours later than usual for his appearance, at 2 a.m. British time. The BBC estimates that more than 2,500,000 Britons stayed up, glued to the telly. Said a British Foreign Office spokesman: "Nixon says he would like to get on with the job. But can he do it? And contending with a hostile Congress, his power to fulfill his commitments will surely be limited...
...days after the verdict, Niesewand, 28, remained in jail-where he had been since Feb. 20 under an order sanctioned by the government's emergency powers (TIME, March 19). Until his detention, Niesewand had been a protean freelance, representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, U.P.I., Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African papers. His determined digging into Rhodesian affairs consistently angered Smith's white-supremacist government. Under unaccustomed fire from the Rhodesian press, officials promised to "review" the detention order. Late last week, Niesewand was released and immediately deported-an act that turned...