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...recommended public works, called a series of conferences with business leaders, and declared that "we have re-established confidence." But in the course of 1930, the Times industrials sank to 199, and the entire economy kept contracting; some 1,000 banks failed, wheat slumped from $1.35 per bu. to 76 cents, and panhandlers proliferated. Hard times were here to stay...
Lawyers at the United States Information Agency (USIA), which funded the media training program run by the BU College of Communications, believe that CBS's use of the footage may have violated a 1948 law that prohibits the systematic distribution in the U.S. of material produced by the USIA or groups funded by it, according to agency spokesman Lesley Vossen...
...footage was actually shot by an Afghan resistor trained through Boston University's Afghan Media Resource Center [AMRC], said Donald S. Goldman, associate dean of the BU College of Communications. Hoover apparently obtained the footage when the Afghan resistor came to the United States, Goldman added...
...allegations of illegal distribution of footage come in the wake of a controversy involving the AMRC in which the dean of BU's College of Communications resigned because he thought the AMRC program was flawed by faulty execution and questionable ethics...
Before resigning his post, Redmont cosigned a letter to John Silber, president of BU, with nine other BU faculty members calling into question the integrity of the media project...