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Rogers put on an uncharacteristically tough performance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, easily matching wits with Democratic Chairman J. William Fulbright. That was no accident. Nixon had told Rogers to take the offensive; Rogers spent the weekend with his top advisers, rehearsing for the hearings. He ruled out no possible U.S. course except use of nuclear weapons and commitment of U.S. ground troops to the fighting. "We're not going to make any announcement about what we're not going to do," he said. "We think there has been altogether too much of that in this war." Predictably, Laird...
...appalled to learn of Senator Fulbright's efforts to silence Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty [March 6]. I did agree with the Senator that the war in Viet Nam was wrong, but this policy of avoiding conflict and appeasing the Russians and Chinese is worse...
...Soviet and Eastern European regimes understandably want RFE and Radio Liberty closed down since they challenge the governments' complete control over the information reaching their people. Despite Fulbright's argument that the stations must be silenced as a U.S. contribution toward relaxing tensions in Europe, many Western Europeans maintain exactly the opposite. As one West German editorial put it: "In this era of detente, it is all the more important that the voice of free opinion is not silenced." Even though his Ostpolitik seeks better relations with the Communist countries, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt obviously agrees...
Stop Payments. One basis of Fulbright's two-year-old campaign is that the stations, instead of being the private organizations that they claimed to be, were actually supported by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last spring the Nixon Administration ordered the CIA to stop its payments and proposed the creation of a public-private corporation similar to COMSAT that would run the two stations under congressional scrutiny. But Fulbright has created a deadlock between the House and Senate over bills that would keep the stations alive until this or some other new arrangement could be worked...
...happens, Fulbright's criticism of the stations is itself a cold war relic. To be sure, when they were founded in the early 1950s, both Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were indeed propaganda tools that sought to undermine the Communist governments. To its enduring discredit, Radio Free Europe, in the opening stage of the 1956 revolution, encouraged Hungarian freedom fighters to believe that the West would intervene militarily on their side. Since then, however, there have been massive personnel and policy changes at both stations...