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...allies have tried to silence Radio Free Europe, which beams programs of news, music and political commentary to five Eastern European countries, and Radio Liberty, which broadcasts exclusively to the Soviet Union. Last week both stations were on the brink of being shut down-by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright...
...chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is waging a singlehanded and (so far) highly effective battle against the two stations whose broadcasts from West Germany, he feels, jeopardize America's efforts to improve relations with Communist nations. "These radios," says Fulbright, "should take their rightful place in the graveyard of cold war relics...
Altman, by contrast, feels free to polemicize in the more receptive atmosphere that Miller helped create. He is only 27, but his academic credentials are sound-a former Fulbright scholar from the University of Tasmania with a Cornell M.A. and lecturing experience at N.Y.U., he holds a lectureship at the University of Sydney. Altman's argument is that homosexuality is natural and good. It is society that is all wrong, by forcing the homosexual into the role of an oppressed minority. This makes the homosexual a revolutionary, along with oppressed and militant groups like blacks and women. Altman expounds...
...rather than toil. Scions of two of New Orleans' most prominent families, they were raised in colonnaded homes safely hidden from public view by delicate hedgewoods and stately live oaks. They graduated together in the top half of their law school class at Tulane; Baumbach then won a Fulbright scholarship to study international law in South America, while Borah entered the master's program in international trade at the London School of Economics. They appeared destined for splendid careers in international trade...
...which will have sales this year of about $2.7 billion, some 36% of the firm's global total.- He is Michel C. Bergerac, 39, who is almost as multinational as ITT itself. French-born "Mike" Bergerac is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has a home in Brussels. A Fulbright scholarship took Bergerac to the U.S., where he earned a master's degree in business administration at U.C.L.A. and traveled around working as a hired hand on Western ranches before entering the corporate world as a production manager for U.S. Divers Corp., a manufacturer of deep-sea diving equipment...