Word: keogh
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...employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente as a reality and to report evenhandedly on the new warmth in U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations...
Today, many experienced journalists at the VGA are bitterly disappointed. Keogh and his deputy for the Soviet bloc, John Shirley, they say, have allowed political considerations to mute the Voice. Among recent examples they cite...
Last week Keogh, John Shirley and VGA Program Director Jack Shellenberger rejected the charges of censorship...
...interviews with TIME, they defended their policy of not offending Communist governments. Keogh said that VGA has devoted "hundreds of hours" of air time to reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that...
...good grades themselves. Others are simply being generous, awarding more A's and B's because students need them to get into graduate school. This is tough on graduate schools. "Everyone coming in with a 4.0 makes it hard to evaluate the grades," says William Keogh, assistant dean of Stanford's law school. As a result, many graduate schools are increasingly depending on entrance exams...