Word: network
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With Candor. When President Kenne dy made his nuclear testing announcement a fortnight ago, the USIA played a major role in the Administration's campaign to head off foreign criticism by explaining the reasons for the decision. The Voice of America beamed the speech live over its entire network, followed up with two rebroadcasts and a series of explanatory newscasts. Films and video tapes of the speech were flown to 101 nations. Last week USIA posts abroad were analyzing foreign reaction to Kennedy's speech and reporting it milder than even the bland and brief censure directed against...
...moving to improve itself. "Prejudice exists in the U.S.," one broadcast said candidly, then went on to outline the nation's progress in winning civil rights for Negroes. When Astronaut John Glenn went aloft last month, his entire flight was broadcast live in English on the VOA network by announcers who were fully prepared to keep right on reporting the news if disaster struck...
Inspection and enforcement are not synonyms. No matter how intricate a network the West demands, inspection cannot enforce a test-ban treaty by punishing violations. As soon as the Soviet Union violates an agreement, we would have to restore our ability to test, why then, should we dismantle at the outset the best means of enforcing compliance...
Establishing a network of contacts throughout Latin American Universities is a problem that traveling Association members will cope with this summer...
...will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be detonated at high altitudes to check the effect on ground communications and radar. In previous tests, ionization caused by nuclear explosions wreaked havoc with electronics gear, raised the possibility that an enemy might try to knock out the electronic network of U.S. defenses by exploding warheads at high altitudes...