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There may be radio listeners who think all disk jockeys ought to be in jail. But in Angola, La., two DJs have started their careers behind bars. Big Brother Amin and the Duke of L.A., who broadcast five days a week from Station KLSP, are both armed-robbery convicts. Their target audience is also captive: the 4,645 inmates of Angola's 18,000-acre prison farm. The call letters for KLSP stand for Louisiana State Penitentiary, the "incarceration station" that is the only prisoner-run radio...
...August, KLSP has broadcast from a room in the prison compound using equipment donated by a charity. Amin and the Duke deliver news on the hour but don't bother with traffic reports. They also play musical requests. Among the favorites: Jailhouse Rock and Chain Gang. The station will soon include a weekly program on legal topics like recent Supreme Court decisions. "It's entertaining, educational and a way to get information quickly to inmates," says Assistant Warden Roger Thomas. The DJs eventually plan to broadcast performances by prison bands. Says the Duke: "Some people think everybody in here...
...Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from the CIA shortly after the Shah was overthrown. Yet on the arms-laden U.S. cargo plane that flew former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane into Tehran last May 28 to establish...
...when his successor Poindexter phoned him to suggest a mission to Tehran. Poindexter believed the U.S. had an agreement for the release of all remaining hostages. On May 28, after his CIA briefing, McFarlane, along with North, NSC Middle East Specialist Howard Teicher and George Cave, former CIA deputy station chief in Tehran, flew to Iran. As soon as he arrived in Tehran, McFarlane phoned Washington and learned that no hostages had been released. Things went downhill from there. During three days of talks the American quartet met only officials who appeared to have little constituency or influence. McFarlane returned...
...Ortega's request, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted to pardon Hasenfus, a process that took only a few hours from the time it was first announced by the Nicaraguan government radio station...