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...Baton Rouge, visit the capital built by Huey Long and take a walk through the campus of LSU (see for yourself what a certified party school looks like...
Donahue was well known to Soviet TV audiences even before last month's visit. His two so-called Citizens' Summits -- satellite-linked question-answer sessions between studio audiences in the U.S. and Soviet Union, co-moderated by Donahue and Soviet Journalist Vladimir Pozner -- were telecast in the U.S.S.R. last year, as was a Donahue segment featuring Houston Biomedical Researcher Arnold Lockshin and his family, who defected to the Soviet Union last October. But Donahue's aggressive, confrontational interviewing style seemed to confuse and anger many Soviets, who saw it as evidence of hostility...
Planning for the Soviet visit began last March. Gosteleradio, the Soviet agency in charge of TV and radio, offered to split the costs. The show's producers declined, but did agree to use Soviet TV crews. Donahue is sensitive to criticism that he might have been manipulated by the Soviets for propaganda purposes. "They had an agenda," he admits, "but I don't think they used me in any way that was different from the way that we might want to show off our best side to a Soviet television crew...
This week's programs also include a follow-up session with participants in last year's Citizens' Summits, a magazine-style segment showing Donahue's visit to Chernobyl and other Soviet locales, and a satellite-linked discussion between American reporters in Moscow and Soviet reporters in New York, being taped this week. But potentially the most controversial show had to be scuttled after negotiations broke down. Donahue had originally planned to air a debate between 100 Jewish dissidents and another group of 100 Jews who are satisfied with life in the Soviet Union. After both sides balked at a joint...
Instead of war, the two countries turned to trade and games. Pakistan sounded out India about the possibility of importing three elephants to replenish its dwindling supply of five, all living in zoos. In addition, India agreed that Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq would visit in February to attend an India-Pakistan cricket match...