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...result was imprisoned for five years for defaming the Soviet state, gave a copy of Reflections to a Dutch correspondent. On July 10, a few days after returning to the Installation and exactly seven years after my clash with Khrushchev over nuclear testing, I turned on the BBC or VOA and heard my name. The announcer reported that on July 6 the Dutch newspaper Het Parool had published my article...
...blank screen is a license to kill. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, China's regime implicitly acknowledged its vulnerability to short waves by singling out the Voice of America for charges of slander and fabrication. In fact, the VOA had broadcast the truth back into the People's Republic, jamming...
Chinese officials also implicitly criticized the Voice of America, which broadcasts English- and Chinese-language programming into China. The New China News Agency singled out one VOA report that quoted "independent-minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions...
...President opened his news conference with a pitch for his 1987 fiscal year budget, and took note of critics who say it is "DOA--dead on arrival." He said those critics only want a tax increase to reduce deficits, adding that any such increase would be "VOA--vetoed on arrival...
Wick's critics are fearful that he risks turning the supposedly objective VOA into a mouthpiece of right-wing jingoism. Counters USIA Counselor Stan Burnett: "We are advocates. We are supposed to create a public climate for U.S. policy." Wick regrets that he cannot do more. "In an open society like ours, we can't tell the press what to cover. We can't focus on a subject like the Soviets do and just keep hammering away...