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...moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes. As real war becomes increasingly costly and nuclear war barely thinkable, East and West must duel with words. "Ideas are weapons," declared V.I. Lenin more than half a century ago. U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick says today, "The only war the U.S. has fought in the past four years has been the propaganda...
...Reagan Administration has upped the budget for USIA by 85%, to $795 million in 1985, and launched a six-year $1.3 billion modernization program for the VOA, four of whose transmitters were so old that they had been used by the Nazis in World War II. USIA Director Wick has made combatting Soviet propaganda a personal crusade. On occasion, he has gone overboard. Shortly after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls of ridicule...
...Wick has made clever use of satellite television. The USIA's new Worldnet linkup can put U.S. officials on the nightly news all over the globe. When the Soviets pulled out of the 1984 Olympics, nearly 60 million viewers in Africa and Europe watched Olympics Czar Peter Ueberroth and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley rebut Soviet complaints about inadequate security and alleged racism. Last April Worldnet began beaming a global two-hour morning news-and- entertainment show, complete with a perky anchor, called America Today. The USIA is now considering equipping Afghan "freedom fighters" with minicams to film action footage...
Republicans swatted their House leader Robert Michel for being defeatist on contra aid. Reagan bashed Congress for "surrendering" to Communists. USIA Director Charles Wick, a close Reagan friend, zapped his old buddy for wanting to lay a wreath at the Bitburg cemetery. Jewish groups continued to denounce his German itinerary. Reagan has been a great booster of the military, but that did not stop the American Legion from getting in some licks about Bitburg...
...women will compete for the Wick Trophy at MIT next weekend and the men will go after the Trophy...