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...computer, of course, was dead. The Internet, an entire universe (bright leaping data, shooting stars, comets of information, evanescent meteor showers) shut down. We fumbled in the dark for match and wick; we watched our shadows on the wall...
When the USIA's director Charles Wick, a buddy of Reagan's, got to Geneva, the Los Angeles Times's talented Washington bureau chief Jack Nelson asked him why U.S. Government spokesmen were just arriving when the Soviets had been putting out propaganda for days. Answered Wick: "You were here, Jack, that's all we need." Indeed, Nelson and his thousands of other colleagues in the free press were dispelling hogwash on all sides the moment they arrived in the old city...
...Charlie Wick's idea a year ago. The USIA director penned a letter to the chief Soviet spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, about having their two leaders talk to the Soviet and American people directly over television. There was no answer from Moscow. At the Geneva summit eleven months later, Wick was walking offstage from a ceremony when he ran into Zamyatin, whom he had never met "I didn't answer your letter," Zamyatin confessed with a sheepish smile. Replied Wick: "I was wondering if you read your mail." Both men laughed. The spirit of the moment had seized them and, more...
...keep it going. Wick will jet off for Moscow Sunday to begin setting up the cultural exchanges agreed on by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. Wedged in among the ideas on sports and arts are some new thoughts for television exposure. Wick is convinced that one of the reasons there has been no major new war for six years is the ability of people to look each other in the eye across continents and either praise worthy achievements or condemn villainous behavior. "Foreign policy is no longer the exclusive domain of the elites," he says. "Telecommunication has made...
...White House, we entered through the front door with those lovely pillars. Now they bring us to the servants' entrance." Inside the White House, she is still unmollified. "I wish there were something I could do to change your mood for the better," says USIA Director Charles Z. Wick. "There is," she replies. "You can send me back to New York immediately...