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Women's sailing fourth at Emily Wick Trophy...
...York-based Capital Cities/ ABC woke up to its drug troubles in 1984 after an employee collapsed at work, and subsequently died, from a cocaine overdose. Shortly thereafter, Capital Cities, which later acquired ABC, discovered organized drug dealing in one of its divisions. Last year, according to Dr. Robert Wick, corporate medical director for American Airlines, a computer operator who was high on marijuana failed to load a crucial tape into a major airline's computer reservations system. Result: the system was out of service for some eight hours, costing the company about $19 million. Says Wick: "That...
Pushing the visitors along were over 150 Wildcat booosters bused down from upstate New York to cheer and wave "GO WICK" banners--in the pouring rain...
...Wick is particularly eager to reach West European youth, whom he regards as ) dangerously "neutralist," in part because they lack a memory of the U.S. Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II. Frets Wick: "They don't have the indissoluble link with their blood brothers fighting totalitarianism...
...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...