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...official outlet for the United States Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America, with 2,303 employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente...
...rolling as high as ever. Says a Park Avenue millionaire: "Today's inheritors of big money have a totally different attitude from their grandfathers. Grandpa tightened his belt temporarily during lean times because he perceived the System as basically stable. Today the wealthy are preparing for revolution or Communism or whatever, and want to use the cash while it will still buy something. The more they speak poor, the more they are spending rich." The scion, who has homes in Manhattan and Bermuda, is shopping for a new yacht...
...started late, people laughed--it just wouldn't happen. And when we asked why women don't get work points for doing housework, people said we weren't distinguishing properly between activity for individuals and activity for the collective, and besides, true equality won't be possible until communism grows out of socialism; for now, political equality is all that matters. "It is a question of different social systems," someone said finally, "capitalism and socialism," and when Linda La Violette of Stony Brook said women were exploited under both, the Chinese women in the room nodded and smiled but said...
There was a singularly urgent tone to President Nguyen Van Thieu's National Day radio address last week. He warned that the combination of an unruly opposition in the South and continued North Vietnamese military attacks could "lead the country into the hands of Communism." The remark was a lightly veiled threat by the President that he would no longer tolerate the massive demonstrations of South Viet Nam's aggressive, Catholic-led resistance that began in September and have since brought his government to its most serious political crisis in years...
Europe's soft underbelly may not be far from Communism's grasp. As Americans, we should ready ourselves for the possibility of a partial Communist takeover in Europe. We must either bend our idealism in favor of friendly co-existence or more actively support the anti-Communist forces in Southern Europe. Janice L. Morrison Leawood, Kans...