Word: pacifica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowed down his revolutionary activity, and his threat to Latin America began to wane. One reason was that local Communists regarded Castro as a competitor and did not help his guerrillas. Also, Russia was not sympathetic to Castro's calls for drastic action. Its strategy calls for a via pacifica in Latin America. The Soviets hope that local conditions, abetted by U.S. blunders, will play into their scheme of things. At present, their great hope is for making serious inroads in Peru, where the nationalistic military junta is pointedly turning to the Soviets to step up its feud with...
...have an open microphone in a free-speech station," says Harold Taylor, a Pacifica director and former president of Sarah Lawrence College. "The cure for bigotry is not served by refusing to allow expression of views which we con sider reprehensible...
...Pacifica stations often find themselves set upon from all quarters. They get ultraconservative barbs for broadcasting taped speeches by Malcolm X and the views of Radicals Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin. Broadcasts by Conservative William Buckley and right-wing "Objectivist" Ayn Rand have stirred anguished complaints from offended liberals...
...waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...
Though it has wide popularity, Pacifica is far from prosperous. KPFA ("Your listener-nonsupported station") hopes to raise $75,000 in a "May Day" fund drive. KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...