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...most frightening segment of Barnouw's entire history, however, comes not in the "muddling through" decades of industrial machination and government ignorance, but in the instances where broadcasting is used as an aid to empire. In the final volume of his history, Barnouw states that most of these instances were accidental. But the history of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty shows the conscious U.S. reliance on radio to further counter-revolutionary ends...
...want a Democrat Spiro conning the unthinks on law-and-order, frightening citizens with national disaster unless we yet again and again cough up more billions for "defense," while an important segment of our population starves? No, thanks...
...among a small group of men over the editorship of a publication that sells slightly more than 70,000 copies every three months. But the publication is Foreign Affairs-the most prestigious journal of its kind in the world. And the quarrel is a family matter for a major segment of the nation's intellectual and political Establishment-the nearly 1,500 members of the Council on Foreign Relations...
Painstaking Precautions. The Camden raid was carried off with such devastating precision that one defense attorney termed it "not an arrest, but an ambush." Coupled with the arrest of five alleged conspirators in Buffalo, N.Y., it may have broken the spine of the Berrigan-centered segment of the antiwar movement. The Berrigan brothers themselves are in federal prisons awaiting an October trial in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of conspiring to blow up federal buildings and kidnap Henry Kissinger...
Painless History. Each segment was written by a different author, and each is independent of the others. But they blend perfectly. CBS and the BBC are not content to let history rest: CBS is currently dickering for the BBC series that stars Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter by Anne Boleyn. Taken together, the two series constitute a sort of Tudor One Man's Family, elegant television viewing and a painless way to learn some history. -Katie Kelly