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Secret taping is not illegal under federal or District of Columbia law. However, a 1981 GSA regulation generally forbids the recording of telephone conversations by Government employees if the other party has not consented, a fact that two USIA general counsels brought to Wick's attention in March...
Indeed, the only one who is not displeased by the USIA chief's conduct is the President, who last week called Wick "honorable," and pledged to let him "continue" in his post. Perhaps Wick's previous Wattian statement this summer that the reason Margaret Thatcher opposed the Grenada invasion was that she was a "woman" should have clued the President earlier on that another staff member was falling by the wayside. Perhaps the USIA chief's alleged summer redecoration of his house with public funds should have alerted Mr. Reagan that Wick was spluttering. Let us at least hope that...
...Great Britain Walter Annenberg, Wick admitted that he had "in haste" failed to inform a "small percentage" of his callers that they were being tape-recorded. He apologized, saying, "I can understand how some might feel that it was intrusive." Wick, who in 1981 had been advised by the USIA general counsel not to secretly record his calls, says he disconnected his machine last July...
...trouble began about a month ago, when John Shirley, a United States Information Agency official and Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
...What the USIA is planning is not a mere documentary, or a symbolic show of support for Solidarity, but a program to be aired internationally, in a sort of cold war battle over the airwaves--the kind of show that portrays the evils of communism and the righteous causes of the good old USA. While the voices of campus groups ought never to be silenced or censored. Giamatti is right not to drag the name of a diverse liberal university into that particular realm of international politics...