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...elite student I talked to, made a practise of sending its graduates out of the country; Rahman says that out of around 40 graduates 25 went abroad his year--although most went to Oxbridge (colonial ties still bind), not the U.S. Unlike the Southeast Asian student, Rahman says the USIA was not particularly encouraging about his chances. Right now he is just down the road from an old schoolboy...
...Information Agency, which with more than 9,000 people is about one-fourth as large as the entire State Department, has done nothing else quite so effectively as oppose a reorganization plan drafted by the prestigious Stanton Commission. The commission logically believes that the cold war, for which the USIA was formed, is over and that most of the agency's function should now be absorbed by the State Department...
...Change the status of the USIA'S broadcast division; the Voice of America would continue independent of the State Department, but the director of the Information and Cultural Affairs Agency and the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy Information would be members of its board of overseers, along with three private citizens. Voice journalists have complained lately that USIA, out of deference to "the U.S.-U.S.S.R." détente, has censored their stories reporting on Communist dissidents (TIME, Dec. 16). The panel recommendations were intended to insulate the Voice from future Government pressure...
...proposals have the private approval of the State Department but not of the USIA'S current chief, James Keogh, who argues that the changes would "fragment" USIA activities. Congress will not discuss the recommendations until after Easter, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starts hearings on the USIA budget...
...Including Pollster George Gallup, International Lawyer Rita Hauser, Reader's Digest Editor in Chief Hobart Lewis, former USIA Director Leonard Marks, and Author James Michener...