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...more than two decades the State Department and the United States Information Agency (USIA) have shared that duty. Last week a 21-member, foundation-supported study group* headed by Frank Stanton, former vice chairman of CBS, suggested that the USIA be abolished. After 98 interviews and ten months of deliberation, all but three members of the panel decided that there was too much duplication of effort between State and the USIA. The panel's major recommendations to Congress...
...Create a new quasi-independent Information and Cultural Affairs Agency, which would be supervised by the State Department and would combine the old cultural programs of the USIA and the State Department...
...month, a group of 28 key conservatives-members of Congress, business executives, party activists and even a labor representative-met at a resort on Maryland's Eastern Shore to map out strategy leading up to 1976. They did not agree on a blueprint for action, but as former USIA Director Frank Shakespeare put it, "You could see ideas fermenting there, people considering things they would have considered heretical two or three years ago, asking what is the right thing to do with respect to the country and conservative principles." Said New York Senator James Buckley, who organized the meeting...
...reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that we do not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. We're not in the business of trying to provoke revolutions...
...tension between VGA journalists and their USIA superiors is one item on the agenda of a 20-member panel that will recommend to Congress some changes in the Government's information services. The group, appointed by two commissions that monitor Government information programs, is headed by Frank Stanton, former vice chairman of CBS Inc. It is expected to recommend next month that the Voice be given greater journalistic freedom. It remains to be seen whether this is possible, given the built-in limitations of any Government-run news operation...