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...This country's racial trouble is the USIA's biggest headache in our effort to spread the idea of the moral leadership of America," he said...
Rowan quoted a Chinese charge that the Civil Rights bill is a "legislative fraud designed to stifle the Negro civil rights movement." Noting that anti-American charges fall on sympathetic ears throughout Asia and Africa, Rowan outlined USIA programs to counteract the effects of Chinese propaganda...
Lions & Goats. "Organized bands entering city," Hoyt observed laconically as the battle began. "Firing into air and possibly on consulate. Just saw Congolese in tattered dress, presume Popular Army." As the rebels pushed past the consulate, he sent USIA Officer Philip R. Mayhew, 29, off on a "successful, courageous dash" to the airport with two American girl tourists. The firing intensified, and Hoyt messaged: "Pole shot and rope cut by gunfire, but consulate flag still flying." At one point, rebels actually broke into the consulate, and Hoyt prudently retired with his four assistants to the "strong room," leaving a bottle...
Compared to almost $300 million currently being spent by the U.S. on Peace Corps, USIA and cultural exchange programs, France seems to be getting more than her money's worth. Even behind the Iron Curtain-in Bulgaria, Poland and North Viet Nam-French teachers are vigorously shaping minds to the French way of thought. In Hanoi, the Lycée Albert Sarraut has never closed its doors. Rome's Lycée Chateaubriand, considered...
...sheer coincidence, four Americans-USIA officers Martin, 27, and Michael A. Kristula, 41; Bernard Rifkin, 52, labor adviser to the Agency for International Development; and Robert Fergerstrom, 26, a Peace Corps volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo...