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Lawyers at the United States Information Agency (USIA), which funded the media training program run by the BU College of Communications, believe that CBS's use of the footage may have violated a 1948 law that prohibits the systematic distribution in the U.S. of material produced by the USIA or groups funded by it, according to agency spokesman Lesley Vossen...
...network did not know that the now-controversial footage was shot by an AMRC-trained resistor, he said. The legality of the footage came into question because the training project was funded entirely by the USIA...
Because the 1948 law requires that distribution of USIA-funded material must be "systematic" in order to be illegal, it is unclear whether a one-time showing of footage on one network would break...
...People: Russian Painting 1850-1910," the exhibit of 62 realist late-19th century Russian paintings is one of 13 cultural, educational and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resulting from November summit meetings between President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev, United States Information Agency (USIA) officials announced this week...
Wick's critics are fearful that he risks turning the supposedly objective VOA into a mouthpiece of right-wing jingoism. Counters USIA Counselor Stan Burnett: "We are advocates. We are supposed to create a public climate for U.S. policy." Wick regrets that he cannot do more. "In an open society like ours, we can't tell the press what to cover. We can't focus on a subject like the Soviets do and just keep hammering away...