Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Authorization: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 3190 ... May 30, 1974 |
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ABSHIRE Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Ambassador Kohler American areas audience Board for International budget Chairman Communist countries CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consolidation contributions costs coverage credibility détente developments DURKEE East Europe East European domestic Eastern Europe effort Eisenhower Commission emigration employees Europe and Radio facilities fiscal year 1974 foreign funds Germany going Gulag Archipelago human rights important interest International Broadcasting jamming Lampertheim Liberty and Radio LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS mass media ment million Munich objective official organizations peaceful coexistence percent personnel point of view political problems question Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Committee Radio Moscow reduction RFE and RL RFE programs RFE's RL's ROCHE Russian Samizdat SARGEANT Senator CHURCH Senator HUMPHREY Senator JAVITS Senator PERCY solicitation Soviet citizens Soviet listeners Soviet media Soviet society Soviet Union Supplied by Board tion transmitters USSR Voice of America West Western
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Page 52 - Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Page 2 - States to promote the right of freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom "to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," in accordance with article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Page 3 - Board may determine are necessary to assure that grants are applied in a manner not inconsistent with the broad foreign policy objectives...
Page 2 - Mr. Chairman, it is an honor for me to appear before this committee for the first time.
Page 50 - filling the information gap" should not be understood in an exclusively political or narrowly local sense. The task of RFE/RL includes a comprehensive coverage of the many issues of concern to all humanity, such as technological and scientific advance, population growth, environmental pollution, urbanization, the distribution and depletion of world resources, and the changing patterns...
Page 34 - Peaceful co-existence does not spell an end to the struggle between the two world social systems. The struggle will continue between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, between world Socialism and Imperialism, up to the complete and final victory of Communism on a world-wide scale.
Page 35 - ... total blackout' of the waveband, or with the 'rusty saw', or with vulgar music. It means that grown persons are reduced to infants: swallow what your mother has already chewed for you. Even the most benevolent broadcasts during the most friendly visits are jammed just as systematically: there must not be the slightest deviation in the evaluation of events, in the nuances, in the accents. Everybody has to be informed of and remember an event in 100 per cent the same way. And many...
Page 52 - ... situations. The peoples of East Europe and the USSR, provided they know the relevant facts, are better qualified to judge the efficacy and consequences of their actions than anyone outside the countries. Such advice is likely to be resented and, if acted upon, could cause harm to the people involved. 6. No programs will be broadcast which are based upon or use rumors or unsubstantiated information. If, under unusual circumstances, a constructive purpose will be served by calling attention to...
Page 31 - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are unique in the entire spectrum of international broadcasting. They differ substantially from the official broadcasts of the United States and Western European nations. They operate essentially as a free press does in the United States. They too bring world news and interpretation into the Soviet sphere, but they devote a substantial portion of their broadcasts to news and essential background information about internal developments in and among the communist...
Page 52 - Soviet or East European states have obligated themselves to observe, and such internationally accepted documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 5. Avoidance of tactical advice, by which is meant recommendations for specific action in particular cases, except in unusual circumstances, and then only to calm moods in tense situations. The peoples of East Europe and the USSR, provided they know the relevant facts, are better qualified to judge the efficacy and consequences of their actions...