Benign Sabotage

Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, who is fighting hard to get Congress' approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead.

The damage was repaired, Benton said, and the broadcasts were now coming in better than ever in Moscow.

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