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kjl@atexnet.UUCP (Ken Lebowitz) writes:

>``They are very eager to place their programming on American
>public radio. They don't have any of our programming on their
>counterpart -- the domestic (Russian language service),'' he told
>Reuters, adding, ``They concede that there are political problems and
>what they say to their own people is a bit more sensitive than what
>they say on the external side.''

I'm sort of puzzled by this swap.  Does this mean we put their programs
on our local radio, and they put our programs on ...  "crackly
shortwave" radio intended for the US (and other English-speaking
countries)?

It would give wider coverage to NPR, though, unless NPR is on one of
the newer US shortwave stations.
--
Eric Roskos (roskos@IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL)

        "The left side of the brain/Dominates the right./The right side
         has to labor through/The long and sleepless night." -P. Simon