Search

Focuses on the appeal of radical Islam, with the view that more Muslims are being drawn to jihad. Discussion of how well the United States has countered the radical ideology with public diplomacy; Problem of the U.S. Information Agency closing down after the Cold War and the U.S.-sponsored international broadcast services consolidation into the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in 1994; Comment of Hillel Fradkin, a scholar of Islam and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, on engaging Islamists; Place of popular culture in gaining the attention of mass audiences with the BBG Arab-oriented Radio Sawa and Middle East Television.

Presents brief articles related to United States politics and government as of November 19, 2001. Report that the Taliban has granted Afghan citizenship to the terrorist Osama bin Laden; Increase of the number of people taking the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service exam to apply for diplomatic service; Mention of how the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is amassing a database of unsoliticed electronic mail messages for possible use in litigation; Others.

The expensive embassy construction program has some loopholes such as terrorists are getting blueprints. A look at what is being done about embassy safety.

Discusses the state of relations between the United States and Vietnam, in light of the signing of a trade agreement normalizing economic relations. Efforts of US Ambassador to Vietnam Pete Peterson; His comments on the trade agreement; US consulate in Ho Chi Minh City.

Discusses Secretary of State James Baker's options on what to do with the unfinished US Embassy in Moscow, currently filled with KGB electronic listening devices.

Report that the nomination of 61-year-old Shirley Temple Black as United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia has drawn the enthusiastic endorsement of the Czechoslovaks.

Reports that KGB electronic snooping has made security at the US Embassy in Moscow, Soviet Union, inadequate. Precautions taken by Secretary of State James Baker during negotiations at the Kremlin.

Report on a US investigation of communications and computer equipment used at the Moscow embassy. There was no evidence of tampering or bugging on the equipment.

Discusses demolishing the new U.S. chancery in Moscow because it is filled with Soviet bugging devices. Idea to dismantle it, and ship it back to U.S. to discover how state-of-the-art Soviet bugging equipment works and how it is installed.

The State Department takes a measure of responsibility for the massive breach of security at the US Embassy in Moscow. Civilian staffers, including Chief of Security, Frederick Mecke, allowed Soviet citizens into off-limits areas of the embassy compound. Remedial actions are outlined.

The new US Embassy being built in Moscow is so riddled with Soviet eavesdropping equipment and structural flaws that construction may be halted indefinitely. Seriousness of problem; reactions from Capitol Hill.

At the American embassy in Moscow, US technicians ceaselessly search for electronic bugs planted in equipment and walls. Soviet bugging devices; US precautions; advantages the Soviets have to spy; usual suspects in bugging.

A crash program to build 79 new embassies and beef up security of others stirs worry about waste. Attention is focusing on the cost of land, construction, furnishings and new personnel.

Discusses criticism being waged, according to insiders, by the State Department against United States Ambassador Robert Krueger. His open criticism of the Burundi government for failing to take steps to curb the Tutsi-dominated Army; How he has taken Western television crews on trips to troubled areas; Comment by a State Department spokesman.