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New World Information and Ploman, Edward, 208
Communication Order Porter, Vincent, 173
(NWICO), 7, 10, 39n, 76, 92-7, Presidential Commission on
106n, 114, 133, 148--9, 197 International Radio
mandate of, 92 Broadcasting, 78
see also free flow of information Preston, William, 92
policy, Less Developed Primestar, 166-8, 189n
Countries (LDCs), New see also K-Prime Partners
International Economic Order Propaganda, 76-8, 86, 91, 98, 111,
(NIEO) 150
Newell, Gregory, 135, 154n and DBS, 51-5, 15, 77-8, 84, 150
News Corporation International, see also Radio Free Europe (RFE),
4-5, 170, 171-3, 181, 182, 185 Radio Liberty (RL), United
see also BSkyB, Rupert Murdoch, States Information Agency
News Datacom, StarTV (USIA)
News Datacom, 5, 172 Prudential Insurance, 73 n
see also News Corporation Pruitt, Jean, 172
International Pucket, Allen E., 43-4
Nichols, Richard B., 13~
Nicolaidis, K.alypso, 117 Radio Corporation of America
Nixon, Richard/Nixon (RCA), 19, 20, 43, 44, 52, 60,
administration, 54, 56, 51, 65, 62, 63, 65, 73 n
71 n, 77, 114 Radio Free Europe (RFE), 77, 78,
North American Free Trade ISO
Agreement (NAFTA), 145, see also Central Intelligence
156n Agency (CIA)
see also Canada-United States Radio Liberty (RL), 77, 78, 150
Free Trade Agreement see also Central Intelligence
Nynex, 153n, 187n Agency (CIA)
Rancho del Cielo, 1
Obuchowski, Janice, 194 Rand Corporation, 66 n
Onstead, Phillip C., 128n Reagan, Ronald, 1, 10, 11, 13,
open skies policy, 57-9, 65, 71 n, 94-5, 97, 105n, 110, 113,
72n, 110 120--1, 132-6, 141, 162,
Organization for Economic 194
Cooperation and Development Reagan doctrine, 96
(OECD), 138-9, 147 'Reaganomics', 34
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Regional Bell Operating Companies
Countries (OPEC), 34, 93 (RBOCs), 131, 153 n, 161-3,
Outer Space Treaty, 86-7, 103n 178, 187n
Reinhard, Keith L., 180
PanAmSat, 5 Republic of Korea, 157 n
Panitch, Leo, vii, 203, 204 Richardson, John, 77
Parker, Ian, 25 Robinson, Glenn, 114-15
Pastore, John, 48 Rostow, Eugene, 56
People's Republic of China Rostow Commission/Report,
(PRC), 151, 171-2, 211 n 56-7, 59, 65, 117
Philips, 174, 175 Ruddy, F.S., 83
Playboy Entertainment, 168 Rusk, Dean, 48