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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN REVIEW OF TUES AM PAPERS/TV AND NEW REPUBLIC March 12, 1974 FOREIGN AFFAIRS "Divided, We Can Fall, Henry Tells Europe" heads NY News report noting HAK's "harshest criticism of Allies" in public since M-E war. A Soviet journalist til he emigrated to Israel last year, Kirill Chenkin in LA Times says "VOA is being heard loud and clear in USSR. And that's bad news. 11 Its Russ broadcasts are "much more mellow in exchange for halt in jamming. In effect, VOA is getting thru because they no longer say anything of value -- nothing that might be considered inimical to Communist cause. It's another price US pays for rapprochement, 11 Chenkin asserts. To Soviet "thinking people, 11 VOA, BBC and Radio Liberty "have long been a major part of their daily lives To get feel for new VOA imagine what reaction would be if Radio Moscow beamed programs to US that were complimentary to US foreign policy. " It's led to "drastic drop" in VOA audience. "Thus, the Soviet listener w/ intellectual curiosity must feel some- what more desperate these days, now that he knows he's being abandoned by those he once considered, perhaps naively, his friends, 11 says Chenkin. "This is detente? 11 Greene of NY News leads: "New offensive in the continuing battle. for control of SVN has opened in halls of Hill, w/ lobbyists pro and anti-Admin policy types -- taking over here for troops still fighting in Delta, " noting "fight here is over money, 11 Greene predicts "Admin will have trouble in getting Viet expenditures approved. But more to step up help for GVN received unexpected but most welcome support from indpt fact-finding group, 11 headed by former State asst secty John Allison. Quoting from the Amer. Security Council's report on "anti- VN propagandists and report's finding of "cause for hope(with) SVN on threshold of viability, 11 Greene says the "lines are still as clearly drawn [on Hill] as at the height of war¹¹ and if requested funds are denied, "it won't be by default. 11 Greene also finds "an interesting commentary on VN issue in terms of attention given it" is that "tucked away near bottom of p. 19" of Mon Post (tho unnamed by Greene) is -sentence story on the 35 school children killed by VC mortar shelling Karnow in New Republic says 2 other new reports