Listen To This3lesson 6
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News in Brief
News Item 1:
1. General Comprehension. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) President Reagan ____________ against South Africa.
a. opposes the sanctions
b. opposes the Senate's veto of sanctions
c. is for the sanctions
d. is for the Senate's veto of sanctions
(2) The sanctions now become law because ______________.
a. the Senate has voted to override the House's veto of the sanctions.
b. The House has voted to override the veto by a decisive ninety-seven to thirty-three
c. both the Senate and the House have voted to override President Reagan's veto
d. American civil rights leaders support the decision of the Senate
(3) The Senate has voted to override the veto by a decisive ______________.
a. sixty-eight to eleven
b. seventy-eight to twenty-one
c. eighty-eight to thirty-one
d. ninety-eight to forty-one
2. Spot Dictation. Listen to the tape again and fill in the following blanks.
American leaders, including , watched the Senate debate from as members argued not so much about , more about already passed by or .
News Item 2:
General Comprehension. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) to complete each of the following statements.
1. American food aid has been given to _____________.
a. South Africa
b. southern African countries
c. the neighboring countries of South Africa
d. African countries
2. American food aid could be cut off if South Africa carries out its threat ____________.
a. to retaliate US sanctions
b. to retaliate American civil rights movement
c. to ban exports of US grain
d. to ban imports of US grain
3. According to Foreign Minister Pic Botha, if US sanctions were imposed, his government would ______________.
a. ban imports of US goods
b. stop its transport service to carry US food aid to neighboring countries.
c. stop imports and refuse to carry US grain to neighboring countries
d. carry out its threat of retaliation
News Item 3:
1. Identification. Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II by recognizing the person's identity.
Column I Column II
(1) Muammar Quddafi a. National Security Adviser
(2) John Poindexter b. White House Spokesman
(3) Larry Speakes c. Libyan leader
Answer: (1) ?? ; (2) ?? ; (3) ?? .
2. Spot Dictation. Listen to the tape again and fill in the following blanks.
The White House today denied that it in as part of Muammar Quddafi.
3. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
(1) According to the Washington Post, the stories were leaked . (When?)
(2) This morning the Washington Post revealed that stories were leaked alleging
.
(3) Larry Speakes said Poindexter denied
.
(4) Speakes did not deny the possibility that
.
News in Detail
1. Fill in the blanks according to what you have heard on the tape.
(1) The question in Washington today is if in by way of .
(2) Bob Woodward from the reports that there was an elaborate set up by to convince that the United States was , or that he might be .
2. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) for each of the following questions.
(1) Which one is the Paper that first caused the controversy?
a. New York Times.
b. Washington Post.
c. Wall Street Journal.
d. US News.
(2) Which one is not mentioned in the paper that first caused the controversy?
a. Libya and the United States were once again on a collision course.
b. Quddafi was plotting new terrorist attacks.
c. The Reagan Administration was planning to give Quddafi another lesson.
d. A new and wider bombing of Libya would be conducted in a few days.
3. Focusing on Details. Fill in the detailed information according to what you have heard.
(1) Warnings given by some American news organizations:
a. Libya should ;
b. US naval maneuvers then taking place in might be used as on as .
(2) The secret White House plan was
a. written on ,
b. outlined by ,
c. calling for ,
d. suggesting to use .
(3) The examples of the disinformation program used domestically:
a. while some US officials told the press , President Reagan was being told in a memo that ;
b. while some officials were telling the press of in Libya , US officials really believed that and that CIA's efforts ;
c. while officials were telling the press , in fact .
(4) This Policy of deception was approved at .
(5) The meeting was chaired by .
Special Report
1. General Comprehension. Fill in the blanks according to what you have heard.
(1) Two new studies published today, on the links between .
(2) The first suicide study by a team from examines .
(3) The second suicide study by a team from examines about .
(4) The first suicide study concludes that the teen suicides go up by about suicides per story while the adult suicides go up by about suicides per story.
(5) The second suicide study concludes that about stimulated .
(6) The other well-known periods of adolescent depression include, according to the tape,
a. ,
b. ,
c. .
(7) The CBS's Vice President insists that these movies also move thousands of teenagers to
a. ,
b. , and
c. .
2. True or False Questions.
(1) The Vice President of CBS denies the possibility that the made-for-TV movies may move some teenagers to suicide.
(2) David Philips suggests the media could decrease the teen suicide problem by changing the way that the suicide stories are presented.
(3) According to some psychiatrists, without the influence of television stories, some other events might well have triggered those particularly vulnerable, suicidal individuals to commit suicide.
(4) While most psychiatrists agree there is an imitative element in teenage suicides, they insist that society should try to repress information of this kind.
3. Provide the last year's statistics for the following chart.
(1) committed suicide;
(2) tried to take their own lives;
(3) attempted to do that.
1. sanctions against South Africa in 1986
As the effort to force South Africa to dismantle its apartheid system of racial separation gathered momentum, President Reagan ordered on September 9, 1986 limited trade and financial sanctions against South Africa. Among other measures, he ordered a ban on trade in nuclear technology, on computer sales to South African government security agencies, and on bank loans to Pretoria, except for those that financed projects that clearly benefited all racial groups.
2. override President's veto
The American Constitution gives the lawmaking power to Congress, but allows the President to propose measures for Congress's consideration and to prevent a bill from passing into law by refusing to sign it, to veto. But the bill can be repassed (the President's veto can be overridden) by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
1. Washington Post
One of the most influential newspapers in the United States. The Washington Post was founded as a Democratic paper by Stilson Hutchins in 1877 and was sold at auction in 1933 to Eugene Meyer. The only paper in the nation's Capital since the shutdown of the Washington Star in 1981, its daily circulation is 585,000; Sunday, 820,000.
2. Wall Street Journal
Founded in 1889 by Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones, published today by Dow Jones Co. Inc. in four regional editions, Eastern, Midwest, Southwest and Western. The Journal appears Monday through Friday. Its circulation is over 1.83 million daily, the largest of any paper in the United States.
3. New York Times
In many ways, New York Times is the greatest of American newspapers. It was founded as a penny paper by Henry J. Raymond and Edward B. Wesley in 1851. In 1972 it was awarded a Pulitzer for printing the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times' circulation is nationwide, 873,000 daily, 1.43 million Sunday.
4. Lybia
Socialist People's Lybian Arab Jamahiriya stretches along the northeastern coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It has an area of 679,536 square miles, with a population of 3.8 million. A greater part of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable plateau land. Its capital is Tripoli.
5. Muammar al-Quddafi
The political leader of Libya from 1969. He is also a leading sponsor of the Palestinian guerrilla movement and terrorist organizations, and a supporter of insurgents from Northern Ireland to the Philippines. The most militant of the heads of Arab states aligned against Israel, he supplied much of the financial and logistical support to the Egyptian and Syrian forces in the war with Israel in October 1973.
6. CBS
It was founded in 1927 in New York as United Independent Broadcasters Inc. by Arthur Judson and changed its name to Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. in 1974. CBS today is an international media-entertainment complex with seventy-one subsidiaries. It owns five television stations and fourteen radio stations, also publishes magazines and books, produces motion pictures and creates programming for cable television.
7. Pentagon
The headquarters of the American Department of Defense, Washington. One of the world's largest office buildings, it is constructed in five "rings" with a pentagonal central court. The Pentagon Papers were "classified" documents published by the US press in 1971 on US involvement in Vietnam.
8. Western White House
White House is the official residence of the president of the USA in Washington D.C. The name is often adapted to refer to other residences of the President. Western White House is at San Clements, California where Nixon had a home.
1. New England Journal of Medicine
Founded in 1812 and published weekly by the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Journal is a major source of the latest medical news and has a worldwide circulation of 210,000.
2. University of California in San Diego
University of California is an institution of higher education founded in 1868, with campuses at Berkeley, Davis, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Mount Hamilton, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
3. Columbia University
A private university in New York City, founded as King's College in 1754, comprising Columbia College for men, Barnard College for women, and important graduate schools.
4. Suicide hot line
A lot line manned twenty-four hours a day by a hospital or a social agency to talk with those who want to commit suicide, and to prevent them from taking their own lives.
American food aid to southern African countries could be cut off if South Africa carries out its threat to ban imports of US grain. Foreign Minister Pic Botha said if US sanctions were imposed, his government would stop imports and would not allow its transport service to carry US grain to neighboring countries.
The White House today denied that it planted misleading stories in the American news media as part of a plan to topple Libyan leader Muammar Quddafi. The Washington Post reported this morning that stories were leaked this summer alleging Quddafi was resuming his support for terrorist activities, even though National Security Adviser John Poindexter knew otherwise. Today, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Poindexter denied the administration had involved the media in an anti-Quddafi campaign but Speakes left open the possibility a disinformation campaign was conducted in other countries.
The question in Washington today is this: Did the federal government try to scare Libya's Colonel Muammar Quddafi in August by way of a disinformation campaign in the American media? The Washington Post Bob Woodward reports today that there was an elaborate disinformation program set up by the White House to convince Quddafi that the United States was about to attack again, or that he might be ousted in a coup. The White House today denies that officials tried to mislead Quddafi by using the American media. NPR's Bill Busenburg has our first report on the controversy.
The story starts on August 25th when the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story saying that Libya and the United States were once again on a collision course. Quoting multiple official sources, the paper said Quddafi was plotting new terrorist attacks and the Reagan Administration was preparing to teach him another lesson. The Journal reported that the Pentagon was completing plans for a new and wider bombing of Libya in case the President ordered it.
That story caused a flurry of press attention. Officials in Washington and at the western White House in California were asked if it was true. "The story was authoritative," said the White House spokesman Larry Speakes. Based on that official confirmation, other news organizations, including the New York Times , the Washington Post , NPR and the major TV networks, all ran stories suggesting Libya should watch out. US naval maneuvers then taking place in the Mediterranean might be used as a cover for more attacks on Libya as in the past.
Today's Washington Post , however, quotes from an August 14th secret White House plan, adopted eleven days before the Wall Street Journal story. It was outlined in a memo written by the President's National Security Advisor John Poindexter. That plan called for a strategy of real and illusory events, using a disinformation program to make Quddafi think the United States was about to move against him militarily. Here are some examples the Post cites, suggesting disinformation was used domestically: Number one, while some US officials told the press Quddafi was stepping up his terrorist plans, President Reagan was being told in a memo that Quddafi was temporarily quiescent, in other words, that he wasn't active. Number two, while some officials were telling the press of internal infighting in Libya to oust Quddafi, US officials really believed he was firmly in power and that CIA's efforts to oust him were not working. Number three, while officials were telling the press the Pentagon was planning new attacks, in fact nothing new was being done. Existing contingency plans were several months old, and the naval maneuvers were just maneuvers. The Post says this policy of deception was approved at a National Security Planning Group meeting chaired by President Reagan and his top aides.
Two new studies were published today on the links between television coverage of suicide and subsequent teenage suicide rates. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that both studies suggest that some teenagers might be more likely to take their own lives after seeing TV programs dealing with suicide. NPR's Lorie Garrett reports.
The first suicide study, done by a team from the University of California in San Diego, examines television news coverage of suicides. David Philips and Lundy Carseson looked at forty-five suicide stories carried on network news-casts between 1973 and '79. The researchers then compared the incidence of teen suicides in those years to the dates of broadcast of these stories. David Philips says news coverage of suicides definitely prompted an increase in the number of teens in America who took their lives.
"The more TV programs that carry a story, the greater they increase in teen suicides just afterwards."
The suicide increase among teens was compared by Philips to adult suicide trends.
"The teen suicides go up by about 2.91 teen suicides per story. And adult suicides go up by, I think, around two adult suicides per story. The increase for teens, the percentage increase for teens is very, very much larger than the percentage increase for adults. It's about, I think, fourteen or fifteen times as big a response for teens percentagewise as it is for adults."
The TV news coverage appears to have prompted a greater increase than is seen around other well-known periods of adolescent depression, such as holidays, personal birthdays, the start of school and winter. Philips could not find any specific types of stories that seem to trigger a greater response among depressed teens. Philips says it seems to simply be the word "suicide" and the knowledge that somebody actively executed the act that pushes buttons in depressed teenagers. Psychiatrists call this "imitative behavior."
"What my study showed was that there seems to be imitation not only of relatively bland behavior like dress, dressing or hairstyles, but there seems to be imitation of really quite deviant behavior as well. The teenagers imitate apparently across the board, not just suicides, but everything else as well."
In a separate study, Madeline Gould and David Shaeffer of Columbia University found that made-for-television movies about suicide also stimulated imitative behavior. Even though the movies were intended to portray the problem of teen suicide and offered, in some cases, suicide hot line numbers and advice on counselling, the team believes the four network movies prompted eighty teen suicides. One of the made-for-TV movies examined by the Columbia University team was a CBS production. George Schweitzer, a CBS's Vice President, is well aware of this research. He says, "It is terribly unfortunate that any teens took their lives after the broadcast, but if they had it to do over," says Schweitzer, "CBS would still run the movie."
"Studies like these do not measure the most, what we think is the most important thing, which I don't think can be measured, and that is the hundreds and hundreds and probably thousands of teenagers who were positively moved by these kinds of broadcasts."
Moved to call suicide hot lines, moved to seek counseling, and moved to discuss their depressions with family members. Schweitzer does not dispute today's studies: some teens may moved to suicide.
"But ignoring the issue for fear of that, I think, would be far more disastrous than addressing important social issues to help create awareness and again to have a positive effect."
But researcher David Philips suggests the media could decrease the teen suicide problem by avoiding some suicide stories all together and changing the way the others are covered. For example, says Philips, "Don't make suicide seem heroic." He cites the story of a young Czechoslovakian dissident who set himself on fire. But the dissident action was taken to draw attention to government repression in Czechoslovakia. Should the news media really have ignored such a story? "I think it's a really difficult question. There are all these goods on all sides of the issue. And thank God, I don't have to be the one to disentangle that issue."
One prominent expert in this field said the young people moved to take their lives, following a news story or movie, are particularly vulnerable, suicidal individuals. In the absence of television stories, some other events in their lives might well have triggered their actions. So while most psychiatrists agree there is an imitative component to teenage suicides, that tendency, they say, should not lead society to repress information. On the contrary, some say we are now facing a major epidemic of adolescent suicide in America. We must publicize and confront the problem. Last year some fifty-five hundred adolescents between fifteen and twenty-four years of age took their lives. At least ten times that tried. Some estimates are that 275 thousand teens attempted suicide last year. The rate of teenage suicide in America has tripled since 1955.
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