大学英语听力：Section One： News in Brief
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1. The Senate has voted to override President Reagan's veto of sanctions against South Africa by a decisive venty-eight to twenty-one. As the Hou has already voted to override, the sanctions now become law. NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports. 'American civil rights leaders, including Mrs. Caretta Scott King, watched the Senate debate from the Senate family
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gallery as members argued not so much about sanctions and the efficacy of sanctions, more about the choice between
affirming the bill already pasd by Congress or supporting the President.'
2. 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 impod, his government would stop imports and would not allow its transport rvice to carry US grain to neighboring countries.
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3. The White Hou today denied that it planted misleading stories in the American news media as part
of a plan to topple Libyan leader Muammar Quddafl. The Wtishington Post reported this morning that stories were leaked this summer alleging Qtiddafi was resuming his support for terrorist activities, even though National Security Advir John Poindexter knew otherwi. Today, White Hou spokesman Larry Speakes said Poindexter denied the administration had involved the media in an anti-Quddafi campaign but Speakes
百万格子left open the possibility a disinformation campaign was conducted in other countries.
_Section Two： News in Detail
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The question in Washington today is this： Did the federal gov@ment try to scare Libya's Colonel Muammar Quddafl 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 t up by the White Hou to convince Quddafi that the United States was about to attack again, or that he might be ousted in a coup. The White Hou today denies that officials tried to mislead Quddafi by using the American media.
NPR's Bill Bunburg 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 cour. 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 ca the President ordered it.That story caud a flurry of press attention. Officials in Washington and at the western White Hou in California were asked if it was true. " The story was authoritative" said the White
左倾代表人物Hou spokesman Larry Speakes. Bad 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 ud as a cover for more attacks on Libya as in the past.
Today's Washington Post, however, quotes from an August 14th cret White Hou plan, adopted eleven days before the Wall Street Journal story. It was outlined in a memo written by
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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 Quddafl think the
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United States was about to move against him militarily. Here are some examples the Post cites, suggesting disinformation was ud 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 Quddafl 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 veral months old, and the naval maneuvers were just maneuvers. The Post says
this policy of deception was ap- proved at a National
Security Planning Group meeting chaired by President Reagan and his top aides.
_ Section Three： Special Report
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@ Two new studies were published today on the links between television coverage of suicide and subquent teenage suicide rates. The Now England J6urnal of Medicine reports that both studies suggest that some teenagers might be more likely to take their own lives after eing 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 Carson looked at
forty-five suicide stories carried on network news-casts between 1973 and '79.
The rearchers then compared the incidence of teen suicides in tho years to the dates of broadcast of the stories. David Philips says news coverage of suicides definitely prompted an increa in the number of teens in America who took their lives.
千骑拥高牙The more TV programs that carry a story, the greater they increa in teen suicides just after-wards. "滑冰作文
The suicide increa 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 stor . The increa for teens, the percentage increa for teens is very, very much larger than the percentage increa for adults. It's about, I think, fourteen
or,fifteen times as big a respon for teens percentagewi as it is for adults.'
The TV news coverage appears to have prompted a greater increa than is en 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 em to trigger a greater respon among depresd teens. Philips says it ems to simply be the word "suicide' and the knowledge that somebody actively executed the act that pushes buttons in depresd teenagers. Psychiatrists call this 'imitative behavior." What my study showed was that there ems to be imitation not only of relatively bland behavior like dress, dressing or hairstyles, but there ems to be imitation of really quite deviant be havior as well. The teenagers imitate apparently across the board, not just suicides, but everything el as well.'
In a parate 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 cas, suicide hot line numbers and advice on counlling, 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 rearch. He says, 'It is terribly unfortunate that any teens took their lives after the broadcast, but if they had it to
