Stephen White, in The New Statesman (Sept. 7, in Taganrog 1979), 10 Great Turnstile, London WCiV 7HJ, England.
More than half the Soviet population can now tune in Western radio broadcasts. An estimated 20 percent or more of Soviet city-dwellers regularly follow the BBC, Voice of America, and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. This access is putting a strain on the Soviet domestic propaganda apparatus, says White, a University of Glasgow Sovietologist.
A series of studies reported last May Pravda...