高级英语听力 lesson 15

Lesson Fifteen

Section One: Nev,,s in Brief

Tapescript

1. American reporter Nicholas Daniloff arrived back in the United

States today, and accused Soviet 1 spy, Gennadi Zakharov, left for the

Soviet Union.  Administration officials insisted that there is no coii-

nection between the two as they announce plans for a meeting in

Iceland, October II th and 12th, between President Reagan and So-

viet leader Gorbachev.  We have two reports on today's develop-

ments.  First, NPR's Jim Angle at the White House.  'The preparato-

ry meeting in Iceland was proposed by Secretary Gorbachev in a let-

ter to President Reagan September 19.  Secretary Shultz said, today,

the meeting will give the two leaders an opportunity to give a special

push to preparations for a full-fledged sui-nmit later this year in the

United States.-President Reagan made clear his agreement to the

meeting came after an agreement between the two nations on how to

resolve the Daniloff affair.  'The release of Daniloff made the meet-

ing possible.  I could not have accepted and held that meeting if !'le

was still being held.' But the President and others insisted that

Daniloff's release without trial had no connection with Gennadi

Zakharov, the accused Soviet spy who was allowed to plead no con-

test to espionage 3 charges today and ordered out of the country.  See-

@retary Shultz tied Zakharov's departure to the Soviet agreement to

release human rights' activist 4, Yuri Orlov, and allow him and his

wife to emigrate.  I'm Jim Angle, at the White House."

2. The Vatican today denounced all homosexual activity as morally

evil and said homosexuals should be taught that their sexual pr.,tc-

tices are unacceptable to the Catholic church.  The document was rc-

  layed to all Catholic bishops 5 and restates the church's position that

  lioi-nosexual tendencies are not sinful but activity is.  This is NPR in

  Washington.

  3. University of Maryland basketball coach Lefty Dresell resigned

  today, another victim of the cocaine-induced death of basketball

  star Len Bias 6.  Paul Guggenheimer reports.  "Dresell's resignation

  came as no surprise today.  In recent weeks, advisors 7 to Maryland

  Chancellor 8 John Slaughter 9 and some members of the Board of Re-

  geiits were pushing for Dresell's removal.  This morning, at

  Maryland's Cole Field House, Dresell made it official.  'I want to

  announce that I am stepping down as the head basketball coach at

  Maryland.  I will remain at Maryland in the position of Assistant

  Athletic 10 Director.  The University has agreed to honor the financial

  terms of my contract, which has 8 years remaining.' Dresell coached

  basketball at Maryland for 17 years, but following Bias's death,

  I)rcsell told a Grand Jury that he ordered an assistant to remove ev-

  ideiice of drug use from Bias's room, and subsequent revelations that

  his players were having academic problems proved to be Dresell's

  undoing 12.  For National Public Radio, I'm Paul Guggenheimer in

  Washington.'

  Section Two: News in Detail

  Tapescript

       American journalist, Nicholas Daniloff,, returned to the United

  Stated today, a free man.  He walked off a plane at Dulles Airport

  outside Washington late this afternoon after a month's detention 13 in

  the Soviet Union.  Daniloff had these words for members of his fami-

  ly and journalists at the airport:

       'There is always a silver lining 14 in every cloud.  In Russian, Nyet

  Kuda bisdabra.  And I believe that the cloud that hung over

  Soviet-American affairs is dissipating.  I understand that the Presi-

  dent 2 is going to meet with Mr Gorbachev shortly in Iceland, and this

  to me, is a wonderful thing.  In my case, the investigation 15 into the

  charges against me was concluded.  There was no trial, and I left as

  an ordinary, free American citizen.  In Zakharov's case, there was a

  trial, and he received a sentence.  I'm sorry I don't remember the ex-

  act terms of the sentence, and he left.  I do not believe that these two

  things are in any way equivalent."

      NPR's Richard Gonzalez is at Dulles Airport now.

      'Richard, what was the mood of Daniloff and his family when

  he arrived?'

      "Well, the Daniloffs enjoyed a rather emotional reunion here at

  Dulles Airport.  Daniloff was cheerfully greeted by his daughter

  Miranda and his son, Caleb.  They celebrated 16 his arrival with a bottle

  of champagne 17.  And they bought a dozen yellow roses for their

  father.  Caleb presented his father with a T-shirt that had been print-

  ed to say ' Free Nick Daniloff" and now had been amended 18 to say

  "Freed Nick Danilofr, which Daniloff displayed with obvious relish 19

  to the cameramen and photographers who were gathered there.'

     'What seemed most on Daniloff's mind when he spoke 20 with re.

  porters today?'

     'Well, as you heard him say, Daniloff seemed very, very re-

  lieved that his own personal honor and integrity as a journalist had

  been preserved in the negotiations 21 that had freed him.  And he re-

  peated once or twice that he felt that he had not been traded for

  Zakharov as a spy."

      "Is there any chance DaDiloff who is completing a second tour

  as a journalist in Moscow will return to the Soviet Union?"

      "Well, Daniloff told us that he left the Soviet Union with his

  passport and just as importantly with his multiple-entry visa,

  'which is still valid,' he said.  And he ended his news conference by

  telling reporters that yesterday in Moscow, feeling that he might be

  leaving the Soviet Union soon, he had placed new flowers on the

  grave of his great great grandfather who was buried in Moscow.  And

  he said, 'I'm hopeful that I'll be able to do that again, some time.  "'

      " But who knows what will happen?  What else can you tell us

  about what the scene looked like there?"

       Well, I can tell you that there were throngs 22 of reporters here

  too, some of whom wanted to greet Mr Daniloff with applause, and

  that it took a while for Daniloff to get their attention so that he

  could tell them what they wanted to hear.  I think that the most obvi-

  ous thing is that he had a lot of friends here, among the press corps 23,

  that were ver,; happy to see him, and I think that he really ... he had

  a sparkle in his eye that said, 'Well, I'm finally home.

      'So he seemed a lot more rested perhaps than in Frankfurt?"

      "Rested, relieved, and I'd have to say well scrubbed."

      "(Laugh).  NPR's Richard Gonzalez talking with us from Dulles

  Airport.  "

  Section Three: Special Report

  Tapescript

      Today, Van Gordon Sauter, the President of CBS News re-

  signed from his job.  This resignation, the latest move in a CBS

  shake-up, which yesterday brought the ouster of CBS Chief Execu-

  tive Officer Thomas Wyman.  He was replaced by Laurence Tisch,

  the company's leading stockholder.

      Also, yesterday, the 82-year-old founder 24 of CBS, William

  Paley, came out of retirement 25 to become the company's Chairman.

  Writer Ken 26 Aleter says the CBS Board probably put the changes in-

  to motion even before the Board meeting yesterday.

      ' There was a regularly scheduled Board dinner, an informal

  dinner the night before, which is normal for a monthly Board meet-

  ing.  And Wyman cancelled it, feeling that the Board was so

  polarized in the battle between Laurence Tisch and Paley on one

  side, and Thomas Wyman and some of the Board members who are

  supporters of his on the other.  But the Board decided 27 to meet any-

  way without Tisch or Paley or Wyman, and they apparently 28 met till

  quite late, which would be Tuesday night.  Then at the meeting yes-

  terday, Mr Wyman presented a budget as planned, and apparently,

  the Board unanimously was dissatisfied with that budget presenta-

        then it was learned that, in fact, there had been, at least

        formed, that there   were overtures 29 made by Wyman and

  others aligned 30 with him t                    company, try and fin 11

  white knight 31 to stave off I               and Bill Paley.'

      'Last minu scram

      'Yes, a       the end.                   Tisch and Paley to le

  and then             Wyman to leave.      the 3 principle actors in

drama were out of the room when the Board discussed it, and I'm

 told, unanimously reached the judgment 32 that it was time for a

 change.'

      'So it's not really fair to say that Laurence Tisch came rolling

 into that meeting and just took it over.'

      'Well, apparently the Board took it over.  What happened was,

 as of late last week, this Board was ready to support Tom Wyman.

 Something happened in the last several days to turn this Board

 around.  And I think, in part, that something that happened was a

 growing sense of dissatisfaction with Wyman: And I suspect also, a

 sense that the Board probably had that the continued

 in the press, would only continue if Wyman remained,the helm, and

 they had to stop i@

     "Yeah.  Let me ask you fo a very simplistic answer to a compli-

 cated question here.  CBS got into this sort of trouble because of

 problems endemic to the television industry now, or because of

 mismanag

       Both. Clearly, sai        ng is happening in all the networks.

 They're facing a future, at least the immediate 33 future,, where revenues

 no longer grow at the same rate they used to, which is 10, 12, 14

 percent a year.  Revenues are declining at all three networks.  Adver-

 tisers are finding otheroutletsfor their money, more efficient outlets 34,

 cheaper outlets for their money.  There's new competition from the

 4th network, from technology, from cable.  Second, there was a feel-

 ing that, Wyman, though he was a good manager on paper and had

 a good strong managerial background, was not a people manager.

 Television is populated by a lot of famous people, who have rather

 large egos 35. They're also rather large talents. But in anv case, tho    se

 egos re@ire some strokinp- Tom Wyman was not a stroker.  He was

 a go-bytthe-                  manager. So, he was a stranger, for in-

 stance, to the                t division of CBS, not the division that

 produc   the i               ut the one that produces the most pres-

                's the news division."

                BS News people, as you 1 n%n, have been disen-

                nd they're probably encouraged by this move, but

 specitically@, what. were they    fussing about? How have they been

 mismanaged?  Can anyone say

      "Well, I think there are"

                                  pr@aAO'@hlu              different stories.

 One story that's received a loyof prominence 36 in the last week is Bill

 Moyer's storv. which is a/edling that the entertainment values at

 CBS have been enshrin@ at the expense of news values.  That, how-

 ever, is probably also a-Tittle simplistic if you go back to Edward R.

 Morrow, @tlie late sainted Edward R. Morrow, who's a wonderful

 journalist, but who was also a journalist who sometimes enshrined

 entertainment values, for instance, if you go back and look at

 person-to-person interviews that he did on a program called 'Per-

 son to Person', it was a kind of a 'Gee 37, whiz, oh gosh, it's so nice to

 be invited into your home'- kind of an atmosphere, and hardly hard

 news.  But I think Moyers' complaint suggests how polarized the sit-

 uation at CBS is."

        Ken Aleter.  He's the author of the book, Greed and Glory on

 Wall Street, talking with us in New York."