THE WEEK

□ It worked. Ratings for Amerika are going through the ceiling. CIA provocateurs, posing as pro-Soviet “liberals” and “civil libertarians,” staged noisy protests against the ABC maxi-mini-series, garnering massive free publicity. They were joined by thousands of the usual willing dupes, who mistakenly assumed they were being duped again by Communists. The whole thing snowballed into a PR bonanza for the 14-hour consciousness-raiser. Let’s hope the agency’s role isn’t sniffed out by the House Committee on Pro-American Activities.

□ CBS reports that though the unemployment rate is down, many people aren’t happy with the jobs they’re getting. One of the problems with the modern world is that people confuse discontent with suffering, and think that government has “failed” as long as there’s articulated discontent. Next we expect CBS to report that though nobody’s starving, the food tastes lousy.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

□ It worked. Ratings for Amerika are going through the ceiling. CIA provocateurs, posing as pro-Soviet “liberals” and “civil libertarians,” staged noisy protests against the ABC maxi-mini-series, garnering massive free publicity. They were joined by thousands of the usual willing dupes, who mistakenly assumed they were being duped again by Communists. The whole thing snowballed into a PR bonanza for the 14-hour consciousness-raiser. Let’s hope the agency’s role isn’t sniffed out by the House Committee on Pro-American Activities.

□ CBS reports that though the unemployment rate is down, many people aren’t happy with the jobs they’re getting. One of the problems with the modern world is that people confuse discontent with suffering, and think that government has “failed” as long as there’s articulated discontent. Next we expect CBS to report that though nobody’s starving, the food tastes lousy.