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1、2020;2020届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：14State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb resigned today because of the Reagan Administrations alleged disinformation campaign against Libya. The Washington Post reported last week that the administration planted false information about Libya in an effort to destabilize t
2、he government of Muammar Quddafi. Kalb today did not confirm or deny that such a campaign took place, but he said reports about it had damaged the credibility of the US. The State Department would not comment on Kalbs resignation.The State Department today criticized the Nicarguan government for all
3、egedly refusing to grant US officials access to Eugene Hasenfus. Hes the survivor of Sundays plane crash inside Nicaragua. State Department spokesman Charles Redmond. Our representative was not received by the Nicaraguan government. And we view this with the utmost seriousness. The rendering of cons
4、ular services is an essential part of the function of an embassy. The Sandinista government has once again taken action to make that function difficult and has raised the question of whether, indeed, a US embassy can function normally within Nicaragua. We frankly cannot accept the delay in granting
5、consular access since the Sandinista government has apparently gone to some lengths to parade Mr. Hasenfus before the press, and considering the fact that a government spokesman stated clearly last night on American television that access would be granted. Meanwhile President Reagan today denied tha
6、t the downed plane allegedly carrying arms to Contra rebels was operating under official US orders. He also acknowledged that the government has been aware that private American groups and citizens have been helping the anti-government forces in Nicaragua.Last week the Washington Post reported that
7、top-level officials had approved a plan to generate real and illusionary events to make Libyas Colonel Muammar Quddafi think the United States might once again attack. Bernard Kalbs resignation is the first in protest of that policy. A similar resignation occurred at the White House in 1983 when a d
8、eputy quit to protest misleading statements given to the press shortly before the American invasion of Grenada. NPRs Bill Busenberg has more on todays announcement.Bernard Kalb had been a veteran diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC before being picked two years ago by Secretary of State George
9、Shultz to be the Departments chief spokesman, officially an Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. His brother, Marvin Kalb, is still with NBC. Today, Bernard Kalb surprised his former colleagues in the news media by quitting over the issue of the administrations disinformaton program. Kalb would n
10、ot confirm that there was such a program, but he said he faced a choice of remaining silent or registering his dissent. And even though the issue appeared to be fading from the news, Kalb grappled with it privately and decided he had to act.The controversy may vanish, but when you are sitting alone,
11、 it does not go away. And so Ive taken the step of stepping down.The State Department has reportedly been involved in the disinformation issue, but Kalb said his guidelines have always been not to lie or mislead the press, and he has not done so. Kalb went out of his way today to praise Secretary Sh
12、ultz, a man, he said, of such overwhelming integrity that he allows other people to have their own integrity.In taking this action, I want to emphasize that I am not dissenting from Secretary Shultz, a man of credibility, rather I am dissenting from the reported disinformation program.Kalbs comments
13、 suggested Shultz perhaps did not go along with the disinformation program, but in public, the Secretary of State has defended the administrations policies against Libya, saying in New York last week: I dont have any problems with the little psychological warfare against Quddafi. He also quoted Wins
14、tion Churchill as saying, In time of war truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Shultz was asked about the disinformation effort last Sunday on ABC.I dont lie. Ive never taken part in any meeting in which it was proposed that we go out and lie to the news media for some ef
15、fect. And if somebody did that, he was doing it against policy. Now having said that, one of the results of our action against Libya, from all the intelligence weve received, was quite a period of disorientation on the part of Quddafi. So, to the extent we can keep Quddafi off balance by one means o
16、r another, including the possibility that we might make another attack, I think thats good.In a sometimes emotional session with reporters today, Bernard Kalb said that neither he personally nor the nation as a whole can stand any policy of disinformation.Im concerned about the impact of any such program on the credibility of the United States. Faith, faith in the word of America, is the pulse beat of our democracy. Anything that hurts
