In his endless hearings on Viet Nam, Senator J. William Fulbright has expressed so many worries about U.S. policyranging from the rational to the ridiculousthat it seemed inconceivable he could find any new ones. But last week Fulbright uncorked yet another: the U.S. Information Agency may be winning sympathy for the U.S. among foreign newsmen.
To attack that sin, which is precisely the one that the agency is supposed to commit, Fulbright called USIA Chief Leonard Marks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject was junketswith which Senators are familiarspecifically USIA payment for the transportation of 30 to 35...