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To: U Up U Down who wrote (101876)	12/5/2000 8:35:38 AM
From: U Up U Down	Respond to of 769670

Accustomed to lies Balint Vazsonyi On Oct. 28, 1956, Radio Free Budapest came on the air. The voice of the announcer, well-established during the years of Stalinist terror, read the first statement of the new regime as Soviet armored divisions were reported leaving the country, and an independent government struggled to take office. "We lied in the morning, and lied in the evening," the voice said, "we lied in daylight and lied at night. We shall lie no more. We shall once again be faithful to the Broadcasters' Oath, engraved in London on the walls of the British Broadcasting Corp., when the era of wireless communications was born." In America, we are brought up to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth — another great British legacy. Our entire society functions on the understanding that we speak the truth as a matter of course. That is how business deals came to be done on a handshake, that is how journalists reciprocated for the unprecedented gift known as the First Amendment. That is what so many immigrants have to learn in a hurry, especially if they come from countries where people are used to saying whatever comes to their mind. washtimes.com