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Soviet Bars2 CBS-TVProjectsThe Soviet Union has withdrawn permiiaioit for the Columbia Bwadcutmg System to produce two television programs ihere, One was to lie a mentary on, the 60th fltnjvfr-§ary nf the Bolshevik revolution and I he other a cultural show mi which United States and Russian singers would appear.Two producers of CBS News who recently went: to . Moscow wert surprised when’told after arriving there that .Soviet authorities could not permit them to film programs because of the international situation. The aud den withdrawal of permission occurred after the United Stales bombing of oil dep.ots near Hanoi and Haiphong in NorthViet Nam.Bill Leonard, vice president and director of CBS News programming, said Sunday he had gone to Moscow laxl April and obtained Soviet permission to film (he program. Asked what explanation the authorities gave in changing their stand* Leonard said:“They said that considering the slate of the international sit* uatiou, .the time was not appropriate for them to cooperate with us. One show was postponed indefinitely. In the case of I he other program, I hey told us to come hack next spring/' The producer who was told lo 0*y again in the spring was Arthur Barron, who was to film the documentary on the revolution, “Ten Days That Shock the World.”David Oppenhelm, who was to pi’odure Jlie music *luwt also returned from Moscow ihix week. Hi* prpgrain was lo begin filming soon. The American singers who were to appear on the show were Marion Williams, .'gospel and folk singer, and. the folk and pop team, Paul Simon and Arthur Carfunkel-Molirol3(tttcS:HirfiwnsibSn
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Mon, Jul 25, 1966
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