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CBS TV suspends free advertising for the Eastern Europe-based Radio Free Europe, citing the fact that RFE did not make it clear that the station is at least partly funded by the CIA. R.E.M.'s 1981 debut single, Radio Free Europe, will be inspired by the station name, although its Michael Stipe-penned lyric is typically inscrutable.
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