PLANNED BBC WORLD SERVICE REFORMS SPARK OUTRAGE.(NEWS) From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 28, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Ray Moseley Chicago Tribune

When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest in the Crimea in 1993, he turned to what he considered the most reliable source of information on what was happening back in Moscow: the BBC World Service radio.

During the Iranian revolution of 1978-79, Iranians frequently would stop foreign correspondents on the street and ask, ``Are you BBC?'' Unable to trust their national radio, millions of them tuned i...