BRAZIL

CAPRE, COBRA PRESIDENTS VIEW IBM PROJECT'S MARKET IMPACT
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRAZIL in Portuguese 30 Aug 78 p 19

[Text] Brasilia--The president of the Coordinating Commission for Elec-
tronic Processing Activities (CAPRE), Elcio Costa Couto, explained yester-
day that the IBM project for small-sized computers has been completely
revised by the company, based upon a request from CAPRE, so as not to inter-
fere in the minicomputer sector, the market for which was reserved for
domestic companies.

Mr Costa Couto also announced that the IBM project is being analyzed "on
its merits," within the official philosophy of restricting imports and
balancing foreign trade.

No Agreement

Mr Elcio Costa Couto asserted that there was no previous agreement between
CAPRE and the three domestic companies to the effect that the government
would avoid approving the project submitted by IBM. He stressed that ‘the
project, the decision on which will still depend on additional information to
be sent by the multinational company, is being analyzed according to criteria
of an economic nature and not in terms of the market being reserved for
Brazilian industry.

IBM's slowness in furnishing the project's technical data to CAPRE was
attributed by Elcio Costa Couto to the company's lack of experience with
the bureaucratic process established for submitting proposals. Before the
government decision to turn the minicomputer market over to domestic
industry, there wasn't even the need to present a preliminary project to
the Industrial Development Council (CDI). After the decision to restrict
imports, CAPRE began to use a new system for analyzing projects, giving
stress to improving the trade balance.

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However, at the outset a technical requirement could hamper--but not pre-
vent--reception of Spain's four television channels in the zone of overlap
with Portuguese territory and vice versa. In order to avoid interference
in the broadcasting zones that are common to the Portuguese and Spanish
beams, the satellite utilization plan negotiated in Geneva in February 1977
(Engineer Franco Dias of the RTP attended that meeting) provides for the
possibility of their separation, thus limiting the introduction of such
issues as those relating to author's rights, advertizing and cultural and
programming levels.

Meanwhile, the RTP, the country's only existing television station, is
proceeding with its reorganization, looking toward the future restructuring
(which we have been reporting in detail in recent weeks), but is waiting
until the government reaches a decision on pending questions (fairly simple
ones, compared with others), namely those related to the statutes of the
enterprise, the Television and Radio Laws and so on.

RII Also Preparing For 1980's

The RTI [expansion unknown], however, the cooperative association created
at the end of this April for the purpose of setting up a television broad-
casting station here, is waiting for the court to rule on a suit it has
brought against the state, seeking public clarification of the government's
informal action declaring the RTI unconstitutional and banning the in-
stallation of any television transmitter which is not state-owned.

As we learned from Tomas Rosa, president of the Directive Council of the RTI,
the association is preparing a replication to the Public Ministry, based

on the opinion of a recognized constitutionalist and CDS [Social Democra-
tic Center Party] deputy, seeking to establish that the terms of the con-
stitution allow for the existence of a television station under cooperative
ownership.

Pending the court ruling (which is expected before the next court recess),
and again according to Tomas Rosa, the RTI has given first priority to
soliciting new founding associates (expanding the number from 25 to 150)
and acquiring temporary facilities.

In the former instance, new associates have already been approved. Promi-
nent among them are Vasco de Melo, of the CIP [Portuguese Industry Confede-
ration], and other well-known figures of the entertainment world, namely
from TV. Regarding facilities, some provisional possibilities are being
studied, pending the acquisition of the necessary capital to build the
planned RTI Palace, to be located in Odivelas and integrated within a
sophisticated urban complex.

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PORTUGAL

USE OF CITIZENS' BAND REGULATED
Lisbon DIARIO DE NOTICIAS in Portuguese 14 Jul 78 p 8

[Text] The DIARIO DA REPUBLICA, No 157, 3d Series, 11 July, publishes the
regulations approved by the Administrative Council of the Postal and Tele-
communications of Portugal for the use of radio-telephone equipment from
26,960 to 27,410 megahertz. This range of frequencies is popularly and
internationally known as "citizens' band" (11 meters). The instruments do
not exceed 5 watts in power and most of them are the familiar "walkie-
talkies."

According to the regulations, use of this band depends on CIT [General Ad-
ministration of Post Offices, Telegraphs and Telephones] approval of the
equipment, grant of a user's license and semiannual payment of a user's
tax.

Approval of the type of equipment will be obtained through CTT testing,
which manufacturers, importers or marketers must request. The test will be
valid for all equipment identified as being of the same model and with equi-
valent technical characteristics. Tests for approval may also be requested
by individuals in cases where equipment of the type has not yet been
approved.

Authorized Frequencies

The regulation authorizes the use of channels between the frequencies of
26.965 and 27.405 megahertz (channels 1 to 40). Intercalary frequencies
26.995, 27.05, 27.95, 27.145 and 27.195 megahertz are reserved for remote
control. As is the case with several countries, channel 9 (27.065 megahertz)
may eventually be reserved for emergency communications, namely those re—
lating to urgent cases involving the security of human lives, protection
of property or assistance to motorists.

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FARM SHACK USED IN SATELLITE TRACKING

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD in English 4 Sep 78 p 5

[Text]

‘A. tiny shack on a|
Lands and Survey De-
partment farm alongside;
the Hawkes Bay Airport!
is again acting as a
tracking. station for a
National Aeronautics}
and Space Administra-;
tion weather _ satellite
that passes over Ne
Zealand. :
The station houses a
sophisticated receiver which,|
with ancillary equipment, is;
worth $130,000. It is similar|
to the equipment used by|
American scientists to track
the Geos-3 satellite. from
‘Napier three years ago.

This time the satellite}
being tracked is known asj
Seasat A and it is doing an|
oceanographic voyage of dis-
leovery as it orbits the earth
to record weather patterns|
and systems, :

The satellite’s orbits have
been compared with the
pioneering voyage made by
the steam-assisted sailing
ship HMS Challenger

{wide look at what is happen-

‘mitted by the Napier post

However, Seasat A covered
the Challenger’s 26,000-mile,
3%4-year trip in its first five
hours of flight.

‘The Napier station is again’
manned by American scien-
tists, who monitor the satel-
lite 15 hours a day, working
in shifts.

Information from the
satellite, which crosses the
equator 28 times a day,
giving oceanographers and
meteorologists a fast world:

ing on and just above the|
surface. of the sea, is|
recorded on a punched tape
produced by the tracking}
receiver.

‘This is subsequently’ trans-

loffice to a Nasa centre in
Washington.

‘The purpose of. the track-
ing . station—one of several
around the world—is to
ensure the satellite is on

between 1872 and 1876.

course and to enable the



BRAZIL

BURROUGHS ENTRY THREATENS IBM COMPUTER MARKET MONOPOLY
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Aug 78 p 19

[Text] Brasilia--IBM is about to lose the monopoly it has had in Brazil
in the field of large computers, due to the entrance of Burroughs, which
is already preparing to produce the big model 6800, larger and more advanced
than the 148, which is widely distributed in the Brazilian market by IBM.

The Burroughs move comes at a time when IBM itself is preparing to replace
the 148 with an improved model, the project for which is now being analyzed
in the Coordinating Commission for Electronic Processing Activities (CAPRE).

Besides the 6800, Burroughs also sent CAPRE the project for a medium-sized
computer, the 2800, to compete with the IBM "small business computers,"
approval of which by the CAPRE plenary council will be forthcoming only
upon acceptance by the company of onerous restrictions.

The Burroughs strategy, according to specialists in the electronics sector,
is to enter into close competition with IBM in introducing new large and
medium-sized computers, exploiting the unfamiliarity of users with the new
IBM equipment.

Burroughs hoped that IBM would lead the way with its projects so that it
could then come along with its own proposals, which the company considers
important for the Brazilian Government due to the high volume of exports
proposed.

Advantages

To begin with, Burroughs has two big advantages over IBM. The first of
these is that the IBM operation is burdensome for the Brazilian trade
balance, since the company is responsible for approximately two-thirds of
imported equipment and components for the electronic processing sector which
are approved annually by CAPRE. In contrast, Burroughs is presenting a
project for production of a large computer of the latest generation and
directed toward exports.

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According to Tomas Rosa, the RTI's second priority is to define the RTI's
goals up to 1980 and for the decade to follow.

For now the RTI is open to the possibility of renting channels within the
RIP and the RDP. EXPRESSO has learned the possibility is being studied

of granting the RTI the right to use RDP-3 (a commercial channel comprising
the defunct Associated Broadcasters of Lisbon, Radio Graca and Radio Voice
of Lisbon).

Church Against State TV

Defense of an independent television station in the form of a cooperative
association appears to have won the blessing of the church. In fact, in

the June-July issue of LAIKOS, the Bulletin of the National Secretariat of
the Leigos Apostolate, there is an article entitled "Free TV: Privilege

or Right." It clearly defends the principle that "there is no argument that
can justify the abolition of freedom of information," and that "no one should
be allowed to forget that without freedom of information there is no free-
dom of thought, and no one can ignore that thought and human freedom are

the same."

It is noted that the Vatican (also a member of the EBU) is one of the warmest
supporters of the above-mentioned geostationary direct broadcasting satel-
lite, and that it will also come to have, perhaps at the end of 1980 or
early 1981, four television channels and one radio channel from the experi-
mental and preoperational satellite that the European Space Agency, in
collaboration with the EBU, is planning to put in orbit at that time.

The new satellite will also be prepared to meet new transmission standards,
allowing high-quality reception in receiver-projectors with 1 by 2 meter
screens, stereophonic sound and 1,000-line television images (presently
625 lines in Europe), with fine definition, all of which downgrades the
political "war" over which color TV system to adopt, the German PAL or the
French SECAM.

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CONTENTS (Continued) Page
EASTERN EUROPE
EAST GERMANY

Briefs
Intersputnik Station 11

LATIN AMERICA
BRAZIL

Decision on CPA Bidding May Be Left to Next Government
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 25 Aug 78) scscccccccccccccccecces 12

CAPRE, COBRA Presidents View IBM Project's Market Impact
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 30 Aug 78) cecccccsccccececcccccee 14

CAPRE May Approve J. C. Mello Minicomputer Project

(O GLOBO, 28 Aug 78) secccccccccsccccccccccccccce 16

Burroughs Entry Threatens IBM Computer Market Monopoly
(O GLOBO, 28 Aug 78) cecccccccccccccscccccecccccccccs 18

URUGUAY
Briefs
Foreign Broadcast Penetration 20
NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA
LIBYA i
Briefs
Libyan TV Booster 21
SYRIA

Report on New Radio Station in Dayr al-Zawr
(Salih Najjar; AL-THAWRAH, 8 Aug 78) ..sccccceseeeees 22

TUNISIA

Briefs
Tunisian-Niger Media Cooperation 24



NORWAY

OSLO TO GET NEW TELEX EXCHANGE IN 1980
Osio AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 24 Aug 78 Evening Ed p 32

[Text] A new electronic, data-controlled Telex, exchange is to be
installed in Oslo. The new exchange, which is to be put into operation
during the first 6 months of 1980, will get some 6,000 line numbers. The
exchange will replace the old Oslo central office and will become the
principal exchange of the Norwegian Telex network, senior engineer Bjorn
Sandnes of the Telex directorate has told the AFTENPOSTEN.

The exchange is the first of its type in this country, and it will represent
a significant technical improvement of the Telex network.

"This is a new generation of Telex exchanges which are fully automatic

and fully electronic," says Sandnes. "We have found that greater efficiency
and an expansion of capacity made it necessary. The new exchange will also
make it possible for us to offer our customers a number of special services.

"For example, a subscriber can feed a report in on the apparatus in case
the addressee is not present. Later on, the addressee can get the report
out of the apparatus. In addition, maintenance of this exchange is
easier than it was on the old one," Sandnes says.

The Telex exchange that is to be constructed in Oslo will also be the
principal exchange for international Telex traffic to and from Norway.
Elektrisk Bureau is the enterprise which is to install it, and the
exchange will cost 22 million kroner.

The Telex installation was developed in Sweden jointly by the Swedish
Televerket and L. M. Ericsson. The first exchange of this type was put

into operation in Malmo last fall. There are six Telex stations in this
country now. At present there are no plans to build any new installations in
addition to the one that is to be built in Oslo, but Sandnes expects that

it will become necessary to extend the capacity of the Telex network even at
other locations in this country during the 1980s.

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Increasing Exports

CAPRE, Elcio said, is encouraging computer companies to prepare projects
with a good percentage of production destined for the foreign market, in
such a way as to result in Brazil becoming, over the medium term, a sizable
exporter in the electronics area. He emphasized the importance of such
large companies as IBM and Burroughs, both with projects for producing

new models of large-size computers with a considerable margin for export.

According to the CAPRE president, approval of the IBM small-size computer--
the small business computers--will be subject to the government policy of
restricting imports and to the need to support the domestic companies
operating in the minicomputer sector. That being the case, after the com-
plete revision of the project submitted to the CAPRE executive commission,
the U.S. company's project has great possibilities of being approved, de-
spite the reservations of Brazilian businessmen.

COBRA Believes Market Could Be Hurt

Brasilia--The manager of COBRA S/A [Brazilian Computers and Systems Corp.],
Mr Carlos Augusto Rodrigues, said yesterday, after leaving the office of
the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, that he continues to be disturbed
about the IBM porject for manufacturing medium-sized computers, because

he believes approval of a project that touches upon the minicomputer sector
would be harmful to the market.

He emphasized that during his discussion with Minister Calmon de Sa he
felt that the latter is very well informed about the computer industry,
and he received from Calmon de Sa "philosophical and political" support
for the COBRA undertaking. He explained that their discussion centered on
industrial problems of the company he directs.

Mr Carlos Augusto Rodrigues said that COBRA. already has 1,000 employees.
His forecast of billing for the current year is about $100 million, with
investments of $300 million.

Asked about the entrance of IBM into the market, the COBRA manager replied

that "the type of computer it proposes to produce will in no way affect
COBRA, which has entered the market to win."

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LIBYA

BRIEFS

LIBYAN TV BOOSTER--This morning, the communications secretary Engineer Nuri
al-Fayturi al-Madani inaugurated the microwave station and the TV booster
station in Ghdamis, so as to link the Ghdamis region with the automatic
telephone network in the al-Jabal al-Gharbi. region. The total cost of
the microwave station project in the al-Jabal al-Gharbi region, including
the TV booster station, is 3 million dinars. [Text] [Tripoli Voice of
the Arab Homeland in Arabic 1715 GMT 14 Sep 78 LD]

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Hidroservice

The CAPRE presumption that J. C. Mello could not produce a good mini-
computer with economies of scale evaporated as soon as that businessman
became associated with the Hidroservice group.

The most recent development is that J. C. Mello has opinions favorable to
his project's approval within CAPRE itself, now that it will not result in
damage to Edisa, Labo and Sharp and will compete against COBRA in only a
narrow range.

The model proposed by J. C. Mello contemplates application of its services
in a number of industrial processes in several sectors, for example, civil
construction, petrochemicals, iron and steel, electrical energy, communica-
tions and telephones, specifically.

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PORTUGAL

TELEPHONE COMPANY TO EXPAND SERVICE
Lisbon DIARIO DE NOTICIAS in Portuguese 11 Jul 78 p 1

[Text] The National Telecommunications System was the subject of a press
conference by the managers of the CIT/TLP [General Administration of Post
Offices, Telegraphs and Telephones/Telephone Workers of Lisbon and Porto]
with two aims: to announce a larger number of telephone call boxes and a
campaign for improved telephone use.

It was announced that 17 million contos will be invested in the sector
before 1981, meaning considerable improvement in telephone service, with the
installation of 347,500 new telephones and another 4,300 public phones.

At the same time, as we report in detail on page 8, the CTT/TLP will launch
a publicity campaign. The campaign, announced yesterday, is to educate
telephone users on the best way to use them, with the slogan: "Help us

to serve you better, by using the telephone properly."

Other important projects in the telecommunications sector involve the con-
struction and enlargement of 296 buildings, and also include the plan for
improvement of the National Telecommunications System, the pbuilding and
enlargement of 110 stations in Lisbon and Porto, and expansion of the
capacity of local, regional, interurban and international networks. It is
also noted that the National Telephone System will be completely automated
in 1981.

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BRAZIL

DECISION ON CPA BIDDING MAY BE LEFT TO NEXT GOVERNMENT
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 25 Aug 78 p 24

[Text] Sao Paulo--The decision as to which company will be chosen to pro-
duce programed telephone exchanges for storage--CPA's--in Brazil may be
left for the next government. That possibility was suggested here yesterday
by Minister Euclides Quandt de Oliveira, who came to Sao Paulo to make the
closing address at the telecommunications symposium sponsored by the Insti-
tute of Engineering.

The minister said that, in view of the disqualification of Ericsson do
Brasil, he has summoned the second-place company, Standard Electric (of ‘the
ITT group), and held the first meeting with its management just yesterday.
That company will have 45 days in which to meet the requirements established
in the bidding, which mainly involve stockholder control by domestic
capital.

If ITT does not meet the requirements within that period, it will be dis-
qualified, and the third company, NEC (Nippon Electric Co.), will be invited,
also with 45 days in which to meet the requirements.

Criteria

The minister stated that none of the three companies qualified in the bidding
is presently in a position to meet the government's requirements in the pro-
gram for manufacturing CPA's in Brazil. However, they were the ones that
came closest to meeting the requirements in the first phase of the bidding,
in which six organizations participated and only three were chosen.

As for Ericsson, he stressed that the matter is closed, because that com-
pany's period expired without its having met the requirements. These re-
quirements are known, he explained, and were contained in the invitation
to bid. He refused, however, to reveal the criteria for the decision,
explaining that TELEBRAS is still considering proposals from the other qua-
lified companies and that it is not possible at this time to reveal the
criteria used.

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COMPUTERS TO BE USED BY ARMED FORCES IN FIELD

Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 5 Sep 78 p 2

[Text]

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COMPUTER technology _ will
form the “basis of a highly
sophisticated new communi-
cations system which will be in
operation in the army and the
RAAF by 1982,

‘The Defence. Department will
spend $18 million on the new
equipment which in effect will
be fully transportable computer
banks for use in combat or
natural disaster situations.

‘The equipment, which was de-
veloped in the United States
and will be assembled in Aus-
tralia, will give field command-.
ers the capability to lock into
the main computer data bank
stored in the defence complex at,
Russell Hill.

‘The terminals, will also trans-
mit high frequency radio signals’
and telex. messages up to
4000km, which will bring field
commanders anywhere in Aus-
tralia in immediate computef’
contact with Canberra. :

‘The Minister for Defence, Mr
Killen, said his department had
attempted to maximise the local
content in the equipment as

Part of the contract. -
‘The firm which will design
the overall system, assemble and
test the new equipment is Racal
Electrobics Pty Ltd of Australia,
which is a subsidiary of the
American. firm Racal Electron:
ies. .

The terminals are
being designed to he
transported in - army.
trucks or cargo planes.

Racal Australia will
employ additional staff
to meet the contract. and
the equipment is due for
delivery in 1981-82. The
cost of the project has
been spread over several
financial years. :

Mr Killen has still not
reeased details of the
Budget allocated to his
department this financial
year.

The ramifications of
severe cutbacks in gov-
ernment spending are ex-
pected to affect the de-
partment harshly.

AUSTRALIA



INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

ERICSSON MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM--Telecommunications enterprises in the
Scandinavian countries have decided to build up a joint automatic system
for mobile telephones. Sweden and Denmark have decided to buy the technical
equipment from the Swedish L. M. Ericsson firm. "Norway has not yet
entered into such a contract, but we expect that a decision will be made
before 15 September," says department head Jena Gjerso of the NIB [Norwegian
Telegraph Bureau] telecommunications directorate. According to Tidningernas
Telegrambyra, the new mobile telephone system is to go into operation

in 1981 and gradually replace the manual system we have now. The new
system will give a motorist subscriber the same telephone service an
ordinary subscriber gets. [Text] [Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian

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TUNISIA

BRIEFS

TUNISIAN-NIGER MEDIA COOPERATION--During a working session this morning
Mustapha Masmoudi, secretary of state for information and his Niger counter-
part, Daouda Diallo, decided to draw up an agreement of cooperation re-
flecting the wish of the two countries to exchange reports of interest to
them, radio program papers and journalists, to establish a link between
their news agencies, to undertake joint radio and television production

and to coordinate their work in international organizations especially in
the forthcoming sessions of UNESCO and the UN General Assembly. [Text]
[Tunis Domestic Service in Arabic 1900 GMT 8 Sep 78 LD]

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24



WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

DUBROVNIK MEETING ASKS CHANGE IN WORLD COMMUNICATIONS
Belgrade TANJUG Domestic Service in Serbo-Croatian 1706 GMT 14 Sep 78 LD

[text] Dubrovnik--At the Dubrovnik meeting on the world system of communi-
cations, the main expression was gained on the whole by the idea that it is
necessary to radically change the structure of communications and circula-
tion of information in the world. Above all, this means the democratization
of relations in this field, and then the quest for solution of the problem
of the right to communication which has still not been elaborated. This,
together with the removal of some technological and professional barriers,

is above all required by the interest and needs of the nonalined and develop-
ing countries which have been represented at this meeting in very large
number.

The attention of the participants in this meeting was attracted by the pole-
mics about the so-called free flow of information which is mainly one-sided,
that is information flows above all from large technolegically and profes-
sionally strong centers of mass media, This gives these centers certain
monopoly on communication in the field of information as well as in science,
culture, and other fields, Although there have been differing approaches
to the question of modernization in public communications, this time, too,
the inevitable conclusion was drawn that efforts to introduce a new system
of communications are closely linked with the struggle of the nonalined

and other countries for a new economic order in the world.

In view of the fact that this International Institute for Communications
(IIC), with headquarters in London, is not obliged to adopt certain conclu-
sions, many useful and new ideas have been put forward in Dubrovnik this
time, This is the opinion of Tomo Martelanc, Ljubljana University professor,
who submitted the introductory report on the basic theme of this meeting.
According to him, this will be of great importance because the meeting was
attended by many influential personalities from all over the world who can
contribute to the launching of ideas and positions put forward in Dubrovnik.

It was of special significance that one of the last plenary sessions of
this meeting was devoted to the experience of the self-managing and non-
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CONTENTS (Continued) Page

SUB~SAHARAN AFRICA
NIGERIA

Lack of Maintenance, Spare Parts May Close More TV Stations
(Mutazu Alhaji; NEW NIGERIAN, 2 Sep 78) . . 25

ZAIRE

Briefs
Gemena Ground Station 26

WESTERN EUROPE

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Briefs
Ericsson Mobile Telephone System 27
CYPRUS
AKEL Deputy on Control of Spy Radio Stations
(KHARAVGL, 12 Sep 78) cccccccccecccccceccccccccccncce 28
NORWAY
Oslo To Get New Telex Exchange in 1980
(AFTENPOSTEN, 24 Aug 78) ccccccccccccccccccccccccccce 29
PORTUGAL
Telephone Company To Expand Service
(DIARIO DE NOTICIAS, 11 Jul 78) .. 30
Use of Citizens' Band Regulated
(DIARIO DE NOTICIAS, 14 Jul 78) .. 31

RIP Prepares for 1980's Technology
(Almeida Perucho; EXPRESSO, 8 Jul 78) ..sccccccccccee 34



The basic conditions of the agreement, the minister explained, are that
there be effective control of the company by domestic capital and that

there really be a transfer of technology. The possibility of an associa-
tion of domestic companies with multi-national organizations did not appear
feasible within the predetermined objectives, because no sizable domestic
company in a position to bring about a transfer of technology in association
with a multinational firm was found in the sector. Hence the insistence
that stockholder control of the company to be formed by genuinely Brazilian.

Biddings

Minister Quandt de Oliveira stated that the company chosen in this second
phase of bidding will receive an order for 50,000 CPA terminals this year,
80,000 next year and 100,000 more in 1980, with delivery dates between 1980
and 1982.

Such orders, he feels, are sufficient to make the company assigned to pro-
duce CPA's in Brazil feasible, and it can win additional smaller bids
that will be awarded in the future. Disqualification of companies at this
stage of the bidding, he explained, will not prevent their participating
later in new bids in other states for furnishing such equipment.

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NETWORKS KEEP TRACK OF AIR FREIGHT

Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 4 Sep 78 p 10

[Text]

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AS AN example of
modern: business
telecommuni-
cations, Air Express
International which
claims to be the larg-
est international air
freight forwarder in
terms ‘of volume of
shipments, has over
100,000 miles of com-
puter-controlled _ pri-
vate line communica-
tions covering five

continents.

In operation since 1935,
AEI has’ built up a com-
plex communications sys-
tem between its offices in
the U.S., Europe, Austra-
lia, South America and
Africa.

The centre of the sys-
tem is the AEI_ private
linetele-processing net-
work which provides a
direct, continuous .inter-
connected service between
offices throughout North
America; transatlantic
to the U.K.; around the

South Pacific Basin
through New Zealand
and Australia and into
South Africa. _

Tied into this is a series
of telex connections. into
South America, Europe,
the Middle East and
Africa.

Nearly 400 AEI offices:
and agents are linked up
to this system.

In North America, if a
customer wishes to give
information on shipment
data via telex, he can use
an access point on the
private line network.

By dialling AEI's telex
number at the Communi-
cations Control Centre at
Stamford, Connecticut,
the customer’s message is
fed into a switching com-
puter, reviewed on a dis-
play ‘terminal, given the
appropriate code address
and then automatically
fed to the AEI station or
office for the required
action or answer.

AE!’s ., South Pacific
region is controlled from
its Sydney head office.

AUSTRALIA



IBM's second problem, from which Burroughs would also like to reap advan-
tage, is in regard to the controversy created by the "small business compu-
ters," which, despite having been presented by IBM as "medium-sized,"
continue to interfere, according to CAPRE, in the range of operations al-
ready reserved by the government for minicomputers manufactured by domestic
companies. Burroughs now comes along with the 2800, a really "medium-
sized" model that does not result in the interferences disliked by CAPRE.

Even the presence of the "medium" IBM computer in CAPRE has caused evident
concern on the part of Labo, Sharp and Edisa. The last of these even sent
one of its directors to Brasilia in an effort to convince Gen Joao Baptista
de Figueiredo of the importance of the domestic minicomputer projects.

Until now, IBM has been operating practically alone in Brazil as far as
production of large computers is concerned, and, although the domestic market
in this range cannot support two large manufacturers, the idea of trans-
forming the nation into a great exporter in the computer field has been
gaining consensus in the CAPRE plenary council. That explains the initial
receptiveness to the Burroughts projects.

There is yet a third aspect that has been under consideration. It is in
reference to what was called by one CAPRE source a "division of pressures."
Paradoxically, the increase in pressures--from IBM on the one side,
Burroughs from another, the domestic companies from another-~is being viewed
as a favorable factor, to the extent that it fosters establishment of a
balance of forces in the market and that CAPRE is not seen as being in
confrontation with just one powerful manufacturer.

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overhead, helped + miners to
locate manganes

The Japanese will use it
‘to track tuna.

‘The satellite survey cost
the equivalent of one
man-month; a ground
survey would have con-
sumed man-vears.

Strip coal miners in
Virginia are monitored by
Landsat to ensure they
meet environmental stan-
dards.

FORESTS

The St Regis Paper
Company used Landsat to
survey -its 1.7 million
acres of forest spread
throughout the southern
US. at a cost far below
low-level aerial survey,

jand will use the satellite
regularly to monitor
growth, health, and safe
production levels of . .t:
forests,

The potential applica-
tions of Landsat in Aus-
tralia are just as varied.

‘That fact is reflected in
the occupation of Austra-
jians who have been
taking month-long courges
at Eros Data Centre ‘in
interpreting Landsat, data.

The CSIRO division of
national mapping, and a
private minerals explora-
tion group have had stu-
dents on course.

And a Melbourne aca-
demic and a representative
from the Queensland
Department of Fisheries
will attend one this month.



LANDSAT TAPS FLOOD OF ECONOMIC DATA

AUSTRALIA

Canberra THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN in English 2-3 Sep 78 p 13

[Text] : A NEW series of NASA space satellites which collect earth data are about to revolutionise
mankind's economic activity, and Australia is in the market. FRANK JACKSON writes from

New York: ‘°

AUSTRALIA is about
to enter the infor-
mation-packed Landsat
era and many things
from town planning to
crop estimation and

mineral exploration
may never be the sane
again.

Two 20001b North Amer-
ican Space Administration
Landsat satellites now in
orbit about 586 miles up
each pour out 15 million
pieces of — information
about: the earth’s surface
and conditions on it every
second.

‘That information, with
application to many en-
deavors, is accessible to
Australians via NASA
monitoring equipment and
a related information
dispensary in the U.S.

A private U.S. company

offers gnalyses of the
Landsat data.
But within — three

months, the Australian
Government hopes to sign
an agreement with NASA
which will give - it . the
right to open a Landsat
station at Alice Springs.
This. will give Australia
potentially unlimited ac-
cess to Landsat informa-
tion; the only restraint
will’ be the cost of in-
terpretative hardware.

MODEST

It will mean that Aus-
tralian clients for Landsat
information will not’ have
to endure “the sometime
long wait for - material
from. the hard-pressed
NASA-related Eros Data
Centre at Sioux Falls,
South Dakota.

The Landsat station will
be a national asset — and
only the tenth in the
world. ;

There are three in the
U.S. and two in Canada.
‘Others are in Brazil, Iran,
‘Italy and Japan.

India is building one
and Zaire will start con-
struction soon. .

Most of these countries
have spent $4 million or
$5 million for their equip-
ment.

Tran spent $10 million
for very sophisticated
hardware.

Australia hopes to get
away with ‘a more modest
bill of about $3 million —
while avoiding a commen-
surate sacrifice in the
quality of information it
is able to glean from
Landsat.

AT NIGHT

Additional expenses in-'

clude an annual $200,000
licence fee payable to

NASA for the use of the
satellite, and-an annual
bill which in the. other
countries has typically run
at between $1 million and
$2 million.

The relatively modest
Australian investment in-
cludes provisions to take
advantage of the improved
Landsat satellite - which’
will go in to orbit. some-
time in’ 1981 — soon after
the Australian station
comes on stream.

Landsat was billed by
late NASA _ director;
Werner Von. Braun, as the
program which could
recoup the U.S. invest-
ment in the moon race,
and prove that the ad-
vances in space technology
born of that race could
greatly benefit mankind.

Landsat records light
reflected from the earth’s
surface.

The first, launched in
1972 and switched off late

ilast year, carried a camera

which ‘provided resolution
down to 80 metres.

The third Landsat,
which went into orbit in
March this ‘year, can take
pictures of ‘areas just 40
metres square.

‘Landsat —D,
launched in 1981; will
carry. camera providing
resolution down to 30
metres.

Its other. light-measur-
ing instruments have also
been improved over earlier!
models.

The original _ satellite
registered four colors.

‘The Landsat’ launched
this year measured five,
and Landsat D will take
two more measurements of
infra-red light which’ will

allow. it, ‘among: . other
‘things, to operate at
night. 7

‘The information is sent
to earth by radio signal,
and recorded on tape.

Researchers have
learned. to interpret it in
many ways. .

Earth Satellite Corpora-
tion, in Washington, says
its analyses of Landsat
data have led to the dis-
covery of $1 billion in oil
and $100 million of
various mineral reserves.

The U.S. Government
uses Landsat. to determine
wheat yields. Plants have
a distinctive light
“fingerprint” which. Land-
vsat. detects.

In Pakistan, five: new
copper deposits have been
identified by Landsat.

Stunted vegetation " on.
islands off Indonesia led.
jto the. discovery of chro- |
‘mium deposits.

Secondary faultlines ie
the Alaskan terrain, unde-
tected until Landsat flew



ZAIRE

BRIEFS

GEMENA GROUND STATION--Preliminary work on the installation of the ground
station for telecommunications via satellite has got under way in Gemena.

A delegation of technicians from the company, Nord France, consisting of 2
members and led by Mr Giceron, is presently engaged in this work. Prior to
Gemena similar work was done at Mbandaka and Gbadolite. In addition, Citi-
zen Namwisi ma Koyi, commissioner of the equatorial region, recently received
the visit of Dr Yu, head of the Chinese medical mission to Mbandaka, in his
office. Dr Yu spoke to the regional authority of the transportation diffi-
culties encountered by the members of his team due to a lack of motor fuel on
the local market; he then informed him of the Chinese medical mission's de-
velopment of a glucose solution aimed at treating the sick. "This accom-
plishment was made possible," Dr Yu stated, "through the concern of the re-
gional authority and the heads of the medical service." In turn, the head
of regional administration told his interlocutor that, in reference to the
first point, all arrangements had been made to assist the Chinese fellow
workers. In this regard, he pointed out that gasoline barges were already
on hand in Mbandaka. The regional commissioner expressed great delight over
the glucose-serum factory in Nbandaka, for with this product, whose lack was
already beginning to be severely felt on the local market, many sick people
wind be able to be saved. /Text/ /Kinshasa BLIMA in French 23 Aug 78 p
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NIGERIA

LACK OF MAINTENANCE, SPARE PARTS MAY CLOSE MORE TV STATIONS
Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 2 Sep 78 p 1

[Brticle ty Mutazu Alhaji, Sokoto/

[®ext] SOME television stations in the country may soon close down due to ina-
dequate maintenance and lack of spare parts for their microwave links.

In an interview, the Manag-_,

ing Director of “Zone F” of the
Nigerian Television, Alhaji

‘Adamu Augie, said t
fem facing our nN sta-
tions was caused by the with-
* drawal of services of a foreign
“company, “Microwave As-
sociates”, which was charged
with the installation and main-
- tenance of all television links in

He said unless various states
paid up their debts to . the-
company, many television stations
would be forced té-be using old
spare parts to maintain their

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microwave links up to the time
when they eventually could go off

prob- “ the air like the Sokoto Television

station.

Answering another question,
Alhaji Adamu said the problem of-
N.T.V. Sokoto, was further com-

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outstanding representatives of the Yugoslav radio-television and newspapers.
A special debate was also held on the development and prospects of the pool
of news agencies of the nonalined countries, and on similar cooperation in
the field of radio and television. This Yugoslav experience, as well as
the experience of the nonalined world, was assessed as a great step toward
the development of global communications in the world today.

One gathers the impression among the observers of this meeting that our
country's experience in the field of communications has had a strong impact
on the participants, arousing their interest for Yugoslav solutions, and
paying tribute to the Yugoslavs, not only for being hosts to this meeting,
put also for the constant and notable contribution made by Yugoslavia to
the solution of the very complicated problem of global communications in
the contemporary world.

The Dubrovnik meeting, which ended today after 4 days work, was attended
by about 250 university professors, publicists, and journalists from some
40 countries from all continents.

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BRAZIL

CAPRE MAY APPROVE J. C. MELLO MINICOMPUTER PROJECT
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Aug 78 p 19

[Text] Brasilia--Businessman J. C. Mello has resubmitted his minicomputer
project, which had been rejected by CAPRE [Coordinating Commission for
Electronic Processing Activities] when that entity's plenary council chose
the three domestic manufacturers who were to operate in addition to COBRA
(Brazilian Computers and Systems Corp.] in the minicomputer sector.

Now, according to a highlyplaced source in CAPRE, the project resubmitted
by J. C. Mello has a good chance of approval, in view of the good quality
of the proposal, in a subsector that would not be sufficiently covered by
minicomputer models to be manufactured by Edisa, Labo and Sharp.

The project resubmitted by J. C. Mello provides for introducing on the
domestic market a type of minicomputer especially intended for control of
industrial processes, a field currently covered only by COBRA.

Although the J. C. Mello proposal competes with the COBRA 700 model, CAPRE
is seriously considering the possibility of approving another supplier to
avoid a monopoly situation in the market, a principle also supported by
CAPRE since the COBRA-IBM confrontation, when the government published a
letter of intent inviting companies interested in producing minicomputers
to fill a vacancy beside COBRA, an opening that eventually benefited not
just one, but three new companies.

The J. C. Mello project, if approved as expected, will then be the fifth
devoted to domestic manufacture of minicomputers. At first CAPRE itself
was reluctant to recognize the merit of this proposal, because it did not
perceive the J. C. Mello company as being capable of introducing a highly
competitive product.

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Broadcast classes corresponding to AM (amplitude modification), SSB (single
side band, upper or lower) and FM (frequency modulation) are authorized,
limited to apparent powers of 5 watts (AM and FM) and 15 watts (SSB).

In cases where equipment creates interference detrimental to local reception
of broadcasting services (radio or TV), sufficient filters to end such in-
terference must be installed...

Granting of Licenses

No equipment may be used in this range of frequencies without prior appli-
cation for CTT licensing and payment of the fixed fees. Application for a
license must be accompanied by a criminal registry certificate.

Licenses will be granted only to Portuguese citizens over 15 years of age,
who are not listed on the criminal register for any major conviction.
Foreigners may be licensed only if they maintain a permanent residence and
conduct their activity in this country. Minors under the age of 16 may
use the equipment on responsibility of the license holder.

Licenses will be valid for 5 years, and the equipment may be used for re-
creational or commercial purposes.

The regulation provides that each instrument will be given a call designa-
tion from the international series assigned to Portugal. The use of
"service designations" proposed by the user is permitted, however.

"Citizens' band" equipment may be used for either stationary or mobile
service (except in airplanes) and may be of the portable or permanently
installed type. Musical broadcasts, reproduction of radio broadcasts, use
of morally offensive words and all broadcasts that could be considered
similar to or in competition with those which are the monopoly of the state
are prohibited.

Fines for violations of the regulation range from 500 to 25,000 escudos.
Rates

The rates fixed for the use of the "citizens' band" are as follows: test-
ing for approval of the type of equipment, 1,000 escudos; certificate of

approval, 100 escudos; license, 150 escudos; use tax, varies according to
power, from 600 to 1,500 escudos for 6 months.

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PORTUGAL

RIP PREPARES FOR 1980'S TECHNOLOGY
Lisbon EXPRESSO In Portuguese 8 Jul 78 p 4
[Article by Almeida Perucho]

{Text] The 1980's will be a challenge for television and radio in Portugal,
bearing in mind that in 1985 the nation's territory will be covered by a
satellite with a geostationary [synchronous] orbit and direct transmission,
permitting an increased number of channels available for programming (four
new television channels and one radio channel, the latter capable of carry-
ing up to 25 programs, including stereophonic or quadrophonic ones). The
satellite will also allow for improvement and expansion of the entire tele-
communications system.

In this context, this week's EBU election in Athens takes on particular
importance for the RTP [Portuguese Radio-Television System]. Joao Soares
Louro was elected to the administrative council of the EBU for the 4-year
term from 1979 to 1982. Winning 59 of 60 possible votes, the president
of the Administrative Council of the RIP was elected during the working
meeting of the EBU, in which 180 delegates participated (representing 80
radio and television stations, as well as stations in African, Asian, East
European, Latin American and Arab countries).

The Portuguese delegation (besides Soares Louro, it included Maj Joao
Figueiredo, president of the Administrative Council of the RDB [Portuguese
Broadcasting System]) was also honored to see their seconding of the can-
didacy of Jean Autin, the new president of the EBU, approved.

With the new generation of geostationary satellites, competition in terms
of quantity and quality will take on new dimensions. This is because the
elliptical beam emitted by the satellite, which will cover Portugal's con-
tinental area, will cover a small part of northern Spain (another beam with
the same four television channels and one radio channel will cover Madeira
and the Azores), while another elliptical beam, likewise emitted from the
satellite, which will cover all of Spain's territory, will create zones of
overlap covering almost all of Portugal's territory and some French terri—

tory.

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SYRIA

REPORT ON NEW RADIO STATION IN DAYR AL~ZAWR
Damascus AL-THAWRAH in Arabic 8 Aug 78 p 10

[Report by Salih Najjar: "New Radio Station in Dayr al-Zawr Covers Northeast
Area and Large Portion of Arab Territories"]

[Excerpt] Let us talk about a very impressive realization, the project in-
augurated not so long ago by Mr Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad, minister of informa-
tion, and which is the radio station in Dayr al-Zawr. This radio station,
the minister said in his speech delivered on that historic occasion, shall
transmit the nationalist voice of Syria, reflecting the basic opinions of
our party and expressing the ideas and values which guide our policy,
across the artificial borders separating the territories of our nation.

The voice of Arab Syria actually is the pulse of the nationalist feelings
in the Arab fatherland, which materializes our national relationship and
incites our masses to act in accordance with the requirements of this rela~-
tionship. This voice, under the history-making leadership of President
Hafiz al-Assad, represents the will to stand out in the whole Arab father-
land, and the embodiment of the aspirations of our Arab nation concerning
the edification of the united Arab socialist society.

When our radio station starts broadcasting, that will be a new addition to
our forces, while we fight our battle against the provincialists, the pro-
moters of partition, those who are neglectful of the Arab right, and those
who cooperate with the enemies of our nation.

The nationalist standard, the minister concluded, raised by al-Assad's Syria
and followed by the fighters everywhere in the vast fatherland, actually is
the flag of the future, no matter how much conspiracies and false pride may
increase within the Arab fatherland.

Location of the Radio Station and Completion of Some Phases of the Operation
The radio station was built on a site facing the right bank of the Euphrates

River and covering an area of about 500 donums, 5 kilometers from the city of
Dayr al-Zawr.

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12 October 1978

TRANSLATIONS ON. TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
No. 55
ConTENTS PAGE
WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

Dubrovnik Meeting Asks Change in World Communications

(TANIJUG, 14 Sep 78) coccccccccccccccccccccsccccccccccocs 1
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Networks Keep Track of Air Freight
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 4 Sep 78) ceccccccccccccccccccccccccces 3
Computers To Be Used by Armed Forces in Field
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 5 Sep 78) cccccccccccccacccccccccccccce 4
Landsat Taps Flood of Economic Data
(THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN, 2-3 Sep 78) .......seeeeeeeeees 5
Establishment of Satellite Telecommunications Network Urged
(Warren Beeby; THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN, 2-3 Sep 78) ....- 7
NEW ZEALAND
Farm Shack Used in Satellite Tracking
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 4 Sep 78) .. 8
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Defense Force's Aircraft To Switch to Omega System
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| readouts to be related to
various parts of the earth
during orbits.

Nasa launched Seasat A on
its voyage of exploration
on board an Atlas-Agena
rocket from Vanderberg Air
Force Base, California, in
June.

From its 800-kilometre-
high, near-polar orbit Seasat
A points five instruments at)
the world’s ‘oceans as it
makes 14 orbits of the earth
each day, scanning 95 per
cent of the oceans every 36
hours.
("Neither rain, sleep, nor
‘darkness keeps Seasat' A
ifrom. its appointed. rounds|
jor obscures its view of the

seas.

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all weathers and function as

well at night as in daylight.

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craft ‘that has. flown more
than 300 missions.

It carries ar. sensor
module — a. specialised
section that contains the
microwave __ instruments
and other scientific equip-
ment.

Scientists from. several
oceanographic “and meteor-
ological fields have formed]
teams for the mission. Their
primary task is. to study
information from ‘Seasat A’s|
instruments and make an
objective _ judgment © about!
how well they will allow.man
to study the-sea from s] .

Unfortunately, although the}
satellite is being tracked

from New. Zealand, our
weather stations do not yet!
have the .advanced equip-|
ment: able to make use of the
information gained as it
shoots over ‘Hawkes Bay .on
one of its many orbits around
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EAST GERMANY

BRIEFS

INTERS PUINIK STATION--"The GDR Intersputnik station near Fuerstenwalde
(Frankfurt-Oder Bezirk) has been operating for more than two years. It
transmits and receives its information via Soviet communications satellites
of the Molniya-3 type and enables long distance communications of high
quality." The GDR station has thus far relayed 500 televised and radio
programs. "In addition, telephone calls, Telex messages and facsimile
and data communications--for example to Cuba or the MPR--are being
channeled via the Intersputnik station. The parabolic mirror, the an-
tenna, has a 12-meter diameter and together with the base plate, weighs
60 tons. In addition to the GDR other such stations exist in Bulgaria,
the CSSR, Cuba, Poland, Hungary and the MPR." [East Berlin NEUES
DEUTSCHLAND in German 18 Sep 78 p 2 AU]

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URUGUAY

BRIEFS

FOREIGN BROADCAST PENETRATION--Yesterday the president formed a committee
which will be tasked with finding solutions to the problem created by the
penetration of Uruguayan territory of radio and television broadcasts from
bordering countries. The government has found it necessary to limit this
penetration in order to defend our sovereignty, language, and life style.
The government has decided that this is a good time for all interested
organizations and bodies to analyze the problem and study possible solutions
along with the government. Thus the committee will be chaired by DINARP
{National Public Relations Office] director, Col Alberto Larroque and
composed of two ANTEL [National Telecommunications Administration] repre=
sentatives, two members of the National Broadcasting Association of Uruguay,
two representatives of SODRE [Official Radio-Electric Broadcasting Service]
and one representative of DINARP. [Text] [Montevideo EL PAIS in Spanish
23 Aug 78 p 6]

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CYPRUS

AKEL DEPUTY ON CONTROL OF SPY RADIO STATIONS
Nicosia KHARAVGI in Greek 12 Sep 78 p 1 NC

[Text] A leftwing member of the House of Representatives and chairman of the
Pan-Cypriot Peace Council, Mr Giangos Potamitis, submitted to the House of
Representatives on 7 September the following question:

"The government spokesman has stated that the British authorities, or the
BBC, asked the Cyprus Government to allow the strengthening of the Zyyi
radio station from 100 to 500 kilowatts, that the government has agreed to
give this permission in exchange for 500,000 pounds sterling and other bene-
fits and that the British authorities have made installations in the Akrotiri
military base to strengthen the Zyyi radio station,

"In the concept of a man possessing common sense, the strengthening of the
radio station--which will certainly cost quite a few million and for the
permission of its installation alone the British authorities is paying the
Cyprus Government more than 500,000 pounds--is not, of course, being car-
ried out to entertain the Arab people in the area with Arabic folk music.
Even the blind can see the neighboring areas sown all over with NATO spy
stations and can smell what is hidden under the innocent sheepskin ‘of the
installations to strengthen the relaying of BBC programs to countries in the
area.' Because of all this, the competent ministry is asked to inform the
House of Representatives whether the Cyprus Government has the necessary
scientific means to ascertain whether these installations in the British
military base at Akrotiri or the ‘reinforced’ British radio station at Zyyi
will not be used to carry out espionage against friendly Arab and other
countries through such means as coded messages--which could even be included
in music programs--and thousands of other secret means invented by the modern
science of ‘advanced' technology.

"And if the Cyprus Government does not have such means, doesn't it think
that this step could be interpreted as an open tearing up of our declara-
tions for the demilitarization of Cyprus, a clamorous repudiation of our
neutral and friendly policy to all the countries and our torpedoing of the
trust which our friends and the world would have in our declaration?"

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The construction work started at the beginning of 1976, and the installation
of some huge equipment was completed a few days ago.

The buildings consist of:

A. The broadcasting department, which has an operating power of about 1,500
kilowatts, i.e., two and a half times stronger than the present broadcasting
station in Damascus.

B. Electric piles department, representing a power of about 16,000 HP.

C. Living quarters for engineers and technicians, consisting of three small
apartments and one large 20-room building with a large conference room, a
club room, kitchens and bathrooms.

D. Antenna department consisting of five rooms equipped with air-conditioners.

E. Water purification project--a huge project including a 40-HP pumping
station which pumps water from the Euphrates River, with sedimentation and
Chlorine-processing tanks, an elevated tank with a capacity of 160 cubic
meters and ground level tanks with a capacity of 400 cubic meters.

F. Warehouses for spare parts and fuels.
Purpose and Goal of the Establishment of the Project

The purpose of the establishment of this project is to cover the northeast
zone of the Syrian Arab country, as well as a large portion of nearby Arab
countries such as the Arabian Gulf states, with the Syrian broadcasting
programs.

This station can send a peripheral broadcast covering the Syrian territory
along the line between Homs and Hamah, also, with broadcasting programs; or
it can direct the programs in the direction of Damascus, in addition to the
principal orientation which we mentioned, i.e., towards Iraq and the Arabian
Gulf. The program shall reach the broadcasting station through the tele-
vision coverage project.

Staff of the New Broadcasting Station

The staff of the new broadcasting station consists of 76 people including
full-time employees, technicians and management executives. The manager of
the station is Mr Antoine Karkush, who is assisted by the following engi-
neers: ‘Abd-al-'Aziz Muslim, Ahmad al-Hasan, Riyadh Tuma and Jalal Muhammad,
in addition to the young people who work at the station, and who have made
praiseworthy efforts to establish this imposing edifice, of which we can be
proud, since it is a national achievement, which will carry the voice of
Syria to our sister Arab countries, so that the echo of the right, the
struggle and the fight will come from a people which has believed in its right
to live and fights for liberation and edification under the leadership of the
hero of October and of the Golan Heights.

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AUSTRALIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK URGED

Canberra THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN in English 2-3 Sep 78 p 1

[Article by Warren Beeby]

[Text]

THE setting up of a satellite
telecommunications system
likely to cost more than
$125 million and an exten-
sion of. the non-urban. tele-
vision station network has
been recommended to the
Federal Government.

The go-ahead to push Aus-
tralia into the communications
space age has been suggested by
an interdepartmental task force
set up last November.

Its report is to go to Cabinet
for a decision on whether it
should be made public, but the
Government is expected to be in
no hurry to act on the recom-
mendations.

‘The task farce is understood to
have suggested launching a
satellite capable of giving simul-
taneous national access to exist-
ing. television channels and cap-
able of carrying telephone calls,
radio, telex.messages and infor-
mation from computer data

It would be Australia’s first,
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launched from Cape Kennedy,
in the US., or from Europe.

The. scheme, as outlined in
the exhaustive public hearings
that preceded the report, would
also have the capacity to handle
medical diagnoses for remote
areas and improve defence com-
munications.

The Department of Post and
Telecommunications is acknow-
Jedging that the report has gone
to the Government, but is re-
fusing to comment on its con-
tents.

The most controversial recom-
mendation is that the Govern-
ment should allow-an expansion
of the number of. television
stations outside the major cities

extend coverage and give
country viewers a wider range
of choice. The system would also
vastly: improve reception in
fringe viewing areas.

It is believed the task force
specifically urged creation of
extra stations in Canberra,
Newcastle and Wollongong,
where coverage is. presently
supplied by the ABC and one
commercia}-eHannel each.

‘The ‘Department is expected

to prepare a parallel submission
to go to Cabinet at’ the same
tine ag the task force’s report.

The Minister. for Post. and
‘Telecommunications, Mr Staley,
is considering its findings.

The task force was set up fol-
lowing the submission to the
Government for a private en-
terprise telecommunications sat-
ellite by the head of Consoli-
dated Press, Mr Kerry Packer.

His interests also control the
National Nine Television net-
work, and his satellite plans
coincide with the launching of
World Series Cricket.

But it is understood the
report comes out firmly against
a privately owned satellite net-
‘work and favors, instead, a gav-
ernment system operated either
by Telecom or the Department
of Post and Telecommunica-
tions.

Telecom, which did its own
feasibility ‘study before the task
force was set up, was originally
opposed. to. Australia launching
a satellite, but later submitted
that if one was launched, it
should be under Telecome’s
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DEFENSE FORCE'S AIRCRAFT TO SWITCH TO OMEGA SYSTEM

Melbourne THE AGE in English 7 Sep 78 p 6

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The Papua New Guinea

defence force’s Austra-
lian-made Nomad aircraft
will be fitted with the
Omega navigation system
for offshore coastal sur-
veillance.

The refit, which will in-
clude installation of the Ben-
dix RDR1400 radar system,
will cost more
$200,000.

The first PNG Nomad has
already been stripped at
Civil “Flying Services at
Moorabbin airport. The
second Nomad will arrive
today.

‘The Omega/VLF naviga-
tion system will provide air-
crew with continuous long-
titude, latitude, time and

date information.

It will be connected to a
camera which will provide a
photographic record of sus-
picious craft.

The Bendix radar will be
used in conjunction with the
Omega system. It will detect
and display targets as small
as 10 metres square at a
range of 15 nautical miles in
bad_ weather.

Mr. Barrie Follows, man-
ager of West Coast Air-
motive, the company doing
the installation, said it was
the first job of its kind in
the region.

Mr. Follows said the
Nomads would be used not
only in purely defence force
work but also to catch illeg-
al fishing vessels and drug
runners. .

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