PAKISTAN

BRIEFS

JAPANESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TEAM--An 8-member team of Japanese telecommunica-
tions experts arrived in Islamabad on 9 October. It will discuss with
officials of the Ministry of Communications priorities of technical equipment
for the telecommunication research center in Islamabad for which Japan has
provided a grant of $8 million. [Karachi Domestic Service in Urdu 1500

GMT 9 Oct 77 BK]

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MOROCCO

BRIEFS

MAP BECOMES 'PUBLIC INSTITUTION'--Rabat--Of ficial Bulletin No 3387 of 28
September 1977 carries a decree-law turning the Maghreb-Arabe-Presse [MAP]
Agency into "a public institution having legal status and financial autonomy
and placed under the government official in charge of information." Organi-
zationally the decree-law stipulates that "the agency is administered by a
board of administration and a management committee and managed by a director."
The board of administration, chaired by the government official in charge of
information, includes representatives of the royal cabinet, the prime minister,
the government officials in charge of foreign affairs and finance, the Ministry
of the Interior, the General Secretariat of the Government, the Ministry of
Public Works and Communications, and the agency's journalist and nonjournalist
staff. [Text] [Rabat MAP in French 1530 GMT 7 Oct 77 LD]

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3-minute Limit for Coin Telephones

Another announcement made by the CANTV president will be quite well received
by the public because of its social significance. This was that conversations
at public or coin telephones will be limited to 3 minutes in order to end
frequent abuses by many users who show no consideration for others and

use the coin telethones as if they were their own private phones.

The Columbus Cable

Dr Enrique Narciso stated that on 12 October 1977 the Columbus Cable, with
1,800 channels, will begin operation. Its cost is on the order of 350
million bolivares and unites Europe with Venezuela. Connections are made
at the Canary Islands and from there to Spain and the rest of Europe. In
Venezuela we will have communication with the Caribbean nations, the Andean
area and the rest of Latin America.

He noted, "I would like to mention that we are negotiating with the United
States for a second St Thomas Cable to connect Venezuela with Miami. With
this we hope to have the best communications system of any developing nation."

Two Basic Problems

The CANTV president said that the firm has two basic problems, first the fact
that supply is 47 percent behind demand, the result basically of urban growth
and enlarging industry with increasing buying power for Venezuelans, which
now brings on a crisis because telephone service is already considered a
basic necessity, which was not true 5 years ago.

He continued that this unsatisfied demand has brought logical consequences
such as saturation of domestic and foreign long distance nets. The company
grew enormously in local communications, but this growth was not matched in
the areas of domestic and foreign long distance calls. This situation
produces congested lines. What are we doing to improve the quality of service?
CANTV has undertaken a vigorous financing plan to acquire mobile units and
domestic and foreign long distance calling centers.

"Truly Criminal"

A newsman asked regarding how much is lost yearly through damage to public
phones. "We do not have this figure, but the losses in that regard are
significant. It is truly criminal behavior to destroy coin telephones."

Dr Enrique Narciso pointed out that Venezuelans may be one of the peoples who
are most destructive about public Property and that in this case the tele-
phone is one of the commonest victims of rage and vandalism. He cited the
example of nations with less economic wealth who show more respect and take good
care of public telephones. He praised the behavior of Colombians in

this regard.

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REGIONAL RADIO NETWORK INAUGURATED
Paris AFP in French 1627 GMT 10 Oct 77 PA

[Text] Nouakchott, 10 Oct--The first regional network of the Mauritanian
Radiobroadcasting Office was inaugurated Saturday in Dakhia, capital of the
province of Tiris el Gharbia (formerly Rio de Oro), in northwestern Mauritania,
by Mohamed el Hafed Ould Enahoui, minister of information and telecommunica-
tions.

On this occasion, Mr Enahoui stated that this station has been established
“within the framework of an overall effort by the National Directorate to
expedite the complete and genuine integration of the province of Tires el
Gharbia in Mauritania." Mr Enahoui said that the authorities in Nouakchott
had decided to invest 300 million Francs in various development projects

in Tiris el Gharbia which, they said, is "6 years behind the development of
the rest of the country." "The new regional station," the minister added,
"should be an effective means for publicizing the decisions of the Mauritanian
People's Party and its revolutionary charter."

Finally, Mr Enahdui gave assurances that “other stations in other regional
capital cities will be created more or less in the near future." "Our
objective," he said, "is to permit our news media to make a greater contri-
bution toward cementing our national unity, raising our level of awareness
and educating the mass of our people."

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AUSTRALIA

PROS, CONS OF COMPUTERIZED TELEPHONE SERVICE WEIGHED

Brisbane THE COURIER MAIL in English 15 Sep 77 p 4

{Article by Nicholas Maher]

[Text]

USTRALIAN  tele-
phone subscribers
will be the “guinea pigs”
in a new computerised
telephone system that
will cost Telecom $500
million to introduce.
Queensland Branch Secre-
tary of the Australian Tele-
communication Employees As-
sociation (Mr. Alan Muir)
says Australia will be the first
country in the world to fully
test the ARE II system.
He said there were only
about 100,000 on this system
operating in Europe.

*.

The advantages for the
business men will be numer-
‘ous, but, say some critics, the
majority of subscribers could
be subjected to a threat of Big
Brother and other social im-_
plications.

‘A Swedish company has
been awarded the $500 million
contract to install the new
system, to be introduced in
the 1980s. .

(Mr. Muir said there were
dangers in the system that
‘Telecom employees and the
public should be made aware
of

A forum at the Ridge Motel
tonight, sponsored by his
union, will highlight the situ-
ation.

New or improved services
the new system will provide
inelude:

@ Subscribers, at an addi-
tional cost, will be able to
have a priority call service.
This ‘service will guarentee

these subscribers a direct line
ahead of people who have
dialled before. This service
will operate on every phone
call made from the particular
phone,

This system will in effect
create a first and second class
telephone subscriber.

© An abbreviated dialling
system, again at an extra cost
to the subscriber, allows him
faster access to a number he
frequently uses. This can be
done by pressing a two or
three digit code which the
computer will recognise and
connect through to the num-

rr.

@ The computer system will
be able to trace instantly any

, telephone call at the sub-

scriber's request, The feature
of this service is that obscene
or’ annoying phone calls will
be able to be traced imme-
diately.

If @ subscriber is a victim of
annoying phone calls he can
contact Telecom and they will
install some special equipment
on the telephone. This allows
@ telecom technician at an ex-
change to listen to the call
and trace it if he thinks it 1s
‘an annoying or obscene tele-
phone call.

‘The subscriber will be aware
that the technician 1s listen-
ing to every phone call.

@ The system will offer a
‘hotline’ service at a cheaper
rate. This service allows a
subscriber to pick up the
phone and be connected
directly to one number with-

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out dialling or pressing but-
tons.

@ When a subscriber makes
‘an international call he or she
will pay for exactly the
amount ‘of time they have
spoken for. In the present sys-
tem a subscriber may pay in
three minute instalments,
even though they may speak
for 30 seconds in that three
minutes.

@ A push button dialling
service.

Mr. Muir agrees that there
are advantages in the system.
But he said if the system
were misused the social im-
plications could be wide and
far-reaching.

He said there were dangers
in offering telephone sub-
scribers, first and second class
services.

“The priority call service
can be raisused by people who
use it to make calls that are
not urgent,” Mr. Muir said.

“A businessmen may ring up
his wife on the priority call
service to ask what is for din-
ner, thus making someone
wait who ts trying to make an
emergency call to a doctor or
fire brigade.

“The priority service will
Mean a degeneration of the
overall service to subscribers.”

He said the other danger of
the system was the ease with
which telephones could be
tapped.

“In the present system, it 1s
obvious if an employee at an
excharge is tapping a tele-
phone tine,” Mr. Muir said.

“with computers an oper-
ator ran sit at the Visual Dis-
play Unit (V.D.U.) and direct
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USSR

BRIEFS

NEW TELEVISION RELAY TOWER--Construction has started on a radio-relay
station on the outskirts of Leninogorsk to insure good reception of tele-
vision programs on two channels, including color television transmissions.
The station will include a 200-meter high tower. [Alma-Ata Domestic
Service in Russian 0205 GMT 14 Oct 77 AU]

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and that of the notorious radio stations, in general, is enough to under-
mine the attempts of their real masters to present the sole purpose of
RFE-RL to supposedly "encourage a constructive dialogue with the peoples
of the USSR and Eastern Europe."

A dialogue between the peoples building socialism and communism and
these anticommunist, spy organizations, this band of traitors and
scoundrels is out of the question,

Today these radio saboteurs have intensified their abuse of the airwaves.
However, the filthy subversive activity of RFE-RL is incompatible with
the easing of international tensions, the understandings achieved at
Helsinki. As early as 1972, the American, Senator Fulbright, who is
hardly sympathetic to socialism, wrote about these stations: "I believe
that the time has come to lay these stations to rest among the other
remnants of the cold war."

There have been many protests in the FRG and other countries against the
activities of RFE-RL. The Soviet public also vigorously: demands an end
to these stations in their present form.

COPYRIGHT: RADIO, 1977, No 8

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FRANCE

PTT ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS CHARTED

Paris MESSAGES DES POSTES BT TELECOMMUNICATIONS [Supplement] in French Jul
pp 1-

[Text] The PTT [Mails, Telegraphs, and Telecommunications]
administration is a separate ministerial department whose
organs fall within three categories: central services, outside
administrative services, and operating services.

Central Services

In addition to the Office of the Cabinet and the Information and Public
Relations Department, the central administration includes:

The General Directorate of the Post Office, which includes the Directorate
for Commercial Activities, the Directorate for Postal Services, the Direc-
torate for Financial Centers and Information Processing, the Directorate
for Equipment and Transportation, the Budget, Planning, and Accounting De-
partment, the Personnel Department, the International Affairs Department,
and the Delegation for the Ile-de-France Region.

The director general of the Post Office is responsible for all postal and
financial departments. He defines their general policy and determines the
means necessary for their operation. He formulates the budget of the Post
Office, and proposes suitable means of financing; he assures the execution
of the budget. He has authority over the heads of outside departments of
the Post Office.

The General Directorate for Telecommunications includes the Directorate
for Production, the Directorate for Commercial Affairs, the Directorate for
Industrial and International Affairs, the Programs and Financial Affairs
Department, and the Personnel Department.

The director generai of Telecommunications is responsible for all Tele-

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communications departments. He defines the general policy for Telecommunica-

tions and determines the means necessary for operations. He formulates the
budget for Telecommunications and proposes suitable means of financing; he

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The Department for Motion Pictures and Exhibits. This department is re-
sponsible for producing motion pictures and exhibits relating to the activi-
ties of the Post Office and Telecommunications.

The Directorate for Higher Administrative Education. Its mission is to
provide the initial and continued training of high administrators and of
category A personnel, other than those with a technical vocation. It com-
bines the Higher National PTT School and the National ‘Institute for Administra-
tive Personnel.

The Directorate for Higher Technical Education. Its mission is to provide
the initial and continued training of high level personnel with a technical
background. It combines the Higher National Telecommunications School, the
Bretagne Higher National Telecommunications School, and the National Insti-
tute for Technical Personnel.

The heads of special departments are secondary directors.
The Overseas Departments

The directors in charge of the overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Guyane,
Martinique, Reunion) are attached directly to the central administration
and are secondary directors.

Operational Departments

The operational departments are attached either to regional directorates,
or departmental post office directorates, or to special departments. They
include:

The collection from normal post office operations and from secondary es-
tablishments attached to them (branch collections, collection-distribution,
postal agencies, postal correspondents).

Commercial telecommunications agencies.

Specialized centers among which are the mail sorting centers, the postal
checks centers, the centers for money order control, the National Savings
Bank centers, the principal centers for telecommunications operations, the
subdivisions of telecommunications lines, the operating centers of the
National Network of Telecommunications, the radio-electric centers, the
maritime radio centers, the centers for space telecommunications, the cable
ships, the centers for underwater telecommunications, the regional account-
ing agencies, the regional centers for post office information processing,
and the regional centers for telecommunications information processing.

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The ordinary American, for example, or West German would not find it easy
to see through the deception: somekind of emigrant radio station, sup-

posedly paid for by the "American public," operates for some reason in the
FRG. All this was puzzling, all the more, since in the U. S. and Western
Europe everything was done to conceal the real mission of these "informa~
tion centers," those with whom they were connected, and their real owners.

Today it is no longer a secret. According to reports of the U. S. press
and U. S, senators, numerous documents and facts, brought to light by
intelligence officers of socialist countries, upon their return home

(the Pole Andzhey Chekhovich, the Bulgarian Khrisan Khristov, the Czech
Pavel Minarzhik, et al.), there is incontrovertible proof that both sta~
tions belong to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, and are engaged in
collecting and processing covert intelligence, interrogating those who
have fled to the West from socialist countries, and in broadcasting
subversive material. As before they have remained true to the goals,
given to them as early as 1951 at a meeting of the administrators of

Radio Free Europe in Munich by a Mr. Jackson, an advisor of then President
Dwight Eisenhower: "Radio Free Europe is a tool of psychological warfare,"
said Jackson, "This station was created for the purpose of inciting inter-
nal disorders and disturbances in the countries it broadcasts to."

There is also evidence that the station employs, besides experienced CIA
agents, traitors, former Nazi accomplices, spokesmen of fascist emigrant
organizations, renegades, recently expelled from socialist countries,
about whom it may be said in the words of Victor Hugo: "To defame one's
homeland is to betray it."

Nowhere in the world could one find an organization which housed so many
traitors and spokesmen for fascist emigrant groups, as in the editorial
and "research" departments of RFE-RL. Here are some of them.

A one Garanin—former "public procurator" in the Vlasov gang. On his
orders Soviet citizens were executed; he is responsible for the massacre
of Jews. Now the same fanatic is trying to discuss "The Jewish Plight
in the USSR."

Another traitor—Levon Mkrtchan, alias Kartash'yan—is a member of the
Armenian editorial staff of Radio Liberty. A former teacher from Armenia,
he surrendered to the Nazis in 1942 and was shortly thereafter trained in
the Nazi spy school "Zeppelin." He was made a non-commissioned officer,
sent to France, and took part in the execution of members of the French
Resistance. At the end of the war he was captured by the Americans and,
with papers identifying him as Levon Mkrtchan, was sent to Radio Liberty,

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the way. That is why I place such emphasis on the accuracy and timeliness
of anything that goes out of this agency. We must earn the confidence of
the media," Bundit said.

Another point that the director made was that an efficiently operating
news agency can contribute toward the distribution of news and data into

the provincial areas.

He said that the present major goals of the agency was to find news
reports and other articles and items of interest to "'feed' to Radio
Thailand and to Television Channel (9)... But we will expand this to
include all media in the near future. We also plan to film events and
take photographs in establishing a regular daily news service for all
subscribers," Bundit said.

The NNA presently consists of 20 reporters, 10 photographers and admin-
istrators and other staffers, totalling about 70 persons. The products
of the agency thus far are press releases delivered to subscribers 4 times
a day at 0930, 1200, 1530 and 2000.

Releases include local, regional and foreign news and cost subscribers 500
baht per month, the director explained.

"I cannot say our programmes are complete or even approaching anything
like being complete," Bundit said, "but all our reporters, writers and
photographers are working at full speed to improve the service and the
agency."

Bundit said his budget came from the mass communications media budget
which was initially granted 10 million baht to commence operations in
June when the Thai Television Company was disbanded and the MMO organised
in its place...

Bundit makes a distinction between the Public Relations Department work
and those of his agency, saying: "The Public Relations Department
distributes news and information from the Government directly to the
people while the NNA obtains the news through the media to the people."

The director said the distinction was very important since he feels that
the NNA "can therefore act much more independently than the Public Rela-
tions Department... In a situation in which the NNA is forced into
reporting something it doesn't agree with, we can object. What we want
to do the most is tell the truth," Bundit concluded.

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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

ALGERIA AIDS NIGER, MALI IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIELD

Telephone Exchanges To Be Built

Algiers EL MOUDJAHID in French 21 Sep 77 p 3 :

[Text] A new stage in the development of inter-African cooperation is
being launched by the visit being paid to Mali and Niger by Mr Mohamed
Zerguini, Algerian minister of posts and telecommunications. In fact,

it is not a question of the development of multilateral relations with
these two countries alone, for Algeria is planning to make a very important
future technical contribution to Mali and to Niger in connection with the
development of their relations in the telecommunications sector.

This very day Mr Mohamed Zerguini will attend the commissioning of a land
station in Bamako, and on 24 September, the commissioning of that in Niamey.
These two achievements, made possible thanks to the contribution of Algeria,
will give Mali and Niger access to the space telecommunications network

and will enable them to communicate speedily with various countries. These
operations will be made possible by the Intelsat network and will be
handled by the space telecommunications complex in Lakhdaria, in the

wilaya of Bouira, in Algeria.

In addition, Algerian technical aid extends to the transmission by our
country of telecasts to Mali and Niger.

Another aspect of this cooperation has to do with the modernization of the
telecommunications network in Mali, with Algeria contributing in particular
to the building of a telephone exchange with a capacity of 1,000 lines

in Bamako, and another with a capacity of 500 lines in Sikasso.

A similar effort is being made with regard to Niger, involving the building
of a 1,000-line telephone exchange in Niamey and one with a 500-line
capacity in Agades.

The Bamako exchange, on which work has been begun, will be commissioned
when Mr Mohamed Zerguini pays his visit to that country.

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JPRS 70040

27 October 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

No. 18
ConTENTS PAGE

INTERNATIONAL

Venezuela, Spain Inaugurate Submarine Communication Cable
(Radio Continente Network, 13 Oct 77). cccccccccecccsccccscececes 1

Submarine Cable From Venezuela to Spain Inaugurated
(Radio Continente Network, 13 Oct 77) .ccccccccccecccucecscccece 2

Iraq, Iran Talks on Establishing Telephone Network
CINA, 13 OCt 77) .scceccnccecccecceccccceecsesceccsseeeceeeesees 3

Briefs

MENA, ANTARA Agencies Sign Agreement 4

Soviet, Japanese TV Agreement 4

ASIA

INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

Briefs

Japanese Parts to China 5

AUSTRALIA

Pros, Cons of Computerized Telephone Service Weighed
(Nicholas Maher; THE COURIER MAIL, 15 Sep 77) ..seeceeese 6

Data Privacy an Issue in National Computer Network
(THE AUSTRALIAN, 14 Sep 77) ...cccevcccvevcvvcccvcecsceves 8

Telecom Computer Contract Goes to Swedish Company
(THE COURIER MAIL, 14 Sep 77). .cccccaccccecocccccasccces 9

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should be absence of information, then there is drift. The filters are com-
posed of electronic circuits which have operational amplifiers, transistors,
semiconductor diodes (for those not familiar with electronics there is a
simple explanation: diodes are elements which let the current pass in only
one direction, and not in the other), resistors and capacitors."

"From my point of view, the interesting thing was that mathematically, we
could show that if we use an absence of signals on a specific frequency we
can take this absence of signals as a reference point to make corrections of
drift without the intelligibility of the signal being appreciably affected."

"The principle was applied in practice, and it worked adequately."

"This frequency correction principle can be applied in other areas not related
to communications; in industry, for example, in the field of general elec-
tronics, etc."

And so we left young Olivera, who went back to working his electronic equip-
ment. The prize will be awarded at a general meeting of the entire English
scientific center next 13 October. It will consist of a certificate of award
and a sum of money which Ilivera has donated to the "Jose A. Echeverria"
Advanced Polytechnic Institute.

PHOTO CAPTIONS

1. p 90. Left: It is well known that voice communication (radio,
television audio, telegraphy, wireless telephony, etc.) repre-
sent one of the activities of most far-reaching importance.
However, we have still not conquered all the problems it pre-
sents. To get around many of them, a young Cuban technician
has come up with an ingenious system.

2. p 90. Right: A young Cuban professor, Jesus Rene Olivera Reyes, an
electronic engineer specializing in telecommunications who 3
years ago received his Master of Science degree specializing
in electronic instrumentation from University College, Swansea,
England, won the "Clerk [as printed] Maxwell prize for his work
“An automatic clarifire [as printed] for s.s.b. speach [as printed]
communication [as printed]." Olivera, whom we see crossing (first
photo, above) the wide lobby of the Jose A. Echeverria Advanced
Polytechnic Institute [ISPJAE] which was closed down for its
annual vacation, hence the empty hall, received us in his
laboratory (left). Above, a diagram which expresses his idea,
and which we will discuss on these pages.

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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

NCNA ON CHINA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Peking NCNA in English 0700 GMT 10 Oct 77 OW

[Text] Peking, 10 October, 1977 (HSINHUA)--A nation-wide telecommunications
network is under construction in China, making use of microwave radio beams
and of the other latest technological developments in telecommunications.

A coaxial cable 1,&00-channel carrier communications trunk line linking
Peking with Shanghai and Hangchow was completed last year, as was a 960-
channel microwave communications trunk line linking Peking and more than 20
provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. All this marks the steps
China is taking to modernize its telecommunications.

The newly completed microwave communications trunk line now transmits black-
and-white and colour television, telephoto, telegraph and telephone from
Peking to many parts of the country. Editions of the JEN-MIN JIH-PAO are
transmitted by facsimile apparatus through this line so that readers in
remote areas can receive the paper on the day of issue. The satellite ground
stations built in Peking and Shanghai in 1974 have enabled China to transmit
telegraph, telephone, telephoto and television to other countries through
satellites over the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The submarine cable linking
China and Japan has been put into operation.

China has designed and made code deciphering machines for use in Chinese
language telegraph, storing 10,000 Chinese characters. The machine can
automatically decipher groups of four Arabic numerals into Chinese. It is
now in use in many cities. Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Nanking and four
other major cities have adopted the automatic dialing system for part of
their long-distance telephone calls.

Ninety percent of the telecommunications equipment in China is domestically
made. In addition to the big state factories every province, municipality

or autonomous region has its own factories making telecommunications equipment.
Way back in 1958, during the mass technical innovations movement, China
started making carrier equipment for cable communications. During the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chinese workers succeedeé in making such
long-distance telechone equipment as the coded crossbar tol]. automatic
switching system ana automatic message accounting devices.

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ARGENTINA

ARMY SEIZES SUBVERSIVE EQUIPMENT FOR JAMMING WORLD GAMES BROADCASTS
Buenos Aires LA PRENSA in Spanish 17 Sep 77 p 22

[Text] On the afternoon of 16 September 1977, at the headquarters of First
Artillery Group, Ciudadela district, Buenos Aires province, an exhibit was
held of devices confiscated from a group of subversive criminals who were
planning to jam world games radio and television broadcasts in 1978.

It was revealed that the equipment is worth about 10 million dollars and was
found in a raid of a home in the Villa Tessei area of Buenos Aires province.

At that site there was an electronics workshop which, according to estimates,
may be the largest in production capacity of any discovered to date.

The electronics assembly plant operated in a garage behind the house and
was set up for assembling communications equipment; it had consoles for
testing and measurement as well as tools for making electrical chassis and
circuits.

Technical Potential

According to an initial analysis by official technicians, the shop was able
ta assemble and put into service 30 transmitters for the so-called "libera-
tion radio" in order to jam television channels 2,7,9,11 and 13.

Television channel 2 was jammed in La plata during the broadcast of an
international soccer match and subversive propaganda was aired instead.

It was pointed out that jamming television broadcasts can be done using
equipment which the subversive Montoneros criminal group were planning to
prepare; the units are effective within a radius of about five to ten blocks
and are designed to operate from a car, and have the appearance of a car
stereo. .

Explosions by Remote Control

The same equipment could be used to set up explosions anc detonate explosive
charges by remote control.

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me

THAILAND

NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY EXPANDS SERVICES
Bangkok BANGKOK POST in English 17 Oct 77 p 5 BK

{Text ] The NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY (NNA) under the Mass Communications
Organisation of Thailand is expanding its services to present news and
facts to media throughout the country and abroad and is expected to hit
full strength within three years, sources close to management said
Saturday.

The NNA is part of the Mass Media Organisation [MMO] complex that con-
sists of Radio Thailand, Thai Television Channel 9 and the news agency.
The three news agencies [as published] were established only last June
by law and more or less streamline the news gathering and news distribu-
tion under the organisation of the office of the prime minister.

To head this young agency, a young and extremely active man has been
appointed as its director and he is eminently qualified, having obtained
a masters degree in public administration from the University of Syracuse
in New York.

Mr Bundit Kaeolun, 37, NNA director told the BANGKOK POST that the agency
is at present "like a toddler or a creeper; we don't even have a place to
call home yet, having to rent this Phaya Thai Road office," Bundit said
good humouredly.

Bundit said he hoped the agency would be able to retain as much freedom
and independence as possible within the content of the overall policy for
security and safety of the society.

Bundit is convinced that the one "must" of a national news agency was
winning the confidence of the media. "News and information that we send
out of this agency must be completely reliable so that it may be accu-
rately reported to the people."

“We cannot go all the way with the news to the people, but we can go half
of the way with the most accurate and timely reporting thet's available to
us. They (the media) will pick it up from there and take it the rest of

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VENEZUELA

CANTV OPENS 1,000 NEW INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE LINES
Caracas EL UNIVERSAL in Spanish 10 Aug 77 pp 1-14

{Text] September 1977 will see the inauguration of 1,000 new direct dialing
international phone lines, and 80,000 subscribers will have the service by
the end of the year.

This announcement was made yesterday by Dr Enrique Narciso G., president
of CANTV [National Autonomous Telephone Company of Venezuela], in the course
of a press conference.

The president of the state telephone company said that not all subscribers
will have access to international direct dialing.

He said, "We are going to begin by slowly making hookups center by center;
the first to be in operation will be Los Caobos, Maderero, Las Mercedes and
La Florida. Priority for receiving this service will be given to banks,
insurance companies, travel agencies, including airlines, the hotels

(the Tamanaco, Caracas Hilton and Macuto Sheraton, among other most important
facilities), financial institutions, industries like Sidor; the petrochemical
industry, public CANTV offices, oil firms and the nation's important media
of social communication. That is to say, we are going to inaugurate direct
international dialing for those subscribers who are making the largest and
most frequent use of this system at this time. I want to emphasize this
because there is an almost generalized opinion that all subscribers will
have access to this service and this is not true."

What will subscribers do if they must call abroad and do not have direct
dialing from their phone at home?

He answered, "Three public offices of CANTV will have access to this system.

That is, I am not referring to government offices but to company offices
in which subscribers will be able to make international calls directly."

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INDIA

INFORMATION MINISTER SPEAKS ON STATUS OF AIR, SAMACHAR
Delhi General Overseas Service in English 1000 GMT 8 Oct 77 BK

[Text] The union minister for information and broadcasting, Mr L.K. Advani,
has said that the Janata Government is committed to convert All-India Radio
[AIR] and television into an autonomous body. Speaking to newsmen in the
northeastern state of Assam, Mr Advani said a subcommittee of the cabinet is
processing the question of the further setup of Samachar. Me also said the
official mass media has been asked to give balanced coverage to all events
following Mrs Gandhi's arrest, and this policy has been strictly adhered to.
All political parties had been allowed to make election broadcasts on air
and television for the first time in the 30 years of independence.

Speaking at another press conference, the minister said the utterances,
demeanor and postures of Mrs Gandhi during the 2 months have made it quite

clear that what she did during the emergency was not an aberration. He
said it was very much her character and reflects the values she stands for.

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The provincial regional services include:

The Post Office Directorate (DRP), under the authority of a regional post
office director;

The Telecommunications Directorate (DRT), under the authority of a regional
telecommunications director.

The regional directors are secondary directors. Delegated echelons, called
operational directorates (DOP), are created within large regional director-
ates.

There are currently four DOPs (the Marseille and Nice DDPs of the Marseille
DRP, and the Lyon and Grenoble DOPs of the Lyon DRP); as well as six DOTs
(telecommunications operational directorates) (the Nice, Marseille Littoral,
and Provence-Alpes DOTs of the Marseille DRT, and the Grenoble, Lyon Intra-
Muros, and Lyon Extra-Muros DOTs of the Lyon DRT).

The Ile-de-France region has a special organization. The services of this
region include:

The postal services of the Ile-de-France region: the Paris Post Office
Directorate; the Paris Region Post Office Directorate (extra-muros); the
Directorate for Mobile Services (this directorate is responsible for mail
distribution through the mobile offices operating on SNCF [National Railways];
the directorates for mobile offices on north and east, southeast, and south-
west lines; as well as the Directorate for Specialized Sorting Centers and

of Mobile Offices for the West, which are attached to it; and the Directorate
for the Paris Regional Centers (this directorate manages the postal check

and National Savings Bank centers of Paris, as well as the Post Office
Regional Center for Information Processing).

The telecommunications services of the Ile-de-France region: the Tele-
communications Delegation of the Ile-de-France Region, the Paris Telecom
munications Directorate, and the Paris Region Telecommunications Directorate
(Suburban). The Paris Telecommunications Directorate has two DOTs named
Paris-Sud and Paris-Nord-Est; the Paris Region Telecommunications Directorate
(Suburban) has the three DOTs of Evry, Melun, and St-Quentin en Yvelines.

The Directorate for Means of Transportation. This directorate Manages the
automotive service for the Paris region, and for the territory as a whole,
is responsible for post office railway rolling stock, for supervising manu-
facturing in plants, and for receiving road transportation equipment.

The Directorate for Joint Personnel Services.
The Departmental Post Office Directorates. Under the authority of the
regional post office director, a director is installed at the head of each

department. This director has broad initiative in directing all bureaus and
postal services of the department.

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INTERNATIONAL

SUBMARINE CABLE FROM VENEZUELA TO SPAIN INAUGURATED

PA131200Y Caracas Radio Continente Network in Spanish 1300 GMT 13 Oct 77 PA

[text] president Carlos andres Perez and King Juan Carlos of Spain had a telephone con-
versation to inaugurate one of the world's longest submarine communications cables. The
Columbus, as the cable is called, will link Venezuela dnd Europe through the Canary Islands,
This means of communication will greatly contribute to the continuation of the irreversible
rapprochement that we Latin Americans h.ve initiated with Spain, President Perez told King
Juan Carlos from Miraflores Palace.

From the Canary Islands, the Spanish king responded: the understanding between our
countries is very important. I repeat to you my invitation to visit Spain. The phone
conversation between President Carlos Andres Perez and King Juan Carlos lasted 5 minutes
and 27 seconds, and was broadcast this morning in Venezuela on a television network.

With the laying of the Columbus cable on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean over a distance
of some 6,000 KM, it will be possible to make 1,840 simultaneous telephone calls. From
the Canary Islands, communications lines branch to Spain through the [name indistinct ]
III cable. The cost of this project has been estimated at about $160 million dollars,
70 percent of which was covered by the National autonomous Telephone Company of Venezuela.

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But, as we well know, we still have not been able to overcome, to a desirable
extent, the obstacles that distance places in the way of sound transmission.
(Regarding the use of the word "sound" we should make it clear that when

we refer to it, we do not include ultrasound nor the more recently studied
infrasound. By sound, in and of itself, we understand noise, music and speech.
The first of these, about which there is certainly enough to say, we will
leave for another occasion.)

And why do we say there are problems in long-distance audio transmission?
Because, among other things, that transmission is carried out through and by
means of the atmospehre, and in the atmosphere--the ionosphere as well as the
troposphere--certain factors exist which frequently disturb communications.
Sometimes it is a question of the varying distribution of electrical charges
in different atmospheric strata (as a result of sun spots, cloud accumulations,
etc.), or because of humidity, temperature and other atmospheric factors.

The problem these factors can cause, and which, certainly, turns out to be
the most frequent and serious audio transmission problem, is what the tech-
nicians call "frequency drift." This can also occur because of the normal
aging of the transmitter's oscillator, and the seriousness of the problem
depends in any case on the type of transmission being made.

The three best-known types of radio-signal transmission (including radio,
television audio, telegraphy, wireless telephony, etc.) are:

1. Amplitude modulation or modulated amplitude (AM). This is the kind most
used until now. We all know it, because our house radios are of this type.

It utilizes the middle-frequency band; that is, the band used for national
broadcasting. In this type of transmission, what is modulated is the amplitude
of the transmitted signal (the amplitude is the size of that signal and it is
within it that useful information is found).

2. Frequency modulation (FM). In this type of transmission, useful informa-
tion is not found in the amplitude, but rather in the frequency. Here the
amplitude is always the same. This kind of transmission offers high quality,
and for that reason it is used for television audio, and for special radio
music.

3. Single sideband (SSB). In this type of transmission, we work with only
one of the bands, and to clarify this, let us review briefly: when we transmit
by amplitude modulation (AM) and we make that transmission at a certain
frequency range, we understand there is a so-called "carrier," and, at its
sides, two bands. That is, with AM transmission, we work with a "carrier"
and, in addition, two bands. In SSB transmission, only one of these bands

is used, and the "carrier," as well as the other band, is discarded.

Technicians always wanted to take advantage of this last kind of transmission
because of its valuable properties, but certain problems could not be over-
come. Then suddenZy we heard that young Olivera had bee2 able to overcome
the worst of them.

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Work In Progress

Meanwhile, there are various projects which are being hurried so they will
be ready for the world games.

For example there is the microwave connection between Posadas and Puerto
Iguazu via Overa, between Puerto Rico and El Dorado, with an alternative
route toward Brazil, through Foz do Iguazu and the enlarged radio connection
between Buenos Aires and Campo Duran, with connections to Bolivia through
Tarija. This last project, which like the previous one will raise to 960
the number of phone circuits as well as incorporating the circuits for color
television, will allow Tucuman, Salta and Jujuy to receive the images

of the world soccer championship matches.

Also worth noting are the hookups under construction between Buenos Aires
and Mar del Plata via microwave, with connections through Tandil to
Tres Arroyos and Bahia Blanca.

This project will provide 3600 phone circuits, 2 color television channels,
telex lines and a reserve system. Like the previously mentioned projects,
it is scheduled for completion in April 1978.

Finally, as always regarding intercity communications, the plan will be
complemented with the enlargement of radio hookups presently connecting
Cordoba and Mendoza, the construction of another between Rosario and Santa
Fe, and the enlargement of the system between Santa Fe and Goya, Monte
Caseros, Posadas, Reconquista, Resistencia and Roque Saenz Pena.

Coaxial cables are being used to amplify the system between Rosario and
Buenos Aires and the one which will connect Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires and
Rosario. Scheduled for 1981 is a radio connection between this coaxial
system from Dolores to the bathing resorts located in the Ajo beach area.

The world games provide motivation for completing all these projects, but
the meaning of the communications projects goes far beyond this circumstance,
since in Argentina, as Eduardo Oscar Corrado, the national telephone company's
director, said recently, "it was impossible to delay these projects if we
were to avoid being behind in such an important field as telecommunications."

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CONTENTS (Continued)

Telecommunications Network Projected for 1983
(LA NACION, 17 Sep 77) .ccccccsccceccccccecccacccccees

BRAZIL

Telecommunications Equipment May Be Supplied to
Argentina
(O GLOBO, 28 Sep 77) ...ccsccecececccccccecccvcccevcecs

CUBA

Cuban Technician Explains Single Sideband Contribution
(BOHEMIA, 26 AUg 77) ..ccccccecccaccccestcccensctceeecs

VENEZUELA

CANTV Opens 1,000 New International Telephone Lines
(EL UNIVERSAL, 10 Aug 77)....ccccsccccccscees

New Earthquake Monitoring System Uses Computers,
Satellites
(EL NACIONAL, 28 Jul 77). .ccccsecceccacccecceccesceecs
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
MOROCCO

Briefs
MAP Becomes "Public Institution'

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

Algeria Aids Niger, Mali in Telecommunications Field
(EL MOUDJAHID, 21, 22 Sep 77).......

Telephone Exchanges To Be Built
Earth Station in Mali Commissioned

Briefs
West African Broadcasting Meeting

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CONTENTS (Continued)

INDIA

Information Minister Speaks on Status of Air, Samachar
(Delhi General Overseas Service, 8 Oct 77)...ccscccese

NEW ZEALAND

Briefs
INMARSAT Convention Accepted

PAKISTAN

Briefs
Japanese Telecommunications Team

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

NCNA on China's Accomplishments in Telecommunications
(NCNA, 10 Oct TV) vaccececceevecccnccvccuscscceeseccens

THAILAND

National News Agency Expands Services
(BANGKOK POST, 17 Oct 77)..cccccccccccceccccecccecseue

VIETNAM
Briefs
Dac Lac Wired Radio Network
EASTERN EUROPE
BULGARIA
Briefs
New Television Tower
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA

Army Seizes Subversive Equipment for Jamming World
Games Broadcasts
(LA PRENSA, 17 Sep 77)..

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NEW ZEALAND

BRIEFS

INMARSAT CONVENTION ACCEPTED--New Zealand has become the second nation to
accept the convention on the establishment of an international maritime
satellite system. The convention was signed, without reservation as to
ratification, by Sir Douglas Carter, New Zealand's High Commissioner in
London, recently. The convention was adopted last year at a conference
called by IMCO, which also adopted an operating agreement dealing with the
establishment and running of the International Maritime Satellite Organi-
sation (INMARSAT), which agreement New Zealand has also signed. Kuwait
was the first nation to accept the operating agreement and convention, the
latter coming into force 60 days after countries owning 95 percent of the
investment shares have accepted it, the final date for its realisation
being 3 September 1979. INMARSAT will be an independent organisation
headquartered in London, whose aim is to improve maritime communications.
[Text] [Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 12 Sep 77 p 11]

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INTERNATIONAL

VENEZUELA, SPAIN INAUGURATE SUBMARINE COMMUNICATION CABLE
Caracas Radio Continente Network in Spanish 0300 GMT 13 Oct 77 PA

[Text] President Carlos Andres Perez and King Juan Carlos of Spain had a
telephone conversation to inaugurate one of the world's longest submarine
communications cables. The Columbus, as the cable is called, will link
Venezuela and Europe through the Canary Islands.

This means of communication will greatly contribute to the continuation
of the irreversible rapprochement that we Latin Americans have initiated
with Spain, President Perez told King Juan Carlos from Miraflores Palace.

From the Canary Islands, the Spanish king responded: The understanding
between our countries is very important. I repeat to you my invitation
to visit Spain.

The phone conversation between President Carlos Andres Perez and King Juan
Carlos lasted 5 minutes, 27 seconds and was broadcast this morning in
Venezuela on a television network.

With the laying of the Columbus cable on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
over a distance of some 6,000 km, it will be possible to make 1,840 simul-
taneous telephone calls. From the Canary Islands, communications lines
branch to Spain through the [name indistinct] III cable.

The cost of this project has been estimated at about $160 million, 70 per-

cent of which was covered by the National Autonomous Telephone Company of
Venezuela.

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VIETNAM

BRIEFS
DAC LAC WIRED RADIO NETWORK--Dac Lac Province recently completed setting
up 12 wired radio stations in various new economic areas and land reclama-

tion work sites to support local production activities. [Text] [Ho Chi
Minh City Domestic Service in Vietnamese 0500 GMT 9 Oct 77 BK]

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| JPRS 70040
27. October 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

No. 18

Reproduced From
Best Available Copy



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It is now up to the parent ministry, the’ Ministry of

: Transport, Communications, and Works to which
it has been handed over, to look after it in every
possible way so as fo extract; maximum benefit
from it.

As it had been indicated by the President thag the
Station would be available to any of car
neighbours who would require its services, the

a

appropriate iainistry should follow this up.

Because of the incvitable enormous cost which such
oo project uecessitates; it is important to ensure
that it is manned by the right calibre of technical
and engineering personnel to avoid breakdowns
which could resuit in more costs to the country.

It is particularly because of this that the station should .
_~ .,econtinue to (rain more and more and apdate
fits personnel and their training at the Station.

By allowing the station to be used by other conntries
neighbouring Uganda, it will help in recovering
some of the foreign exchange which went into its
construction.

‘As it stands now, and according ‘fo the announcements
made during the handing over, the Arua Station
has brought Ligh quality television signals to the

| people of Arua and the surrounding region.

Similarly, telephone communication between Arua and
Kampala City, as well as other points will be
speeded up now.

‘The credit extended by the President to the
representative of the’ cantracting corporation from
America is well deserved, Let us hope that the
corporation will keep its promise to discharge its
responsibility in manning the station until the
Ugandans chosen and trained to man the s tion

are fully qualified to maintain and service ft on
own,

‘There are still the other remaining phases. of the
satellite network system to be completed -¢
Kapchorwa, Fort Portal, Mbarara, and Kitger:

.: ‘et the contracting corporation work on these

“projects with the same zeal as for Arua, so 23 t.:
assist Uganda to bring the world nearer the rvvat
masses of this country.’

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INTERNATIONAL

BRIEFS

MENA, ANTARA AGENCIES SIGN AGREEMENT--Cairo, 12 Oct--An agreement was
signed today in Cairo for cooperation in the field of journalism between
MENA and ANTARA. The agreement calls for the exchange of news transmis—
sions and expertise between the two agencies. The agreement was signed

on behalf of Egypt by Muhammad 'Abd al-Jawad, chairman of the MENA Board
of Directors, and by Isma'il Salih, general director of ANTARA, on behalf
of the Indonesian side. [Excerpt] [Cairo MENA in Arabic 1550 GMT 12 Oct 77
NC]

SOVIET, JAPANESE TV AGREEMENT--The Soviet State Committee for Television
and Radio Broadcasting and Japan's Asahi Television Station have signed
a new cooperation agreement. Under this agreement, Asahi now holds an
exclusive right to telecast live from the Spartakiad Athletic Meet to be
held in the Soviet Union in 1979. The Spartakiad is one of the final
preparatory steps to be taken by Soviet athletes before the Moscow
Olympics scheduled for 1980. The agreement was signed yesterday by
Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broad-
casting Khenrikas Yushkevichus and Managing Director of Asahi (Miura).
[Text] [Moscow Radio in Japanese to Japan 1200 GMT 13 Oct 77 ow]

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ow

INTERNATIONAL’

IRAQ, IRAN TALKS ON ESTABLISHING TELEPHONE NETWORK

JN131137Y Baghdad INA in Arabic 1100 GMT 13 Oct 77 JN

[Text] Baghdad, 13 October--Hamid Sa'id, technical adviser at the Communications Ministry,
returned to Baghdad today after leading a technical delegation on a l-week visit to Iran.
During the visit the delegation held talks with Iranian officials on linking the two
countries by a telephone network capable of transmitting 600 similtaneous telephone calls.
This will meet the increasing requirements over the coming 20 years. Such a network will
also provide a number of countries in the area with links to Iran and Afghanistan via Iraq.

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assures the execution of the budget. He prepares the industrial policy and
supervises its progress. He has authority over the heads of outside depart-
ments of Telecommunications;

The Directorate for Personnel and Personnel Relations includes the Personnel
Relations Department.

The director of personnel and personnel relations is responsible for personnel
policy (statutes, recruitment, promotion, wages, working conditions, disci-
pline, pensions) and for personnel and medical affairs.

The Directorate for the Budget and Accounting

The director of the budget and accounting assures the preparation of budget
documents submitted to the Parliament. He manages the procedures for formu-
lating the finance law draft, and prepares the regulatory decisions necessary
to execute the approved budget. He has authority over the central accounting
administrator and regional accounting administrators.

The General Inspectorate

The General Inspectorate is directly responsible to the authority of the
minister. It is charged with a general mission of providing information to
the minister, and is entrusted by him with missions of control, investigation,
study, or representation. The General Inspectorate can also be assigned
missions of investigation and control by directors general, the director of
personnel and personnel relations, and the director of the budget and account-
ing.

The Committee for Higher Education

The Committee for Higher Education has the responsibility of defining the
general orientation of PTT higher education, and of establishing its goals.
He examines budget proposals and education programs.

Outside Administrative Services

The structure of the outside administrative services includes regional
directorates, departmental Post Office directorates, special services, and
the directorates of overseas departments.

Regional Directorates

The metropolitan territory is divided into 19 regions: the Ile-de-France
region, as well as 18 provincial regions headquartered in Amiens, Bordeaux,
Chalons-sur-Marne, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Lille, Limoges, Lyon, Marseille,
Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Orleans, Poitiers, Rennes, Xouen, Strasbourg,
and Toulouse.

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Following these two speeches, those present watched a retransmission via
the RTA [Algerian Radio and Television] network of a fiim on the second
biennial celebration in Mali, followed by a program on Algerian folklore.
The perfect visual reception and the quality of the sound bore witness to
the technological excellence of the equipment installed at this station.

Following the telecast, the vice president of the Military National Libera-
tion Committee in Mali unveiled a commemorative plaque, thus officially
commissioning the earth station. He then visited the station facilities
with Malian and Algerian engineers as his guides.

In another ceremony, Lt Col Amadou Baba Diara officiated at the commission-
ing of a new 1,000-line telephone exchange in Bamako.

Mr Mohamed Zerguini, Algerian minister of posts and telecommunications, and
his Malian counterpart, Mr Yaya Bagayoko, participated in this ceremony,
which included among other things a visit to the facilities of this exchange,
which is a gift from Algeria to the sister republic of Mali.

The exchange is equipped with the crossbar system and can be used for inter-
urban communications. It constitutes an extension of the existing 3000-line
exchange and includes a miniaturized line distributor and an electronically
controlled power generating system. The expansion project took 8 months.
An exchange which is identical but smaller in size (500 lines) is currently
being installed in Sikassou, about 300 kilometers from Bamako. It will be
completed by the end of this year.

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CUBA

CUBAN TECHNICIAN EXPLAINS SINGLE SIDEBAND CONTRIBUTION
Havana BOHEMIA in Spanish 26 Aug 77 pp 90-91

[Text] An observation worth thinking about is that made by the Canadian
composer R. Murray Schafer some 3 years ago when he said that the importance
we have heretofore attached to the sense of sight as a reflector and compiler
of the world around us is based fundamentally on our capacity to read, and
since the written word is now "in a period of decadence," the ear will recover
the great significance it had in other ages.

Certainly the transmission of sound has come to constitute an increasingly
social and now planetary phenomenon, thanks to an advanced technology which
multiplies and spreads almost boundlessly.

One of the most impressive and at the same time most recent examples is the
television complex being built in Ostankino, not far from Moscow, from which
the Soviet Union will broadcast the 22nd Olympiad live in 1980. These broad-
casts will be heard and seen by more than 2 billion people throughout the
world.

In fact, sounds are a very important part of our world (remember that the

ear is, perhaps, the only one of the senses which never tires and which is
capable of capturing the slightest sound or that same sound multiplied a
million times.) The acoustical apparatus has been an object of the most
diverse research. (Musicoligists, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists,
technicians from different fields, and even archaeologists who believe we

can again hear the voices and many other sounds of the past.)

What, then, is sound? Physics tells us that it is the physiological impression
produced on the ear by the elastic vibrations of bodies. These vibrations
arrive at our ears through intermediary bodies which may be solid. We know
that in the great majority of cases, the medium which transmits sound to us

is air. However, sounds are propagated for greater distances in denser and
more elastic media; for example, it is best propagated in solids, better than
gases. It is not propagated in a vacuum. And now a fact that many people
know: the velocity of sound in air is 340 meters per second. (At normal
pressure and at a temperature of 15 degrees [centigrade].)

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UGANDA

BRIEFS

EIGHT INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITS--Uganda has now eight international circuits,

ampala to Tunhilly which are already commissioned
In the past, we used to have only six circuits to outside the country when

we were still using the Longo'not Earth Satellite Station in Kenya. [Text]
[Kampala VOICE OF UGANDA in English 4 Oct 77 p 1]

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BRAZIL

TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT MAY BE SUPPLIED TO ARGENTINA
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 28 Sep 77 p 25 |

[Text] The possible participation of Brazilian industry in supplying equip-
ment for the Argentine telecommunications system expansion programs in which
about $1 billion will be invested by 1982 was examined during a meeting held
yesterday by the president of the National Telecommunications Company (Entel),
General Oscar Corrado with the president of the Brazilian Telecommunications
Company (Embratel), Haroldo Correa de Mattos, who explained the growth of the
Brazilian telecommunications sector.

General Oscar Corrado observed at the end of the meeting that "the data pre-
sented by Enbratel show that telecommunications development in Brazil and
Argentina is similar, taking into account the distances to be covered and the
technological stage of the two countries.” In his opinion, the problems and
needs of the two countries are also similar.

Before leaving the meeting for a visit to the Embratel TV center and the
Standard Electric factory in Vicente Carvalho, the president of Entel revealed
that one of the reasons for his trip to Brazil was to “visit the Brazilian
telecommunications companies in order to ascertain their level of development
and make comparisons with Argentine industry with a view to complementing
Argentina's industrial capacity for equipment."

He explained at that time that Entel is going to quintuple the Argentine
telecommunications system in an effort to overcome the problems in that
sector, which has been lagging behind the country's needs for several years.

Observing that Entel's activity is similar to Embratel's work in recent years,
General Corrado said that by December he is going to initiate talks with the
Brazilian company to coordinate the joint exploitation of the bilateral ser-
vices which will show a great growth beginning in 1978 with the linking of
the ground systems of both countries.

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CONTENTS (Continued)

MAURITANIA

Regional Radio Network Inaugurated
(AFP, 10 Oct 77) .ccceccccvevcvccceccscecscecesctevseees

UGANDA

Editorial Views Arua Satellite Station As Huge Success
(Editorial; VOICE OF UGANDA, 5 Oct 77)..cccsccececcecce

Briefs
Eight International Circuits

USSR

Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty Discussed
(Kh. Yanbukhtin; RADIO, AUg 77) .....cccccaseeseeccoees

Construction of New TV-Radio Tower Begins in Alma-Ata
(TASS, 13 OCt 77) oi. cicccccsccccccccceseenesceceaeeees

Briefs
New Television Relay Tower

WESTERN EUROPE
CYPRUS

Cyprus To Acquire Satellite Station
(TA NEA, 16 Sep 77). .seccecenccecceccescesceececcaseues

FRANCE

Segard Says Deficit To Be Absorbed
(MESSAGES DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS,

JUL 77) cee cecececce ce cscenecceeeceterenceeecsesesesenes

PIT Administrative Functions Charted
(MESSAGES DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS,

JUL 77) occ cccecececevcrcncsceceececeeecsseecesesteteses

Briefs
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The country's posts and telecommunications departments have set up special
scientific research institutes, colleges and schools. The number of post
and telegraph offices across the land in 1976 was 15.7 times that of the
early post-liberation period.

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As to the 1978 forecast, Segard provided the High Council with indications
about the predictable large sums in the budget devoted to investments, these
figures reflecting the continuation of the modernization program which has
been undertaken both for the postal service and for telecommunications.

14,600 Jobs

Concerning personnel, the minister said that "the 1978 PTT budget will create
14,600 jobs-~7,600 in telecommunications and 7,000 in the postal service--
3,000 of which will be in the form of time credit to meet the temporary need
in replacing absent employees; I will only point out that this figure has
never yet been reached in any previous budget of this administration.

These figures are independent of the means which I was able to obtain as a
result of the Prime Minister's decision to recruit immediately into the
civil service 20,000 young job seekers: the group assigned to PTT will ulti-
mately reach 7,000 persons and their recruiting will begin on 1 July."

Four measures were taken with respect to wages and [worker] categories:
Postmasters and center chiefs will receive statutory raises in 1978;

For general services, category C jobs will be changed to category B; added
for these services will be a revaluation of hourly pay for mixed offices,
and of technical pay for financial centers;

Bonuses for good performance and for efficiency in categories B, C, and Dy
will be increased, and the lowest pay rate will be raised by 20 percent;

As part of the plan for confirming the employment of 45,000 persons, the
1978 budget includes steps for providing 10,500 auxiliary jobs, which will
bring to 37,000 the number of budgetary openings made available since the
beginning of the plan.

"I have a very special personal interest" stressed Segard, "in the personnel
situation of our administration. And that is so because I believe them to
be the major wealth and motive force of the great public service for which
we are responsible, and because I feel that the significant progress
achieved in telecommunications and the postal service could not exist without
the collaboration and loyalty of all our employees, who are also its
beneficiaries."

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Department for Motion Pictures and Exhibits

48. Regional directorates for provincial post offices (1)

49. Regional directorates for provincial telecommunications (1)

50. Directorates for mobile offices

51. Departmental Post Office directorates

52. Transportation centers and shops for the Ile-de-France region

53. Sorting centers attached to mobile offices

54. Mobile offices

55. Post Office collections

56. Sorting centers not attached to mobile offices

57. Road mobile offices

58. Transportation Department centers and shops

59. Regional centers for Post Office Education

60. Provincial postal checks centers

61. Money order control centers

62. Provincial CNE (National Savings Bank) centers

63. Transportation Department regional centers

64. Work psychology centers

65. Regional centers for Post Office information processing

66. Regional accounting agencies

67. Regional centers for Telecommunications information processing

68. Commercial agencies for Telecommunications

69. Principal operations centers

70. Lines subdivisions

71. Telecommunications education centers

72, Maintenance centers for cables of the national network

73. Operation centers of the national network

74. Regional Center for Telecommunications Information Processing

75. Centers for underwater telecommunications and cable ships

76. Centers for radio, maritime radio, and space telecommunications

77. {Illegible in text]

78. Secondary establishments

(1) DOPs and DOTs, delegated echelons of regional directorates, have been
created in some regions (only?) [illegible in text]

(2) The Directorate of the Paris Regional Centers manages the postal checks
and CNE centers of Paris, as well as the Regional Center for Post Office
Information Processing

(3) The Directorate for Joint Personnel Services manages the personnel
services of the Ile-de-France region

(4) The responsibility for the Regional Center for Post Office Information
Processing is entrusted to the Regional Accounting Agent

11,023-R

cso: 5500

58



The Seismological Network

Gajardo said, "The basic work plan of Funvisis required an inventory of
information on geological risks, seismology and earthquake-resistant
engineering existing in Venezuela. Then we saw the need to package this
useful information in language suited to planners, engineers and urbanists
through the development of zonification and microzonification maps showing
seismic descriptions of the cities. The maps would show types of soil,
geology and what kind of buildings can be built.

However, we did not have enough data to do this, owing to the lack of
specialized institutes or equipment, and this led to the creation of Resvac,
the Venezuelan Continental Seismic Network."

Dr Enrique Gajardo explained that the system builds on the latest information
on earthquakes. It is sensitive enough to collect a maximum of information
in very short periods of time, and is as versatile and flexible as possible,
as well as economical and easy to operate. Also it is the best kind of
system for Venezuelan conditions because it requires a minimum of technically
trained staff who are so hard to find.

The network departs from the classic notion of seismographic stations which
need staff and equipment for each area of the country. It consists of one
large central station in Caracas which will receive signals sent by 50
automatic sensors scattered throughout Venezuela.

Using the method of transmission via satellite, the automatic sensors will
detect all movements of the earth's crust and convert them into signals for
the Caracas center. There a computer will receive the information from the
sensors and indicate the time of the quake, its location, strength and
duration.

With this information, the specialists at the Caracas center will be able to
make a preliminary estimate of possible damages and transmit the news to

the competent agencies. This represents a great advantage, Gajardo said,

since in most cases the extent of damages can be learned only after a certain
period, because of media and transportation breakdowns associated with quakes of
a certain intensity which make it difficult to help the affected region.

Network To Cost 28 Million Bolivares

Plans for Resvac are ready, and only financing is needed for it to begin
operations within 3 years. Total cost is estimated at 28 million bolivares.

Dr Enrique Gajardo stated that this expense is justified because the network

will not only monitor earthquakes but also in the long run will yield detailed
knowledge about geological formations and incidence of quakes in Venezuela.

31


The earthquake specialist noted that the permanent record transmitted by
the network will reveal frequency and magnitude of movements of the earth's
crust in each area of Venezuela. Thus it will be possible to draw zonifica-
tion and microzonification maps which will set codes or rules for earthquake
resistant building methods as necessary.

Gajardo said that these studies are vitally important for Venezuela: while
it is true that Venezuela has less quake activity than other parts of the
world, it is true also that more than 70 percent of the people, industries
and transportation routes in the country are situated in the zone of greatest
quake activity, the coast mountain area.

This indicates the damage that a future quake in this area could bring to
the economy of the nation and the life of its people, especially if we
remember that until now there has been no planning to take account of
geological risks.

It should be noted that the technology to be used in setting up the network
for monitoringquakes comes from Mexico and will be assembled in the labora-
tories of IVIC [Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigation], under
the auspices of the Organization of American States and Funvisis.

11,989
cso: 5500

32



USSR

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TV-RADIO TOWER BEGINS IN ALMA~ATA
Moscow TASS in English 0727 GMT 13 Oct 77 LD

[Text] Moscow, 13 Oct (TASS)--The construction of a radio and television
tower has been started near Alma~Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan. Experts
determined its height--360 metres--newspaper PRAVDA reports.

A site for the tower has been selected at the summit of Mount Kok-Tyube in
Trans-Ili Alatau. Therefore it will rise almost a thousand metres above
the city.

Designers envisaged an unusually small base for the tower with a diameter
of only 18.5 metres--there is no larger site on the mountain. In order
to secure the stability of the tower and enhance its capacity to resist
strong winds and earthquakes, the designers offered dynamic dampers.
These will be installed at benchmarks 244 and 360 metres. The shock
absorbers, in the shape of concrete rings moving on special spheres,

will make it possible to reduce the amplitude of oscillations. For
greater reliability the designers clothed the tower in an original jacket
made of aluminium alloys. An aerodynamic shape will cut by half the wind
drag.

The metal body of the tower resembles an extended transistor-radio antenna.
Each section seemingly slides out of another, a larger one. Thus, the
tower will be built up telescopically. The design allows block mounting.

At benchmark 248, the tower body will join antennas. There will be two-
storey premises below to house technical services of the republic's radio
and television center. An observation deck with fast elevators will be
farther below.

The structure models undergo aerodynamic tests. The tower is to be com-
missioned in 1980. It will enable Kazakhstan people to watch the colour
programmes of the central and the republic television networks.

CSO: 5500

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Other possibilities included interfering with the audio function of radios
operated by the military or by the police as well as setting up linear
radio amplifiers from 25 to 150 watts through remote control.

Documentation captured includes an abundant technical bibliography
regarding the so-called "liberation radio," a communications training manual
and a plan for construction of 40 sets for the subversive broadcast operation.

Also there was a "national plan" and "communications doctrine," as well as
photocopies of a smear campaign of international proportions which the
subversive Montoneros criminals are developing in Spain, through newspapers
and magazines such as EL PAIS, DIARIO 16, REVISTA CAMBIO, and others,
containing interviews with the subversive criminal Mario Firmenich and

his conversations with leftist Spanish politicians.

Authorities have concluded from their analysis that the raid brought great
harm to this subversive group, and it is noted that the Montoneros'
intensive activity leads to the conclusion that the action planned for

the near future is in the area of propaganda and mass persuasion for the
most part, replacing armed action with propaganda and psychological devices.

11,989
cso: 5500

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FRANCE

SEGARD SAYS DEFICIT TO BE ABSORBED

Paris MESSAGES DES POSTES ET TELECOMMUNICATIONS in French Jul 77 p 19

[Text] To benefit from all the funds collected through postal checks at a
stable and sufficiently profitable rate, and to aggregate intermediate term
savings for the benefit of the appended budget, are the two fundamental
measures which Mr Norbert Segard, secretary of state for mails and tele-
communications, announced to the High Council of the PTT (Mails, Telegraphs,
and Telecommunications) meeting on 9 June to discuss the 1978 budget.

Noting the difficult economic circumstances under which the 1978 budget was
prepared this year, Segard announced to the High Council of the PTT the
important decisions which the government has taken, following his proposal,
about the financing of the appended PTT budget.

“I promised to find a solution to the problem of the deficit in the financial
services of the mail, a problem which has weighed upon the proper operation
of these services for several years. I am therefore happy to have kept my
promise."

Rate of Return: 6.5 Percent

The minister pointed out that the rate decided upon by the government to

pay back at term the funds deposited in postal savings and placed at the
disposal of the treasury, is the same as the one offered to depositors of

the National Savings Bank (CNE), which is 6.5 percent at present; this rate
was chosen because it is stable and sufficiently profitable to attain financial
balance in the corresponding services of the postal system. As of this year,
the rate will be reduced to 5.7 percent and will apply to 1977 and 1978.

The State Secretariat is also authorized to place on the market PTT Savings
Bonds whose characteristics will be identical to those of progressive interest
Treasury Savings Bonds. The issue will begin on 1 September on a quarterly
allocation, and will be a new and significant source of financing for the
appended PTT budget.

50



FRANCE

BRIEFS
POWER INCREASE AUTHORIZATION--The [French] Government is preparing to authorize
Sud-Radio [broadcasting station] and Radio Monte-Carlo to increase consider~

ably the power of their transmitter. [Text] [Paris LE POINT in French
10 Oct 77 p 55]

cso: 3100 END

59




EDITORIAL VIEWS ARUA SATELLITE STATION AS HUGE SUCCESS

Kampala VOICE OF UGANDA in English 5 Oct 77 p 4

UGANDA

[Editorial in "VOICE Periscope" column" "Earth Station Project Sets an

Example for Others"]
T _ :
(Text] TBE Arua Earth Satellite Station Standard “has
‘ becn completed. It is relieving to note that this
huge national project was carried ovt and
completed within the envisaged record time.

Naturally, we regard its successful completion within
the specified time as a big score for the
Government of Uganda, President Idi Amin in
Particular, and all those peeple who were invalved
in its construction since it was, started,

‘The ‘speed with which the Arua Earth Station, was
. erected, the cooperation which it ‘received from all
sectors of the government -and the contractors,
will go down as a shining example for othecs to

~ follow,

Ideillly, this is how all developmental projects should

be handled, Costs permitting, projects initiated to
advance a developing country’s modernisation
Process’ should receive every form of assistance
in terms of personnel, material, and transport,
so that it is completed within a desirably short
time.

‘What was considered by the pessimistic-minded as &
wild dream today s'ands as a reality in Arua. ali
set to serve the communications needs of the
People of this country. ,

39



INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

WEST AFRICAN BROADCASTING MEETING--The meeting of the West Africa Group
of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association has ended in Lagos. It
lasted 5 days. Delegates came from Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and
Nigeria. In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the delegates
reaffirmed their belief in the use of the radio and television to promote
social interaction among the people. They also agreed to enhance regional
cooperation through a monthly exchange of radio programs on culture as
well as on social progress and developments in the region. [Text] [Lagos
International Service in English 0630 GMT 15 Oct 77 LD]

cso: 5500

37


without anybody realsing
what is being done.

“The operator may also plrg
in a third party to tap the
call, The potential for indus-
trial espionage, blackmail, and
other crimes is frightening.”

He said the inisuse of the
computers depended on the
honesty of the Telecom oper-
ators,

Mr. Muir said the operator
would be the only person who
knew the code to operate the
computer.

“An operator's past will be
obviously researched but even
if he has a perfect record, he
may still be capable of per-
forming illegalities with the
system,” he said,

Mr. Muir said telephone ex-
changes would be operated
from exchange maintenance
centres, These centres would
have control over 200,000 sub-
scriber lines.

A National Support Centre
in Melbourne is expected to
have access to 90 per cent of
the telephones in Australia’s
metropolitan area.

Mr. Muir said it was possible
for an operator at this centre
to “wipe out” the entire tele-
phone communications in
Australia.

‘Once these commu-
nications were turned off, it
would be very difficult to re-
store them,” he said.

Mr. Muir said it would be
possible for any future gov-
ernment to tap every tele-
phone in Australia.

“Naturally Telecom denies
that this could ever happen,”
he said.

Being @ trade uniontst, Mr.
Muir js naturally worried
about the employment situ-
ation when computers are in-
troduced.

“Telecom fs the largest em-
ployer in Australla, but it now
finds {itself in the position
where {t will not be able to re-
cruit school leavers in the fu-
ture,” he said.

CSO: 5500

Mr. Muir said Telecom had
said there would be no ret-
renchment of staff, and
Present employees would be
retrained.

“As well as fewer Telecom
technicians in the future,
there will be significant re-
ductions in staff in the cleri-
cal and manufacturing divi-
sions,” he said.

“The only solution to the
situation is that there will be
8 reduction in working hours
and a voluntary early retire-
ment.”

“We must reach a situation
where the advances of tech-
nology should benefit every-
one in the form of increased
leisure time.”


CYPRUS

CYPRUS TO ACQUIRE SATELLITE STATION
Nicosia TA NEA in Greek 16 Sep 77 p 1

[Text] Cyprus will acquire a ground satellite station in 1979-1980,
stated the general director of the RIK [Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation],
A. Khristofidis, in speaking the day before yesterday at a press
conference on the activities of this corporation for 1976.

This station, he stated, will receive programs directly from abroad,

The construction of the satellite station, added Mr Khristofidis, will
be done in cooperation with the Telecommunications Authority,

During the conference, L, Petridis, president of the RIK, referred to
the achievements of the RIK during 1976 and to the legislative bill
on radio and television duties,

In 1976 this corporation showed a budget deficit of 442,000 Cyprus
pounds, said Mr Petridis, and he added that in 1977 this deficit will
assuredly increase,

In order to fill the gap which has been created by the occupation of
the Kandara station, 2 substations will be ready in November out of
the 21 which are to be built. The cost for these substations will be
600,000 pounds.

12114
csO: 4808

49



Special Services. In addition to the special services of the Ile-de-France
region (Directorate of Mobile Services; Directorate of Regional Centers;
Directorate for Means of Transportation; Directorate for Joint Personnel
Services), the outside administrative services include the nation-wide special
services described below:

The National Center for Telecommunication Studies (CNET). Acting on behalf

of various interested ministerial departments, it is responsible for scientific
research and general application studies concerning primarily telecommunica-
tions.

The Department for Technical Control of Telecommunications. This department
is responsible for the technical control of telecommunications equipment
throughout the territory, and for approving the receipt of this equipment
from plants and at work sites.

The Directorate for Supply and for Telecommunications Shops. This directorate
is responsible for the supply, manufacture, repair, and installation of the
material required for activities falling under the jurisdiction of the General
Directorate for Telecommunications.

The Directorate for Post Office Supply. This directorate is responsible for
supplying and distributing the materials and supplies required on one hand
by the General Directorate of the Post Office, and on the other hand by all
its departments, in the form of forms and envelopes, and clothing items.

The Directorate for Stamp Printing. Its responsibility is to manufacture
stamps and of fiduciary instruments; it works for both French and foreign
administrations.

The Directorate for the National Network of Telecommunications. It manages
the operations and maintenance centers of the national network of tele-
communications.

The Directorate for the International Network of Telecommunications. This
directorate is responsible for the flow of international telecommunications
traffic.

The National Department for the Publication of Telecommunications Director-
ies. This department is responsible for the writing, publication, and
distribution of directories of subscribers to the services offered by tele-
communications.

The Pension Administration Department. Its responsibility is to apply the
legislation and regulations concerning retirement pensions and disability
payment.

The Department for Industrial Psychology. Its responsibisity is to organize
psychological tests for personnel selection and profess:onal orientation.

55


AUSTRALIA

TELECOM COMPUTER CONTRACT GOES TO SWEDISH COMPANY
Brisbane THE COURIER MAIL in English 14 Sep 77 p 14
[Text]

CANBERRA.— A Swedish company has been awarded a $500 million contract by the Federal
Government to convert Australia’s telephone network to computer control,

The decision by the Government sparked an angry reaction from its own backbenchers —_—

and by S.T.C. (Australia) Pty. Ltd. which had been angling for the contract.

The Post and Telecommunications Minister (Mr. Robinson) said the Government had
accepted a recommendation from Telecom that the contract should go to L. M. Ericsson

Australia,

He said the agree-
ment with L. M.
Ericsson would pro-
vide for manufacture

under licence.

At least 80 per cent
Australian content would
be nchieved eventually.

Previously S.T.C, &
subsidlury of the Ameri-
can giant LT. and T.,
had warned the Govern-
ment it might have to
cut back its Sydney oper-
ations if it did not get
the contract.

The company’s chatr-
man (Mr. A. T. Deegan),
said yesterday he was
most disappointed with
the decision.

“On the one hand we
hear Government calling
upon business to help
solve employment prob-
lems, to invest in the fu-
ture’ of the country and
to develop the technology
to move Australia for-

; Ward,” he sald,

cso: 5500

“On the other hand, we
face a situation where a
decision is made to go in
@ direction that runs
contrary to all of these
very worthwhile aspira-
tons.”

“Woolly”

He said, that over the
years, S.T.C, had made
enormous Investments in
plant, equipment and
training of skilled work-
ers.

Government _backben-
cher, Mr. W. Wentworth,
called on Mr. Robinson
to make a@ statement in
Parliament setting out
the Australian content in
the main tenders.

He described Mr. Rob-
inson’s statement as
“woolly.”

Mr. Robinson said the
new system would be in-
troduced in the 1980s

It would offer substan-
tial savings and econo-
mies to telecommun-

ications users in the
future.

He sald the first of the
new local exchanges
would aot be installed
until 1980, and it would
not be until 1983 before
substantial deliveries
would occur,

Until then, manufac-
turers would continue to
supply existing types of
equipment to meet needs,

A senior engineer with
Telecom sald last night
work on the new system,
called Stored Programme
Control (S2C) would
next year.

said the first model
would be built in Mel-
bourne, and within three
years It would be built
with 80 per cent Austra-
Man content — labor and
components.

In Melbourne, Telecom
said yesterday that Aus-
tralians made 4340 mil-
lion telephone calls in
the last “nancial year.

This ts about 6 per
cent more calls than in
the 197676 financial
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VENEZUELA

NEW EARTHQUAKE MONITORING SYSTEM USES COMPUTERS, SATELLITES
Caracas EL NACIONAL in Spanish 28 Jul 77 p D1

[Text] Within not more than 3 years, Venezuela will be able to register
seismic movements of any intensity, using the technology of transmissions
via satellite,

The System, called Resvac, for Venezuelan Continental Seismic Network, is
one of the most advanced of its type in Latin America. It will use com-
puters to detect the geographical center, time and intensity of any earth- |
quake in the Caribbean area or a large part of South America; it will allow |
for initial evaluation of possible damage also.

Dr Enrique Gajardo, general secretary of the workshop on geological risk
taking place in the Venezuelan Engineering College, explained the structure,
Operations and importance of the new system. i

Referring to the origins of Resvac, he said that the quake which shook Caracas
in 1967 proved the need for an in-depth study of earthquake risks in Venezuela,
and demonstrated the lack of connection at that time among studies by
engineers, geologists and seismologists on the subject of geological risks.

Gajardo said, "The Caracas quake changed the way of looking at seismological
problems, even at the worldwide level."

“What was the cause for this change of approach?"

Gajardo responded, "In Caracas we saw the problem of enlarging the effect of
the quake because of sedimentary structure of the earth. Stated in another

Dr Enrique Gajardo noted also that as of 1967 the need was recognized for
deeper study of the Venezuelan quake Problem, and 1972 saw the creation of
Funvisis, or the Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Study, which
Prepared a basic plan for study and action regarding earthquakes.

30



BULGARIA

BRIEFS

NEW TELEVISION TOWER--A new television tower is being built on the highest
site near the city of Tolbukahin by a highly specialized team of outstanding
technical workers. The tower will be 130 meters high, 90 of which are to be
build according to the monolithic method, while 40 meters will be of iron
construction. Relay stations for broadcasting the first and second Bulgarian
television programs in color will be assembled on this tower, and a radio
relay station for automatic telephone dialing will also be built. The station
will contribute to a considerable increase of telephone connections in
Tolbukhin okrug and in other okrugs of the country. [Sofia RABOTNICHESKO
DELO in Bulgarian 4 Oct 77 p 4]

cso: 5500

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RADIO FREE EUROPE, RADIO LIBERTY DISCUSSED
Moscow RADIO in Russian No 8, Aug 77 pp 62-63

[Erticle by Kh. Yanbukhtin, journalist: "Unburied Remnants of the Cold
War"

[fext] It is no secret that the American government intends to expand its
international radio broadcasting. To achieve this end, an authoritative
report on the subject, with a letter of endorsement from President Carter,
has been submitted to the U. S. Congress for deliberation.

What do the American analysts conclude in their report? After studying
the state of American broadcasting abroad and to other countries and
regions of the world, they conclude that existing resources and facilities
are inadequate to satisfy the requirements of the new administration.
Supposedly, there are not enough transmitters to carry U. S. propaganda
to the world. Nor are there any transmitters that could be leased from
Nato bloc countries—the BBC, German Broadcasting, Radio Netherlands, and
other stations broadcast at capacity round-the-clock. The only out—build
additional transmitters. Thus, the authors of the report propose the
immediate construction of 16 radio transmitters in Europe to boost radio
broadcasts to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries of Eastern
Europe and the erection of 12 transmitters in other parts of the globe.

In sum, 28 250 kilowatt transmitters are to be built at a cost of 40
million dollars,

This is the price the U. S. is ready to pay, supposedly, to fulfill the
Helsinki accords, especially those in the third basket of the Final Act
of the All-European Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
which states that "the signatory states note the increasing dissemination
of radio information and hope that this process will continue in the
interests of mutual understanding between nations and the goals outlined
by this Conference."

42


Since Olivera gives classes at the ISPJAE [Jose Antonio Echeverria Advanced
Politechnic Institute], we visited him at this institution of higher learning
and, not without effort, got him to tell us about his accomplishment. We
already knew that he had earned the degree of Master of Science at Unviersity
College, Swansea, England, specializing in electronic instrumentation, and
we asked him if these studies had helped him formulate his idea.

"Yes," he answered, "they were really the beginning of everything." My thesis
director was William Gosling, who was then vice-rector and head of the
Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Swansea, and vice
president of the Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineering of Great
Britain. Since 1974, Gosling has been chairman of the Electronics Department
of the University of Bath. When I graduated, Prof Gosling asked me for an
abstract of my thesis for publication in the review published by the Insti-
tute of Electrical and Radio Engineers of Great Britain. It was done, and
the work was evaluated in 1975. It was approved, and published in February
of last year. ,

We know that the institute to which Olivera refers enjoys international
prestige and that all the specialists in that branch of science in Great
Britain belong to it. (And, by invitation, those of other countries.) We
also know that it offers several prizes, but that which was given to Olivera
was special; the "Clerk Maxeel" [as printed] prize, which is given to the most
important work. We asked Olivera what impression the awarding of this prize
had made on him:

“It was a surprise for me!" he answered. "I couldn't have hoped for so
much...Many specialists from all over the world, including the best from
England, publish their works in that review." ("The Radio and Electronic
Engineer")

What does Olivera's invention consist of? So that we could comprehend such
a complicated piece of technology, the young professor gave us a simple
explanation.

"When sounds are transmitted on AM, let us say the human voice, you always
have to transmit the 'carrier' and the two adjacent bands: that is, there

are three elements. When you transmit on only one of the two bands, you save
a lot of power (you don't have to 'energize' the carrier or the other band)

so that to reach a determined distance, less power is required, or, conversely,
you can reach a greater distance with the same power. Also the apparatus re-
quired is smaller than when we use amplitude modulation (AM)."

"But," Olivera continues, "transmission by single sideband (SSB) has the
disadvantage that, in it, the effects of frequency drift are worse."

"Our idea," Olivera adds, "consists of applying a filter to the transmitter
so that it will produce an absence of information, which, wnen it arrives

at the receiver (which will also have another system of filters) will indicate
if there is drift. if in the receiver they receive information where there

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There can be no doubt that with these major achievements, inter-African
relations will take on a special characteristic and should serve as an
example for the other sectors of cooperation among the countries on the
continent.

Earth Station in Mali Commissioned
Algiers EL MOUDJAHID in French 22 Sep 77 pp 1, 3

[Text] Lt Col Amadou Diara, vice president of the Military National
Liberation Committee in Mali presided over the commissioning yesterday of
an earth station for satellite telecommunications in Bamako. The station
is a gift from Algeria to Mali.

The commissioning ceremony took place at the station itself, which is
located in Souleyman-Bougou, a dozen kilometers from Bamako. Those present
included Mohamed Zerguini, Algerian minister of posts and telecommunications,
Yaya Bagayoko, minister of information and telecommunications in Mali,
Mustapha Benamar, the Algerian ambassador in Bamako, and a number of other
leading personalities.

Two addresses were delivered in connection with this ceremony. The first
speaker was Mr Yaya Bagayoko, who stressed the desire of Algeria and Mali
to implement fruitful cooperation, since both countries and both govern-
ments are aware of the joint destiny of the two peoples and the identity
of their aspirations.

The Malian minister, who offered this achievement as a concrete illustra-
tion of the solidarity between Algeria and Mali, also referred to the main
functions of this telecommunications station, which wil! help Mali break
out of this isolation and allow the country to enter intc the era of modern
telecommunications technology.

The second address was delivered by Mr Mohamed Zerguini, who analyzed the
joint cooperation activities of Mali and Algeria in all sectors, which he
described as symbolizing an active solidarity between African and Third
World countries. Mr Zerguini also referred to the advantage offered by
this station, which will enable Mali to establish relations with all coun-
tries in the zone covering the area between the United Kingdom and Japan,
direct relations which will not therefore have to be handled through
capitals outside Africa. In Mr Zerguini's view, this example of coopera~
tion will be followed by others, in particular, in the realm of highway
transportation, with the creation of a mixed Algerian-Malian company.
Finally, he mentioned the impact which the Trans Sahara Highway will have
on the trade between the two neighboring countries. The building of this
highway will be an additional contribution to freeing Mali from its isola-
tion.

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ARGENTINA

TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PROJECTED FOR 1983

Buenos Aires LA NACION in Spanish 17 Sep 77 p 22

[Text] Projects already under way and planned for the next few years will
give Argentina a telecommunications system with large capacity and an area
coverage which will make it one of the most important networks in the world.

The accompanying map shows the extent of the network as of 1983, with the
radio connections and coaxial cables being installed or planned by the
present directors of the national telecommunications company.

A Little History

In recent years technological advances have pushed telecommunications ahead
rapidly. In Argentina before 1960, the inter-urban network consisted basically
of physical circuits, with trunk routes backed up by the application of the
carrier wave system, which allowed for simultaneous sending of 1, 3 or 12
communications.

During the sixties there was a beginning of installation of coaxial cables
which made it possible to send about 1000 communications through every cable;
these were installed between the large centers of Buenos Aires, Rosario,
Chivilcoy and Mar. del Plata.

Coaxial cables were the key for less than 10 years, because as of the
beginning of the present decade, intercity communication began to use
another new method, radio hookups.

This system uses antennas about 50 kilometers apart in flat areas and equals
the capacity of coaxial systems with the advantage of less cost.

One of the most important projects accomplished this year was the radio hookup
between Mendoza and Las Cuevas, which allows for connections with Santiago

de Chile. Installed at 4,000 meters altitude, it has 600 telephone circuits
and one for color teievision, besides one as a reserve.

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

JAPANESE PARTS TO CHINA--Tokyo, 12 Oct (KYODO)--Japanese interests are
negotiating with the China National Technical Import Corp to sell cathode
ray tube and man-made leather plants and technology. Three teams~-C. Itoh
and Co and Hitachi Ltd; Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha Ltd and Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co; and Nichimen Co and Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co--are nego-
tiating the export of a set of plant equipment and technology for manu-
facturing cathode ray tubes for color television sets to China. Also
negotiating with the Chinese corporation for the export of cathode ray
tube equipment and technology are Zenith Radio Corp, Radio Corporation of
America and Westinghouse Electric. Nippon Electric Co and four other
electric manufacturers are separately negotiating the export of cathode
ray tubes for black-and-white TV sets. [Excerpts] [Tokyo KYODO in English
0934 GMT 12 Oct 77 OW]

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Organization Chart of the PTT Administration

Prepared by SIRP (Information and Public Relations Department), 20 Avenue de
Segur, 75700, Paris, Tel. (1)566.22.22, Telex 25310

1. The Secretary of State and his cabinet

2. Bureau of the Cabinet

2A. Information and Public Relations Department

3. General Directorate of the Post Office

4. Directorate for Commercial Activities

5. Directorate for Postal Services

6. Directorate for Financial Centers and Information Processing
7. Directorate for Equipment and Transportation

8. Budget, Planning, and Accounting Department

9. Personnel Department

10. International Affairs Department

11. Directorate for Personnel and Personnel Relations

12. Personnel Relations Department

13. Committee for Higher Education

14. Directorate for the Budget and Accounting

15. Central Accounting Agency

16. General Directorate for Telecommunications

17. Directorate for Production

18. Directorate for Commercial Affairs

19. Directorate for Industrial and International Affairs
20. Programs and Financial Affairs Department

21. Personnel Department

22. General Inspectorate

23. Delegation for the Ile-de-France Region

24. Directorate for Higher Administrative Education

25. Directorate for Higher Technical Education

26. Directorate for Paris Post Office

27. Directorate for Paris Post Offices (Suburban)

28. Directorate for Paris Regional Centers (2)

29. Directorate for Mobile Services

30. Directorate for Means of Transportation

31. Directorate for Stamp Printing

32. National Security Inspection Service

33. Directorate for Post Office Supply

35. Pension Administration Department

36. Directorate for Joint Personnel Services (3)

37. Department for Work Psychology

38. Delegation to the Ile-de-France Telecommunications

39. Directorate for Paris Telecommunications (1)

40. Directorate for Paris Telecommunications (Suburban) (1)
41. Directorate for Supply and for Telecommunications Shops
42. Directorate for the National Telecommunications Network
43. National Center for Telecommunication Studies

44. Department cf Technical Services for Telecommunications
45. National Department for the Publication of Telecomaunications Directories
46. Directorate fcr the International Network of Telecowmunications

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One could understand the actions of the U. S. government, if it really
were motivated by a desire to fulfill this accord, if the expansion of
international broadcasting by America were intended to strengthen mutual
understanding between peoples.

But, in fact, that is not the real objective; something quite different
is being bought. In view of the fact that the American administration is
concerned about bolstering facilities for broadcasting to the Soviet Union
and other socialist countries (of the 16 planned transmitters, 11 are
earmarked for the consolidated broadcasting station Radio Free Europe—
Radio liberty), it is obvious that the sums requested from Congress
represent a new injection of dollars into a psychological war against
Socialist countries—i.e., appropriations for new launch pads on the
ideological front of the radio broadcasting variety. In other parts of
the globe as well—in Africa and Asia—American radio broadcasting
completely ignores the successes of those developing countries that have
embraced socialism, and instead, attempts to discredit their achievements,

Returning to American broadcasting directed against our nation, let it be
said that our ideological enemies are using phrases on the need to expand
an exchange of information to conceal their real goal of undermining
socialism.

But take away the “sugar coating" from the new programs to increase
broadcast time and look at why those who plan increased broadcasting,
prefer to act dumb on the issue of what Radio Liberty and Radio Free
Europe really are. A candid discussion of whether or not the activities
of these stations are compatible with the principles on the relations
between states, set forth in the Final Act of the All~European Conference,
would, in the meantime, address this issue.

Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL) appeared at the height of
the “cold war"; they were its offspring. Their broadcasts hit the air-
waves shortly after the usual declaration of a "crusade" against
Communism. Radio Free Europe began broadcasting in East European lan-
guages in the summer of 1950, while Radio Liberty began broadcasting in
Russian and in other national languages of the Soviet Union in March of
1953. They described themselves in international radio broadcasting
references as "private" organizations, whose broadcasts were managed by
"former citizens of East European countries and the Soviet Union,"
financially supported by the "American public." The reference books also
stated that the headquarters of both stations were in Munich, and their

transmitters, which expanded every year, were in FRG, Spain, Portugal, and
even Taiwan,

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The list includes Shigal Nigmatullin, alias Aksan Yozefoglu, author of
short antisoviet and antisemetic articles in the fascist tabloid IDEL'-
URAL, and later a member of the Tatar-Bashkir department of Radio Liberty,
who in moments of frankness often admits that in the event of war he would
"slay his countrymen."

The 53-year-old Sultan Garip was recently appointed director of this
department of the CIA, His real name is SultanovGarif, At the front in
1942 he went over to the Nazis and helped the fascists by spreading
propaganda among the Tartars and Bashkirs. Because of his denunciations
many patriots were seized and executed, including the legendary Musa
Dzhalil' and his band of patriotic fighters.

After the war Sultanov joined the American intelligence service and later
appeared at Radio Liberty.

"The spokesman of Belorussian aspirations" at Radio liberty is a certain
Tsvirka, a former Nazi collaborator. A "colorful" figure in this gang is
also the traveling reporter of Radio Liberty, Oleg Krasovskiy, who also
came to the station by way of treason. Deserting to the Nazis during the
war, Oleg Krasovskiy took has training from Vlasov and his ilk; after

the war he worked for the antisoviet emigrant organization NTS. In 1956
he traveled to Hungary to organize subversive activities; visited Vietnam,
where he justified American aggression in his reports. In the opinion of
his colleagues he is a loathsome, money-grubbing, morally bankrupt indi-
vidual. And such a person dares to tell the Soviet people how to livel

In recent years new faces have been added to this "band" of select
traitors. The American managers have been picking personnel from the
turncoats, recently expelled from socialist countries. It is easier for
them to pass themselves off as "spokesmen of the aspirations" of a
national intelligentsia, the young, ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union
and other socialist countries. The journalist Yu. Marin wrote about

them after working at Radio Liberty.

"Imagine, the ‘technical expert’ Levin proves that Soviet airplanes are
unsuitable for flying. An employee of the London department of Radio
Liberty, Finkel'shteyn (alias Vladimirov) is writing a book under the
pithy title 'The Soviet Space Bluff,' although he knows less about space
technology, than he does about Chinese hieroglyphics,"

One could continue the list of "newsmen," who prefer to hide under
"pseudonyms," because their real names are identified with barbarity,
criminality, collaboration with the Nazis, treason. But this list makes
it clear what kind of people these are. Knowledge of their activities

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AUSTRALIA

DATA PRIVACY AN ISSUE IN NATIONAL COMPUTER NETWORK

Canberra THE AUSTRALIAN in English 14 Sep 77 p 9

[Text]

cso:

THE Commonwealth Public
Service Board says it is
paying particular attention to
the problem of privacy in tie
computer system it is develop-
ing called Mandata.

The Mandata system,
approved by the Government
in 1974, will set up an Ausira~
lia-wide computer network to
provide a more efficient sys-
tem of keeping records on the
personnel and establishments
of Commonwealth depart-
ents.

Tt also will provide informa-
tion necessary in the manage-

.ment of all departments with

5500

a staff of more than 158.000
i and a wage bill of more than

$1500 million.

The parliamentary _ public
accounts committee was told
of the precautions yesterday
at the first hearing of an in-
quiry into the use of automat-
ic data processing in the Pub-
lc Service and Commonwealth
statutory authorities.

A first assistant commis-
sioner of the Public Service
Board, Mr Peter Moran, said
the board had been keeping in
touch with the Law Reform
Commission about precautions

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to safeguard data in automat-
ic data processing syste!

“I think it is fair to s
facilities built into Mandata
will provide very good security
of information,” he said.

Privacy was mentioned
again in discussion of the
rationalisation of computer
services in the Public Service.

A member of the committee,
NSW Liberal backbencher Mr
Don Dobie, said the question
of privacy came up if infor-
mation given to a department
for one purpose was used by
another department for an-
other: purpose.