INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

PERU-BRAZIL RADIO LINE--Iquitos, Peru, 6 Jun-~At the first meeting of the
Mixed Peruvian-Brazilian Subcommission held in Iquitos yesterday, it was

decided to set up a radio link between Iquitos and Manaos, Brazil.
EFE in Spanish 1259 GMT 6 Jun 77 PA]

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[Madrid



UNITED KINGDOM

BRIEFS .

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT PURCHASE--The British firm Racal has just obtained
a contract of 8.5 million pounds sterling (approximately 76 million French
francs) for the sale of radiocommunications and auxiliary equipment to a
Latin American country (which has not been identified). This contract, the
largest ever received by Racal in that part of the world, enables it to make
a market breakthrough in that region where there has been a sharp increase
in radiocommunications. According to Racal, the agreement represents
several years' work for it in that area. The technology of its equipment
and the speed of its deliveries (a 15-week deadline will be long enough)
were determining elements in Racal's securing this contract. [Text] [Paris
ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French 20 May 77 p 7] 2662

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The Telecommunication Public Corporation, Suryawan said, has prepared its
transmission for the Indonesian Television Service's (TVRI) programs, but
TVRI itself has not used it.

The delegates of the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia told ANTARA
that telecommunications equipment in their countries could use Palapa, which
is inexpensive to hire, but they must build ground stations, which are very
expensive.

The participants visited Jatiluhur and Soreang ground stations after at-
tending the meeting.

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In the Arab Homeland

[Question] However, it is something else which occurs to the Arab citizen.
Why are Arab radio and landline communication administrations investing mil-
lions of dollars in the field of space communications, rather than investing
these millions in improving and developing ground telephone communication
networks?

[Answer] That is a candid question which I appreciate, and I will also reply
candidly. Similar questions have popped up everywhere throughout the world
when the big powers allocated huge sums of money and mobilized their entire
specialized manpower resources in winning the scientific and technological
race to reach the moon and get into space. This made many people ask the
same question when they saw the astronomical amounts of dollars which were
being spent on this competition and a similar question emerges: Would it
not be better to spend these huge amounts on fixed and specific projects

for development, for example?

Tremendous Focus

I--Eng Isma'il speaking--don't intend at this point to make an extensive
reply about the direct and indirect benefits which mankind reaps from such
a tremendous focus of expenditures, scientific research and technological
development, as this would require a separate discussion, but I will quickly
move to respond to your candid question.

The basic objective of the Arab satellite has not only ‘been to provide tele-
phone and telex communications and the other traditional communications ser-
vices, rather there is another goal which is of prime importance for the
greater Arab homeland. This objective is the use of special satellite chan-
nels with broad coverage within the channels of the Arab satellite to carry
unified television programs aimed at spreading education, culture, science,
national awareness and health awareness by means of well thought out pro-
grams prepared by Arab experts from the Arab federation of broadcasting in
conformity with the decisions of the Arab ministers of information and
culture adopted in all their conference.

Why Via the Satellite?

[Question] Why via the satellite? Aren't there other ways to achieve this
goal?

[Answer] The question has come up and the answer is simple, namely, that
the broad radiation from the Arab satellite would cover the entire Arab
homeland. Consequently, any school, small housing development or even the
tents of a tribe in the desert and remote areas which cannot be reached by
ground networks can receive television and radio programs via the Arab
satellite using a simple antenna not more than 3 meters long which can be
made locally and installed on the roofs of schools or homes or right on the
ground. In this advanced way, knowledge can be disseminated throughout

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CONTENTS (Continued)

Meteorological Work
Microwave Network

EASTERN EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Briefs
Polish Broadcasting Cooperation With Romania

YUGOSLAVIA
Briefs
Osijek TV Center
Zagreb-Trieste Phone Link
LATIN AMERICA
INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

Briefs
Peru~Brazil Radio Line

CUBA

Microwave Tower Installation Completed
(Maria Caridad Prado; GRANMA, 4 May 77) .

NEAR EAST & AFRICA

INTER-ARAB AFFAIRS

Arab Communications Satellite To Begin Operations in 30 Months
(Mamduh Hawamidah; AL-RA'Y, 3 May 77) sscccccscceccee

EGYPT

Prime Minister Opens International TV News Conference
(MENA, 2 Jun 77) ceccccccccccecccccceuce

LIBYA

Briefs
New Radio Station

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NIGERIA

BRIEFS

NIGERIAN TELEVISION--The Nigerian Television Authority has been inaugurated.
The federal commissioner for information, Mr G. A. Ogunlade, who performed
the inaugural ceremony, announced that plans were under way for a television
production center in each state capital of the federation. Production
centers would be constituted into zones, with a minimum of two sub-centers
in a zone. Mr Ogunlade explained that the zonal programs would be broad-
cast for national reception through the means of airborne (faerostat)
transmitters. The serostat stations, he added, were expected to begin to
function progressively early next year. The existing [word indistinct] ,

as well as those planned for the future, would be deployed as standbys for
the airborne ones. [Text] [Lagos International Service in English 1530 GMT
2 Jun 77 LD)

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CUBA

MICROWAVE TOWER INSTALLATION COMPLETED
Havana GRANMA in Spanish 4 May 77 p 4
[Article by Maria Caridad Prado]

[Text] In order to provide better service with tegard to color television
signals, radio broadcasting systems and long distance telephone calls,

a microwave tower was recently built at the Ministry of Communications, It
is a part of the'microwave chain which will extend from Pinar del Rio to
Guantanamo.

The installation work, done by 18 comrades of the 5th Construction and
Installation Brigade, was begun last 21 April and was completed in salute
to International Workers Day.

The plans for the tower were drafted by the design and structure group of
the construction and installation enterprise, and it was built in the
Camilo Cienfuegos Structures Workshop, working in coordination with the
galvanizing plant of the communications workshops enterprise.

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[Answer] In the recent meeting of the board of directors of the Arab Space
Communications Authority in Riyadh, it prepared a list of stipulations and
specifications to focus the necessary consultative expertise on the Arab
satellite project. Bids lists will be available for distribution at the
authority's permanent headquarters in Riyadh at the beginning of next May.
[Question] And the cost?

[Answer The necessary capital for the project was initially estimated at
100 million dollars but it is expected to exceed that.

[Question] Have all the Arab countries taken part in the project?

[Answer] Ther are 14 Arab countries participating so far and a total of a-
bout 93 percent of the capital has been covered.

[Question] What about the other countries?

[Answer] We hope that the other Arab countries will assist in this vital
and important project shortly.

In 30 months

[Question When will the Arab satellite actually go into service?
[Answer] In about 30 months, God willing.

[Question] From when?

[Answer] From March.

The Ground Station

[Question] After all this, will there be a connection between the Arab
satellite project and the Jordanian satellite station?

[Answer] No. The Jordanian station is designed to operate with the satel-
lite over the Atlantic Ocean which belongs to the international satellite or-
ganization--Intelsat. Most Arab radio and landline communications authori-
ties and departments are participating members in the capital of that inter-
national organization and work with it through ground stations similar to
[our] ground station to provide international communications.

A Second Station

[Question] Is it true that it is intended to set up a second satellite
ground station in JOrdan?

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[Question] People have more than one question about satellites. As deputy
chairman of the board of directors of the Arab Space Communications Authority
and director general of the Radio and Landline Communications Authority, I
think that you are in a better position to discuss this than many.

Communication Problems
[Answer] Go ahead.

[Question] It's noticeable that telephone communications over satellites are
extremely clear while those over ground networks run into problems and are
never clear.

[Answer] To a certain extent, that's true, but I disagree with you in one
part of your question.

[Question] What's that?

[Answer] Communications over ground networks may run into problems and do at
times, but not always as you stated in your question.

Technological Development
[Question] Why is that?

[Answer] Radio and landline communications engineering has certainly bene-
fited greatly from the advance and evolution of space technology. That
scientific competition and the tremendous advance among the industrially
advanced countries in reaching the moon and space had amazingly positive
consequences, perhaps greater at present than the direct and currently
anticipated results of the race to reach the moon and the nearby planets

of the solar system. I mean by this the scientific and technological gains
which resulted from the concentration by the industrially advanced countries
of all their scientific and technological capabilities in the course of that
race into space.

Purposes of Control
He was silent for a moment and then went on:

Because radio communications with satellites and the missiles that carry
them into orbit is the only means for guidance, monitoring and recording
natural phenomena and how well the equipment in the space vehicle is func-
tioning and because communication with the astronauts and learning what
they encounter during their flights and many other services cannot be
carried on successfully unless there is guaranteed and reliable radio com-
munications between the ground station and the space vehicle--all this
prompted scientists and researchers in the competing countries to vie in
concentrating their efforts to develop and improve radio communications in
a manner unprecedented in human history until they emerged with radio com-
munications systems which were extremely precise, capable and stable.

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FRANCE

BRIEFS

SIEMENS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM--The ATO-Chimie [Company] is being equipped
with a "3000" communications system made and sold by the Siemens Company.
With an initial capacity of 600 ‘subscribers, this private automatic switch-
board system brings to 20 the number of such systems installed in France.
[Text] [Paris L'USINE NOUVELLE in French 2 Jun 77 p 44]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

POLISH BROADCASTING COOPERATION WITH ROMANIA--A delegation representing
Romanian Radio and Television led by Gheorghe Atanasiu, deputy director
general, is visiting Poland at the invitation of Polish Radio and Televi-
sion. Jan Mietkowaki, deputy chairman of the Committee for Radio and Tele-
vision Affairs, and Gheorghe Atanasiu signed a working protocol today on co~
operation in radio and television for the 1977-78 period providing for the
further expansion of mutual information about the two countries, as well as
for a program and personnel exchange. [Warsaw Domestic Service in Polish
2000 GMT 7 Jun 77 LD]

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INTERNATIONAL

INDIAN DELEGATES TO ATTEND MOSCOW ELECTROTECHNICAL MEETING

Delhi ISI in English 0950 GME 6 Jun 77 BK

[lext] India will be participating in the 42d annual general meetings of
the tnternational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to be held in Moscow
(USSR) between 6 to 18 June.

Apart from the meeting of the IEC Council and Committee of Action, 30 techni-
cal committees of the IEC are expected to meet.

Subjects of particular interest to India which will be discussed at the
meetings include insulating materials, safety of household electrical
appliances, electrical installations of buildings, switch gear and control
gear and standard voltages’! current rating and frequencies. India has made
significant contribution in many of these fields to reflect requirements
of the tropical countries.

During the meetings, several points of signifitance to India in the areas
mentioned above will be focussed upon with ea view to taking care of the
coutitry's interests in foreign trade.

A five-member Indian delegation comprising J. 8. Zaveri, managing director,
Bharat Bijlee Limited; V. S. Venkateswar, deputy director general, Indian
Stahdards Institution (ISI); V. A. Krishnamurthy, chief engineer (electrical)
ChW [Central Public Works]; D.V.S. Bhatia of Slemens India Limited, and

I, C. Joseph of Larsen and Toubro Limited, will be attending the meetings.

tthe delegation would also attend the World Electrotechnical Congress (WELC)
which is being organized in continuation of the IEC annual general meetings.
The congress has a programme to thoroughly consider and discuss the outstand-
ing achievements, important tasks and further lines of development of elec-
trical engineering and new scientific and engineering ideas.

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CHANA OFFICIAL WOULD ESTABLISH ALL-AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY
Accra GNA in English 1210 GMT 6 Jun 77 LD ‘

[Text] Acera, 6 Jun (GNA)--Colonel Parker Yarney, Ghana's commissioner for
information, today reemphasised the need for countries in the West African
sub-region to cooperate with each other for mutual benefits.

He observed that common services provided by the West African Court of
Appeal, the West African Currency Board, and the West African Cocoa Research
institute at pre-independence tended to unite rather than divide the sub-
region, But, he said, these institutions had to be broken up for nationalis-
tic reasons.

Colonel Yarney was welcoming a three-man task force of the proposed Nigeria
News Agency delegation to his office here. The delegation is on a 5-day
visit to study the set-up and operations of the Ghana News Agency.

He noted with joy that through the aegis of the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS),a new economic and cultural organisation of West
Africa, embracing both Anglophone and Francophone countries, had been estab-
dished for the corporate development of the sub-region.

The commissioner stressed that the efforts being made to establish an all-
African news agency was certainly in the right direction.

Colonel Yarney assured the delegation of the government's preparedness to
place at its disposal the experience of Ghana over the past two decades
in the news agency field. He said the comprehensive programme drawn for
their stay would enable them to see the news agency set-up and also some
parts of the country. The commissioner said the government was also pre-
pared to offer training facilities to the personnel of the Nigeria News
Agency on a mutually acceptable basis.

He expressed the belief that with the establishment of national news agencies
by member-states of the (20MVN) it would not be long when a reputable all-
African news agency would emerge. He said the all-Africa news agency would
be fed from all parts of the continent and thereby provide a reliable and
authoritative sowce of information on African affairs.

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He added: As a part of the Third World, we are carrying out active develop-
ment to rebuilt our country, which has been drained by the wars of liberation
imposed on it. We believe that we live in one world where the exchange of
news serves the world desire for joint efforts to achieve world prosperity,
particularly in the fields of food, energy and raw material.

Referring to the Arab world's efforts to apply modern methods in television
communication, he pointed out that the number of ground satellites has
increased from 4 in 1974 to 17 in 1976.

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INTERNATIONAL

INDIAN PRESS ON COOPERATION WITH EEC, SATELLITE COMMUNICATION PROJECT
Delhi General Overseas Service in English 1050 GMT 8 Jun 77 BK
[From press review]

[Text] The ECONOMIC TIMES refers to the Indo-EEC commercial cooperation
agreement signed about 3 years ago and says that it recognizes the princ-
iple of production-cooperation base and the complementality of the Indian

and European economics. Some progress has since been made in the field of
engineering goods, leather products and so on. The recent visit to this coun-
try of the vice president of the European Commission, Mr Wilhelm (Haperkaumb),
has been fruitful in identifying a few other specific fields for cooperation.
Prominent here is a proposal that India should export iron ore [?products]
ranging from iron ore pellets to pig iron. There is now the prospect of set-
ting up three iron ore pelletization plants with financial assistance from
the EEC. These plants will be linked with long-term supplies of pellets to
meet the increasing demand by the European steel industry.

The paper continues: The possibility is also being considered for setting up
additional blast furnace capacity to produce pig iron in India for export.
under long-term arrangement with EEC countries. Apart from interindustry
cooperation, the steel minister, Mr Biju Patniak, has referred to the poten-
tial for undertaking joint ventures between India and the EEC in Third coun-
tries. Such ventures based on utilization of sophisticated European tech-
nology with the help of India's vast resources of manpower and fabrication
capacity will be mutually beneficial.

The ECONOMIC TIMES then welcomed the launching of the satellite telecommunica-
tion experiment project as another step in our space program. It says that
the experiment, which is a joint effort of the Indian Space Research Organi-
zation and the Post and Telegraph Department, will help test the communica-
tion system being developed for ultimate use in the Indian satellite Insats,
scheduled to be launched after 1980. According to the director of the space
{?application] center, Ahmedabad, Professor Yashpal, there are plans to put
into orbit by 1980 a small telecommunication satellite designed and fabri-
cated in India. This presumably will. be followed by the Insats.



CONTENTS (Continued) Page
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS
Ghana 'GNA' Official Tells Nigerian Visitors About UHF
Transmitter Plans
(GNA, 8 JUN 77) cececcccccccccccesccsccccscccscceccecs 26
GHANA

Ghana Official Would Establish All-African News Agency
(GNA, 6 JUN 77) coccccaccccccccccccccccuccccccvccscces 27

NIGERIA

Briefs
Nigerian Television 29

WESTERN EUROPE
FRANCE

Briefs
Siemens Communications System 30

UNITED KINGDOM

Briefs
Communications Equipment Purchase 31

WEST GERMANY

Briefs
Telephone Improvements 32

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YUGOSLAVIA

BRIEFS

OSIJEK TV CENTER--Work on constructing a television center, which will be
equipped with most modern technology and which will make linkups with pro-
grams of Zagreb television and other Yugoslav television networks possible,
began in Osijek on 27 May. The new center will cost 23 million dinars to
construct. [Belgrade BORBA in Serba-Croatian 28 May 77 p 6 AU]

ZAGREB-TRIESTE PHONE LINK--A direct telephone link between Zagreb and Trieste
was established on 24 May. This link will be maintained via 24 channels and

will be particularly useful for work organizations and business partners of
the two cities. [Belgrade BORBA in Serbo-Croatian 30 May 77 p 14 AU]

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INTERNATIONAL

EXPERIMENTAL SATELLITE TELE-LINKS BETWEEN INDIA, FRANCE, FRG

Madras THE HINDU in English 1 Jun 77 p 6

[Text]

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NEW DELHI, May 31.

The Satellite Telecommunica-
lon; Experiment Project (STEP)
which marks a major si¢p in the
fforts o provide — communia

nN links with remat: ai
hrough satellite will be launched
to-mo. row.

An indivenously built” Trans-
portable Remote Area Communi-
jgation ‘Torminal (TRACT) — seen
jin the picture will be moved to
‘Amreli, 300 km. from Ahmedabad,
It will be linked to the evrth sta.
jon at Ahmedabad through the
Franco-German Symphonie — satel-
thus providing a two-votce
reuit for manual ‘trunk opera.
ilon “between Amre!i and Ahme
dabad.

This will mark the beginning
of the two-year experiment joint-
¥ undertaken by the P and T
‘epartment and the Indian Spac8
Research Organisation in collabo.
ration with the space agencies of
the Federal Republic of Germany
and France which have made
available ore of thelr two com-
munications satellites.

EXPERIMENT FOR TWO YEARS

Over the next two years a series
of. commiinications ” experiments
will be conducted using hardware
developed at the Space Applica.
tions Centre of the Indian Space

arch Organtration at Abme-
dabad the ~‘Telzcommunications
Research Centre pf the P and T
at New Delhi and tho Indian Te.
lephone Industries, Bangalore.

Symphon’s is Europe's first yen
ture in the field of communica-
tion satellite technology and in-

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corporates some new design fea-
tures. Two such satellites are al
ready in orbit and some experl-
ments using them have been con-
ducted by European nations, in
particular Franc: and Germany.

One of these satellites has been
moved to a location of 49°E longi.
tude over the equator and — will
look towards India, Its beam
covers the whol3 of India inc!
ing the Andaman-Nicobar Island
The orbit is synchronous—
altitude over the equator is 36.000
km. and it keeps pace with the
rotating earth.

EARTH STATION NEAR MADRAS

There will be three major earth
stations for the experiment in ad-
dition to two transportable termi.
nals. The earth stations at Delhi
and Ahmedabad which were’ orl.

pizally sot up for the Satellite
instructional Television Experi:
ment (SITE), have been suitabl:

augmented for this new project.
A third earth station, being ins
talled near Madras is expected to
be ready by August,

TRACT has keen built using a
standard 7} tonne truck chassis
and is self contained. It can be
moved to any location and can
operate through any trunk-tele-
phone exchange. Thus it will be
possible to rat up at short notice
experimenta! telephon2 links of
high reliability and good quality
with any of the earth stations.

TRACT js also capable of trans:
mitting television programmes, It
can also receive the TV gram
mes transmitted by the garth

its”

stations. It is manned by a crew
of four.

A still, smaller terminal which
can be lifted by a helicopter has
also teen made, Known as Emer.
gency Communications Terminal
‘ECT) it is primarily designed to
provide a éouple of reliable and
good quality telephone channels
with any of the remaining sta.
tions. ‘This station. can. be moved
on a jcep or airdifted whenever
an emergency occurs, Manned by
a crew of three it. can be readied
for use in about five hours. It is
light “weight compact, completely
self-contained and developed indi
fenously.

Among the several experiments
that are planned in STEP one
relates to digital communication.
This envisages linking the thee
earth stations using digital tech.
niques at high speeds such as
eight million bits per second.
Hardware for this is jointly deve-
lored by ISRO and P and T. Ano-
ther experiment relates to inte-
gration of circuits provided by
symphonie satellite into the do-
mestic automatic trunk telephone
network, These experiments will
be very useful for future domestic
satellite telecommunications, :

Yet another experiment relates
to the distribution of radio broad.
cast programmes. All will
Felp in the proper planning and
implementation of the future do-
mestic national communication
system.



every part of the Arab homeland. In the same way, the Arab countries with
large geographic areas, such as Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt,
Sudan and Algeria can lease a television channel on it to broadcast their
programs within their territory and to every part of it via the Arab satel-
lite at a cost lower than broadcasting over the traditional ground networks
and stations.

The First Regional Group
He goes on to say:

I would like to add that the group of Arab countries is the first regional
group in the world aimed at exploiting space technology to make knowledge
and culture general, particularly to the poor, varied and remote segments
of the population of the far-flung Arab homeland.

A Program in Four Languages

There is another thing that ought to be mentioned, namely, the fact that one
cultural television program can be broadcast over the Arab satellite in four
: languages or dialects simultaneously.

The Economic Aspect

[Question] Has the economic usefulness of the project been taken into con-
sideration?

[Answer] In order for this project to become economically useful, the Arab
Federation of Radio and Landline Communications, in conjunction with the
communications department of the Arab League, adopted the idea of using the
Arab satellite to provide routine communications services, such as telephone,
telegraph and telex services andthe transmittal of information. Studies
have shown clearly the economic viability of the project. If we recognize
that at least half the capacity of the satellite will be earmarked for tele-
phone and telex communications, this means, if one satellite is launched,
the creation of no less than 3,000 telephone channels directly linking

Arab capitals with one another with no need to go through any foreign
quarter. If we recognize that one telephone channel, for example, can
handle 24 telex channels, we get an idea of how much hoped for benefit
there will be.

Triumph for the Arab Family

The director general of the communications authority continues:

Add to all this the fact that achievement of this goal is in itself a tri-
umph for the Arab family since creation of a traditional ground network
linking all the capitals of the Arab League countries to provide such direct

and guaranteed communications would be difficult to achieve and exorbitantly
expensive, besides requiring a great deal of time and effort.

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COMMUNICATIONS OFFICIAL IN AUSTRIA--Vienna, 8 Jun (TANJUG)--President of the
Yugoslav Federal Committee for Traffic and Communications Bozidar Dimitrijevic
today ended his two-day visit to Austria. Dimitrijevic visited Austria at

the invitation of the Austrian federal minister of transport, Erwin Lanz.

On this occasion talks were conducted on further progress in cooperation
between the two countries in the area of transport, particularly in relation
to the linking of magistral and railway routes, and the increasing of rail-
way transit through Yugoslavia and Yugoslav ports. Also, Austria's possible
participation in financing the construction of the highway through Yugoslavia
was discussed. The two countries' interest in the signing, as soon as pos-
sible, of the document on joint construction of the Karavanken tunnel for road
traffic was stated. The document was initialed in March this year. The
question of Austrian authorities [?permit] for the operation of TV and ultra
shortwaves which would enable members of Yugoslav national minorities in
Austria to receive the RTV Ljubljana programs was discussed. Representa~
tives of the two countries' radio and TV managements will shortly start on
coordinating stands regarding technological problem. [Text] [Belgrade :
TANJUG in English 1740 GMT 8 Jun 77 LD]

YUGOSLAV-IRAQI COOPERATION--A delegation of Yugoslav businessmen has had
talks in Baghdad with representatives of the Iraqi minister of communica-
tions on cooperation between the two countries in the field of river naviga-
tion. The final document which was signed on 23 May by Stevan Bek, vice
president of the Vojvodina Executive Council and by Minhibedin Kemal

deputy minister of transportation, stressed the readiness of the two countries
to expand cooperation in this field, and primarily on improving the course

of the Tigris River. The Yugoslav side will prepare a plan of overall

organi zation of river navigation in Irag. It is also expected that Iraq

will order new river ships in Yugoslavia. [Be . i - i
So ae po aa Pp ug, [Belgrade POLITIKA in Serbo-Croatian

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INTERNATIONAL

BRIEFS

JORDAN BUYING SWITCHBOARDS--Jordan has just ordered five automatic switch-
boards capable of handling 18,000 to 45,000 calls, at a cost of 30 million
dollars, from the Japanese Nissho group now working with Nippon Electric
[Company](NEC). [Text] [Paris L'USINE NOUVELLE in French 2 Jun 77 p 44]

LMT SALE TO EGYPT--The LMT [Telephone Equipment Company] has just obtained
an order from Egypt to supply and install two Metaconta electronic switch-
boards, one in Cairo and the other in Alexandria. These switchboards are
of the Centrex type, the first having an initial capacity of 3,000 lines

and the second of 1,500 lines. Installation will begin next year and they
are expected to be operating by 1979. The contract provides that LMT will
provide the technical assistance, for one year, that is needeito train the
personnel responsible for the operation and maintenance of these tehephone
systems. [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French 3 Jun 77 p 8]

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COLLOQUIUM--There will be held in Lannion,
France, from 4 to 6 October 1977 an international colloquium devoted to
measurements in telecommunications. It is to be organized by the CNFRS
[French National Committee on Scientific Radioelectricity] and the SEE
[Association of Electric, Electronic, and Radioelectric Specialists] under
the aegis of Committee A (electromagnetic metrology) and Committee C (signals
and systems) of the IRSU [International Radio Scientific Union]. The
purpose of this colloquium is to bring together specialists in measurements
and practioners in telecommunications in order to help secure a synthesized
view of the problem of measurement and a better appreciation of current
trends in instrumentation in the telecommunications field. [Text] [Paris
ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French May 77 p Dy 2662

OIRT MEETING IN GDR--Suhl (ADN)--The 28th session of the OIRT (Organiza-
tion Internationale du Radiodiffusion et Television) and the 52d session of
the OIRT Administration Council have ended in Suhl. At these sessions,
delegates from 18 member organizations discussed among other things the
television and radio programs of the member organizations on the occasion of
the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. [Text]
[East Berlin NEUES DEUTSCHLAND in German 6 Jun 77 p 2 AU]



INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

GHANA 'GNA' OFFICIAL TELLS NIGERIAN VISITORS ABOUT UHF TRANSMITTER PLANS
Accra GNA in English 1604 GMT 8 Jun 77 LD

[Text] Accra, 8 Jun, GNA--The Ghana News Agency (GNA) is to install an
ultra high frequency (UHF) transmitting system to enable its transmissions
to be beamed simultaneously throughout the world, Mr Kow Bondzie Brown,
general manager of GNA, announced today.

He was welcoming the three-member implementation task force of the Nigerian
News Agency to the offices of the Tema branch of the agency, 18 miles or
28 kilometres east of here today.

Mr Brown said the installation of the transmitting system was part of a
five-year modernisation plan approved by the Ghanaian Government for the
agency.

He explained that land had been acquired for the construction of the trans-
mission [as received] and work would start soon.

Mr Brown stressed that it was important for news agencies in the Third World
to catch up and endeavour to make their presence felt throughout the world.

The Nigerian team led by Mr A. E. Howson-Wright, chairman of the task force,
later inspected the offices of the state-owned Ghana Cargo Handling Company
which was originally established by the Biney Cargo Handling Company in
Lagos, Nigeria.

Later, the implementation team had a second round of official discussions
with the management of the Ghana News Agency here behind closed doors.

Yesterday the team flew to Kumasi in central Ghana to inspect the regional
offices of the GNA which links northern Ghana including the Brong Ahafo
region with Accra, the capital of Ghana.

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LIBYA

BRIEFS
NEW RADIO STATION~-A new radio station was opened in Darnah today with trans-
mission power of 1061 kilocycles on a wave length of 283 meters. The new

radio has begun regular transmission [words indistinct]. [Text] [Tripoli
Domestic Service in Arabic 1730 GMT 9 Jun 77 JN]

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The paper adds: Another feature of this test is that besides the three major
earth stations at Ahmedabad, Delhi and Madras, a transportable earth station
on a truck will also be used, called the transportable remote area communi-
cation terminal, tract, It can be moved by road to any location in India
and can operate through any trunk telephone exchange. The tract can also be
used for transmitting and receiving television programs from any part of

the country.

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INTER-ARAB AFFAIRS

ARAB COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE TO BEGIN OPERATIONS IN 30 MONTHS
Amman AL-RA'Y in Arabic 3 May 77 p 9

[Article by Mamduh Hawamidah: "Why the Arab Satellite and What will It Ac~
complish for Jordan?"]

[Text] There are dozens of questions in people's minds these days about
artificial satellites. What is the secret behind the very clear and high
quality telephone communications over satellites while there are difficul-
ties with communications passing over ground networks? Why are departments
of radio and landline communications throughout the Arab homeland investing
millions of dollars in satellite communications, rather than investing these
millions in improving and developing ground communications networks? Then,
what comprises the artificial satellite and then what is the relationship
between the Arab satellite project and the Jordanian satellite station?

A Long Dialogue
These are some of the questions about satellites which I took to Eng Muham-

mad Shahid Isma'il, director general of Radio and Lanline Communications
Authority. A dialogue ensured at his office for more than 2 hours.

[Muhammad Shahid Isma'il]

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[Answer] Yes. The Jordanian administration intends to construct a second
ground station to work with the abovementioned organization's satellite
over the Indian Ocean to provide direct communications between Jordan and

the countries of the Near and Far East.

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JPRS 69300

23 June 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

No. 5

ConTENTS
INTERNATIONAL

Indian Press on Cooperation With EEC, Satellite
Communication Project
(Delhi General Overseas Service, 8 Jun 77) secccccccccce

Experimental Satellite Tele-Links Between India, France, FRG
(THE HINDU, 1 Jun 77) cecceccccceccesccsccescuccuccesces

Indian Delegates To Attend Moscow Electrotechnical Meeting
CISL, 6 JUN 77) sccccsacccccccccccccccccccccscccccacccee

Briefs
Jordan Buying Switchboards
LMT Sale to Egypt
International Telecommunications Colloquium
OIRT Meeting in GDR
Communications Official in Austria
Yugoslav-Iraqi Cooperation

ASIA
INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

ASEAN Experts Agree to Possible Use of Palapa Satellite
(ANTARA, 8 Jun 77) cscccccccccccccuccvsccccsccssecccsces

Briefs
PRC Orders Color TV Cameras

INDONESIA

Briefs
Broadcast in Japanese
East Timor Telecommunications
ASEAN Regional Satellite

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

PRC ORDERS COLOR TV CAMERAS--Tokyo, 7 Jun KYODO--A group of two Japanese
companies has received a yen 50 million order for two portable color tele-
vision cameras from the China National Machinery Import and Export Corpora-
tion. The cameras, dubbed plus-color Handy Lookie system HL-33" [as re-
ceived] will be delivered to the Peking television station by next January,
according to the firms--Kanematsu-Gosho Ltd. and Ikegami Tsushinki Co., the
developer of the camera, The companies said China is expected to step up
imports of color TV broadcasting equipment from Japan in the future as the
government under Chairman Hua Kuo-feng attaches importance to color TV
broadcasting as a communication medium. [Text] [Tokyo KYODO in English
0838 GMT 7 Jun 77 OW]

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phenomena of the earth can be received clearly due to the automatic pictures
transmission system of the satellite, Salatun said. Salatun said meteoro-
logical data from the weather satellite are of great importance for agricul-
ture, communications, tourism and preservation of environment. Indonesia
is the second country in Asia after India capable of monitoring signals
from weather satellites with domestically made instruments, Salatun said.
[Text] [Jakarta ANTARA in English 0720 GMP 2 Jun [77 BK)

MICROWAVE NEIWORK--Ujungpandang, 26 May (ANTARA)--The East Indonesian
microwave network is expected to be in operation by the end of this year,
according to R. Srihadi, head of the seventh telecommunication area. He

told ANTARA Tuesday that the network will be the third in Indonesia's
microwave system, after the trans-Sumatra network linking Medan and Jakarta,
and the Java-Bali section linking Jakarta with Denpasar. The East Indonesian
section will connect Depasar with Ujungpandang. Srihadi said that work was
now in progress on 14 relay stations, including five in the seventh area

(on Tana Jampea Island, at Bontotino, Bontosari Tene, Bantaeng and Ujungpandang).
He added that the microwave system stood apart from the "Palapa" domestic
satellite communication system now already in operation, and constituted a
multi-axes system of communication, many axes being required to prevent a
disruption of communication. [Text] [Jakarta ANTARA in English 0733 GMT

28 May 77 BK]

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WEST GERMANY

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TELEPHONE IMPROVEMENTS--Siemens Company will put into service in Munich in
October 1977 the first EWS electronic telephone exchange ordered by the
Bundespost [West German Postal and Telecommunications Service] after the
satisfactory operation of three experimental telephone exchanges. This
installation in Munich will be followed by three others, also built by
Siemens, in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf. Additionally, the
Bundespost plans to put into service in 1978 nine urban EWS telephone
exchanges representing a total of 74,000 lines as well as an intercity
telephone exchange. In 1979 the Bundespost will put into service telephone .
exchanges able to handle a total of 100,000 lines, a capacity to be doubled
in the subsequent year. And in 1985 the electronic telephone exchange
equipment delivered to the Bundespost will parallel the annual increase in
the number of subscribers so that the existing EMD electromechanical
telephone exchanges may be replaced by electronic telephone exchanges in the

long run. [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French 20 May 77 p 7]
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[Question] I have read that efforts are now being exerted to plan for a
supplementary ground telephone network in the Arab homeland. How much truth
is there to this?

[Answer] That's true, but I think that the Arab satellite project can beat
these efforts and achieve rapid, guaranteed, direct and reliable communica-
tions for the Arab family so that the Arab satellite project can be a major
support for the proposed Arab ground network, particularly since Arab com-
munications are today an important and primary support for the basic struc-
ture of economic solidarity for the desired Arab network project.

For Vast Distances .

In brief, the Arab satellite project, says Eng Muhammad Shahid Isma'il, is
designed to cross the vast distances of the various parts of the greater
Arab homeland before they are linked by traditional ground networks, and
it is a social, pan-Arab and economic necessity. At the same time, the
Arab administrations are now developing their ground networks with notice-
able rapidity.

Makeup of the Satellite

[Question] What is the makeup of the satellite and how are communications
carried on through it?

[Answer] The satellite is in itself nothing more than a self-contained radio
sending and receiving station hovering in space in a fixed orbit around the
equator about 36,000 kilometers above the surface of the earth, revolving

at the same speed as the earth. Accordingly, it is possible to control the
radiation of the satellite, that is, minute radio waves known for practical
purposes as microwaves, toward a specific area of the earth in a constant and
profuse manner. This flying station draws the electric power needed to
operate the transmission and receiving equipment from solar batteries which
are installed on it and which convert solar power to electric power. Since
the satellite is operating at this great altitude, the radio waves--micro-
waves--are transmitted directly from any point in the Arab homeland to the
satellite and are received at the same instant at the other point with which
communications are required within the area covered by the radio emanating
from the satellite, crossing vast distances across the Arab homeland as a
whole and, as I said, achieving rapid, reliable and guaranteed communications.

[Question] How much will weather conditions affect communications via satel-
lite?

[Answer] Satellite communications are not affected by topography or by
weather conditions, however severe.

Where Does the Project Stand?

[Question] How far have steps gone for setting up the Arab satellite?

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The commissioner pointed out that the establishment of national news agencies
would halt the over-dependence on foreign news media for information about
the continent.

Colonel Yarney hoped it would not be long before there was an Accra-based
correspondent of the Nigeria News Agency to reciprocate the posting of the
CNA correspondent in Lagos.

The delegation is led by Mr A. E. Howson-Wright, chairman of the implementa-

tion task force. Other members are Mr Horatio Agadah, executive secretary
and Mr J. S. Maemeke, member.

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EGYPT

PRIME MINISTER OPENS INTERNATIONAL TV NEWS CONFERENCE
Cairo MENA in Arabic 1026 GMT 2 Jun 77 NC

[Excerpts] Cairo, 2 Jun--Prime Minister Mamduh Salim has stressed Egypt's
interest in the information media in view of the positive effect world public
opinion has on decision-makers and of the people's love of and support for
the principles of justice, liberation movements and respect for human rights.

In a speech he delivered this morning at the opening of the second Inter-
national Television News Conference in Cairo, the prime minister expressed
Egypt's increasing interest in this conference because it greatly affects
the fateful questions in which the information media represents a main
nerve, acquainting the world with what takes place in our country, and with .
the Egyptian man's struggle for freedom, development and prosperity.

Likewise, our knowledge of the people's news represents a basis for assuming
our responsibilities regarding questions of our contemporary world.

He added that world public opinion, to the formulation of which television
news contributes, has caused a decisive change in the language of inter-
national communication among people away from the familiar language of
force, threat of force, agitation of racial ideological strife and regional
interests.

Memduh Salim referred to the importance of developing the exchange of tele-
vision news to keep pace with the tremendous development in the cultural,
political, economic and ideological spheres, and to the effects of the
communications and technology revolution and their reflection on the need
for news by individuals and peoples alike.

Mamduh Salim further said: On the basis of our faith in an indivisible
world peace based on justice, we are interested in the flow of news as a
means for acquaintance among peoples for the sake of peace, This also
reflects on our national issues through the world's good understanding of
their just aspects.

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

ASEAN EXPERTS AGREE TO POSSIBLE USE OF PALAPA SATELLITE
Jakarta ANTARA in English 0742 GMT 8 Jun 77 BK

[Text] Bandung, 8 Jun (ANTARA)--Telecommunications experts of the ASEAN
member countries have agreed in principle to the possibility of using the
Palapa satellite for intraregional or border communications, it was learnt
here.

The agreement was the result of a study club on telecomnunications held here
from 3-6 June attended by 12 participants of the ASEAN member countries and
led by Dr Theo Suryawan from Indonesia.

On the border communication, the participants agreed to regulate terminal
traffic between the two adjacent countries [not further identified].

According to a press release, the meeting was held to discuss cooperation on
telecommunications agreed at the first ASEAN telecommunications meeting held
in Jogjakarta last April.

Dr Theo Suryawan told ANTARA after attending the meeting that Indonesia had
offered Palapa to the ASEAN member countries with a tariff 20 percent below
that of the Intelsat satellite, with the promise that in the long tern,
Indonesia could make it even cheaper.

Indonesia has also given the last specification of Palapa to be studied and
adapted to their needs.

The Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia have not stated their agree-
ment to hire Palapa, but they are considering it.

According to Theo Suryawan, the meeting took an important decision on the
use of Palapa for noncommercial activities, including exchange of visas [as
received], sports and arts television programs, through the satellite. But
all ASEAN countries except Indonesia face problems on the status of tele-
vision services, There are state owned and private television services in
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BRIEFS

BROADCAST IN JAPANESE--Jakarta, 1 Jun (AFP)--Radio Jakarta will start a
l-hour daily broadcast in Japanese today starting at 1900 hours (1200 GMT).
The Japanese language transmission, directed to listeners in Japan, can be
heard at 25.5 and 30.38 meterband. A Radio Jakarta spokesman said with the
latest foreign language broadcast addition, Radio Jakarta now transmits
daily programs in English, French, Chinese, Arabian and Malay, beside

the general Indoesian language programs. Director general for radio and
television, Sumadi, hoped that the new Japanese language broadcast will
further strengthen bilateral relations between Indonesia and Japan. [text]
[Hong Kong AFP in English 1112 GMP 1 Jun 77 OW]

EAST TIMOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS--The development of the telecommunications
network in East Timor will be carried out in stages under central government
aid with the cooperation of the telecommunications corporation on the same
level as in other regions of Indonesia, the. head of the telephone office

in Dili said. He called on the government to provide East Timor with tele-
phone facilities and operators to replace the old Portuguese telecommunica-
tions system. [Jakarta Domestic Service in Indonesian 1500 GM? 28 May 77 BK]

ASEAN REGIONAL SATELLITE--Jakarta, 2 Jun (ANTARA)--The use of the communica-
tions satellite "Pala" as an ASEAN regional communication satellite will be
discussed in Bandung between next 3 and 6 June. This is a follow-up of the
meeting of the subcommittee on ASEAN post and telecommmnications held in
Yogyakarta on April last. The Bandung meeting will also take up the
problems of communications at the border regions. The Indonesian delegation
will be led by the director general of Perumtel, Willy Munandir. [Excerpt]
[Jakarta ANTARA in English 0707 GMT 2 Jun 77 BK]

METEOROLOGICAL WORK--Jakarta, 2 Jun (ANTARA)--Indonesia is expected to be
able to improve its weather forecast soon with meteorological data trans-
mitted by a weather satellite. J. Salatun, director of the National
Aeronautic and Space Institute, said here Tuesday that signals from the
Japanese made "geostationary meteorological satellite" will be monitored
by Indonesia's.earth satellite stations at Jekarta and Biak, Irian Jaya,
every 15 minutes. Photos of cloud formations and other meteorological

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