The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1985 (8. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1985-11-01 / 6. szám
12 Jamming To Be a 1986 Issue Increasing concern is being expressed internationally over the Soviet practice of jamming foreign radio broadcasts. It is an issue to be widely debated in 1986. Russian and other Warsaw Pact delegates prevented any adequate study of the subject at the recent European Cultural Forum in Budapest. Earlier, on October 11, the European Parliament in Strasbourg condemned jamming as a breach of human rights. It decided to protest to the Soviet authorities over their attempts to blot out broadcasts to the USSR from West Germany’s Deutsche Welle, the British Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of America. It is estimated that the USSR annually spends about 1,000 million dollars on jamming, a form of radio transmission more expensive than broadcasting. High-powered jammers are placed in all border regions of the USSR’s vast territory. Smaller transmitters try to obliterate foreign radio waves reaching particular cities and towns. Altogether the Russians have more than 2,500 jammers. These are used mainly against broadcasts from the United States, Britain and West Germany but also against those from China, South Korea and Israel. Jamming is achieved by transmitting continuous noise on the same frequency as that of the target broadcast. Although jamming has been practised by the Soviet authorities since 1948, its technology is still imperfect. In consequence, an estimated 15 to 20 million citizens of the USSR regularly listen to foreign broadcasts. While continuing to claim that these amount to „interference in internal affairs,“ the Kremlin itself finances worldwide radio transmissions on a vast scale and in many languages. A few of the Russian broadcasting stations pretend to be clandestine ones operating in countries outside the Soviet bloc. One such „rebel“ transmitter beams Chineselanguage programmes from near Khabarovsk, a Soviet frontier town, to northern China. It calls itself the „First of August Radio“ after the day the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was formed in 1927. The station claims to be expressing the views of Chinese military malcontents secretly opposing the present sweeping reforms of the PLA. On September 8, 1985, the Hongkong South China Morning Post published a long article on the Khabarovsk transmitter. Referring to the „Anti-Deng Radio“ in the past tense because it was then temporarily off the air, the article said: „The black propaganda station was skilfully operated and upset the Chinese authorities.“ For six years it „brazenly“ attacked Deng Xiaoping’s reformist policies and caused China to become the first Communist nation to be a target of „such verbal aggression.“ The Khabarovsk radio station „sought to incite an irrational nationalism over issues such as Hongkong and Taiwan. It sought desperately to arouse latent Chinese xenophobia against the West.“ A SOVIET WORKER SPEAKS OUT (Continued from page 11) of an upright man who wants to do an honest job of work for an honest wage, and of one with an interest in the news, but intelligent enough to see through the doctored version of it which the Soviet media present. He realises that the election results are faked: “In Moscow hostels, for example, the warden or someone else representing him votes on behalf of those who have not voted by the evening.“ There is a remarkable passage in the letter about Afghanistan: “The Party is operating according to the well-known saying about a farmer who seized a piece of his neighbour’s land and justified himself in court by saying T don’t need anyone else’s land, but only the bit that borders on mine’.“ According to Alifanov, Iran might share Afghanistan’s fate, but not Turkey or Norway, since they are in NATO, or Finland, whose neutrality is internationally recognised. Impressive too are the closing words of Alifanov’s letter: “Not everything in our life is as bad or as simple as l have described. But what will happen if nobody speaks out for the truth, even if they are impudent and uncultured? Everyone should have the right to express his opinion. In our country that right does not exist, and you know why many people keep quiet. They are afraid. Why?“ SECOND ATTEMPT TO MURDER EX-PREMIER The Egytian security authorities have thwarted a second attempt by agents of the Qadhafi regime to murder Abdul Hamid Bakoush, a former Prime Minister of Libya. On November 11 the Egytian Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Rushdi, announced the arest of a number of Libyans at a farm outside Alexandria and the seizure of machineguns, silencers, hand-grenades and magazines which the Libyans had hidden in the Western Desert. The Egyptian security forces kept the wouldbe assassins constantly under surveillance. Film taken by the Egytians showed the Libyans taking weapons out of the boot of a car. The Cairo Press reported that the Qadhafi regime had allocated the equivalent of 25 million dollars to the five Libyans involved in the assassination plot, the intended victims of which were Bakoush and certain other Libyan refugees resident in Egypt. After the reporting of the case in the Cairo Press, the Qadhafi regime's news agency said AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR FRIENDS: IF YOU HAVE friends who you think would be interested in THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (Nemzetőr) we will gladly send specimen copies free of charge. All you need do is to fiH in nomes addresses below and send them to us. We will do the rest. Please send specimen copies of THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (Nemzetőr) to the following: 1. ... 2.... 5.... 4. ... THE GUARDIAN OF If BEILTY (NEMZETŐR) Erscheint 2monatlich. Einzelpreis für Deutschland DM 4,— Edited by the Editorial Board Verleger, Herausgeber und Inhaber TIBOR KECSKÊSI TOLLAS Journalist, Schriftsteller, München Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Verantwortlicher Redakteur (Editor): MIKLÓS VARY Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 Druck (print): DANTJBIA DRUCKEREI GMBH Ferchenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 AFRICA REPRESENTATIVES & SALE CAMEROON: L. T. JOHNSON, Divisional Inspectorate of Education, NKAMBE, North West Province, Republic of CAMEROON. EAST AFRICA: (2.— Sh, by air) (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania): General-Representative: International African Literary Agents. P.O. Box 46055 NAIROBI, Kenya; NIGERIA (2.— Sh): Yemi OYENEYE, P. M. B. 101, Agege, Lagos. SIERA LEONE: (10 Le. c.; annual: 60) 1. Alusine B. Kargbo, c/o 2 Alusine St., Newsite Kissy, Freetown; SOMALIA: (2.— Sh., by air) Haji Jama Ali, P.O.B. 248, Hargeisa. MAURITIUS NALANDA Co. Ltd., 30, Bourbon Str., Port-Louis. GREAT BRITAIN F. Szabó, 100 Liddel Gardens, London N.W. 10 U. S. A. Béla H. BÁCSKÁI, P.O. Box 102. Audubon/Pa. 19407. AUSTRALIA Mr. Jenő Beák, 3/50 Warrandyte Rd., RINGWOOD 3/34 Vic., Australia PRICES: Surface mail: 1 copy AFRICA 1.80 Sh (100 CFA), Britain 60 P, Australia, USA, Canada: $ 2.— Germany: DM 4.— Annual subscription: AFRICA Sh 10 (500 CFA), Britain 3.—£, Germany/Europe : DM 20.- (or equivalent) Australia USA, Canada: $ 10.— For air mail add 26*/» For students 50 °/o discount Our BANK ACCOUNT: No. 260575G Commerzbank AG. Munich, Federal Republic of Germany. that the People's Congresses in Libya had decided on more than one occasion to "liquidate" their enemies inside and outside (the country) and are continuing to implement their resolution." In November, 1984, the Egytian security authorities thwarted a previous attempt by Qadhafi agents of murder Bakoush. He was Prime Minister of Libya when Colonel Qadhafi seized power there in a military coup d’état in 1969. USTINOV STREET * A street on Moscow's new Krylatskoye housing estate has been named after Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, Soviet Defence Minister from April, 1976, until his death in December, 1984. Aged 76, he held 11 Orders of Lenin and a special award for „outstanding services in the development of rocketry.“ NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1985