MONTHLY REPORT--ABIDJAN BUREAU--DECEMBER 1982

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• Publication Date: January 4, 1983
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FOREIGN BR NDCAST INFORMATION ; VICE
ABIDJAN BUREAU
MAB 3001
4 January 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, FBIS
THROUGH Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT . Monthly Report--Abidjan Bureau--December 1982
Early in December Ambassador Rawls approved a bureau request for one
additional nonstaff position, to be filled by a French-English monitor.
This will bring the bureau's monitorial staff to 10. The need for an addi=
tional monitor had become increasingly apparent over the past year: In the
year ending 31 August 1981 the bureau's monthly publishable wordage averaged
just over 150,000; in the 16 months since then the monthly average has in-
creased 50 percent to about 225,000. In an excellent of team
spirit, Swaziland Bureau offered one of its monitors, a U.S.- STAT
educated Swazi who is-,married to an Ivorian and wants to relocat_&in Abidjan.
As soon as final approvals for the position increase received the bureau
will begin steps to bring a new monitor on board. s the most STAT
qualified candidate at this time.
ILLEGIB
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. Developments in Ghana continued to dominate the bureau's coverage
effort during December. On the 16th, Flight Lieutenant Rawlings gave a
lengthy speech to the nation defending his record. Due to the length,
poor reception and uncharacteristic rambling nature of the speech, the bureau
remained open until 0300 clearing three takes of material dealing with the
attempted coup last month. The remainder of the speech was processed the
fbliowing day. The 30th was another late, night, when Finance and
Economic Planning Secretary Kwesi Botwe presented the government's long-
awaited economic recovery program, which required the bureau to remain open
until 0330 to clear six takes of excerpts. And on New Year's Eve, the first
anniversary of the Rawling's takeover, a people's assembly was held in the Accra
Sports Stadium, 'at which Rawlings and other leaders discussed the country's
problems, with Rawlings blaming most of them on the white man. Finally, on
New Year's Day, 20 former ministers and members of parliament were released
from "protective custody" and other prisoners were released as a gesture of
mercy. Additionally, one other item aroused Embassy and Ivorian Government
interest. On the 22nd the radio announced that all military leaves had
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been cancelled and that no troops could be moved without authorization
of Rawlings, suggesting further trouble. The DCM was notified and he took
the item personally to Ivorian Foreign Minister Simeon Ake,who remains
highly interested in the Ghana situation.
2. Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang's visit to sub-Sahara Africa has
generated considerable attention by the media in the countries he has
visited so far--Guinea, Gabon and Zaire. Zhao's remarks in reply to
President Sekou Toure's welcoming speech in Conakry on the 30th, carried by
Conakry Domestic Service, was unusuAlly difficult to translate because
it was given in Mandarin with sentence-by-sentence translation into
French. The constant back-and-forth between the two languages disrupted
continuity and made the speech very difficult to follow.
3. Considerable interest was aroused by Western news reports of
"special powers" gtanted Ang6lan President Dos Santos at the MPLA-Labor
Party meeting during the early part of the month. Luanda Domestic Service
in French reported these special powers on the 9th and ANGOP later that day
carried longer reports on the subject and on the party's rejection of a
linkage between Namibian'. independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops.
4. French Foreign Minister Cheysson's 6 December statement to the
Anglo-American press criticizing the U.S. evoked high-level interest in the
text of these remarks, expecially since Secretary of State Schultz was about
to visit Paris. The bureau expected the statement to be carried promptly by
Paris Diplomatic Information Service, but the service carried only excerpts
of Cheysson's statement and did not transmit the excerpts %until the 21st.
These were filed expeditiously.
5. The bureau lost the Reuter French service to West Africa on 1 January
when the service shifted to satellite transmission. Reuter did not, in fact,
provide much useful information on Africa, and its African service was much
less complete than AFP's. The loss of Reuter should be more than offset /
next spring when the Pan-African News Agency is to begin transmissions. A
recent AFP report quoted the PANA director as saying the agency will begin
operations in April 1983 and will have a daily file of about 25,000 words,
in French, Arabic, and English.
B. Technical
The bureau received seven Watkins-Johnson model 8718 receivers
early in the month, to replace its stock of Collins 351's. Engineer
has installed the new receivers in the bureau's press agency racks
and in four of the six monitoring positions. Collins receivers in the other
two monitoring positions will be replaced shortly.
STAT
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Personnel
Monitor) I who is on an extended TDY in Mbabane to help
train Swaziland Bureau's new monitors, has agreed to stay in Swaziland
until the end of February. Yao's TDY will thus run seven full months.
Attachment
Monthly Production Report
cc: Chief, Swaziland Bureau
Deputy Chief, London Bureau
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