MONTHLY REPORT OKINAWA BUREAU--JUNE 1983

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
UNITED STATES FORCES, JAPAN
OKINAWA BUREAU
APO SAN FRANCISCO 96239
MOK-3031.
7 July 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH: Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT: Monthly . Report,. Okinawa Bureau--June 1983
.A. On 13 June, Brig. Gen. Michael Nelson took over as
commander of the Kadena-based 313th Air Division, relieving
the popular Maj. Gen. Thomas McInerney,. who. was reassigned
to PACAF Headquarters in Hawaii. The bureau chief and
ceremony.
were among the guests at the change of command
B. In triennial elections this month to the Japanese House
of Councillors, the upper house, in which the. ruling Liberal-
Democratic Party scored a major. victory nationwide, the
opposition candidate in Okinawa, Shinei Kyan, backed by
reformist groups,-leftist forces, and Komeito, was returned
for a fourth term by a margin of about 10,000. votes.
A. Editorial/Monitorial
1.. Editors and Chinese monitors were kept busy during
.June-with coverage of the Chinese Sixth National. People's Congress
session,. which elected Li.Xiannian China's first president in
17. years. Volume of reportage by sources was lower overall.
than that of the past several NPC sessions, indicating to bureau
observers a normalizing of the political process in China.
2. The publication by the Chinese at the end of
June of the 1975-82 volume of "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping"
.was marked by a great deal of fanfare, and monitors and editors
are watching to see-whether another "personality cult" is
developing.
STAT
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B. Lateral/Special Services
1.. The Japanese Unit, at LRB's request, processed
.segments of a five-part interview with former KGB operative
Stanislav Levchenko from the Tokyo magazine SHUKAN BUNSHUN. The
magazine, which is not on regular bureau coverage, is available
from local.news. vendors.
2. Resource Plans Division of the 313th Air Division
at Kadena Airbase levied several urgent ad hoc requests for
translations of material in the local Japanese-language press
in reaction to a. reported U.S..-Japanese plan to establish an
"air combat maneuvering instrumentation (ACMI) range" for fighter
pilot training at sea off Okinawa. An ACMI range was activated
.recently.in the Republic of Korea.
C. Cruising
1. The USSR's Orbita-2 television system began
transmission on 1 July of a new program, "Double 2," for. viewers
in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and other Soviet Far East regions
over the 90E satellite. Preliminary cruising checks reveal that
the new service is carrying Moscow Second Program transmissions
on schedule. Cruising checks are continuing on the new programming.
2.. On 30 June Moscow announced that it would expand
its "Double 3" television programming intended for Novosibirsk
and other Central USSR regions effective 1 July. Okinawa alerted
London Bureau on this development, as programming is being
carried. via the 53E satellite monitorable at London Bureau. STAT
3. The Japanese Sakura CS-2 satellite, launched
earlier this year, began-carrying experimental television
transmissions on 16 June. The transmissions, between Tokyo
and Ogasawara .(Bonin Islands), coincided with the 15th anniversary
of those islands' reversion to Japan.
III. ADMINISTRATION
A. Personnel
1. Electronics technician ____]departed the
.bureau on PCS 15 June.
2. Editor
STAT
departed on PCS 29, June. STAT
3. Headquarters editor) (departed on STAT
26 June at the conclusion of 12 weeks' TDY field editorial training.
4. Editor arrived on 22 June to STAT
.replace STAT
.5. Editors were STAT
promoted to GS-12.
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B. Administrative assistant ~fter STAT
working for a number of weeks under the tutelage of Chief Engineer
on 29 June produced the bureau's first fully automatedSTAT
TCN payroll, utilizing the Sharp PC-1500 desktop computer and an
Extel printer. With this system, the administrative assistant's
time devoted to the 38-person TCN payroll was. reduced from a former
average of five days of pen-and-paper work to less than two days;
he spent 30 minutes keying in the T&A and other data, waited two
hours while the Sharp-Extel combination computed the information
and printed out the results, and then worked'1.5 days manually post-
ing the. results to.the Form 1027's. (We have asked HQ.B&F officer
to determine whether OF will accept our paper STAT
print-outs in lieu of.1027's.) A separate report on this great
moment in the bureau's administrative history is being prepared
for forwarding to Headquarters.
A. The bureau's 250-KW generator threw a.rod during scheduled
testing on 6_June.- After rapid coordination locally-and with
Headquarters, a contract for purchase and installation of a new
.Japanese-made 280-KW generator . was signed l week later. The new
equipment was installed by 30 June. and acceptance testing is
.scheduled for early in July.
B. During preparation work by the contractor for installation
of the new-generator, the voltage regulator switch on the 100-KW
backup generator was inadvertently turned off by contractor
personnel and during on-line testing an unregulated. voltage
surge disabled all on-line Extel equipment. No significant
damage occurred, however, and bureau local technicians were
able to make all repairs by replacing or. repairing damaged
fuses or power supply units.
C. Pan. Asia Engineering submitted, per contract, the
9.0-percent-complete design package on the bureau's replacement air
conditioning system for local.and Headquarters. review on 20.June.
D. The Air Force crew.that performs regular maintenance on
.bureau antennas is beginning a survey of all our antenna poles
and will submit a.'report to the bureau Chief Engineer on their
condition. The Air Force initiated the survey after crewmembers
found a.number of poles that had deteriorated and are considered
unsafe to climb.
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V. VISIOTRS
A. To the bureau:
FBIS B&F, orientation, 14-19 June.
STAT
Embassy Manila,.commo inspection, 22-24 June. STAT
Six special agents, Air Force OSI Detachment 4607,
Kadena AB, orientation and. briefing . on. lateral.. services, 29 June.
B. From the bureau:
on 9 June.
New Jersey (BB-62), courtesy of the American Embassy Manila.
STAT
STAT
STAT
STAT
STAT
Attachment:
Production Reports
cc: Chief,. Bangkok Bureau
Chief,, Hong Kong Bureau
Chief, London-Bureau
Chief, Seoul.Bureau
chief editor, TDY at FBIS Headquarters
cruising officer, TDY London Bureau
inawa ureau
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I. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCES:
TOTAL PU3L ISHA!3LE WORDAGE FILED DURING NONTH :
TOTAL NON-PUiSLISHA LE WURDAGE FIL'.:I) DURING MONTH:
TOTAL NUl3ER OF PU3L[SHAi3LE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH:
II. 114 C'UT OF REGULAR C'JVE RAGE :
(minutes or issues per week)
910,('70
380,920
2,401
BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
1b,284 52,445 169.35
min. min. issues
III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES:
(publishable words per month)
C H INA
Beijing International Service in
English ---
Beijing International Service in
'Japanese 870
Beijing to Southeast Asia in
Mandarin 290
Beijing to Taiwan in
Mandarin 11,320
Beijing to the USSR in
Russian 1,100
Beijing to Vietnam in
Vietnamese 6,920
Beijing Domestic Service in
Mandarin 15,960
Fuzhou Fujian Provincial Service in
Mandarin 2,160
Hangzhou Zhejiang Provincial Service in
Mandarin 1,310
Hefei Anhui Provincial Service in
Mandarin 2,720
Nanchang Jiangxi Provincial Service in
Mandarin 5,900
Nanjing Jiangsu Provincial Service in
Mandarin 6,600
Shanghai City Service in
Mandarin 2,820
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