MONTHLY REPORT--KEY WEST BUREAU--NOVEMBER 1987

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 3, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
KEY WEST BUREAU
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3 December 1987
MEMORANDUM TO: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH: Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT: Monthly Report--Key West Bureau--November 1987
The month ended spectacularly as Haiti was engulfed in
widespread violence that prompted the government to cancel the
presidential elections on 29 November and call for the removal of
the leaders of the Provisional Electoral Council. Although the
turmoil and disruption prevented our contractor,
from running the gauntlet to the embassy that Sunday afternoon to
monitor the radios, she was able to get to work on the last day of
the month--in the same car as the ambassador--and provide full texts
of a government communique and a speech by General Namphy that she
monitored the day before at home. Our best laid plans also went
astray since we had opened the bureau on Sunday to receive the
material, but had been unable to maintain telephonic contact with
due to disruptions on the international lines. To add to the
difficulties, we lost several of our radio sources--including the
influential church-affiliated Radio Soleil and the highly regarded
Radio Lumiere--after armed marauders damaged the station
transmitters and towers. At month's end, a stunned Port-au-Prince
was hesitantly returning to life as the opposing players began to
plot the next scene in this drama.
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. Our lunchtime monitoring of Havana's Radio Reloj
Network on 20 November had extra bite when we picked up Cuba's
surprise announcement that it had resumed the immigration agreement
with the U.S. and agreed to continue talks on radio broadcasts
between the two countries. Later, we were able to provide timely
Cuban reaction to the rioting in U.S. prisons by many of the Mariel
detainees who not so surprisingly balked at the thought of returning
involuntarily to Cuba under one of the conditions of the agreement
(see accompanying cartoon).
2. A busy four weeks listening to a multitude of formal
Castro speeches and a variety of his more relaxed ramblings on
subjects ranging from economics to child care contributed to another
swollen monthly word count. One especially amusing moment emerged
from the midst of all this verbiage when Fidel described how he had
STAT
STAT
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to fall back on his school-boy English when he was wedged against
Tovarisch Gorbachev in Moscow in mid-month without an interpreter
nearby. Unfortunately, we were not privy to the text of the
exchange, only that they had no problem understanding each other.
3. In other news highlights of the month, our radio
sources also reported on the landslide victory of the opposition in
Suriname's National Assembly vote, a victory heralded in the media
as a return to democracy and a rejection of the current military
rule.
B. Communications
The bureau's circuit was down over the weekend from
1800 on 14 November, to 1345 on 16 November because of in-house
problems at the Miami RRF following a program change on 14
November. Three messages were sent via our Autodin altroute prior
to restoration of the circuit on Monday.
STAT
C. Technical
1. Bureau Engineer spent considerable STAT
time obtaining data on formats and codes used by the Caribbean News
Agency (CANA) and the Agencia Mexicana de Noticias (NOTIMEX)--the
two press agencies received by the bureau via landlines. This
information was requested in an LEC-sponsored memo from ADD'sl STAT
2. The small enrollment fee (HQs funded) for a local
community college computer course for our monitor?STAT
paid for itself almost immediately. After the first class, had SIAI
learned how to streamline our daily computer-to-computer hookup with
our contractor in Port-au-Prince by bypassing.the use of the DOS
disk and going directly to our Procomm software.
3. Our fax machine again proved its versatility this
month whenl in Port-au-Prince used it on several .i STAT
successive da s when her direct phone line was out. Refusing to be
stymied, lugged the machine upstairs in the Embassy to the STAT
Political Section where she plugged everything back in and
transmitted her daily take.
D. Cruising
1. We filed our extensive observations of Moscow's
secondary changes to the fall/winter broadcasting schedules which
were introduced on the first of the month. Included was a complete
rundown of Radio Moscow's Cuba-based shortwave and medium-wave
transmitter operation. The latter is not normally heard as well at
other monitoring sites.
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2. We also were the first to report on observations of
new western Africa-based shortwave relays of certain broadcasts by
Radio Beijing aimed at the Americas, as well as Africa, the Middle
East, and Eastern Europe.
1. Confirming that good things come to people who wait,
the bureau started the month off right with the arrival of our new
full-time staffer, who comes to us STAT
following 4 years in the Marine Corps, looks forward eventually to
becoming our official liaison contact with some of our military
colleagues.
2. Although our primary teleops candidate washed out
this month, we remain cautiously optimistic that our other
candidate, will get by the security/medical hurdles and . STAT
join us in the near future.
Buildings and Grounds
1. By month's end, we believed we had broken through
several Navy Public Works Department logjams that had been holding
up a couple of our projects. As a result, we now hope to get a
contractor in soon to put a permanent patch on the bureau's roof to
keep future rain water out. We also worked our way through the
byzantine bureaucracy here to get an aging work request for a new
concrete block storage shed out of the paper shuffling stage and up
for bids.
2. Our outdoor security lighting was completed this
month. All those dark shadows where all kinds of critters could
lurk outside our houses have now been banished.
O/B&F, 9 Nov.
Chief, Key West Bureau
Editorial Cartoon
Production Report
Nonexpendable Property Report
CC: C/Panama Bureau, C/Paraguay Bureau
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STAT
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NONEXPENDABLE PROPERTY
Monthly Report, Key West Bureau
November 1987
PROPERTY RECEIVED: 1 UPS, Liebert Mdl. PC-ET 360,
SN: D23670000040000, Unit Cost: $899.00
1 Receiver, Radio, Collins 651S-1
(180 STD), SN: 2308, MCN 1846,
received from Jordan Bureau
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1. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCESi
TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH. 187,750
TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH t 45,867
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH 1 623
BROADCAST PRESS AGENCIES PUBLICATIONS
II. INPUT OF REGULAR COVERAGE. 2,575 14,700 21
(PUBLISHABLE WORDS PER WEEK MIN MIN ISSUES
III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES.
(PUBLISHABLE WORDS PER MONTH)
BAHAMAS
Nassau Domestic Service
in English
Nassau THE TRIBUNE
in English
-0-
BARBADOS
Bridgetown CANA
in English
Bridgetown ADVOCATE
in English
Bridgetown SUNDAY ADVOCATE
in English
BELIZE
Belize City Domestic Service -0-
in English or Spanish
Belize Times
in English
CUBA
Havana Radio Progreso Network 3.610
in Spanish
Havana Radio Reloj Network 15,070
in Spanish
Havana Radio Rebelde Network 6.980
in Spanish
Havana Radio Periodico Del Aire BOO
in Spanish
-0-
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CUBA
Havana Domestic Service 6.920
in Spanish
Havana Tele-Rebelde Network 40.740
in Spanish
Havana Television Cubans Network -0-
in Spanish
Havana Television Service 10.890
in Spanish
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Santo Domingo Cadena Brea Pena
in Spanish
Santo Domingo Radio Mil Network _ 3.480
in Spanish
Santo Domingo LISTIN DIARIO
in Spanish
HAITI
Port-au-Prince Radio Nationale 10.480
in Creole
Port-au-Prince Radio Nationale 3.860
in French
Port-au-Prince Radio Antilles 490
Internationales in French
Port-au-Prince Radio Haiti-Inter 2.600
in Creole
Port-au-Prince Radio Haiti-Inter 1.250
in French
Port-au-Prince Radio Lumiere Network -0-
in Creole
Port-au-Prince Radio Metropole 1,270
in Creole
-0-
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KEY WEST BUREAU PRODUCTION REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 1987
Port-au-Prince Radio Metropole 7.800
in French
Port-au-Prince Radio Soleil 9.770
in Creole
Port-au-Prince LE NOUVELLISTE
in French
910
JAMAICA
Kingston Domestic Service
in English
Kingston DAILY GLEANER
in English
Kingston SUNDAY GLEANER
in English
MEXICO
Mexico City NOTIMEX
in Spanish
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
Bonaire Trans World Radio
in English
THE NETHERLANDS
Hilversum International Service
in English
SURINAME
Paramaribo International Service
in English
1.350
130
9.490
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Santo Domingo Radio Popular
in Spanish
-0-
4.110
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