MONTHLY REPORT -- TEL AVIV BUREAU -- APRIL 1988

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 2, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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FBIS-6023-88
2 May 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH: Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT: Monthly Report -- Tel Aviv Bureau -- April 1988
Secretary of State Shultz returned to Israel on the 3d in
another round of shuttle diplomacy. Looking for Israeli and Arab
acceptance of the U.S. proposals on a negotiated Middle East peace
agreement, the secretary found little encouragement, according to
media reports, during his visits to Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia,
with all parties showing little inclination publicly to back away
from their stated positions--positions that reinforce the continuing
impasse.
The relative calm that was developing in the territories came
to an abrupt end when, on the night of 15 April, unknown assailants
killed Khalil al-Wazir (alias Abu Jihad), the deputy commander of the
Palestinian Revolutionary Forces, in his home in Tunis. The violence
following the killing led to a new single-day death toll high in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, with 12 Palestinians killed on the 16th.
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. Following headquarters concurrence, the bureau began
a subscription to the Goldnet electronic mail service. Israeli
GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE material, which is delivered electronically
to Goldnet, will_be covered by accessing the bureau's Goldnet
"mailbox" and quickly down loading the GPO file into a stand-alone
IBM PC/XT. Although still in its shakedown phase, the new coverage
method is expected to be very convenient while eliminating the 1-2
day delay that plagues the hard copy version.
2. Coverage of (Clandestine) Al-Quds Palestinian Arab
Radio in Hebrew was transferred to Tel Aviv Bureau. Tapes of Hebrew
items are recorded at Jordan Bureau and forwarded via the embassies'
Allenby Bridge courier run for review in Tel Aviv. Although the
first few tapes have proven unproductive, the bureau is pleased to be
involved in coverage of a source that is of such high interest to our
local consumers.
3. In an effort to keep bureau and MOD records current,
a spring reception survey of Cairo Television is being conducted by
the editors.
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B. Communications
The new message format was inaugurated at Tel Aviv
Bureau on the 28th. Automation contributed to the basically painless
transition.
C. Lateral Services
Beginning the day before the secretary's visit and
continuing until several hours after his departure, the bureau was
frequently in contact with Mr Shultz' party to provide updates on the
security situation in Israel, Middle East reporting on the
secretary's trip, and the ongoing hijacking of a Kuwaiti airliner.
The chief of security called the bureau just prior to his departure
to express his appreciation for the "fine support from FBIS."
A. Personnel
1. For the first time in several years Tel Aviv is
serving as a training bureau. TDY trainee arrived on the
2. Bureau Engineer was away for a 3-week STAT
TDY, during which he visited Milan, were a installed a computer
local area network, and Vienna, where he received a brief bureau
orientation prior to his summer 1988 PCS there.
STAT 3. Communications operator
FBN 5/3.
4. A cost-of-living increase of 4.9 percent,
retroactive to 1 March, has been granted to local employees as an
interim measure while the mission waits for State Department action
on the wage scale adjustment. The long-awaited adjustment to the
wage scale, which would be retroactive to January, is expected to
take place in May.
The bureau's involvement in the mission's edu ational
STAT facilities became deeper in April when Deputy Chief
became chairman of the schoo board of the Ameri an
STAT School in Israel and
STAT stepped into the chairmanship of the American Embassy
was promoted to
STAT
Women's Group Preschool school board.
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Tel Aviv Bureau. Production Report for APRIL 1921)
TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH:
TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE: FILED DURING MONTH,-,
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH.,
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(publishable words per month)
(Clandestine) Dayrak Radio in
Turkish to Cyprus 10900
(Clandestine) Bayrak Radio in
English to Cyprus, 0
(Clandestine) Flag of Freedom Radio it--i
Fersi ari 15(")
(Clandestine) Free Voice of Iran in
Per s: i. an Ci
(Clandestine) Our Radio in
Turkish to Turkey 2190
(Clandestine) Voice of Turkish Communist
party in ,
T1_crE:i s>r
(Clandestine) Voice of the Liberation of
Iran in
F'er_gi an
ISRAEL
Jerusalem Domestic Service in
Hebrew 6642i.)
Jerusalem Domestic Set' ? v ic::,,' .
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English 13640
Jerusalem Television Service :i. ri
Hebrew 1.5420
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Tel Aviv I D I-? Radio i t?.1
Hebrew 2230t'-)
Jerusalem AL..-?-F A3R in
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