MONTHLY REPORT--AUSTRIAN BUREAU--NOVEMBER 1982

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• Publication Date: December 6, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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6 December 1982
MAU-2039
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, FBIS
THROUGH : Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT : Monthly Report -- Austrian Bureau -- November, 1982
I. GENERAL
Speculation about who will be the new U.S. ambassador to
Austria dominated the local media early in the month. Although
no one in Washington will confirm it, the frontrunner seems to
be Helene von Damm, who was born near Linz and has been a long
time aide to President Reagan. If selected, she would replace
Theodore Cummings who died last spring. Chancellor Kreisky has
gone on record as saying that "she would be highly welcome if
appointed."
II. OPERATIONS
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. The big announcement on Veterans Day that Brezhnev had
died brought everybody scurrying into the bureau as we opened
early in order to report as quickly as possible on how the East
European countries were taking the news. In addition to an open
watch on our normal bloc sources, we also listened to Kiev,
the only Russian regional we can hear well enough to monitor.
Surprisingly, this source gave us a scoop on the postponement
of a session of the Supreme Soviet, several hours before the
announcement was monitored from Moscow sources. We also made
special arrangements--thanks to the incredible helpfulness of
a middle-level official at the Austrian Post--to pick up the
next day's papers almost as soon as they were unloaded from the
incoming Aeroflot flight. To round out the exciting day, we got
one of our Czech monitors who happens to be a natSTAT
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Russian speaker, ready to leave early the next morning for
London where she was eventually to spend over two weeks help-
ing cover Moscow TV. If this did not provide enough surprises,
on Friday the Bureau picked up the first report that Andropov
had been named the CPSU General Secretary--our first flash
message of the year.
V 2. AG Russian analyst spent nearly a week STAT
with us fine tuning our upcoming coverage takeover of the
Soviet journals. All agreed that the transfer of coverage
from the PMU would be a slow process and that we should limit
ourselves initially to just translating tables of contents
from the major journals before tackling the selection and
translation of articles. A copy of the final Memo for the
Record of what was agreed upon was pouched to Chief/Operations,
Chief/AG and Chief/PMU.
V 3. With the Soviet succession issue assuming even more
importance now, the bureau also made arrangements to resume
full press and radio coverage of the Ukraine effective 1
January. Feeling here was that could be STAT
better utilized by shifting him from Polish coverage back
to his native Ukraine, especially since our three-person
Polish team is now having no problem coping with its daily
chores.
'/ 4. There was a hint late this month of possible improve-
ments to come in the reception of the important Yugoslav
provincial transmitter in Pristina. The radio announced that
it would be inaugurating a new 1,000-kilowatt transmitter on
29 November, a 1OdB increase from the previous 100 kW. We
will be listening closely for improvements since we have had
many problems up to now in hearing this station which broad-
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casts in both Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
5. In other Yugoslav developments, POLITIKA announced
that the country would go onto daylight savings time next
year. Up to now, Yugoslavia has been odd-man-out in Europe,
adamantly refusing to turn its clocks forward each spring.
If old schedules hold, this will be good news for those late
night workers at the bureau who should be able to go home
at 11 PM instead of midnight as has been the case in pre-
vious years. 7 g 4 ?vim o,tit- vAc e mu,vww9 urzfAcc ?
6. Senior Editor idea of having a "Head?STAT
line-of-the-Week" contest (winner gets a used Strassenbahn
ticket) to improve our efforts has already paid off. In
addition to observing MIDAS rules more closely, the monitors
seem to have become more conscious of the value of using
striking quotes and significant detail. Although only an
honorable mention, Albanian monitor nearly STATh
the show when he regretted not being able to describe a
Hoxha speech the day before the announcement of Brezhnev's
death as "Hoxha Delivers Slamming Speech, Brezhnev Dies."
B. Communications
It was a bad month for our communications, as our Autodin
circuit was out of operation.;over 42 hours, the longest
amount of time we have been down in Bureau memory and well
above our average monthly figure of less than 6 hours.
During this period we filed nearly 17,000 words via the
VCVC. As a result of the various outages, we are looking
forward even more than usual to getting into the State
system.
C. Lateral Services
The bureau provided Tom O'Grady, the local DEA chief, with
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a translation of an article from ILUSTROVANA POLITIKA
--the LIFE magazine of Yugoslavia--on an SFRY police bust
of a large network that had been smuggling a fortune worth
of coffee--an expensive rarity these days--into the country.
Although not mentioned in the article, the "coffee kings"
apparently had also been heavily involved in smuggling
narcotics.
A. Personnel
month with the arrival of who is from Cey-~Z6;,
and will be our general handyman.
2. We were pleased to pass on the congratulations of
the Director/FBIS and Chief/Operations to
one of our Polish monitors, who was promoted to FSN-8
effective 15 November.
STAT
3. The bureau was taken by surprise by the unexpected
announcement this month by our live-in custodians that they
would be leaving us as of the first of the year. Until we
can find replacements, we will be using short-term contract-
ual personnel to clean, stay in the building overnight and
remove snow.
B. Building and Grounds
As of the end of the month, our exterior and interior face-
lift was proceeding pretty much on schedule. The painters
had finished the outside, giving us a fresh and lighter
look, and had come inside to slap paint in both the moni-
torial and editorial areas. One setback, however, was the
rather expensive discovery that one of the beams supporting
the roof had been extensively damaged by water leakage and
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insects. It is now being replaced. Meanwhile, we are also
-getting estimates on how to get rid of the dampness in the
cellar, a proposition that might prove expensive to go by
some of the early estimates.
3 Nov
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23-28 Nov
TDY London, 12-29 Nov
FOR THE CHIEF, AUSTRIAN BUREAU
STAT
STAT
Deputy Chief,
FBIS Austrian Bureau
Publishable Wordage Report
Non-Staff Personnel Report
cc: Chief, FBIS London Bureau
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AUSTRIAN BUREAU PRODUCTION REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 1982
I. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCES:
TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH:
TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH:
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH:
II. INPUT OF REGULAR COVERAGE:
(minutes of issues per week)
III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES:
(publishable words per month)
ALBANIA
Tirana Domestic Service in
Albanian
Tirana ATA in
English
Tirana BASHKIMI in
Albanian
Tirana DRITA in
Albanian
Tirana PUNA in
Albanian
Tirana RRUGA E PARTISE in
Albanian
Tirana ZERI I POPULLIT in
Albanian
491,090 (509,420)
22,020 ( 22,710)
1,203 ( 1,334)
6,510
17,060 (4,310)
6,225
24,260 (12,750)
Tirana ZERI I RINISE in
Albanian
0
AUSTRIA
Vienna Domestic Service in
German 750 (2,600)
Vienna Domestic Television Service in
German 680 (1,030)
Vienna ARBEITER ZEITUNG in
German
200
(1,430)
Vienna DIE PRESSE in
German
430
(1,510)
Vienna KRONEN ZEITUNG in
German
0
( 990)
Vienna KURIER in
German
210
(1,770)
Vienna PROFIL in
German
0
Vienna VOLKSSTIMME in
German
280
( 870)
Vienna WIENER TAGEBUCH in
German
0
Vienna WIENER ZEITUNG in
German
2,700
(3,280)
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BULGARIA
Sofia Domestic Service in
Bulgarian
Sofia BTA in
English
Sofia LITERATUREN FRONT in
Bulgarian
Sofia NARODNA ARMIJA in
Bulgarian
Sofia NARODNA MLADEZH in
Bulgarian
Sofia OTECHESTVEN FRONT in
Bulgarian
Sofia RABOTNICHESKO DELO in
Bulgarian
Sofia TRUD in
Bulgarian
Sofia ZEMEDELSKO ZNAME in
Bulgarian
CHINA
Beijing in
Serbo-Croatian to Yugoslavia 460
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Prague Domestic Television Service in
Czech and Slovak 920
Bratislava Domestic Television Service in
Slovak 0
Prague LIDOVA DEMOKRACIE in
Czech
Prague MLADA FRONTA in
Czech
Prague PRACE in
Czech
Prague RUDE PRAVO in
Czech
Prague TRIBUNA in
Czech
Prague VECERNI PRAHA in
Czech
Prague ZEMEDELSKE NOVINI in
Czech
Bratislava PRAVDA in
Slovak
Bratislava ROLNICKE NOVINY in
Slovak
Bratislava SMENA in
Slovak
Bratislava VECERNIK in
Slovak
15,090
20,760 (27,370)
0
4,890
0
730
11,410 (28,910)
950
1,000
0
0
1,550
33,780 (46,130)
0
700
17,510 (24,680)
280
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GERMANY (GDR)
East Berlin BERLINER ZEITUNG in
German
East Berlin DER MORGEN in
German
East Berlin DIE EINHEIT in
German
East Berlin HORIZONT in
German
East Berlin NATIONAL-ZEITUNG in
German
East Berlin NEUE-ZEIT in
German
East Berlin NEUES DEUTSCHLAND in
German
HUNGARY
Budapest Domestic Television Service in
Hungarian
Budapest KULPOLITIKA in
Hungarian
Budapest MAGYAR HIRLAP in
Hungarian
Budapest MAGYAR NEMZET in
Hungarian
Budapest MAGYAROSZAG in
Hungarian
Budapest NEPSZABADSAG in
Hungarian
Budapest NEPSZAVA in
Hungarian
Budapest TARSADALMI SZEMLE in
Hungarian
ITALY
Rome ANSA in
English
POLAND
Warsaw GLOS PRACY in
Polish
Warsaw JEDNOSC in
Polish
Warsaw POLITYKA in
Polish
Warsaw RZECZYPOSPOLITA in
Polish
Warsaw RZECZYWISTOSC in
Polish
Warsaw SOLIDARNOSC in
Polish
Warsaw SLOWO POWSZECHNE in
Polish
Warsaw SZTANDAR MLODYCH in
Polish
Warsaw TRYBUNA LUDU in
Polish
BROADCASTS PRESS AGENCIES PUBLICATIONS
8,860 (34,070)
26,420 (45,010)
0
0
14,840 (3,460)
4,880 (9,780)
1,420 (3,970)
0
1,690 ( 0 )
5,050 (3,420)
74,460 (44,220)
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Warsaw ZOLNIERZ WOLNOSCI in
Polish
Warsaw ZYCIE WARSZAWY in
Polish
ROMANIA
Bucharest Domestic Service in
Romanian
Bucharest AGERPRES in
English
Bucharest ERA SOCIALISTA in
Romanian
Bucharest LUMEA in
Romanian
Bucharest ROMANIA LIBERA in
Romanian
Bucharest SCINTEIA in
Romanian
BROADCASTS PRESS AGENCIES PUBLICATIONS
11,820
41,160 (44,540)
7,970 (10,240)
4,770 ( 9,280)
UNION OF SOVIET-SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Moscow in
Albanian to Albania 560 (3,160)
Moscow in
Bulgarian to Bulgaria 0
Moscow in
Macedonian to Yugoslavia 0
Moscow in
Romanian to Romania 0
Kiev Domestic in
Ukrainian 340
Kiev PRAVDA UKRAINY in
Russian
YUGOSLAVIA
Belgrade Domestic Service in
Serbo-Croatian 31,980 (9,280)
Belgrade Domestic Television Service in
Serbo-Croatian 0
Pristina Domestic Service in
Albanian 2,440
Pristina Domestic Service in
Serbo-Croatian 220
Belgrade TANJUG in
English
Belgrade TANJUG in
Russian
Belgrade TANJUG Domestic Service in
Serbo-Croatian
Belgrade BORBA in
Serbo-Croatian
Belgrade NARODNA ARMIJA in
Serbo-Croatian
Belgrade NIN in
Serbo-Croatian
Belgrade POLITIKA in
Serbo-Croatian
520 (2,140)
0
1,320
18,980 (26,090)
7,850 (12,260)
19,430
550 (2,220)
1,280 (5,530)
12,840 (8,190)
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Ljubljana DELO in
Slovene
Novi Sad DNEVNIK in
Serbo-Croatian
Pristina RILINDJA in
Albanian
Sarajevo OSLOBODJENJE in
Serbo-Croatian
Skopje NOVA MAKEDONIJA in
Macedonian
Titograd POBJEDA in
Serbo-Croatian
Zagreb VJESNIK in
Serbo-Croatian
Note: Figures in parentheses are from preceding month.
1,280 (3,490)
0
0
3,520 ( 460)
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