MONTHLY REPORT--PARAGUAY BUREAU--SEPTEMBER 1987

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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Monthly Report -- Paraguay Bureau
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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
PARAGUAY BUREAU
ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
MPY-7015
1 October 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, FBIS
THROUGH : Chief, Operations Division
SUBJECT : Monthly Report -- Paraguay Bureau --
September 1987
The Political climate of Paraguay took an anti-American turn
this month, after Ambassador Clyde Taylor presented a note to
the foreign minister regarding the government's closing of the
Revolutionary Febrerista Party organ, EL PUEBLO, and Paraguay's
refusal in recent months to allow opposition rallies in
Asuncion. Paraguayan officials and newspaper columnists
responded to the note with bitter attacks on the Ambassador, and
denunciations of "U.S. meddling."
The Bureau processed many responsive items, prompting
Ambassador Taylor to lead off his 24 September Country Team
meeting with effusive praise for the "outstanding contribution"
of FBIS, which he acknowledged as "the world's best translating
service." He expressed particular gratitude at finding the FBIS
translation of a Paraguayan Foreign Ministry communique issued
on the night of the 23d already on his desk the next morning,
and knowing it was also on the appropriate State Department
desks. DCM Jim Mack quipped that he had learned some new
vocabulary words from FBIS, a reference to the invective heaped
on the ambassador by the local media.
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. The Paraguayan Interior Ministry on 28 August
suspended indefinitely the printing EL PUEBLO, which had been
the only opposition publication allowed to circulate.
2. On the 11th Chilean President Agusto Pinochet
delivered his annual state-of-the-nation speech, which marked
the 14th anniversary of his taking power. The Bureau turned its
ROSET antenna to cover the speech and do a VSL from Chilean
television.
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3. On the 9th Argentine President Raul Alfonsin
delivered his first speech after his Party suffered an upset
midterm election defeat on the 6th. The Bureau remained open
after normal closing time to cover the speech.
4. Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze on the 26th
began a swing through Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, with an
attendant increase in Bureau wordage and coordination with
London Bureau. At month's end he was in Buenos Aires.
B. Lateral-Sere-ices
1. At the request of Ambassador Taylor, the Bureau on
the 9th translated an item from Radio Primero de Marzo citing an
EEC message to the Paraguayan Government criticizing the arrest
of opposition members and the closing of EL PUEBLO. The Bureau
Chief hand-delivered the translation to the Ambassador.
2. Also at Ambassador Taylor's request, the Bureau
translated and filed several editorials from Asuncion PATRIA
denouncing U.S. policy. In preparation for a telephone
conversation with State Department officials, including
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott
Abrams, he called the Bureau on the 28th to find out which
PATRIA editorials had been wirefiled to Washington.
3. Asuncion Embassy USIS on the 18th came to the
Bureau for videotapes of speeches earlier that day by Paraguayan
President Alfredo Stroessner and Sabino Montanaro, interior
minister and chairman of the Colorado Party Executive Board, for
use by VGA.
C. Technical
1. On the 15th a strong wind damaged the television
antenna on the Embassy grounds that the Bureau uses to receive
Argentine television from Clorinda. Bureau technicians rigged
another antenna to use for Argentine television while the
damaged one was repaired.
2. Television monitors for use with ROSET were
installed at the positions of the monitor supervisor and the
cruising monitor.
D. Personnel
1. A new staff secr
the 30th. She will replace
October on PCS with her spouse.
came on board
who will depart 8
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2. Bureau technician) (completed his
training program.
E. Cruising
1. The Bureau observed that La Paz Radio Illimani now
goes into network with La Paz Television Nacional de Bolivia for
about 1 hour each day beginning at 1645 GMT. Cruising La Paz
Radio Fides, the Bureau updated its newscast schedules.
2. On the 26th the Bureau began cruising for the
seasonal Moscow program and schedule changes.
1. The Deputy Chief was on TDY from 31 August to 2
September in Lima, where he met with the Bureau's contractor as
well as Lima Embassy officers. From Lima he went to Panama
Bureau, where he discussed coordination and received a briefing
on Panama's ROSET. He returned to Asuncion on 10 September.
2. While on private travel to southern Africa, the
Bureau Chief spent 1 day TDY at Swaziland Bureau.
"Las Amigas del Paraguay," the local American women's group,
held their annual fair on the 26th. This is the year's main
charity fund-raiser, so everyone pitched in. For instance,
wife of Senior Editor baked and donated
100 cupcakes, which sold like the proverbial hotcakes.
Chief, FBI araguay Bureau
Attached: Monthly Production Report
CC: Panama Bureau
Key West Bureau
STAT
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F`,:araQL.tay Sureau Production Report for September 198
TO I AL PURL I SI-IA LE: WORDAGE F I LE.D DURING MONTH: 24547C)
TOTAL lU(71~1- F'U L I ;al-IA?SLE_ WORDAGE FILED DURING MON'I..Fi: 77000
TO FAL NUME(ER OF F'L.IBL I ' HFtL I E: ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH: 999
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A R G :NT I1\1 A
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Network: in
Span i sh i 0
Buenos Aires Domestic Servlce in
Span i sI?l 41. 0
Buenos Aires DYN i n
Span i S h 14.33 4 t:a
Buenos Aires NOI ICIAS AR E Nl I1~?IAS in
Spanish 18930
Buenos Aires TE_LAM i n
Spanish 16 0
Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES HERALD in
E- 'n g i i s h 5710
Buenos Aires CALARIN in
Span i sh 1 170
Buenos Aires LA NACION in
Spanish 9.3% 0
Buenos Aires LA PRENSA in
Spanish 1:370
F:rOl- IVIA
L.a F-az La Red F'anarner i canes in
Sp an i sh
La Faz Radio Iii i man i Network: in
Spanish
L.a F'-- El Diari.o in
Sp,:ani sh
L.a F'a~.. F'FiE::SLNC I FA :in
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Brasilia Domestic Service in
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CASTS AGENCIES CA CATIONS
Brasilia Radio Nacional da Amazonia
Network: in
Portuguese 384?
Porto Alegre Radio ;uai. ba in
Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro Redo Cplobo Television in
Portuguese 2920
Rio de Janeiro Rede Manchete Television in
Portuguese U
Sao Paulo Radio F3andeirantes in
Portuguese 141?)
Sao Paulo Rede 13andeiranter television
in
Portuguese
Brasilia EBN in
Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro AJH in
Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL l.)U BRASIL. in
Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLUE3O in
Portuguese
Sao Paulo FOLHA DE SAD PAULO in
Portuguese
Sao Paulo u ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in
Portuguese
Sao Paulo VEJA in
Portuguese
CHILE
Santiago Domestic Service in
Spanish
Santiago Radio Ct?. i t ena in
Spanish
Santiago Radio Cooperativa in
Spanish
Santiago Radio Portales in
Spanish
Santiago Television Nacional de Chile
Network in
Spanish
Santiago Universidad Nacional de Chile
Television Network in
Spanish
Santiago ANALJ:SIS in
Spanish
Santiago APS1 in
Spanish
Santiago CAUCE in
Spanish
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330)
5600
8530
170
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CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
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Spani t h
Santiago EL MERCUR I O in
Span i sh
Santiago FORT I N MAPOCHO in
Spanish
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Santiago LA SEGUNDA in
Spanish
Santiago LA TERCERA DE LA HORA in
Spanish
Santiago MENSWE in
Spanish
Santiago QUE PASA in
Spanish
CH I NA
Beijing in
Spanish to Latin America
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Paris AF F in
Spanish
PARAGUAY
Asuncion Cerro Cora Sistema Nacional
de Television in
Spanish
Asuncion Domestic Service in
Spanish
Asuncion Radio Caritas in
Spanish
Asuncion Radio Primero de Marzo in
Spanish
Asuncion Red Nacional de Television in
Spanish
Asuncion EL DIARIO in
Span i sh
Asuncion EL PUEBLO in
Spanish
Asuncion HOY in
Spanish
Asuncion LA TARDE in
Spanish
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Asuncion GENDERO in
Spanish
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