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...enforce the new system, the government's Bureau for Information established a Media Operations Center, whose job will be to examine all news copy and film before it can be published or broadcast. Equipped with only six telex machines, the cumbersome censorship operation will make the work of journalists vastly more difficult -- and often impossible. South African papers will be obliged to submit editorials on sensitive subjects to the censors. Though that requirement obviously cannot apply to foreign publications, spokesmen said the government would be taking note of editorial comment about South Africa by foreign publications. Indeed, last week...
...forbade the press to cover actions of the security forces, and the other banned journalists from black residential areas. The directives were thrown out by the court because the government had failed to announce them in the official gazette or by public proclamation, but had simply dispatched them by telex to the South African Press Association. The government can still put the measures into effect whenever it chooses by following the prescribed procedures...
...crew. The President and his wife will be tucked up in a spacious bedroom in the nose, complete with vanity, closets, lavatory and shower-tub. There will be a commodious presidential office, conference room, staff lounge, working stations with computers, guest area and a ward for the media, with telex terminals, in the tail. A tiny hospital will be wedged in and maybe even a meeting room for the First Lady. Upstairs will be communications gear and crew quarters...
...Government also maintains huge computer databases with information on individuals suspected of having radical, anti-U.S. associations. Meanwhile, the supersecret National Security Agency uses the world's most technologically advanced surveillance techniques to eavesdrop on questionable telephone calls and radio communications abroad and intercept and decode suspicious telex messages. To conform to U.S. privacy laws, the intercepts take place outside U.S. borders. But as the rest of the world painfully knows, determined terrorists are very hard to stop...
Geographic sprawl and an outdated balloting system make the Philippines susceptible to vote fixing. Of the 90,000 polling stations located on more than 7,000 islands, only a handful have votes tabulated by computer. The majority use paper ballots, manual counting, chalkboard addition and telephone or telex messages to relay the results...