Word: voa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after Iran's government had signed a trade barter agreement with the Soviet Union...
...situation is convenient for the VOA, whose engineers note which frequencies the Russians are using in their internal communications. Then the VOA "cuddles" close beside the Russians' frequency, sending its messages on adjacent wave bands. The Soviet jammers cannot block the news from outside without blocking their own messages too. When the Russians switch to another band, the VOA follows, cuddling close...
...Russian radio listener, it is no easy job to follow the VOA. He must keep his hand on his tuning knobs and skip from frequency to frequency as the battle of the wave bands rages over his head. Do many try? Herrick thinks they do. Like any other people, he says, the Russians enjoy doing something the government tells them...