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This unclassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service comlist, dated 12 June 1991, catalogs Moscow radio, television and TASS items broadcast that day. Entries are grouped by region and topic and cover the RSFSR presidential elections, Bessmertnykh's visit to Germany, Lukyanov in London, the G-7 summit, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Soviet military matters. Brief feature items mention a close encounter of the third kind reported by a Latvian couple and a listener's letter about flying objects.
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## UNCLASSIFIED country. (15 min: amharic 111600) 49 vladimir borisov on recent establishment of republic of somaliland, giving background to declaration, describing political situation in country. (5 min: amharic 111600 somali 111700) 50 vladislav chernukha on background to post-treaty normalization of life in angola, stressing observance of ceasefire and political stabilization. (3 min: portbraz 2300 swahili 1800; anon: viet 1400 camb 1100) 60 TB1306143291TAKE3 51 aleksandr fedorov on scrapping of land acts in south african parliament, noting criticizm of move by conservative party and far-right factions, says new laws on land ownership allow blacks and whites to own land, although only few wealthy blacks will be in position to do so. (4 min: afrikaans 1700) 61 MIDEAST 62 52 aleksandr pogodin on bush/shamir exchange of views on mideast peace conf. (rpt enginter 101210, item 54 on 10 jun list) (beng 111200) 63 53 report on un organized meeting in helsinki between political scientists and journalists from europe and mideast, held to promote awareness of palestinian rights and need for peaceful settlement in region, says there is need to narrow points of two sides to make holding of intl peace conf possible. (5.5 min: arabic 1500) 54 yuriy solton on efforts undertaken by u.s. and soviet union to solve arab-israeli conflict, criticizing israel's adamant and uncompromising attitude toward peace process in region. (5-3 min, poor: enginter 1210 1510 2110 portbraz 2300 enguk 2000 german 1600 turkish 1800 persian 1430 swahili 1800 hungarian 2000 serbo 2000 indo 1300 burm 1430) 65 55 oleg gritkov assessing israeli right-wing coalition's first year in power, says preconceived ideas about israeli worsening relations with its neighbors proved unfounded following gulf war and intl efforts toward peace in region. (5 min: hebrew 1600) 66 56 anon "how long shall we continue to implore israel to attend conf on mideast problem." (3 min: greek 2000) 67 57 item on soviet orientalist (tatyana aristova), specialist on kurdish affairs, noting her interest in kurds began when she was student and she has since written some 20 books on kurds. (arabic 1500) 58 "arab weekly diary": item on lebanese foreign minister's visit to saudi arabia and meeting with king fahd; egyptian 'asl-wafd' spoke of deteriorating economic situation in egypt; news agency reports on Israeli plan to solve water problems; mauritania has new constitution. (arabic 1500) 69 59 aleksandr ivanov on iraqi dep premier tariq aziz visit to turkey. (3 min: turkish 1800) 70 60 "discussing with soviet citizens": spartak alekseyev intvw wth pravda's chief editor, on results of his recent visit to greece at invitation of assn of greek journalists, noting his meeting with mitsotakis and samaras. (20 min: greek 2000) 71 SOUTH ASIA 72 61 sergey viktorov on worldwide stmts in support of un plan for solving afghan problem, citing stmts by pakistani marshal (asghar khan), noting official pakistan is opposed to plan, says afghan's neighbors have realized that existence of hotbed in region can threaten regional stability. (4 min: persian 1430) 73 62 (yevgeniy krishkin) on afghan muhajidin leader rabbani's recent remarks
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.