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This Clinton Presidential Library release holds NSC cables in a folder filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and dated February 1995 to May 1996. The withdrawal sheet shows three cables were withheld, among them "UFO Sighted" and "Paranormal Phenomena". The released cables include a US Embassy Baku media roundup and an FBIS summary of Peruvian television that mentions a UFO congress in Curitiba. An FBIS translation of Cuban radio reports a landed oval object near Torriente, Matanzas, and three objects seen over Sancti Spiritus in October 1995.
“Jacobs”5 pages
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THE AZERBAIJANI MEDIA THAT ARE NOT WORTHY OF SEPARATE REPORTS, YET SHOULD NOT PASS UNREMARKED. END INTRO. "OFFICIAL" NEWS -- AND SOME NOT SO OFFICIAL 2. "AZERBAIJAN," THE OFFICIAL DAILY, JAN 19 PUBLISHED A STATEMENT BY SABIR RUSTAMXANLI, MINISTER OF PRESS AND INFORMATION. THE STATEMENT REMINDED "HEADS OF LOCAL EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES AND ESTABLISHERS OF TV AND RADIO STATIONS" THAT EXISTING LAW PERMITS STATIONS TO GO ON THE AIR ONLY AFTER THEY REGISTER WITH THE PRESS MINISTRY AND OBTAIN THE PERMISSION OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS; RUSTAMXANLI CRITICIZED PROVINCIAL SdATIONS WHICH BROADCAST WITHOUT SUCH PERMISSION. HE ADDED THAT THEIR PROGRAMS "ARE ON AN EXTREMELY LOW PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, ...SERVE THE INTERESTS OF VARIOUS GROUPS AND ARE OF NO ESTHETIC VALUE WHATSOEVER... SERIOUS DISCONTENT IS CREATED AMONG PEOPLE, AND MORE COMPLAINTS ARE BEING SENT (TO THE MINISTRY). A MOVEMENT WHICH ONCE STARTED IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS TAKING A DANGEROUS DIRECTION AND BECOMING AN IDEOLOGICAL PROVOCATION WHICH SHATTERS OUR SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS." 3. THE STATEMENT LISTED THE TV AND RADIO COMPANIES WHICH HAVE THE PERMISSION TO GO ON THE AIR. IRONICALLY, INCLUDED WAS B.M.TI, WHOSE TV BROADCASTS WERE SUSPENDED LAST SPRING ON THE PRETEXT THAT IT HAD VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH THE MINISTRY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND WAS INDEBTED TO THE MINISTRY. THE ACTUAL REASON, AS EVERYONE KNEW, WAS THAT "GUNAY" NEWSPAPER, OWNED BY B.M.TI'S OWNER, HAD CRITICIZED THE SPEAKER OF THE AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT. 4. ONE OF THE COMPANIES ON THE "LEGAL" LIST, "XACMAS" TV IN THE NORTH-EASTERN TOWN OF AZERBAIJAN, WAS OBLIQUELY CRITICIZED IN THE MINISTER'S STATEMENT FOR WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN LEZGI NATIONALIST PROGRAMS. XACMAS HAS A CONSIDERABLE (IF NOT PREDOMINANT) ETHNIC LEZGI POPULATION, AND THE MINISTER'S STATEMENT ACCUSED THE STATION'S PROGRAMS OF "NOT HELPING STRENGTHEN THE FRIENDLY INTER- ETHNIC RELATIONS, BUT, ON THE CONTRARY, HEATING UP EMOTIONS..." 5. IN ANOTHER OFFICIAL HAPPENING, THE STATE TV AND RADIO COMPANY HELD A BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING, AT WHICH PRESIDENT BABAK HUSEYNOGLU REPORTED ON THE COMPANY'S 1994 PERFORMANCE. ACCORDING TO HUSEYNOGLU, OBVIOUS SHORTCOMINGS -- NOTHING SPECIFIC WAS REPORTED IN THE MEDIA -- WERE CAUSED NOT BY A LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM AMONG ITS EMPLOYEES OR THEIR ATTITUDE TO JOB, BUT BY TECHNICAL SHORTAGES. 6. MEANWHILE, "YEDDI GUN" (SEVEN DAYS), AN ANALYTICAL WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE ON AZERBAIJANI STATE TV, HAS BEEN GIVEN MORE PROMINENCE BY BEING MOVED FROM 10 P.M. TO IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE 8 P.M. NEWSCAST EACH SUNDAY. AS "AZERBAIJAN" DAILY GIVES OFFICIAL NEWS AND POLICY, "YEDDI GUN" SEEMS TO HAVE RECOME THE SOURCE FOR THE OFFICIAL
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Official release, from the nara 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. 35 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.