Warns that instead of tying the peoples of the world together in brotherhood, advances in telecommunication foster ever-increasing isolation and ethnocentrism among nations. (PD)

Beginning with the official exchange of letters between Secretary of State Shultz and Unesco Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, this forum continues with responses from 28 international critics and supporters. Also included are two background pieces on the New International Information and Communications Order. (PD)

Describes the issues and interests to be discussed at the World Administrative Radio Conference in September, 1979. Includes definitions of principles for the use of the frequency spectrum, rights and duties of users, reallocation of frequency bands, and the need for principles to guide international cooperation. (JMF)

Discusses Austria's position as a small member of the European community, in terms of satellite broadcasting policy. Austrian policy is viewed as lacking coherence--a policy of compromise and conciliation. (JMF)

Presents a Third World approach to transborder data flow. Suggests developing local capacities for computer power, confining data flow within borders, and providing protection for local development efforts. (PD)

A Soviet analysis claims that the MacBride Report represents a serious contribution to the cause of placing information in the service of peace and progress. (PD)

Discusses the policies of European countries concerning satellite broadcasting and the national contexts within which they evolved. (JMF)

Calls for a moratorium on the growth of transborder data flow systems, in order to halt the drift toward "crisis on a grand scale." (PD)

Offers a facsimile reproduction of the section on "Information" of the printed text of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Reports that Conference results reveal a shift in East-West balance of information flow in conventional areas of communication exchange. (MH)

Describes the activities of the Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion (SOFIRAD), a government-owned corporation to promote political, cultural, and business interests via a complex network of media holdings. (PD)

Describes the organization and functioning of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT). Attempts to evaluate the international institutional matrix of the organization. Highlights some policy issues and the implications of growing domestic and regional systems. (JMF)

Traces the development of American policy on broadcast satellites from the early 1960s to the present. The American position is that regulation of direct broadcasting satellites is premature at this stage of technological development and would undermine the concept of free flow of information. (JMF)

Discusses plans for development of direct broadcasting satellite systems in several European countries. Presents economic advantages of satellite broadcasting over terrestrial television systems for advertisers as well as equipment producers. Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of the spillover effect. (JMF)

Argues that the flow of data within and across national borders involves problems that need to be regulated by law. Calls for international cooperation to insure that society is protected from abuses of data flow. (PD)

Presents the Third World approach and calls for self-reliance and sovereign control in the informatics field. (PD)