WORLD : U.S. Steps Up Baltic Broadcasts
U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe has boosted its broadcasts to Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia as the breakaway Baltic republics come under increasing Soviet pressure, its acting director said today.
The Munich station, which challenged the Communists’ monopoly of information during the Cold War, has returned to its pre- glasnost role because Soviet-controlled media have limited the flow of news, acting director Robert Gillette said.
“We’re reverting to our traditional role of the surrogate media, the free press that doesn’t exist now,” he said.
Radio Free Europe, which used to broadcast one hour of news daily to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, has more than doubled its reporting to the three republics.
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