For the Record (1)

By WITH ANALYSIS FROM MONITOR CORRESPONDENTS AROUND THE WORLD; EDITED BY RANDY SHIPP

August 22, 1980

The heavy interference blanking out Russian-language news broadcasts by the BBC, the Voice of America, and the West German Deutsche Welle station continued Thursday for the second day. It is apparently aimed at suppressing news of Poland's widespread labor unrest and is the first such jamming in seven years.