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Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • Page 35

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Indiana Gazettei
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Indiana, Pennsylvania
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M. By JUP, Agency Radio Reading Service For Blind Established She's A Thorn In Side Of South Africa A Radio Reading Service (RRS) for the blind and print handicapped residents of Indiana County will soon be available through a joint project of Indiana University of Pennsylvania's communications media department, the Armstrong-Indiana Association for the Blind and donations from local Lions Clubs. Slated to begin its broadcasting schedule in February the RRS will feature news, editorials, magazine articles, best sellers, buyers guides, restaurant listings and other timely and consumer oriented information which will enable the handicapped to make life's decisions with the same facts available to everyone else. The broadcasting system to be used is unique for this area. The service will utilize' the transmitting facilities of WIUP-FM, the campus radio station, but will not interfere with regular programming of that station.

The system uses an SCA (Subsidiary Communications Authorization) receiver pre-tuned to a frequency which is undetectable on home FM receivers. The receiver costs approximately $50 and is free to residents who conform to Title XX income eligibility guidelines. The receiver resembles a handsome table model radio and the fixed-tuned circuitry allows the consumer to listen to this special frequency only. In this way, the RRS will fill in the many details which general radio and television broadcasts cannot provide. In essence, WIUP will pick up and rebroadcast the entire schedule of the Golden Triangle Radio Information Center, (GTRIC), located at Duquesne University.

GTRIC is a non-profit organization which sponsors the Radio Information Services for a ten county area of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The service broadcasts 16 hours a day, seven days a week. WIUP plans to break away from this schedule each day to include a minimum of three hours of local information specifically for area residents. All RRS programs have certification requirements which must be met before an SCA receiver is released. This is nec- PROJKT FOR THE BUND PLANNERS Thanks to a project developed and sponsored jointly by lUP's communications media department, the Armstrong-Indiana Association for the Blind and local Lions Clubs, blind and print handicapped residents of Indiana County will soon have a special Radio Reading Service program available to them.

Among those who worked to get the project underway are seated, from left: Maribeth Monti, IUP communications media graduate student and coordinator of the project and Les Katona, executive director of the Armstrong-Indiana Association for the Blind. Standing, from left, are Dermont Miller of the White Township Lions CLub and Donald Jenkins of the Indiana Lions CLub. essary to insure that it does not violate copyright laws which gives the service its privilege of transmitting readings from any newspaper or book without securing clearance in advance. There have been a few setbacks in getting the project established here, according to Maribeth Monti, communications media graduate student and coordinator of the RRS. "Original estimates for the cost of implementing the service were incorrect because the cost of a needed converter was not budgeted," she said.

"We weren't aware that it was needed until GTRIC examined the setup." As a result, an additional $1000 is needed in the way of contributions to complete assembly. Les Katona, director of the Armstrong-Indiana Association for the Blind, estimates that more than 250 local residents will benefit from the RRS. At full frequency WIUP has a broadcast radius of approximately 15 miles. This encompasses many of the population centers within this geographical area and insures a sig- NEVV YORK (AP) She is tiny with the delicate features of a polished porcelain figurine. Hardly the Image of a revolu- tionary.

But Nadine Gordimer is a thorn in the side- of the South African government. A rather prickly' one at that. As a writer, her novels have stirred the foes of apartheid with words that slash at the system. Three of her books have been banned in South Africa, for periods of up to 12 years. The ban on her latest work, "Burger's Daughter," was lifted recently on the advice of literary and security experts in South Africa.

It originally was outlawed last July, three weeks after its appearance in that country. The international bestseller tells the story of Rosa Burger, daughter of an Afrikaaner communist doctor who dies in jail because of his fight for black liberation. Rosa tries to escape from the commitment she's known all her life. She cannot. "I'm not politically active in the direct sense," Ms.

Gordimer said. "But I do take risks. One doesn't talk about them because you blow them, so to speak. They are carefully calculated and if one day the calculation goes wrong, well, there it is." The South African govern- does not consider her a political enemy, she said, and she is not under a ban herself and has not had her passport confiscated. "They regard me as a very disloyal South African," she said.

"They probably consider me a pain in the neck. I regard them as the ones who are betraying what real values ought to be there." "Burger's Daughter" was difficult to document because information on South African nificant increase in a listening audience that before was unable to receive a signal originating in Pittsburgh. If you feel that this project is worthy of your support, please make a contribution payable to the RRS and mail to Les Katona, Armstrong-Indiana Association for the Blind, 31 South 10th Street, Indiana, Pa. 15701. If you would rather donate your services in the form of readings for the broadcasts, contact Katona at (412) 465-5549.

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So she had to' on "trusted friends" who gave her hidden books and documents. "Most of my writing doesn't need research," she said. "My daily life is a form of research because I'm in contact with what's going on. "I always start with people. If people weren't affected by politics, then there'd be no politics in my novels." She was born 56 years ago in a small mining town near Johannesburg.

Her mother was British. Her father came from a village in Lithuania. "I was bom into the usual situation of the white colonial," she said. "And when you're born into that situation as a little child, what do you do? You accept it. It seems like something God has ordained." She was about 12 when she chanced to read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." This work about Chicago's working class changed Nadine Gordimer.

"I drew the analogy between class and color," she said. "I didn't have to read about the poor working in the stockyards in I had them around me the black mine workers down the road." Although she supports black majority rule for her country and black liberation, she said she does not sufficiently live what she believes in. "In order to do so, one should live the life of a revolutionary. I often feel I'm not brave enough. "I know I'm not to live the life perhaps I should live.

But that would also involve giving up the only thing I can do, and that's writing." Her position as friend of the blacks and foe of the white regime, presents a nagging dilemma for Ms. Gordimer should a violent revolution occur in South Africa. But she said she will not flee her country. "I have a tremendous amount of trust and admiration for black South Africans," she said. "There are such tremendous people among them who have remained so sane in spite of everything that's happened there.

I just don't think there are any people like them in the world. She ponders the next question only momentarily. Does there come a time when, as a political novelist, she might be willing to lay her life on the line for what she believes in? "I don't know," she said simply. "You can only meet the test when it comes. "There are people so much braver than myself.

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