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new series of repatriation flights between Viet Nam and Taiwan has begun under the auspices of the ICRC. Two operations, on 31 May and 14 June, took 159 and 125 Chinese who had being living in Viet Nam to relatives in Taiwan.
A series of visits to places of detention in Indonesia began on 17 June. ICRC regional delegate for south-east Asia, Roland Duc, is accompanied by a delegate and a doctor.
Congress in Czechoslovakia: From 14 to 18 June, Maurice Aubert, member of the ICRC, and Philippe Grand d'Hauteville, regional delegate, attended the 8th Congress of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, held in Brno, the principal city of Moravia. Representatives of the National Societies of all the countries in eastern Europe were present at the congress, and the participants were received in Prague, Brno and Bratislava by leading members of the Red Cross Society.
Conference in Mogadishu: On 2 July the XIth Conference of Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Societies cpened in Mogadishu. Jacques Moreillon, Director of the Department of Principles and Law, Jean Hoefliger, Delegate General for the Middle East, and Jean-Marc Bornet, regional delegate, are taking part.
Visits to places of detention in Argentina: In June, the ICRC delegates in Buenos Aires visited a total of 303 detainees in the prisons of Rawson, La Rioja and Mendoza. The ICRC delegates are currently visiting the new prison of Caseros in the capital.
Mission to the Congo: An ICRC delegate was in the People's Republic of the Congo from 30 May to 2 June. He met the head of the Health Minister's cabinet, to whom he out- lined ICRC activities in Africa.
Zimbabwe,
Visits to places of detention in Rhodesia: Between 5 and 8 June four delegates and an ICRC doctor visited Wha Wha and Chikurubi prisons. They saw a total of 234 people detained under the Emergency Regula-
tions.
More than 6,000 people, mostly from Europe, the United States and Japan, visited the ICRC in 1978, in 170 groups. In addition there were many individual visitors. The groups came mainly from Nacional Societies, nursing schools and various educational and
other institutions.
Transfer operation east of El Arish: On 13 June, a transfer operation was carried out under the auspices of the ICRC, allowing 44 people to return to Cairo after visiting relatives in the occupied territories. 341 students from the Gaza Strip who had enrolled at the universities in Cairo were also enabled
to return to their families for their holi- days. This was the first operation east of El Arish since the town was handed back to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
In June, an ICRC/Swiss Red Cross exhibition of photographic panels and audio-visuel displays was put on in towns in German- speaking Switzerland. It was the first to be organized jointly by the ICRC and the National Society of Switzerland.
RCBS IN JULY
In July, the Red Cross Broadcasting Service will be transmitting on 7210 kHz, in the 41,60 metre band, at the following times:
Monday, July 23: in ENGLISH and FRENCH, 0600 - 0700 GMT, 1130 1230 GMT, and 1700
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1800 GMT; Wednesday, July 25: in SPANISH, GERMAN and ARABIC, at the same time.
Directional Broadcasts
ASIA and the PACIFIC
Tuesday, July 24: in ENGLISH, 0945
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1015 GMT, on 21520 kHz, 15305 kHz,
15305 kHz, 11780 kHz, 9560 kHz.
MIDDLE EAST and AFRICA
Thursday, July 26: in ENGLISH and FRENCH, 0945 1015 GMT, on
21630 kHz.
National Red Cross Societies which missed our last programme in June, of which would like to hear a part of it again, can apply to the ICRC for a tape of the programme. Please contact the Press and Information Division,
ICRC.
Topics covered in the June programme includ- ed refugees in south-east Asia, Red Cross work in Nicaragua, and action by the League of Red Cross Societies in Yugoslavia, as well as news of other Red Cross activities.
And don't forget if YOUR Red Cross society is doing something new and interesting, in fields such as health care and spreading information about the Red Cross family, tell us about it at ICRC headquarters.
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