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WORLD, Page 55TECHNOLOGYFax It To 'Em
The political revolution has discovered the fax revolution.
Overseas sympathizers of China's student movement last spring
quickly learned that the official news blackout could be
effectively penetrated through the use of facsimile machines. They
used faxes to get foreign press reports into China.
With a little help from Western publications, exiled dissidents
are again employing fax technology to send their pro-democracy
views into China. But last week authorities got the message and
ordered all work units equipped with the machines to intercept the
transmission of objectionable material.
China's exiled dissidents are not the only ones to have entered
the fax age. In South Africa the imprisoned black nationalist
leader Nelson Mandela has been allowed, as one of several new
privileges, to send and receive messages over a government fax.