11.3  THE WORLD TODAY, FROM BELARUS TO BRAZIL

 
The Open Media Research Institute (formerly known as Radio Free Europe/Radio 
Liberty) provides daily news summaries from Eastern Europe and the former 
Soviet Union.  The digests are available via e-mail.  Write to 
listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu.  Leave the "subject:" line blank, and as your 
message, write:

     subscribe omri-l your name

The Voice of America, a government broadcasting service aimed at other 
countries, provides transcripts of its English-language news reports 
through both gopher and anonymous ftp.  For the former, use gopher to 
connect to this address: 

     gopher.voa.gov

and for the latter, to this address:

     ftp.voa.gov

Daily Brazilian news updates are available (in Portuguese) from the 
University of Sao Paulo.  Use anonymous ftp to connect to 
 
     uspif.if.usp.br
 
Use cd to switch to the whois directory.  The news summaries are stored 
in files with this form: NEWS.23OCT92;1.  But to get them, leave off the 
semicolon and the 1, and don't capitalize anything, for example:
 
     get news.23oct92