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- WORLD, Page 55TECHNOLOGYFax It To 'Em
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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