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fice in Moscow by the start of the<br />
Games to expand the existing telex<br />
station.<br />
The telex network had included<br />
the Games Control Headquarters, the<br />
OCOG departments, the OTRC control<br />
centre, operations support centres in<br />
hotels and operations centres for<br />
competitions in Tallinn, Leningrad,<br />
Kiev, and Minsk.<br />
Facsimile communications were<br />
also organised between the Games<br />
Control Headquarters and operations<br />
centres for competitions in Moscow.<br />
Foreign news agencies and other<br />
media leased 45 telephone and 16<br />
telegraph channels, and 27 international<br />
telex lines, all terminating in<br />
their offices.<br />
To provide various cities of the<br />
Soviet Union with information about<br />
the Games and other events in the<br />
shortest time possible, national news-<br />
170<br />
papers were transmitted from Moscow<br />
to 40 cities using phototelegraphy.<br />
Over 35,000 messages, including<br />
21,266 from Olympic venues, were<br />
telegraphed during the Games. 11,085<br />
telexes totalling 33,981 pages had<br />
been sent, among them 5,994 telexes<br />
on 19,275 pages from the Main Press<br />
Centre and 2,651 telexes on 6,562<br />
pages from venues.<br />
80 per cent of the total of telegraph<br />
messages were sent via the<br />
Main Press Centre and the subcentre<br />
in the Rossiya Hotel. Peak loads of the<br />
message processing and telex connections<br />
in those centres were<br />
reached between 8.00 and 11.00 p.m.<br />
3,482 telex and facsimile connections<br />
with a total duration of 39,672<br />
minutes were provided to journalists<br />
for their own use; 1,355 of them were<br />
facsimile connections which lasted for<br />
a total of 13,468 minutes.<br />
Teleprinter room at the Main<br />
Press Centre
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