This volume presents the hearings on the implications of international communications and information held before the Senate Subcommittee on International Operations of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Statements taken from Otis Chandler, publisher of the "Los Angeles Times," Andrew Heiskell, chair of Time Incorporated, Glenn E. Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and other key individuals involved in the communications and information media are included. Additional witnesses discuss the current and future situation in communication with regard to media, national security, human rights, governmental actions, banking, business, and labor. An extensive study of the impact of information technologies in developing countries is included. (KS)