HAVANA, February 10 (Oswaldo de Céspedes, I) - Work crews composed of police and paramilitary personnel took down and confiscated home-made TV antennas in the vicinity of the airport in the outskirts of Havana yesterday.

Cubans fashion parabolic antennas out of scraps and found materials in order to watch programs emanating from other than the two government-controlled channels in the island. The authorities have engaged in a campaign to eradicate the antennas during the last few months.

Yesterday's sweep netted one dissident along with the antennas. Yosvany Aguilar Camejo, a member of the Fraternal Brothers for Dignity Movement, was watching the operation when the agent with badge number 33-07 asked him to identify himself and his reason for being there. Aguilar answered that he was simply witnessing the arbitrary confiscation of antennas, whereupon he was taken to the police unit at Reparto Capri and detained until 4:15 in the afternoon.

Said Aguilar: "The confiscations are part of the effort of the Castro regime to isolate and withhold information from the Cuban people."

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