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FBIS3-18585_0 | EU Approves Aid To Boost N. Ireland Peace Efforts | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "36 Million Pound EU Boost for North Peace Fund Over Three Years"] [Text] A 36 million pound contribution to peace efforts in the North was approved by the European Commission yesterday. The cash will go the International Fund for Ireland [IFI] over the next thre... |
FBIS3-18594_0 | Chisel Reportedly Caused Fire | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Biblis -- According to the management of the Biblis nuclear power plant in Hesse (Bergstrasse district), an approximately 12-cm-long steel chisel caused the fire at the plant on Friday [4 March]. During the assembly of the motor of one of the main cooling pumps, which was taken ... |
FBIS3-18599_0 | Bundestag Condemns Human Rights Violations in Sudan | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- On Thursday [3 March], the Bundestag discussed the horrible human rights violations in the "forgotten war" between northern and southern Sudan and condemned them unanimously. In a discussion, which was agreed on by all parliamentary groups, it was made clear that a... |
FBIS3-18606_0 | U.S. Economic `Aggressiveness' Noted | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Ugo Stille Commentary: "Clinton Gets Tough on Economy"] [Text] New York -- "For too long we have allowed the economy to be the poor relation of foreign policy. The time has come to change." This was one of the first statements made by Secretary of State Warren Christopher after Clint... |
FBIS3-18607_0 | Taxation Polemic Entering Election Campaign | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Enrico Marro report: "War Over Taxation"] [Text] Rome -- Everyone has entered the arena for the battle of the taxes that is enlivening the election campaign. On the one hand, there is [Forza Italia leader] Berlusconi, promising to have "everyone pay less," and, on the other, the prog... |
FBIS3-18613_0 | Nationalrat President Decries Turkish Arrest of Kurds | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Vienna -- In view of the actions taken by the Turkish Government against freely elected deputies, Nationalrat President Heinz Fischer suggests that the Interparliamentarian Union (IPU) deal with the arrests of the Kurdish parliamentarians. The arrest of the Kurdish Democracy Par... |
FBIS3-18614_0 | Consequences of Not Joining EU Analyzed | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "A `No' to EU Membership Would Lead to Wage Losses"] [Text] Vienna -- If the Austrian people said "no" to the European Union [EU], this would lead to a lower per-capita income in the medium term, Bernhard Felderer, head of the Institute of Higher Studies (IHS), sa... |
FBIS3-18624_0 | Spring Stresses Unionists' Role in Ireland's Future | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Jimmy Walsh report: "Spring Hoping To Allay Unionist Fears"] [Text] Tanaiste [deputy prime minister] Dick Spring hopes it will be possible to convince Northern Unionists that they have nothing to fear from working with the Government. Expressing regret at recent comments by James Mol... |
FBIS3-18625_0 | Juppe Comments Further on Iraqi Compliance | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Report by Leon Barkhu: "Paris Expects Blockade on Iraq To Be Lifted Through Compliance With Resolutions"] [Excerpt] Paris, Baghdad -- French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Wednesday [2 March] evening that Iraq has achieved "progress" by accepting the UN resolution stipulating the i... |
FBIS3-18640_0 | Parties' Positions on Income Tax Viewed | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN ["m.p." report: "Everyone Is Fighting on the Personal Income Tax Front"] [Text] Perhaps the most significant part of the parties' electoral programs are those relating to taxation. The signals of increasing intolerance of fiscal pressures, which the League has gathered and ridden in r... |
FBIS3-18670_0 | PKK Official Warns Candidates To Withdraw | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] With the approaching local elections, the colonialist Turkish regime has infinitely escalated its violent genocidal and oppressive actions. Our people cannot have the opportunity to express their free will in the elections in such an atmosphere of violence. We will not permit e... |
FBIS3-18671_0 | Government Troops Kill 30 `Terrorists' in Agri | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still of map] [Text] Thirty terrorists were killed in operations started on Agri Mountain two days ago. Five soldiers were martyred in the clashes and six soldiers were injured. During the operations, the security forces uncovered a mass grave in a cave con... |
FBIS3-18675_1 | Divisions Over Creation of N. Ireland Select Committee | the spot as it opposes the legislation. Ever since direct rule was imposed in 1972, Unionists have objected to the way Northern Ireland business is handled at Westminster without any effective monitoring by MPs. The Government had resisted a select committee for Northern Ireland, fearing it would degenerate into a sect... |
FBIS3-18679_1 | Commentary Views Use of `Super 301' on Japan | Japanese that they cannot ruin the poor but honest U.S. and European industries with dumping prices in the sphere of cars, computers, and chips! Clinton, the hero who fights for free and fair trade against Hosokawa, the sinister protectionist: "Super 301" is the miracle weapon, the bomb designed to safeguard world trad... |
FBIS3-18680_0 | Ministers Brief Bundestag on Bosnia Kinkel Calls Russian Efforts `Decisive' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by "mes": "Kinkel Praises Moscow's Influence on Serbs"] [Text] Bonn -- Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel emphasized that Russia's participation in the effort to achieve a negotiated settlement in Bosnia-Herzegovina was decisive. Russia's influence on the Serbs in the conflict is of... |
FBIS3-18684_5 | Kinkel Reviews Role of Baltic Republics | of association. We want to help these states quickly and generously to find their rightful place in Europe. As advocates of the Baltic states, we would like to see European agreements concluded with them before the end of this year. The EU would remain incomplete without the three Baltic states becoming members -- just... |
FBIS3-18686_0 | Two Kurds Sentenced for Terrorist Offenses | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Dusseldorf (DDP/ADN) -- In the marathon trial of members of the terrorist Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court today sentenced two of the four accused to life imprisonment. They were charged with attempted joint murder, several counts of joint m... |
FBIS3-18689_0 | Arms Export Regulations Discussed in Bundestag | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by "Stue": "How Can Illegal Arms Exports Be Prevented?"] [Text] Bonn, 4 Mar -- In the Federal Government's view, telephone surveillance by the Customs Criminal Investigation Office has proved an efficient tool in preventing illegal exports of defense products. The parliamentary... |
FBIS3-18700_5 | Derijcke on Foreign Development Aid Reforms | This group runs counter to the two big powers. Britain tries to sublimate its cooperation policy by a nonpolicy. Its recent adventure with the supply of arms to Malaysia is significant at this level. Finally, the French have great problems. Even for such a powerful country it is impossible to try to solve the economic ... |
FBIS3-18722_0 | CDU Pension Plan Law Revisions Assessed | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by "na": "Demographic Trends Demand More Adjustments in the Pension Law"] [Text] The Christian Democratic Union [CDU] rejects a general provision for all citizens. The draft of the new CDU basic program states that it contradicts the basic principle of making one's own provisi... |
FBIS3-18733_3 | Pasqua Forms Special Immigration Police Force | which fell from 58 percent in 1987 to 18 percent in 1993.[.sup]1[/] One solution to the difficulties considered by Place Beauvau was the merger of DICILEC with the Directorate of Public Freedoms and Legal Affairs (DLPAJ), but the plan was abandoned. Modeled after the American immigration office, the merger would have p... |
FBIS3-18754_0 | KKE Leader Warns Against NATO Actions in Balkans | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] "Our national independence is not threatened by any propaganda, even though it may falsify history, as much as it is threatened by NATO's presence and actions in the Balkans." This was stressed yesterday by KKE [Greek Communist Party] General Secretary Aleka Papariga followin... |
FBIS3-18756_0 | Additional Troops Sent to Southeast | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The approaching Nevruz [Kurdish new year] and local elections are aggravating the already existing tension. PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his organization to turn the region into a hell on the eve of the elections. The Turkish Armed Forces are ... |
FBIS3-18757_0 | PKK Radio Reports Clashes With Turkish Army | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [News Headlines] [Text] 1. The operation launched by the colonialist enemy forces in Kabar was thwarted by our [words indistinct] army ARGK [People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan]. Some 11 enemy soldiers were killed and 45 were injured gravely. 2. The oil pipeline between Idil-Cizre w... |
FBIS3-18758_0 | Oil Pipelines Bombed to Halt `Pillaging' | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] On 4 March our People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan [ARGK] forces once again bombed the BOTAS [Turkish pipelines company] oil pipeline between Idil-Cizre. It was learned that the fire that resulted from the bombing is still raging and the enemy's economy has suffered a major l... |
FBIS3-18776_1 | EU Condemns U.S. Reintroduction of `Super 301' | Database] [Text] Brussels, 7 Mar (BELGA) -- On Monday [7 March], Belgium and France urged their partners in the European Union (EU) to go to Marrakech, where the final agreement concluding the Uruguay Round is to be signed in April, armed with a draft joint declaration stressing the importance of the environment and so... |
FBIS3-18779_1 | Meeting of EU, Hungary Association Council | in their relations, but also as a practical step towards achieving the goals set out in the agreement including, ultimately, the common goal of Hungary's future membership of the Union which guides the co-operation between the parties. The Association Council welcomed the entry into force of the treaty on European Unio... |
FBIS3-18780_0 | EU-ASEAN Committee Calls For Better Trade Links | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "EU/ASEAN: Cooperation Committee Seeks Better Trade Links"; as released by Brussels Euroscope EIS Database] [Text] An appeal for stronger and more diverse links between the European Union [EU] and the six-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a... |
FBIS3-18797_0 | Kinkel: Arrests in China May `Disturb' Relations | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- On Tuesday [8 March] FRG Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel (Free Democratic Party of Germany) expressed concern about the wave of arrests in China. He called on the government in Beijing to release the representatives of the democracy movement, as the Foreign Ministry ... |
FBIS3-18798_0 | PKK Not Banned Because of Turkish Pressure | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- Before the ban of the Workers Party of Kurdistan, PKK, the Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA) did not request any information or documents on PKK associations from the Turkish Directorate General of Security. Nor was there a promise to Turkey to put an... |
FBIS3-18805_0 | Economics Ministry Wants Lower Wages for Certain Jobs | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- The FRG Economics Ministry is in favor of clearly reducing wages for relatively unskilled work and improving them with subsidies from unemployment insurance or other social benefits. This proposal was made by Economics State Secretary Johannes Eekhoff in Bonn on Tu... |
FBIS3-18839_0 | Authorities Expect Political Violence To Increase | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Peter Scherer report: "Office for the Protection of the Constitution Fears Political Murders"] [Text] Berlin -- The Berlin security authorities are preparing for a "hot and bloody" spring. According to a confidential analysis of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, an es... |
FBIS3-18845_1 | Budget Minister Explains Position on Taxation | -- which aims to introduce a single 30 percent income tax rate. "At present tax rates of up to 30 percent of taxable income apply to 95 percent of taxpayers," Spaventa said, "while higher rates apply to only the remaining 5 percent. If the aim were, by means of a number of allowances, to maintain the present tax burden... |
FBIS3-18847_2 | Forza Italia Economist Justifies Program | that of other investments." And yet, Bertinotti's idea has raised ferocious opposition in the "pole of freedoms," a war on the communists who wish to annihilate government securities. "No, not from me. And then, if one looks behind all the various positions, the absurd fact is this: In Italy, two citizens enjoying the ... |
FBIS3-18856_0 | * Russian Official Sees Refugee Tide * Warns Nordics, Germany | Language: Danish Article Type:CSO [Article by Flemming Rose: "Big Migration Threatens Scandinavia"] [Text] Russia is anticipating 8 million refugees from the former Soviet republics. These millions of refugees will pose a far greater threat to Scandinavia than asylum-seekers from Africa or Southeast Asia who try to get... |
FBIS3-18857_0 | * Russian Official Sees Refugee Tide * Danish Justice Minister Comments | Language: Danish Article Type:CSO [Article by Bent Winther: "Minister: Barricading Europe No Solution"] [Text] Pressure from large numbers of people from the former Soviet Union could become very dramatic. The solution is to help them at home, according to Justice Minister Erling Olsen (Social Democrat). Justice Minist... |
FBIS3-18912_0 | Minister Wants Suriname Aid To Bypass Government | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Pronk Wants More Aid To Bypass Surinamese Cabinet"] [Text] Amsterdam -- Minister of Development Cooperation Pronk wants the development treaty between the Netherlands and Suriname to be changed. The continuing bad policies of the Surinamese Government are the cau... |
FBIS3-18924_0 | Poland To Apply for `Partial' EU Membership | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Poland: Mr. Olechowski Will Recommend a Request for `Partial Membership' When Hungary Applies"; as released by Brussels TEXTLINE database] [Text] The Foreign Minister of Poland, Andrzej Olechowski, has announced his intention to recommend that his government su... |
FBIS3-18942_0 | Argentine Minister Urges German Investment | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with Argentine Economics Minister Domingo Cavallo by "bag": "Buenos Aires Is Waiting for Hermes Relief"] [Text] Bonn -- Until now, German investors "have shown only a mild interest in our country," Argentina's Economics Minister Domingo Cavallo said. The Spanish, I... |
FBIS3-18946_0 | Saxony Interior Minister Reports on Political Extremism | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["afk"-signed report: "Right-Wing Extremists Move Closer Together in Saxony"] [Text] Dresden, 8 March -- In Saxony, there is evidence of links between the neo-Nazi scene and the Republikaner, as well as between the German People's Union (DVU) and the National Democratic Party (NPD). Th... |
FBIS3-18946_1 | Saxony Interior Minister Reports on Political Extremism | report, functionaries and members of the National Offensive and German Alternative in the meantime have become members of the DVU and the NPD. The former functionaries of extreme right-wing parties also have established links with new circles. An employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution reported on... |
FBIS3-18947_0 | High Potential for Right-Wing Violence | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "kat./les": "New Dimension of Violence"] [Excerpts] Magdeburg/Dresden -- Extremism in the new laender is increasing. The Land Office for the Protection of the Constitution said that the potential for extreme-right violence is "alarmingly high" in Saxony-Anhalt. Last year... |
FBIS3-18954_4 | PR Spokesman Cautious on Use of Primaries | already is a kind of primary. This would usher in another kind of logic. If we want to continue down this road, we also need to confront the issue of the first round in parliamentary elections. Because in a way, the notion of "primaries" calls into question the principle of selecting the president of the Republic in a ... |
FBIS3-18967_0 | PKK Reportedly Vows to Escalate `Violence' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Diyarbakir/Ankara--Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) [Workers Party of Kurdistan], has vowed to upgrade violence in Turkey's Southeast in mid-March and said the region "will turn into hell." According to a reliable source with well-place... |
FBIS3-18971_0 | UNCHR Rejects Resolution on PRC Human Rights | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed SM/VF: "Human Rights Situation in China: The Commission Decides `Not To Adjudge'"; as released by Bern ATSA/SDAA database] [Text] Geneva, 9 Mar (ATS) -- The UN Human Rights Commission decided on Wednesday [9 March], with 20 votes for, 16 against, and 17 abstentions, not... |
FBIS3-18972_2 | Kinkel Addresses Bundestag on EU Expansion Issues | Gentlemen, the acceptance of the three Nordic countries and of Austria into the European Union is an essential step on the path toward reestablishing the balance in Europe. The Federal Government has never identified itself with the concept of a western or southwestern union. It has always committed itself to the entir... |
FBIS3-18988_0 | OECD Head Views Unemployment, Upcoming Detroit Summit | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with OECD Secretary General Jean-Claude Paye by Ruth Berschens; place and date not given: "Increase in Value-Added Tax"] [Text] [Berschens] Mr. Paye, the economics and finance ministers of the seven most important industrialized states will meet in Detroit next weekend to di... |
FBIS3-18998_0 | Heathrow Attack `Eloquent' Response to Peace Efforts | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The IRA's Answer"] [Text] Last night's mortar attack on Heathrow airport was the most eloquent response that the IRA is likely to make to the peace initiative launched with the Anglo-Irish declaration. The five mortars, apparently aimed from a vehicle in a hotel car park ... |
FBIS3-19017_0 | Visiting UN Official on Violations of Serbian Embargo | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Richardt Vork, head of the customs investigation troop "Sanctions Assistance Mission" is responsible for the UN embargo against Serbia, by unidentified correspondent in Vienna; date not given: "Mafia-Like Structures"] [Text] [Correspondent] Your international investigat... |
FBIS3-19019_5 | Serbian Business Activity Detailed | Job Dusan Petrovic is in Vienna at precisely this bank. The head of the information office of Beogradska Banka laments about his sad job: "In 1990 our bank alone opened credit lines of 30 billion shillings at Creditanstalt in Vienna. Today there is not a single schilling moving anymore." In February 1993 the 62-year-ol... |
FBIS3-19028_0 | Further Commentary on 9 Mar Heathrow Attack Bombing Coincides With Political Activity | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Robert Shrimsley: "Alert Comes as Committee on Ulster Is Voted In"] [Text] Last night's attack coincided with the start of 24 hours of significant political activity on the future governance of the Province. Not only did it take place during a debate on the renewal of the P... |
FBIS3-19039_1 | Visiting Human Rights Activist Notes Oppression in Kosovo | close down is not regarded as a coincidence by Adem Demaci. Belgrade is systematically "Serbianizing" the Albanian province of Kosovo. Writer Adem Demaci considers the fact that deaf-mutes are now living in the building where the freedom of the Albanian word used to be fought for as "cynicism, a way of humiliating the ... |
FBIS3-19042_2 | Commentaries View U.S.-China Relations, Issues Arrest of Dissidents | divided. This conclusion can be drawn from the present to-and-fro regarding arrests, releases, statements, and denials. While party leaders who are prepared for reforms are in favor of releasing selected dissidents and other gestures of goodwill, the conservatives take action against dissidents. However, the behavior o... |
FBIS3-19047_0 | RPR-UDF Joint EU Election Platform Summarized | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Report by Eric Zemmour: "Majority: Deniau (Probably) Head of List"] [Text] A four-part plan for two parties, and a few taboos. In the European plan which the RPR [Rally for the Republic] and UDF [Union for French Democracy] unanimously adopted yesterday, some words are prohibited: Maa... |
FBIS3-19050_1 | `Failure' in EU Negotiations Criticized | regard to the decisionmaking process in the expanded Union. The latter threatens to endanger the current timetable, in other words, to postpone enlargement beyond the planned date of 1 January 1995. The British and the Spanish, intent on a better protection of their national interests, want a blocking minority that can... |
FBIS3-19075_0 | Demirel, Kohl Discuss Reaction to Lifting Immunity | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still photographs of President Demirel and German Chancellor Kohl] [Text] President Suleyman Demirel has said that even sympathizing with the separatist terrorist organization means indirect support. Therefore, he added, western countries must be careful ab... |
FBIS3-19076_0 | DEP Candidate Among Nine PKK Captured in Ankara | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Nine members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorist organization, among them a Democracy Party [DEP] candidate for the Adana mayorship, were captured in Ankara. Among the captured is also the organization's responsible for the provi... |
FBIS3-19078_0 | Meeting on Operation `Provide Comfort' Ends | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Mar. 10 (A.A.) -- The four-way meeting between Turkey, France, Britain and the United States on the multinational force concluded here today. A statement after the four-and-one-half-hour meeting said that the officials from the four countries reviewed the implementation... |
FBIS3-19080_0 | UK Demands Obstruct Adoption of EU Expansion Treaty | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Christopher Lockwood report: "Hurd Votes Row Threatens To Sink EC Treaty"] [Text] Strasbourg -- Euro-MPs [Members of the European Parliament] from all parties threatened yesterday to block a treaty expanding the EC from 12 members to 16 if British demands to preserve its power to blo... |
FBIS3-19095_1 | UN Official on Italian Involvement in Somalia | part in a convention on UN reforming. True, the countries already involved in operations in the former Yugoslavia are saying that they already have done enough. Unless we find another solution fairly quickly, in the end we may have to drop that rule which so far has excluded Italy, Austria, and Turkey. This possibility... |
FBIS3-19097_0 | EP Condemns Arrest of Kurdish Parliamentarians | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed RHR: "European Parliament Comes To Aid of Kurdish Parliamentarians Detained in Turkey"; as released by Brussels BELGA Database] [Text] Strasbourg, 10 Mar (BELGA) -- The European Parliament (EP) denounced Thursday [10 March] the arrest of Kurdish Parliamentarians in Turk... |
FBIS3-19100_0 | Industry Leader on Inequality in British Society | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Larry Elliott article: "CBI Attack on Unequal Britain"] [Text] Howard Davies the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry [CBI], called on the Government and employers last night to face up to the consequences of deep-seated economic changes that had transformed Brit... |
FBIS3-19117_0 | Lubbers Views Eastern Integration, The Hague's Role | Language: Czech Article Type:BFN [Interview with Netherlands Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers by Vladimir Plesnik in The Hague on 3 March: "East Europe Is Transforming Itself and the West"] [Text] Netherlands Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers (55) granted an interview to Czech reporters in The Hague on 3 March. Prior to the visit... |
FBIS3-19124_0 | Britain To Review Nuclear Waste Disposal | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Charles Clover: "Nuclear Waste Review Likely To Delay Sell-off"] [Text] Plans for disposing of nuclear waste, much of it in temporary storage at sites around Britain, are to be reviewed, possibly delaying privatisation of the nuclear power industry. The plans were strongly ... |
FBIS3-19131_0 | Berlin Terrorist Group Announces New Attacks | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Kreuzberg: Danger of New Attacks"] [Text] Berlin -- In an anonymous letter sent to BERLINER ZEITUNG, the Kreuzberg terrorist group "Class Against Class" has announced new attacks. Several shops were mentioned by name. The group, which has already committed severa... |
FBIS3-19135_3 | Rexrodt Discusses Economic Trends | the kind of approach that we use. It is a mistake to pretend that the state can decide what kind of research should or should not be pursued. It can do that in its basic research institutions and universities, but not in industry. The end result is like the Kalkar plant, a disaster. Billions have gone into microelectro... |
FBIS3-19141_0 | Cofmmentary on U.S.-Russian Foreign Policy Competition | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Fritz Wirth commentary: "At the Mercy of Others and Partners"] [Text] The ice-cold diplomatic shower to which the Chinese subjected U.S. Secretary of State Christopher was not necessary to make it clear that U.S. foreign policy missions no longer have the aura of being dominating visi... |
FBIS3-19163_0 | Opposition Voiced to Turkish Participation in Bosnia | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [From the "Views" column: "Disastrous Mistake"] [Text] It would be a disastrous mistake by the international community to decide to dispatch Turkish troops as Blue Helmets [UN forces] to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Enough mistakes have been committed thus far, the primary mistake being the brea... |
FBIS3-19167_0 | DEP Launches Diplomatic Initiative in Europe | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Hakan Akpinar and Kadir Ercan: "They Went To Appeal to Mitterrand"] [Text] Ankara--The Democracy Party [DEP] has launched a diplomatic initiative in Europe after six of its deputies, including party leader Hatip Dicle, were placed in custody. Sedat Yurtdas and Mehdi Zana, D... |
FBIS3-19172_0 | Tuzla Train Station Bombers Captured | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] The members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terror organization who bombed the Tuzla train station in Istanbul, killing five noncommissioned officers and injuring 36, have been captured. Cumali Karsu, one of the terrorists who placed t... |
FBIS3-19193_0 | Kurds Hold International Conference in Brussels | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Brussels, March 13 (A.A) -- The "international Kurdish conference" held here for two days, with doubts that it produced the expected results for its organizers. The biggest disillusion of separatists who organized the meeting was the fact that the Turkish society living in B... |
FBIS3-19208_0 | Commentary on U.S. Report | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Hans Rauscher: "Waldheim Affair: Seven Years Later -- Nothing New"] [Text] "U.S. Report Links Waldheim With Atrocities" -- this is the headline in THE WASHINGTON POST. The secret report by the U.S. Justice Department, which was the basis for putting the then Austrian pre... |
FBIS3-19210_3 | UN Calls For Rationalization of World Fishing Industry | More than 25 percent of all fish consumed in the EU are caught by EU-registered boats fishing in unpoliced Third World waters." Uncontrolled fishing by foreign fleets off Sierra Leone has led to a serious decline in the catch of traditional fishermen, who supply 75 percent of their country's consumption of animal prote... |
FBIS3-19227_0 | Iraq Seeks Medical, Humanitarian Assistance | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Georgina Higueras] [Text] Iraq's dramatic situation has led its government to approach certain "friendly countries" to supply it with food and medical supplies. The bill would be paid at the end of the embargo decreed by the United Nations after the invasion of Kuwait on 2... |
FBIS3-19245_0 | Subsidiarity Questioned on Western Border | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by Dieter Wenz: "People of Baden, Swabians, and the Rhine Boundary--The `Europe of Regions' Is an Icon"] [Text] Freiburg, Feb -- Everybody talks about Europe and hardly anyone knows exactly what he is talking about. This is even the case along the Rhine between eastern France ... |
FBIS3-19256_0 | Theorist Says Long-Term Growth Cycle Missed | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by Erik Haendeler: "Germany Has Missed the Boat; Thoughts on Kondratieff's Theory of Long Economic Cycles"] [Text] Munich, 20 Feb--Anyone who believes we merely need to wait for the next upswing in order to deal with the economic crisis will have a long wait. Germany will not ... |
FBIS3-19258_0 | Papers View U.S.-China Relations, Human Rights Human Rights Situation | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Henrik Bork report: "China Presents Dissidents Like Pandas in the Zoo"] [Text] Beijing -- He was arrested, sentenced, and forgotten. However, all of a sudden, China's rulers found Liu Gang, the 38-year-old former activist of the 1989 students' protests, useful to a certain extent agai... |
FBIS3-19262_1 | Papers View U.S.-China Relations, Human Rights U.S. Concern Over European Competition | diplomat broached in Beijing. In fact, however, this is not true. By publicly insisting on the observance of international norms also in dealing with dissidents, the U.S. secretary of state mainly had an eye on his own audience in Washington. Congress and the Senate have linked trade and customs preferences via the mos... |
FBIS3-19264_2 | Intelligence Service-Arms Industry Relations Viewed | with his American counterparts on a different basis. Although the documents, some of which had been doctored from what were initially authentic elements, did not emanate from the DGSE directly, everything led French agents to believe that the sending of the material to American interlocutors was the work of industrial ... |
FBIS3-19266_1 | * U.S. Trade Law Reactivation Seen `Inopportune' | President Clinton exhumed by reestablishing on 3 March and for a two-year duration the dispositions of the trade law called "Super 301" with a view to reducing the gigantic Japanese trade surplus with the United States. Applied for the first time between 1988 and 1990 to force Washington's trade partners to open their ... |
FBIS3-19272_0 | Trade Ministry Report Cites EU Membership Advantages | Language: Finnish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] According to studies commissioned by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the advantages of Finnish membership in the European Union [EU] would outweigh the disadvantages. A strengthening of the Finnish economy is mentioned as an advantage of EU membership, while the adaptat... |
FBIS3-19278_1 | Ankara Views Possibility of Turkish Troops in Bosnia | to information available at the Foreign Ministry and the National Defense Ministry, the United Nations will accept the Turkish proposal for the dispatch of Turkish troops as Blue Helmets [UN forces] in Bosnia. Referring to this possibility, Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias said yesterday that a new situation is devel... |
FBIS3-19279_0 | Iraqi Ambassador Calls For Lifting Embargo | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Mar. 11 (A.A.) -- Iraqi Ambassador to Turkey Raf i'Dahham Mujjawil al-Tikriti said Friday [11 March] that Iraq has abided by the conditions to lift the economic embargo imposed by the United Nations (UN) after the Gulf war. "However," he said, "the United Nations has fa... |
FBIS3-19280_0 | PKK's Ocalan Proposes Cease-Fire, Talks | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] The Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] leader Abdullah Ocalan has proposed to the Turkish Government a cease-fire by both parties and the start of a dialogue to peacefully resolve the Kurdish issue in Turkey. According to reports, Ocalan declared that the PKK is prepared to accept... |
FBIS3-19281_0 | Cetin: Accident Shows Straits `Great Danger' | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin has declared that the request to use the Turkish straits as an oil route poses a great danger to Istanbul -- with its population of 10 million -- and the accident that occurred last night has once again demonstrat... |
FBIS3-19282_0 | Mentese Warns Against Nevruz Provocations | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has stated that Nevruz will be celebrated freely throughout the country on 21 March but that nobody will be allowed to use it as a tool for provocation. Answering reporters' questions in Ankara, Mentese said tha... |
FBIS3-19283_0 | * Possible Prosperity Party Government Scenario | Language: Turkish Article Type:CSO [Text] Prosperity Party [RP] General Chairman Necmettin Erbakan, in Adil Ekonomik Duzen [Just Economic Order], the book he wrote in 1991, proposed "miraculous prescriptions" in explaining the economic system they would use if they assumed power. He included solutions peculiar to socia... |
FBIS3-19295_1 | Summit on Iraq; Oxman's `Inflexibility' Viewed | from the Karkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline, saying that that would breach the embargo. Oxman was informed that Ozdem Sanberk, under secretary of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will visit Baghdad to hold talks with Iraqi officials on the issue. The Turkish side informed the U.S., French, and British officials of the ... |
FBIS3-19297_0 | PKK's Ocalan Proposes Cease-Fire at Brussels Conference | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Brussels--Speaking during the international conference on the Kurdish problem in Brussels, Kani Yilmaz, Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] representative in Europe, criticized the West's approach to the Kurdish problem in a threatening tone. Yilmaz attacked European countries... |
FBIS3-19316_0 | Study Profiles Average Election Candidate | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Average Candidate Is Well-Off Professional, Says Censis"] [Text] Rome, 14 Mar (ANSA) -- The average candidate in the race for the Lower House or Senate which will be voted in March 27 and 28, in Italy's first general election with a mainly majority voting syste... |
FBIS3-19323_0 | OeMV Plans Projects With Iran, Turkey, Libya | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Hans V. Haumer: "OeMV: Great Prospects, High Risks"] [Text] Vienna -- Within the framework of international consortia, the OeMV [Austrian Petroleum Corporation] currently is examining two projects that might yield much but which are, at the same time, fraught with high polit... |
FBIS3-19329_3 | High Cost of Scrapping GDR War Materiel Noted | while trucks were even sold to Vietnam and Ecuador. Experts suspect that, via dealers, stocks even reached the international arms trade -- thus reaching conflict areas such as Bosnia. According to former Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling (CDU) [Christian Democratic Union], the civil-war-stricken area in the Balkans ... |
FBIS3-19342_1 | Industry Minister on Trip to Japan, Trade Prospects | overcome the initial barrier and are now developing everyday trading relations. [LE FIGARO] Do you have the feeling that this country is opening up its market to a greater extent? [Longuet] My visit came at a time when Japan is experiencing a political upheaval while another upheaval, an economic one, is looming on the... |
FBIS3-19372_3 | PKK Viewed as U.S. `Best Friend' in Region | and Iraq's help to contain Iran. The Shiite opposition groups in Iraq, like al-Da'wah, are Iranian time-bombs that can go off if Iraq gets too weak. So Iraq cannot be "over contained." But, again, if the power balance gets tilted too much against Tehran, then radical factions like Hezbollah would get a blank check for ... |
FBIS3-19372_4 | PKK Viewed as U.S. `Best Friend' in Region | embargo hurts Ankara more than it does Baghdad. Both Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and Deputy Prime Minister Murat Karayalcin in their recent visits to Washington made it clear that, if it were up to Turkey, it would be back to business as usual with Iraq, and that is, of course, not the best way to contain anybody. The ... |
FBIS3-19376_1 | `Liberal Movement' Launched; Leader Comments | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) should be separated from the Kurdish problem, the movement's principles urge active struggle against terrorism and complete observance of human rights. Kabatepe said that the Kurdish issue could be solved through "national consensus." Stressing that the terrorists should be treated the wa... |
FBIS3-19384_0 | Turkes Says PKK Linked With ASALA | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Malatya, March 15 (A.A) -- National Action Party leader Alparslan Turkes said today that the separatist terror organization PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] was collaborating with Armenian terror organization ASALA [Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia]. Speaking ... |
FBIS3-19394_0 | FYROM Leader Speaks on European Integration | Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Nevenka Mitrevska report: "Europe Must Not By-Pass the Balkans"] [Text] Bonn, 15 Mar -- "The Balkans today is a European anachronism, burdened with the consequences of postcommunism, with the war problem in the region, but also with repetitions of the Cold War. A part of the relat... |
FBIS3-19400_2 | Study Sees Right Extremism More Rooted in West | which is greater in eastern Germany, he believes. In the opinion of two Bielefeld sociologists there is no scientific proof for Nehm's statement. Youth researcher Klaus Hurrelmann says that the east-to-west spillover thesis is simply "bizarre and historically incorrect. If anything did spill over," Hurrelmann says, "th... |
FBIS3-19444_0 | Demirel Rules Out Dialogue With PKK | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Mustafa Kinali: "No Bargaining Talks"] [Text] President Suleyman Demirel, who remained in Istanbul during the religious festival, has responded to Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] leader Abdullah Ocalan's latest call for a conditional cease-fire agreement by saying that "th... |
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