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FBIS3-39505_0 | Incidents of Left-Wing Violence Increasing | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Left-Wing Violence on the Increase"] [Text] Right-wing and left-wing extremists are moving closer together as far as violence is concerned. Preliminary 1993 figures by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution indicate that there were some 1,100 a... |
FBIS3-39510_1 | Claes' Aide: NATO Enlargement No Guarantee for Stability | cultural organization, which means that only the latter reason is valid. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Strobe Talbott assumes that stability in Europe will de determined by developments in Russia. I believe he is right in his assumption. We must take full account of Moscow. We must know what the Russians are thinki... |
FBIS3-39518_5 | Paper Comments on PDS Government Program | clear in their principles and plans -- in order to start practicing the principles of the market and fair competition in politics too. Nobody would dream of suggesting that the PDS' program is a kind of cure-all for the country's problems. Indeed, it includes some proposals that seem still ill-defined or unsupported by... |
FBIS3-39521_0 | * Social Security Costs Seen Ballooning | Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Article by Carla Aguiar: "The End of Social Distribution"] [Editorial Report] The very foundations of social security are threatened by an earthquake of gigantic dimensions called "aging." The social security financing system presently rests on the contributions of 3.5 active citi... |
FBIS3-39526_2 | Banks' Possible Connections With Serbia Viewed | named. For example, a Serbian private company in Cyprus might pay for an oil shipment stocked in Greece to go to Hungary. Hence, no deal is done with Serbia, but, at the same time, no one can check that the shipment really went to Hungary, and was not diverted to Serbia or Montenegro, the diplomat explained. "We cannot... |
FBIS3-39534_0 | Priests Lead `Tens of Thousands' in U.S. Consulate Protest | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Salonika, Greece, Feb 15 (AFP)--Eggs were hurled at the U.S. consulate here whose shutters stayed closed as tens of thousands of demonstrators protested Tuesday [15 February] against Washington's recognition of Macedonia. Led by Greek Orthodox priests, they gathered at the chur... |
FBIS3-39551_0 | GATT Report Expresses Concern Over U.S. `Unilateralism' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Geneva, Feb 18 (AFP) -- Many of the contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have expressed concern at what they say is the contradictory "unilateralism" in U.S. trade policy, a GATT report disclosed here Thursday [17 February]. The document, dra... |
FBIS3-39567_0 | Mayhew Maintains Efforts for Peace in Ulster | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Michael Cassell in Belfast, Tim Coone in Dublin and David Owen in London: "Mayhew Maintains Diplomatic Efforts To Find Ulster Peace"] [Text] Sir Patrick Mayhew, Northern Ireland secretary, yesterday employed further delicate diplomacy to maintain British government efforts ... |
FBIS3-39568_1 | Ulster Political Leaders Comment on Peace Process | point to a long and tortuous process with success far from assured. The words with which the Reverend Ian Paisley greeted the announcement by the then Northern Ireland secretary Mr Peter Brooke in March 1991 that a basis for formal political talks existed still seem apposite. "The gate into the field has been opened," ... |
FBIS3-39570_2 | GCHQ Cuts May Damage `Special Relationship' | of trimming the GCHQ operation. Their rivals in the intelligence services say that this is because the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] -- itself under the Treasury cosh -- hopes to become the beneficiary of any cuts in the intelligence services, by being allowed to keep more funds. Since it is common knowledge th... |
FBIS3-39578_0 | Waigel Justifies Wage, Income Taxes, Transfers to East | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- FRG Finance Minister Theo Waigel (Christian Social Union -- CSU) sees neither a "gap of justice" in the present wage and income tax scale nor in the state financing of Germany unity through austerity measures and the solidarity contribution. In a letter to the Chri... |
FBIS3-39579_7 | Socialist Party Leader on Bosnia, Social Democracy | -- must assume their responsibilities. We are emerging from a 70-year struggle between Communism and the free world. The side of freedom won because it brought together all those people for whom democracy was truly meaningful, and also because it had the most formidable of weapons: economic efficiency. This victory had... |
FBIS3-39579_8 | Socialist Party Leader on Bosnia, Social Democracy | matter for the market, but for rules. Giving everyone equal opportunities, protecting the environment, providing education, promoting basic research, and ensuring social protection and everyone's right to health are all functions which the market cannot assume. Look at the United States and Great Britain: Both countrie... |
FBIS3-39579_12 | Socialist Party Leader on Bosnia, Social Democracy | could be defined thus: rights of man, a high standard of living, and social security. We alone have been able to create and defend these three things. [Daniel] It is meritorious, but can it still be saved? [Rocard] Preserving a high level of protection against countries that practice social dumping requires flexibility... |
FBIS3-39591_0 | Church Modifies Stand on Employment | Language: Italian Article Type:CSO [Article by Mario Monti: "True Solidarity"] [Text] At a time when there are cries and recriminations on the unemployment problem, an "Informative Note on The Problems of Employment and Development," distrisbuted yesterday by the Office of Social Problems and Labor of the Italian Episc... |
FBIS3-39591_3 | Church Modifies Stand on Employment | those who take part in it because they do not realize that they are hurting those who are even weaker--the unemployed. These are individuals, and particularly young people, that will not be able to find work because the economy allocates resources to dead-end projects rather than the creation of productive jobs. Social... |
FBIS3-39613_0 | Aid Groups in Bosnia Urged To `Review' Position | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Chris Moncrieff, PRESS ASSOCIATION political editor] [Text] Aid organisations were today urged to review the position of any British or international staff in Bosnia as the NATO deadline on air strikes approaches. The Government request was seen by MP's as a suggestion that aid gr... |
FBIS3-39623_1 | * Report Details Economic Weaknesses | the medium term. The scenario is no more encouraging for metallurgy, armaments, telecommunications, and machine tools, given increasing competitiveness. In addition, the horizon is clearly unfavorable for data processing equipment, cereals, organic chemistry, base minerals, optics, and photography. On the basis of indi... |
FBIS3-39639_2 | Spokesman Comments on Opening of Proximity Talks | The spokesman mentioned that our side raised various issues on the opening of Nicosia Airport, always keeping in mind the UN secretary general's four prerequisites. It also discussed with the UN envoys some of its positions on Butrus-Ghali's first document, which refers to 14 confidence-building measures. Kasoulidhis s... |
FBIS3-39649_36 | Kohl Pledges To Maintain Logistical Support in Bosnia | about weariness, disenchantment with political parties. It is a general weariness. There are people leaving political parties. Trade unions are losing many more members than for instance the CDU. Employers keep quiet and do not talk about the wave of people leaving. There is talk about the churches, the figures have be... |
FBIS3-39653_0 | PKK Leader Calls For Readiness Against Escalation | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [First of three installments on interview with Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan, PKK, by Huseyin Gul; place and date not given] [Text] KURD-A/Botan-- [Gul] The clashes never stopped this winter. The state forces are launching daily air and ground operations. W... |
FBIS3-39654_0 | Southeastern Situation Viewed on Election Eve | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Article by Sinan Yilmaz] [Text] Ankara -- Turkey will enter into an important phase in March. The important period that begins with the Ramadan Feast of the Muslims, will continue with the Newroz Feast of the Kurds and will finally end with the March 27 local elections which will eff... |
FBIS3-39654_8 | Southeastern Situation Viewed on Election Eve | alleged to have combed the town at random and one child was allegedly wounded in the operation. The tension continued in the following days. On Jan. 27, village guards and security forces staged a march. After police had instructed tradesmen in Cizre to hang Turkish flags on their shops otherwise they would be asked to... |
FBIS3-39657_0 | Ankara `Disturbed' by Kazakh Oil Transportation | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Tension persists among Turkey, Russia, and Kazakhstan on transporting oil. Ankara was disturbed, because it has now become clear that Kazakhstan's oil will be transported to the Black Sea through Russia. Now attention has been riveted on the status of the Straits. [Begin Fatih ... |
FBIS3-39665_3 | Craxi Accuses PDS Leadership of Dishonesty | matters up in a few months, but meanwhile there is a tragic economic balance sheet. The talk is of everything but employment, bankruptcies, shutdowns. This is what happens when violence is used. Things can only get worse, because you reap what you sow. I hear no talk of the real problems in this media-dominated world; ... |
FBIS3-39676_0 | Ancram: Irish Peace, Political Settlement `Linked' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Patrick Wintour and Owen Bowcott: "IRA Response `Key to Peace in Ulster'"] [Text] A political settlement in Northern Ireland will be difficult if the IRA does not accept the Downing Street Declaration, a Northern Ireland Office minister has admitted. Ministers have insisted... |
FBIS3-39693_0 | Jewish Group Calls For Prosecuting Right-Wing Extremists | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bad Boll (DPA) -- In the view of Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, violent right-wing extremist organizations should be prosecuted as criminal associations. At a meeting of the Protestant Academy in Bad Boll, Bubis said on Sunday [20 February]: "T... |
FBIS3-39694_0 | Police, Demonstrators Clash at Republikaner Congress | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Ulm (DPA) -- There were riots at the Baden-Wuerttemberg land party congress of the right-wing radical Republikaner in Ulm on Sunday [20 February]. Around noon, a few hundred demonstrators, who had at first participated in a peaceful rally against the Republikaner, tried to break... |
FBIS3-39745_2 | Reynolds on Northern Ireland Talks With Major | the declaration." Mr. Reynolds quashed hopes that the Sinn Fein annual conference next weekend would deliver a response to the Downing St. declaration, saying: "I never expected that forum to be the forum at which the response would be put together." But he hoped sufficient people would recognise that the road to peace... |
FBIS3-39751_16 | Kohl Addresses Businessmen on Development, Programs | legislative period additional pending measures recommended in the Report on Safeguarding Germany as an Industrial Location in the Future. This includes conclusion of the postal reform, in order to strengthen our competitive position in the telecommunications markets, which are growing with enormous speed all over the w... |
FBIS3-39799_1 | Kinkel Praises Russia for Bosnian Initiative | to the "seriousness of the NATO ultimatum," the "initiative" of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Washington's "more intensive involvement." In an interview with WELT AM SONNTAG, Kinkel stressed that the Serbs' giving in is "a great success for NATO. I am sure that the Serbian besiegers of Sarajevo would not have re... |
FBIS3-39805_0 | U.S., Eurpoeans Set for `Showdown' Over Top OECD Job | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Jan Kristiansen] [Text] Paris, Feb 21 (AFP) -- The United States no longer wants a European to head the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is set to assume wider tasks in a changing world economy with Asians and Latin Americas among the major playe... |
FBIS3-39805_2 | U.S., Eurpoeans Set for `Showdown' Over Top OECD Job | helm to raise its world-wide visibility. Others believe their purposes will be better served by a non-political chief executive seeking to defend the collective cause of its 24 members. They want to preserve its "impartial analysis" of the whole range of current economic, social and technological problems. Well-placed ... |
FBIS3-39815_2 | Stresses Need for EU Membership | respect. If you read the transportation concept of the European Union today, you have the ecological criteria anchored in a way that would have been ridiculed eight years ago. [KURIER] The negotiations must be concluded by 1 March. There will not be any additional negotiations. We will not go beyond the diet elections ... |
FBIS3-39858_6 | Ciller Advocates Croat-Bosniak Alliance | in Bosnia-Herzegovina over n the past two years with great concern, and I would like to point out that some 4 million Turks are of Bosnian origin and still have relatives and close family ties in Bosnia-Herzegovina. What is happening in Bosnia is not a civil war, as the Serbs are trying to present it; rather, it is ope... |
FBIS3-39867_2 | DEP Claims Government Crackdown Before Elections | general-secretary, Murat Bozlak was shot in Ankara. At least 50 DEP-affiliated activists, including a parliamentarian from Mardin, have been killed since 1991. The DEP believes the reason behind the recent campaign is to block its candidates and terrorize the people of the Southeast to prevent them from voting for this... |
FBIS3-39881_1 | Commentary Views Prospects of EU Expansion | the North for the South. It is France and the Mediterranean countries that are keeping up the flag of integration, and it would be unfair to surmise that they were only interested in political or economic net balances. "Deepening (the Community) before (its) enlargement," is the motto, with which Commission President J... |
FBIS3-39883_6 | Kohl Addresses Christian Democratic Union Conference | reluctant to make commitments, and this is naturally being reflected in politics as well. But precisely because this is the case, we cannot give in immediately to every passing trend. No! We must stand up for our program, we must present it in a language that people can understand, and we must act resolutely against th... |
FBIS3-39883_35 | Kohl Addresses Christian Democratic Union Conference | vacation, but to leave them as they are and not to pay for them in holiday pay, or to give the worker the opportunity to make up for them out of his leave entitlement. We wrangle over this now, and the old ones -- I won't say senior citizens, because it is much closer to reality -- fall by the wayside. I find the way t... |
FBIS3-39883_36 | Kohl Addresses Christian Democratic Union Conference | spent rearing children for pension purposes and many other things. This is not enough, however. I promise, with a view to the state's finances -- and our manifesto will look this way barring any great changes in the sums involved -- during the next legislative period we will have to do something in the tax area for ind... |
FBIS3-39884_2 | Views Congress, Electoral Chances | weariness concerning the media. I do not know what would happen if the German citizens were able to decide completely and freely whether they should pay fees to the television station which are compulsory under public law. No, the mood is generally bad. This is all the more absurd because it does not correspond to the ... |
FBIS3-39890_0 | Police Use `Brutality' Against Anti-Republikaner Rally | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Juergen Voges report: "Militant Police Defend Republikaner"] [Text] Hannover -- Friday evening [11 February] about 2,000 mostly young people protested in front of Hannover's Stadthalle building against an election campaign event held by Republikaner Chairman Franz Schoenhuber. After a... |
FBIS3-39891_0 | Poll: Voters Favor CDU/CSU, SPD Over Small Parties | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Renate Koecher: "Back to the Big Ones"] [Text] Until recently, there seemed to be only one trend for the big parties: a downward one. Every election and almost every opinion poll showed low ratings for the Social Democratic Party [SPD] and the Christian Democratic Union [CDU... |
FBIS3-39913_0 | Government To Lower Taxes, Social Security Contributions | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Cabinet Decision To Lower Taxes and Social Security Charges Gets Positive Reception"] [Excerpt] The cabinet decision to lower taxes and social security contributions on citizens and companies by a total five billion guilders in 1994 and 1995 has been received pos... |
FBIS3-39918_0 | Hurd Comments on Conditions, Peace Prospects in Bosnia | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd by Xavier Gautier in Paris; date not given: "Hurd: Serbs Must Return One-Fourth of Their Territory"] [Text] [Gautier] After the "success" of the talks in Sarajevo, do you think an ultimatum is required to unblock the situation in T... |
FBIS3-39926_0 | Kinkel: Tehran-Bonn Relations `Good' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn, Feb. 23, IRNA -- German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel Tuesday [22 February] underlined the significance of the Islamic Republic of Iran's vital in the world, the region and Islamic world. [sentence as received] He made the remark in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign M... |
FBIS3-39929_0 | PKK Activities Reportedly Continue Despite Ban | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Half A Million A Day"] [Text] Even after it was banned, the left-wing extremist "Workers Party of Kurdistan" (PKK) continues its activities in Germany: Turkish business people and asylum-seekers of Kurdish descent are forced to provide financial support for the P... |
FBIS3-39930_0 | North Rhine-Westphalia Bans PKK Affiliate | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["ff" report: "North Rhine-Westphalia Bans Kurdish Cultural Association"] [Text] Duesseldorf, 21 February -- In North Rhine-Westphalia, an affiliate organization of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) has been banned. Interior Minister Schnoor announced on Monday [21 February] that th... |
FBIS3-39932_0 | CDU Official Outlines Party Program | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Harald Watermann report: "Hintze, the Media, and the Principles of the CDU"] [Text] Hamburg -- Peter Hintze, general secretary of the Christian Democratic Union [CDU], must have been deeply hurt: Immediately after the assertion that only the Christian Democrats can lead Germany into a... |
FBIS3-39950_1 | Bertinotti's Treasury Bill Plan Criticized | now been triggered, and everything leads us to believe that it will continue throughout the election campaign. The right --from the League to the National Alliance -- is attacking: denouncing the attempt to further squeeze those who save, and gleefully attributing the Communist Renewal secretary's intentions to the who... |
FBIS3-39956_0 | Population, Costs Threaten Social Security System | Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Article by Carla Aguiar: "The End of Social Distribution"] [Excerpts] The very foundations of social security are threatened by an earthquake of gigantic dimensions called "aging." The system for financing social security presently rests on the contributions of 3.5 active citizens... |
FBIS3-39962_0 | Social Democrats Issue Pro-EU Manifesto | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] On 3 February the Social Democrats for the EU [European Union] presented their manifesto of arguments for EU membership. According to an article by Ewa Stenberg in the 3 February DAGENS NYHETER on page 9, the kickoff of the Social Democratic campaign for membership ends what some SDP... |
FBIS3-39972_0 | PKK Says 57 `Enemy' Soldiers Die in Ambush 17 Feb | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Some 57 enemy soldiers died and three of our ARGK [People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan] guerrillas were martyred during a clash on 17 February between our guerrillas and the colonialist enemy forces, which were on a reconnaissance mission around [name indistinct] village in t... |
FBIS3-39973_0 | Bomb Attack on Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline in Sirnak | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still of regional map] [Text] A bombed attack has been perpetrated on the Iraq-Turkey crude oil pipeline near Sirnak's Idil District. According to information received by the BOTAS [Pipeline and Petroleum Transport Cooperation] Press and Public Relations Of... |
FBIS3-39980_0 | PKK Says 57 `Enemy' Soldiers Die in Ambush 17 Feb | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Some 57 enemy soldiers died and three of our ARGK [People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan] guerrillas were martyred during a clash on 17 February between our guerrillas and the colonialist enemy forces, which were on a reconnaissance mission around [name indistinct] village in t... |
FBIS3-39981_0 | Bomb Attack on Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline in Sirnak | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still of regional map] [Text] A bombed attack has been perpetrated on the Iraq-Turkey crude oil pipeline near Sirnak's Idil District. According to information received by the BOTAS [Pipeline and Petroleum Transport Cooperation] Press and Public Relations Of... |
FBIS3-39993_0 | ICO Urges NATO To Maintain Airstrike Threat in Bosnia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels, Feb 24 (AFP) -- The Islamic Conference Organization [ICO] alled on NATO Thursday [24 February] to extend its threat of airstrikes to other regions of Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to secure a ceasefire there. ICO Secretary General Hamid Algabid warned officials of the N... |
FBIS3-39996_0 | Aircraft Industry Denounces U.S. Attitude in Saudi Bid | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Patrick Marx report: "GATT: Aeronautics Back on the Scene"] [Text] Jean Pierson, managing director of Airbus Industrie, feels that the American attitude toward the Saudi contract proves that, in their view, "GATT is just a piece of paper," valid only "for other people." Aerospatiale D... |
FBIS3-40008_0 | Cetin Holds News Conference | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Hague, Feb 24 (AA) -- Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin on Thursday [24 February] said that Turkey is in a position to influence the solution of the Bosnia problem, adding he "sees no reason why Turkish soldiers would not go where the Russian soldiers went." Currently in The Ha... |
FBIS3-40017_0 | Bonn, Iran Plan To Intensify Cultural Relations | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Martin Winter report: "Iran and Bonn Plan To Revive Cultural Relations"] [Text] Bonn, 24 February -- Germany and Iran want to approach each other cautiously again in cultural policy. During a meeting between Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Va'ezi and Foreign Ministry State Secr... |
FBIS3-40023_4 | Government Divided Over Angolan Arms Embargo | supporters of Jonas Savimbi were beaten to death in cold blood in Luanda, via the terrible pogroms in January 1993 against the Bakongo, people originating from around the border shared with Zaire, to the acts of violence orchestrated last December against Lebanese, Senegalese, and Mauritanian traders. The Angolan autho... |
FBIS3-40040_2 | Knudsen CAlls EU Proposals `Disheartening' | system of support that is based on the number of growing days -- that is, the number of days every year when there is enough sun and warmth for agricultural produce to grow. One hundred and ninety growing days or less has been proposed as the limit. Finnish Foreign Minister Heikki Haavisto said that Finland would ideal... |
FBIS3-40050_1 | Urbain Interviewed on Maastricht Treaty | in keeping the essentials. European Commission President Jacques Delors has formulated this strategy more than once. If the economy permeates the whole of society, he once said, then politics will have to follow. Of course there are dark sides too. Citizens, who were situated in their own familiar national politics wit... |
FBIS3-40052_12 | Juppe Views Feasibility of Bosnian Peace Plan | kind of exercise, there must be an agreement between the Americans, Russians, and us on the basis of an overall settlement. [Trean] What, for you, is a "feasible" plan? [Juppe] The best peace plan is a plan that can be accepted by everyone. [Trean] Does this exercise between great powers also involve Croatia, Kosovo, a... |
FBIS3-40063_4 | Xu Jiatun's Hong Kong Memoirs Continued | like weeds" for a time. These guerrilla forces grew, with the large eating the small, and the strong gobbling up the weak, to gradually merge into a large guerrilla force, and even into a "regular" army. And this group development in Hong Kong could also take a similar path to grow into a political party. But as most o... |
FBIS3-40067_6 | Revitalizing Jiangsu Machinery Industry 1. Correctly handle the relationship between strengthening macroeconomic regulation and control and developing the industry. 2. Correctly handle the relationship between the total production increase and the three kinds of tied-up funds. 3. Correctly handle the relationship betwe... | percent, respectively. This shows that product quality is a problem worthy of concern. Therefore, while production is developing quickly, great attention should be devoted to the question of quality. By taking the current drives to transform enterprise operational mechanism and modify government functions as an opportu... |
FBIS3-40071_2 | Liaoning To Implement Water Permit System | the central part of Liaoning, the province's economic lifeline, having the most serious shortage of water supply; and fourth, there is a lack of balance in developing sources of water supply among the various rivers and tributaries; in the case of the Liao river (flowing through the central part of Liaoning), 67 percen... |
FBIS3-40076_4 | Problems in Public Security Secrecy Work Vice Minister on Policy Secrecy Work Has Always Formed an Important Component of Public Security Work The New Situation Created by Reform, Opening Up Presents New Needs Regarding Secrecy in Public Security Work Public Security Organs Must Continue To Serve as Exemplars of Strict... | as "a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend": Registered publications alone number over 1,000 nationally. Thus the environment secrecy work confronts is much more complicated than it was before reform and opening up began, and this makes the work more difficult. Third, change has occurred in ... |
FBIS3-40077_3 | Problems in Public Security Secrecy Work Theft, Leaks Outlined | common sense when it comes to maintaining secrecy or familiarity with communications equipment, confusion of open and secret communications and exchange of unencrypted secret information in wired and wireless communications occur frequently, such that transmissions containing state secrets are sent openly and thus are ... |
FBIS3-40082_1 | Article Notes `Criticisms' of Television | to extremes in every way to discredit the abilities of the opposition parties. The subtle aspect of this was that although the ruling party was constantly expressing views on the mass media (such as the need to scrupulously adhere to neutrality, and avoid exaggeration and incitation), the three stations did not change ... |
FBIS3-40089_2 | Experts Forecast Social Trends for Youth in 1994 The Blue Collar Tide Will Cause a Million Young Peasants To Leave Their Villages and Fields Protection of Young Workers' Rights and Interests Is Leading To Disputes Between Labor and Capital Guard Against Secular, Aristocratic, and Mercenary Tendencies on Campus Big Inco... | agricultural labor resource which were not of a high quality before. Analysis shows that in 1994, the region which will be under attack by the tide of peasant laborers will still be Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and the coastal open cities, these crowded cities cannot bear such a heavy burden any longer. Shortages of fun... |
FBIS3-40089_4 | Experts Forecast Social Trends for Youth in 1994 The Blue Collar Tide Will Cause a Million Young Peasants To Leave Their Villages and Fields Protection of Young Workers' Rights and Interests Is Leading To Disputes Between Labor and Capital Guard Against Secular, Aristocratic, and Mercenary Tendencies on Campus Big Inco... | same period last year. In foreign capital enterprises throughout the country, there were 2,000 worker strikes during the first quarter of 1993 alone. Many young employees of privately run enterprises went to court seeking legal protection for their rights. Of these, the abuse suffered by the Chinese crew of the foreign... |
FBIS3-40096_3 | Review of Liaoning's Development Zones Like the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Each Showing Special Prowess | Qingyang MDI project, and the Liaoning linen and polyester project. It coordinated construction of the three projects, which will bring a large amount of high and new technology and products into Liaoyang. It's digestion and absorption of advanced technology, and its in-depth development of new products have become a m... |
FBIS3-40101_1 | State Adjusts Tobacco Policy, Prices Commission Proposes Policy | year does not drop, and to essentially maintain the existing tobacco-product tax level, while basically not raising cigarette-enterprise production costs. II. Strict Control of Tobacco Production To control unchecked tobacco production, all provinces and autonomous regions, when purchasing tobacco, will conscientiously... |
FBIS3-40102_0 | State Adjusts Tobacco Policy, Prices Notice on Procurement Prices | Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Report: "Circular Issued by State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, State Planning Commission on Perfume Tobacco and White-Rib Tobacco Procurement Prices"] [Text] To adapt to socialist market economy development, deal well with the relations among the interests of tobacco farmers, local gover... |
FBIS3-40125_11 | `Excessive' Financial Burden Burdens Peasants | and satisfy their own greed. Concocting various contexts and relying on their power and position, some power organs at the township and town level force peasants to part with their hard-earned money, even compelling them to sell their livestock and deducting money from the sums payable to the peasants in return for the... |
FBIS3-40126_0 | National Tobacco Area, Output | Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Summary] In 1993 the actual tobacco area was 22,400,000 mu, and output will reach 2,850,000 tons. Including the 2,250,000 tons of tobacco in storage at the end of June, gross output will exceed 5 million tons. The domestic cigarette industry consumes over 1.8 million tons annually, a... |
FBIS3-40130_0 | Article Views Role as Asian `Operations Center' | Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Article by Kuo Ta-wei (6753 1129 1792): "Century-Spanning Fight to the Death"] [Text] The Asia-Pacific Operations Center beckons loud enough to wake the dead. Some say it is necessary to Taiwan's survival. Others ridicule it as a quixotic scheme; they see it as an impractical plan. D... |
FBIS3-40134_5 | Asia-Pacific Region, `Good Neighbor' Policy Viewed | the first visit to Vietnam by a Chinese premier in 21 years. In the first half of the year, Philippine President Ramos, Malaysian Premier Mahathir, and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong all visited China, while Thailand Premier Chuan Leepai visited China in late August; not long ago, Central Committee Chairman Qia... |
FBIS3-40140_9 | Dai Qing on Han Dongfang as Workers' Leader Lenin Changed Welfare Union Movement Into a Political Activity | social reform, going down amongst the workers, and arousing them, organizing them.... This time, the intellectual's actual educational pedigree, and occupation, including his consistently vainly hopeful moderate positions and reasonable dialogue, have already become not important, and the part he plays is the role more... |
FBIS3-40145_1 | Railroad Transportation Capacity Faces `Bottlenecks' | of the most serious periods ever for a shortage of railroad transportation. The average rate of satisfying of applications for rail carriages for freight use was around 40 percent, more than 10 percentage points below a normal year. It was hard to ensure transportation of some state plan and key commodities. For exampl... |
FBIS3-40153_1 | Public Reaction to "Through Train" Issue | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |3. Do you consider it important to specify the objective criteria for the | |through train prior to 1975? [Response /%] | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Survey Date |Important |Not Important |N... |
FBIS3-40154_1 | Thaw Literature In Soviet Union, China Compared | the most important reason is that people have lost their spirit of honest self-examination. The overwhelming majority of mainland intellectuals have grown accustomed to the dogmatic self-righteous Marxist way of criticizing the world. We cannot expect Chinese intellectuals to regain on their own the self-doubting spiri... |
FBIS3-40160_0 | Wei Jingsheng on `Predicament' of the People | Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Article by Wei Jingsheng (7614 0079 3932): "Savior or Malefactor? On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Mao Zedong"] [Text] This subject is a very large one, but we don't have to go into it at great length. At first glance, it seems that we are talking about the achievements and f... |
FBIS3-40165_1 | List of Second Batch of Revoked Internal Documents | Temporary Regulations on Borrowing and Transferring Economic-Aid Goods and Materials and Personnel for Use in Contracted Engineering Projects Abroad ([79] Foreign Economics Code 5 No. 1072) 8. Circular on Promulgating the Temporary Method of Providing Daily Necessities To Personnel in Foreign Contracted Engineering Pro... |
FBIS3-40165_3 | List of Second Batch of Revoked Internal Documents | No. 10) 24. Circular on the Publication of "Request for Instruction on Several Urgent Problems Regarding the Setting Up of Joint Venture Enterprises Abroad and in Hong Kong and Macao" ([86] MOFERT Cooperation Code No. 16) 25. Circular on Consolidating Our Contracting Companies in Thailand ([86] MOFERT Cooperation Code ... |
FBIS3-40165_4 | List of Second Batch of Revoked Internal Documents | Cooperation Code No. 19) 34. Circular On Relaying the Temporary Method of Supplying Machinery and Electrical Goods Needed by Import-Export Companies in Their Foreign Contracted Engineering Projects ([87] MOFERT Cooperation Code No. 81) 35. Letter Regarding the Publication of "Guide To Actual Expropriation Payments" ([8... |
FBIS3-40176_1 | Machine Industry `Problems' With Joint Ventures The Problem of Increasing Pressure at Every Level and Pursuing Quantity in a One-Sided Manner Is Serious Internal, External Management of Foreign-Funded Enterprises Is Not Strict Quantity, Quality of Trained Personnel Cannot Meet Demands of Development | weak links of the machinery industry, and the improvement of the overall standards of the machinery industry depends on the rapid development of basic parts and basic machinery. However the basic parts sector has utilized only $200 million in foreign direct investment, accounting for 4 percent; the average amount of fo... |
FBIS3-40177_2 | Chemical Industry Restructuring Reported | The practice, prevalent at the previous years' production planning conferences, of haggling over plan targets with directors of chemical industry departments or bureaus of the localities, resulting in the Ministry of Chemical Industry being eventually forced to impose plans on its subordinates, was changed. According t... |
FBIS3-40188_9 | Prospects for Relations With Central Asia I. China's Reform, Opening Up to the Outside World, Economic Situation II. The Situation After Central Asian Countries Became Independent and the International Effect III. Prospects for Cooperation Between China and Central Asian Countries | industrial base, and a gradually forming vast market. Their weak point is that they have a one-product economy, and they must import from abroad articles for use in industry and articles for daily use, and must import foreign capital and technology to develop processing industries and to exploit natural resources. At t... |
FBIS3-40189_12 | Paper Interviews College Students on Mao We Are Concerned About the Present; We Are the Generation Holding the Relay Baton | about the people's pains"; "they each created an era of their own in China. Mao Zedong made the Chinese people stand up, and Deng Xiaoping made the Chinese people rich." On the "Mao Zedong craze" in recent years, the "new collegians" have different opinions. A majority viewpoint is that it is a reflection of the people... |
FBIS3-40190_28 | `Gist' of Deng's Southern Tour Speeches | the two decades we ourselves lost! It will be an extraordinary achievement if we build our country into a moderately developed country within a century starting from the founding of New China in 1949. The period from the present to the middle of next century is a crucial one. Let us immerse ourselves in hard work, as w... |
FBIS3-40190_29 | `Gist' of Deng's Southern Tour Speeches | economic ownership system features a pluralistic structure dominated by socialist public ownership. Their economic activities are based on market regulation guided by state macroeconomic control. Foreign investment is facilitated by preferential treatment. The zones enjoy-comparatively greater rights of economic manage... |
FBIS3-40200_8 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy Energy Bottleneck in Economy | It is estimated that at least a third of the country's productive capacity stands idle as a result of power shortages. Comrades of the Ministry of Electric Power state that our annual electric power shortfall is about 15 to 20 percent. In 1992, for example, the total electric energy shortfall for the year was between 1... |
FBIS3-40201_4 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy The Light-Bringers: Pressing Forward Under a Heavy Burden | for a week without returning to their homes. A power plant director under the North China electric power office, who had spent several days and nights riveted to the site of a rush repair job, collapsed from exhaustion after the generating set finally rumbled back into operation. An accident resulting from a violation ... |
FBIS3-40201_7 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy The Light-Bringers: Pressing Forward Under a Heavy Burden | under their crushing indebtedness and its steadily compounding interest. It should be noted that for several decades, the electric power enterprises were well off. But since the policy of replacing allocations by loans was instituted in the 1980's, and especially since the second stage of replacing profit payments by t... |
FBIS3-40202_8 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy Electricity Prices: How Are We To Understand Them? If State Electricity Prices Are Not Adjusted, the Electric Power Industry Will Lose Money Across the Board The Climate Is Excellent for Raising Funds for Electric Power; Prices Are the Key to Loan Repayment Experien... | price of electric power would have to increase by only 34 percent above the 1992 price, or about 0.05 yuan. Assuming that a family of three consumes 60 kWh of electricity a month, an increase of 0.05 yuan per kWh would mean an additional outlay of 3 yuan per month, equivalent to one serving of ice cream per family memb... |
FBIS3-40203_1 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy The Huaneng Group: An Attractive New Mechanism The Huaneng Phenomenon: A High Starting Point, High Speed, High Standards, and High Benefits, Exemplifying the Best, the Most Successful, and the Most Valuable Huaneng's Advantage: Two Strong Legs from Birth, Use of Inv... | installation and adjustment, and the high degree of automation of generating set operation and control and the overall high technological standards not only make the plant a pace-setter in this country, but put it on a par with the world state of the art. Its high-efficiency operation and low coal consumption continue ... |
FBIS3-40204_2 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy Electricity From the Northwest Power Shortages: An Opportunity for Electric Power Development in the West Benefitting From Policies, and Using Others' Funds for Power Production | of a short construction cycle, low costs, and good benefits. Party secretary of the autonomous region Wang Qun [3769 5028] has repeatedly emphasized that "If the development of the energy industry can be done rapidly, it should not be done slowly, and if it can be done at a run it should not be done at a walk. We must ... |
FBIS3-40204_8 | Electric Power: Another Bottleneck in China's Economy Electricity From the Northwest Power Shortages: An Opportunity for Electric Power Development in the West Benefitting From Policies, and Using Others' Funds for Power Production | of the century in order to make electric power construction the "radiant center" that will bring prosperity to the western region. -- Make reform increasingly thorough, transform the mechanism, move toward markets, strengthen management, stabilize existing power generating facilities, implement capital construction inv... |
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