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FBIS3-43129_0
RUSSIA: ACADEMICIAN DENIES EXISTENCE OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK MARKET FOR ORGANS
A Russian academician has publicly denied a Canadian film's charges that he offered human organs for sale. A Russian press report gives detailed explanations why the accusations are medically and logistically improbable. In a KOMMERSANT-DAILY article (23 Nov 93), Academician Valeriy Shumakov, the director of the Public...
FBIS3-43132_20
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
million yen ($4.4 million) facility for recycling electric power and telephone cables. The equipment for this facility, which breaks up the cable and extracts the original vinyl, aluminum, and copper for reuse, was developed by a German company that Hosokawa acquired in 1987. (Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN 23 Dec 93 p 10)...
FBIS3-43132_23
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
Center, "In Vietnam, on top of low labor costs, the educational level is high, and petroleum, natural gas and other resources are plentiful. During this period when the shift to overseas factories is progressing, it makes sense to promote exchange." (Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN 4 Dec 93 p 24) Japan-U.S. Economic Relatio...
FBIS3-43132_68
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
there were "problems" with PRC civil aircraft technology, however, and that the ROK would push for a three-way agreement with the United States and China instead. The new ROK proposal, according to HKS, is for the United States to supply the technology, South Korea to "contribute" capital, manufacturing facilities, and...
FBIS3-43132_69
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
Power Corporation (KEPCO) official has recently written. By 2006, nuclear facilities will reportedly generate nearly half the country's electrical power. Steps are being taken to secure the ROK's "independence" in this sector by indigenizing reactor technology, diversifying fuel suppliers, and developing the country's ...
FBIS3-43132_94
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
many of them expressing fear that their pay will be cut. In some areas, workers reportedly think that conversion to a shareholding system simply means divvying up state property and assets to individuals, and have raised "unrealistic demands." According to a Finance Ministry report, there have been demands that an ente...
FBIS3-43138_0
Yugoslavia--Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbs Defy NATO Warning SUMMARY Shrugging off threats of NATO airstrikes, Serb leaders in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Bosnia-Herzegovina have denied responsibility for taking the offensive in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian Serb leaders flatly rejected NATO's call for the opening of Tuzla...
FBIS3-43142_31
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-001--EAST EUROPE
this regard too because it would require Polish borrowers to put up only 20 percent of the cost of a given project in order to qualify for the 25- percent matching contribution from STRUDER. As a result, Polish firms would only have to pay market interest rates on commercial loans covering 55 percent of project costs. ...
FBIS3-43142_53
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-001--EAST EUROPE
Ryrie. For example, he mentioned that IFC financing helped to set up the "Polish Business Advisory Service," which delivers management consulting services to small and medium- sized firms in Poland. The IFC has been active in Poland since 1987 and opened a Warsaw office in 1990. Since 1987, the IFC has disbursed a tota...
FBIS3-43143_1
EURASIA: AIDS COVERAGE IN NIS PRESS
test systems for territories. Pokrovskiy thinks that the federal government may not fund the program at all in 1994-95. Other problems affecting the Russian AIDS control program, according to Pokrovskiy, are the failure of the AIDS centers to focus on prevention of sexual transmission of AIDS and the failure to allocat...
FBIS3-43153_3
MAGHREB PRESS REVIEW No. 1
Development, and the OECF. (London MEED 25 Dec 93) TUNISIA AL-HADATH Director Receives Threat Rabat daily AL-MAGHRIB has reported that the staff of Tunisian Arabic-language weekly AL-HADATH received a telephone call on 29 December directed at the manager-chief editor, demanding that he "stop writing about the (Muslim) ...
FBIS3-43160_62
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-003--EAST EUROPE
Czech Republic were fake. The imitations cost between Kc400 and Kc990, while the only original Levi's 501 cost Kc1,800. (Prague MLADA FRONTA DNES in Czech 8 Dec 93 p 3 AU) AGRICULTURE SECTOR LOSING MONEY: State farms will end this economic year with a loss of Kc8,500 per hectare, cooperatives with a loss of Kc1,050 per...
FBIS3-43161_3
Symposium Discusses Goals for China's Foreign Economic Relations
see China become a competitor, but rather wants China to always "fly in formation" following Japan's lead. According to Huang, the United States, on the other hand, is intent on imposing its political agenda on China. Criticism of the United States along these lines is a frequent theme in the articles. CICIR analyst Ke...
FBIS3-43163_0
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-04--WEST EUROPE
Europe Economic Review: WESTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 4, 27 January 1994 Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a series published by FBIS Europe/Lat in America Group featuring brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical issues, compiled from the most recent sources available to FBIS. Europe Economic Review ...
FBIS3-43163_6
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-04--WEST EUROPE
"threats" by U.S.Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to apply trade sanctions against the EU in order to open the EU audiovisual market to U.S. products is "proof" that the United States wants to stop the EU from revising its audiovisual legislation. A further sign of U.S. intentions was the 11 January meeting which bro...
FBIS3-43166_10
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
the November issue of FINANCE, the ministry's monthly journal, a report on the custom clearance prices of "30 consumer products" imported in September 1993. The MOF selected 30 consumer goods which it considers of "the highest interest" to consumers and, for the first time, published their prices separately from the de...
FBIS3-43166_12
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
cigarettes) remained the same; and one (U.S. golf balls) rose. Of the four products whose custom clearance prices had risen, the retail prices of two (oranges and tennis rackets) dropped, while two (EC-made electric shavers and lemons) rose. Environmental Issues: STA To Begin Underwater Cable Project To Track Seismic A...
FBIS3-43166_26
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
YOMIURI reports that Yokohama Machinery Trading once had representative offices in North Korea and Beijing. According to the 15 January SANKEI SHIMBUN, the TMP obtained documents revealing that employees of Yokohama Machinery Trading and Fuji Trading had traveled to North Korea via China several times in the past for "...
FBIS3-43166_74
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
were being made to attract "professionals" with advanced degrees able to collect and evaluate "economic and industrial intelligence." The paper added the NSP also plans to "augment this portion of the personnel it sends overseas." FEATURE: Press View Developments in ROK-Vietnam Trade -- SUMMARY: December marked the fir...
FBIS3-43169_10
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 93-054--EAST EUROPE
meeting held from 29 November to 3 December. Officials from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia took part in the talks, which were also attended by an EC Commission delegation. Slovenia, Ukraine, and Moldova will receive copies of adopted resolutions, Branimir Natov, deputy mi...
FBIS3-43173_0
NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA: RELATIONS WITH CIS MUSLIM STATES, No. 1
REGIONAL Turkey Fears Losing Oil Advantage to Moscow In an interview, Turkish economist Mustafa Sonmez expressed concern over developments in the route-selection process for oil and natural gas pipelines from Central Asia to Europe. Sonmez, who is known for his pipeline research, said that Russia's preference for Novor...
FBIS3-43183_0
RUSSIA: ACADEMICIAN DENIES EXISTENCE OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK MARKET FOR ORGANS
A Russian academician has publicly denied a Canadian film's charges that he offered human organs for sale. A Russian press report gives detailed explanations why the accusations are medically and logistically improbable. In a KOMMERSANT-DAILY article (23 Nov 93), Academician Valeriy Shumakov, the director of the Public...
FBIS3-43186_20
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
million yen ($4.4 million) facility for recycling electric power and telephone cables. The equipment for this facility, which breaks up the cable and extracts the original vinyl, aluminum, and copper for reuse, was developed by a German company that Hosokawa acquired in 1987. (Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN 23 Dec 93 p 10)...
FBIS3-43186_23
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
Center, "In Vietnam, on top of low labor costs, the educational level is high, and petroleum, natural gas and other resources are plentiful. During this period when the shift to overseas factories is progressing, it makes sense to promote exchange." (Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN 4 Dec 93 p 24) Japan-U.S. Economic Relatio...
FBIS3-43186_68
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
there were "problems" with PRC civil aircraft technology, however, and that the ROK would push for a three-way agreement with the United States and China instead. The new ROK proposal, according to HKS, is for the United States to supply the technology, South Korea to "contribute" capital, manufacturing facilities, and...
FBIS3-43186_69
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
Power Corporation (KEPCO) official has recently written. By 2006, nuclear facilities will reportedly generate nearly half the country's electrical power. Steps are being taken to secure the ROK's "independence" in this sector by indigenizing reactor technology, diversifying fuel suppliers, and developing the country's ...
FBIS3-43186_94
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 12 JANUARY 1994
many of them expressing fear that their pay will be cut. In some areas, workers reportedly think that conversion to a shareholding system simply means divvying up state property and assets to individuals, and have raised "unrealistic demands." According to a Finance Ministry report, there have been demands that an ente...
FBIS3-43192_0
Yugoslavia--Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbs Defy NATO Warning SUMMARY Shrugging off threats of NATO airstrikes, Serb leaders in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Bosnia-Herzegovina have denied responsibility for taking the offensive in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian Serb leaders flatly rejected NATO's call for the opening of Tuzla...
FBIS3-43196_31
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-001--EAST EUROPE
this regard too because it would require Polish borrowers to put up only 20 percent of the cost of a given project in order to qualify for the 25- percent matching contribution from STRUDER. As a result, Polish firms would only have to pay market interest rates on commercial loans covering 55 percent of project costs. ...
FBIS3-43196_53
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-001--EAST EUROPE
Ryrie. For example, he mentioned that IFC financing helped to set up the "Polish Business Advisory Service," which delivers management consulting services to small and medium- sized firms in Poland. The IFC has been active in Poland since 1987 and opened a Warsaw office in 1990. Since 1987, the IFC has disbursed a tota...
FBIS3-43197_1
EURASIA: AIDS COVERAGE IN NIS PRESS
test systems for territories. Pokrovskiy thinks that the federal government may not fund the program at all in 1994-95. Other problems affecting the Russian AIDS control program, according to Pokrovskiy, are the failure of the AIDS centers to focus on prevention of sexual transmission of AIDS and the failure to allocat...
FBIS3-43207_3
MAGHREB PRESS REVIEW No. 1
Development, and the OECF. (London MEED 25 Dec 93) TUNISIA AL-HADATH Director Receives Threat Rabat daily AL-MAGHRIB has reported that the staff of Tunisian Arabic-language weekly AL-HADATH received a telephone call on 29 December directed at the manager-chief editor, demanding that he "stop writing about the (Muslim) ...
FBIS3-43214_62
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-003--EAST EUROPE
Czech Republic were fake. The imitations cost between Kc400 and Kc990, while the only original Levi's 501 cost Kc1,800. (Prague MLADA FRONTA DNES in Czech 8 Dec 93 p 3 AU) AGRICULTURE SECTOR LOSING MONEY: State farms will end this economic year with a loss of Kc8,500 per hectare, cooperatives with a loss of Kc1,050 per...
FBIS3-43215_3
Symposium Discusses Goals for China's Foreign Economic Relations
see China become a competitor, but rather wants China to always "fly in formation" following Japan's lead. According to Huang, the United States, on the other hand, is intent on imposing its political agenda on China. Criticism of the United States along these lines is a frequent theme in the articles. CICIR analyst Ke...
FBIS3-43217_0
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-04--WEST EUROPE
Europe Economic Review: WESTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 4, 27 January 1994 Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a series published by FBIS Europe/Lat in America Group featuring brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical issues, compiled from the most recent sources available to FBIS. Europe Economic Review ...
FBIS3-43217_6
FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-04--WEST EUROPE
"threats" by U.S.Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to apply trade sanctions against the EU in order to open the EU audiovisual market to U.S. products is "proof" that the United States wants to stop the EU from revising its audiovisual legislation. A further sign of U.S. intentions was the 11 January meeting which bro...
FBIS3-43220_10
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
the November issue of FINANCE, the ministry's monthly journal, a report on the custom clearance prices of "30 consumer products" imported in September 1993. The MOF selected 30 consumer goods which it considers of "the highest interest" to consumers and, for the first time, published their prices separately from the de...
FBIS3-43220_12
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
cigarettes) remained the same; and one (U.S. golf balls) rose. Of the four products whose custom clearance prices had risen, the retail prices of two (oranges and tennis rackets) dropped, while two (EC-made electric shavers and lemons) rose. Environmental Issues: STA To Begin Underwater Cable Project To Track Seismic A...
FBIS3-43220_26
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
YOMIURI reports that Yokohama Machinery Trading once had representative offices in North Korea and Beijing. According to the 15 January SANKEI SHIMBUN, the TMP obtained documents revealing that employees of Yokohama Machinery Trading and Fuji Trading had traveled to North Korea via China several times in the past for "...
FBIS3-43220_74
PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 26 JANUARY 1994
were being made to attract "professionals" with advanced degrees able to collect and evaluate "economic and industrial intelligence." The paper added the NSP also plans to "augment this portion of the personnel it sends overseas." FEATURE: Press View Developments in ROK-Vietnam Trade -- SUMMARY: December marked the fir...
FBIS3-43242_0
More on ANC Reaction
Language: English Article Type:BFN [SAPA PR wire service issued by the African National Congress] [Text] ANC Press Statement on the Attack on the Heidelberg Restaurant, Cape Town The attack on innocent civilians in the crowded Heidelberg restaurant in Cape Town must stand condemned by all who value democracy, peace and...
FBIS3-43297_0
80 Killed in Natal Since 31 Dec
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Nineteen-ninety-four has had a violent start in Natal and on the East Rand, where at least 80 people have been murdered in crime related or politically motivated violence since Friday. More than 60 of the deaths occurred in Natal and KwaZulu. Many of the killings took place ...
FBIS3-43319_0
Radio Reports Ethnic Clashes in Rural Areas
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Between 2 and 3 January, though the populations of Isale and Mugongomanga had been celebrating happily, 64 houses were set ablaze by the populations of the two communes who lived in total harmony last year. Christophe Nkurunziza visited Mugongomanga commune. [Begin recording...
FBIS3-43346_0
Clashes Reported Between Self-Defense Units, MK Group
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Abbey Makoe] [Text] Three alleged MK [Spear of the Nation, ANC military wing] commanders were shot and burnt to death by their colleagues serving in self-defence units [SDU] in Katlehong on Sunday in what is believed to be an ongoing "war" between the two groups, residents ...
FBIS3-43349_0
Note Sent to Mozambique Protesting Attacks
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The South African embassy in Maputo has delivered a note of protest to the Mozambican Department of Foreign Affairs regarding several attacks on South African tourists in Mozambique. The South African charge d'affaires in Mozambique, Mr. (John Sund), has also been in contact wi...
FBIS3-43352_2
* Polls Measure Preelection Tendencies * Majority Polled Still for Elections
with Indians. The homelands, self-governing regions, and rural areas were included. Some of the results of the poll that was made public this weekend include: - A total of 75 percent of the respondents said that right-wing extremists are going to unleash a war in the country; - Most South Africans are of the opinion th...
FBIS3-43395_0
Conservative Party Says Country `Violence Paradise'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pretoria Jan 5 SAPA -- The "violence paradise" that the country had become vindicated the Conservative Party's [CP] predictions of anarchy, murder and robbery in the new South Africa, CP Chief Secretary Lem Theron said on Wednesday. Dr. Theron urged conservative-minded citizens...
FBIS3-43419_1
Shootings, Explosions Occur Near Military Camp 5 Jan Opposition Denies Involvement
and private sector workers are not going to work today. A curfew was imposed from 1800 to 0600 on 5 January. The aim of the attack was reportedly to surround the Inter-Arms Regiment camp, the residence of President Eyadema, who was not there at the time. It all began around 1830 GMT when gunshots from automatic weapons...
FBIS3-43425_0
Ethnic Clashes Resume in North; Many Deaths Reported
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] A bloodbath has occurred in northern Cameroon. Arab Shuwas and Kotokos are once again at loggerheads. According to various estimates, the death toll runs from 20 to 50. Jean Mater Ndi has more details. [Begin Ndi recording] Between 23 and 24 December, a Kotoko was killed by an A...
FBIS3-43451_0
New Political Rights Organization Launched
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] A Political Rights Organization, the PRO, has been launched. The PRO, which was launched yesterday, will campaign for amnesty for rightwing political prisoners. In a statement, PRO Chairman (Avril Budd) said task groups have been formed to investigate the conviction of rightist...
FBIS3-43473_1
Update on Recent Events, Government Activities More on Assassination Attempt
the "News in Brief" program -- read by announcer] [Text] Yesterday at exactly 1820, while President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh were holding discussions at the president's private residence in Lome District 2, groups of terrorists lying in ambush along the boulevard leading to the head o...
FBIS3-43498_0
`Serious' Incidents Between Gendarmes, Cattlemen Noted
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] Serious incidents have taken place between Fulani cattlemen and gendarmes in Ketou, in the Bonou subprefecture. Master Sergeant Moussa Adamou of the Bonou Gendarmerie Brigade almost lost his life during the squabble. He was saved by his colleagues, who rescued him from the Fulan...
FBIS3-43576_0
Radio Reports UNOSOM Troops Shoot Hospital Worker
Language: Somali Article Type:BFN [Text] The UN Operation Somalia [UNOSOM] troops stationed at the American Embassy building in Mogadishu last night at 2300 fired on a Banaadir Hospital worker who was in the hospital's doctors' residence. Mr. Amar Abdilleh Issaq, a senior nurse, had his left arm smashed by the UNOSOM t...
FBIS3-43602_24
Abacha Presents 1994 Budget, Comments on Politics
needed social services. Consequently, 1994 will witness more vigorous activity on the part of government in the provision of improvement of social services, especially in the area of transportation and road maintenance, schools management, public health, and other related infrastructure. Our approach to the provision o...
FBIS3-43658_0
Hospital Sources Report 10 Dead After Clashes
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Yaounde, Jan 12 (AFP) -- Cameroon police used water cannon to drive off 100 students marching on the prime minister's office here on Wednesday to protest the death of some students killed in a road accident. The angry undergraduates said 15 of their fellows were killed when a m...
FBIS3-43713_15
PAC Official Comments on Recent Issues, Events
trial, and does the PAC actually realize that there are some blacks who want to mislead our people into deeper oppression, for example the Buthelezis and some white people who are genuinely devoted to the struggle for example, the Joe Slovos of this world. South Africa is basically not just divided into good blacks and...
FBIS3-43759_1
Prime Minister, Cuban Envoy Meet, Discuss Politics
few months ago. The Cuban official noted that it is not enough that the two peoples should know and understand each other, adding that they must also seek to cooperate as advantageously as possible. The audience was also attended by Angolan Foreign Affairs Minister Venancio de Moura and the Cuban ambassador to Angola. ...
FBIS3-43775_1
Witness Says Opposition Leader `Falsely Accused'
Article Type:BFN [From the "Focus on Africa" program] [Text] It looks as if the Guinea-Bissau opposition leader, Joao da Costa, may escape a prison sentence altogether following a dramatic development of his trial on the charges of plotting a coup last year against the government of President Vieira. The trial began ju...
FBIS3-43865_0
Cuban Foreign Minister Denies Arms Smuggling Charges
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Cuban foreign minister, Roberto Robaina, who is on a tour of African states, has said that his country is seeking stronger economic ties with other countries to counter the United States' trade embargo and the loss of its Eastern European allies. Speaking in Zimbabwe, Mr. R...
FBIS3-43995_0
19 Jan Tuareg Attack in Mansou Leaves 7 Dead
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Niamey, 20 Jan (AFP) -- An attack carried out on 19 January in the Mansou locality near Tahoua (400 km northeast of Niamey) by the Tuareg rebel movement left seven dead, including four rebels, Niger national radio reported yesterday evening. The three other victims were two g...
FBIS3-44011_0
Update on Events Surrounding Lusaka Peace Talks Radio on UNITA Plans at Lusaka Talks
Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] Tomorrow, the Angolan Government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] are expected to resume the second round of the Lusaka peace talks. Analysts say the talks may face some difficulties, because rumors are going around that UNITA intends to de...
FBIS3-44045_0
Cuban Foreign Minister Denies Troops Planned for Angola
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Windhoek January 21 SAPA -- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Robaina, a veteran of the Angolan war, said on Friday his time spent fighting with the MPLA [Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola] and SWAPO [South-West African People's Organization] against UNITA [Nat...
FBIS3-44074_0
Arms Fire Heard in Southern Suburbs
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brazzaville, Jan 23 (AFP)--Heavy arms fire rocked the troubled southern suburbs of the Congolese capital Sunday [23 January], military sources said, as an army blockade of the area entered its second week. No reason was given for the renewed fire, after a three day lull, and ap...
FBIS3-44109_0
Current State of Industry Assessed as `Gloomy'
Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [ From the "Voice of Resistance of the Black Cockerel" program] [Text] We are in 1994. The present state of the Angolan industry is truly gloomy and worrisome because of an almost total paralyzation of productive activity during 1993, reducing production levels to less than 30 perc...
FBIS3-44124_0
Foreign NGO's Say UN Body Involved in Child Prostitution
Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] The independent MEDIAFAX publication reported today that in December of last year four foreign nongovernmental organizations [NGO's] in Mozambique protested to UN Special Representative Aldo Ajello that UN Operations in Mozambique [Unomoz] personnel were allegedly involved i...
FBIS3-44128_0
Vice President Intervenes in Party Power Struggle
Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "Focus on Africa" program] [Text] Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU-PF [Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front], has begun a nationwide restructuring exercise in the run-up to the election of provincial officials and the full national party congress later this year. But...
FBIS3-44230_0
Rebel Radio Reports `Violent' Demonstrations 26 Jan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Today morning, the notorious youthwingers of MRND-CDR [Republican National Movement for Democracy and Development, and Coalition for the Defense of the Republic] numbering 50 and 100, backed by the gendarmes, staged violent demonstrations blocking the road from Kacyiru [Kigali ...
FBIS3-44262_0
Reports of Violence in Natal, East Rand 27 Jan
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Natal Johannesburg SAPA in English at 0821 GMT on 27 January reports that "at least four more people have died violently in Natal, bringing the provincial toll to at least 29 since Friday last week, police said on Thursday. An unidentified man was shot and killed by gunmen when he re...
FBIS3-44289_0
Premier Lien Chan on Southeast Asian Tour Meets With Malaysia's Mahathir
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Danielle Yang] [Text] Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 31 (CNA) -- Republic of China [ROC] Premier Lien Chan met with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed in Kuala Lumpur Friday [31 December]. During the half-hour meeting, the two discussed a wide range of political and economic issues, in...
FBIS3-44298_3
Foreign Minister Qian Interviewed at Year's End Views U.S. Relations, Achievements
in an economic recession since the beginning of the nineties; the economies of some countries have become stagnant, whereas the economies of others have grown at a very slow pace or posted zero and negative growth. Unemployment rates in the West are high. This has caused social unrest and spawned a post-Cold War syndro...
FBIS3-44300_0
Vice Foreign Minister Discusses World Situation
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with PRC Vice Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei by correspondents (Deng Xiujian) and (Shi Yan); place and date not given; from the "Current Affairs" program] [Excerpts] Negotiation and conflict, progress and setback; it all happened over this outgoing year. To review ...
FBIS3-44301_2
`Yearender': `Advances, Setbacks' in Sino-U.S. Trade
U.S. enterprises in obtaining protection for intellectual property rights. In March this year, Chinese and U.S. Government delegations reached a relatively satisfactory understanding on how to implement the memoranda on products made by prisoners.... Wang Tianming stated: Of the problems and difficulties facing Sino-U....
FBIS3-44302_0
Various Issues Examined as XINHUA `Yearender' U.S. Policy `Undergoing Readjustment'
Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Yearender" by Ying Qian: "U.S. Foreign Policy Undergoing Readjustment"] [Text] Washington, December 31 (XINHUA) -- As the first U.S. president after the ending of the cold war, Bill Clinton has made noticeable readjustments in the U.S. foreign policy in 1993, the first year of his a...
FBIS3-44304_1
Various Issues Examined as XINHUA `Yearender' Detente, Turbulence `Still Exist'
the possibility of a world war is decreasing, it shifted its defensive emphasis "from preparations for nuclear war to tackling regional wars." Meanwhile, the integrated European Common Market was officially inaugurated at the beginning of this year; the North American Free Trade Agreement was ratified at the end of thi...
FBIS3-44374_0
`Peace Charter' Dissident Yang Zhou Freed
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Jan 3 (AFP) -- Yang Zhou, dissident founder of the China "Peace Charter" movement, was freed late last week after being held in detention for seven weeks, he said Monday. Yang, 49, from Shanghai, was arrested in Beijing on November 15, the day after the signing by nine...
FBIS3-44375_0
Further on Release
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Shanghai, Jan. 3 KYODO -- Chinese authorities have released a prominent human rights activist who was detained in November after unveiling a draft "Peace Charter" promoting political reform. Yang Zhou, 49, told KYODO NEWS SERVICE in a telephone interview that he was taken into ...
FBIS3-44397_0
PRC, US Examine Illegal Export of Socks `Federal Register' Cited
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 4 (XINHUA) -- A U.S. Government investigation has confirmed that the Qinghe stocking factory of Beijing's Number One Prison has never exported its products to the U.S. The investigation report, which was published last month in the U.S. Government publication "...
FBIS3-44444_0
Nuclear Plants Fuel `Dynamic Economic Growth'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Liu Weiling: "Fueling Growth With Nuke Power"] [Text] China is speeding nuclear power plant construction to fuel its dynamic economic growth. By the year 2000, the country's nuclear power plants will have a capacity of 6 million kilowatts while new plants with anoth...
FBIS3-44445_3
Nuclear Industry Briefs on Achievements
an option for clearing the energy "bottleneck" in China, especially in the southeast coastal provinces and regions. The achievements in nuclear scientific research have been remarkable. Over the last 10 years, the nuclear industrial established has won state-class science and technology prizes for 330 projects. Researc...
FBIS3-44473_0
Vanadium, Titanium Extraction, Processing Stressed
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Panzhihua, December 30 (XINHUA) -- China is to step up the exploitation of vanadium and titanium resources in its southwestern part through absorbing more overseas funds and technology. The resources are concentrated in an area called Panzhihua in Sichuan Province. More funds w...
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Dissidents Reportedly Given `Heavy' Sentences
had committed their "crimes" less than three years after being released from re-education through labour camps. Yao Kaiwen, who was an individual entrepreneur upon his detention, spent 18 months in a labour camp after having been found guilty in early 1990 of trying to smuggle himself out of China. And Gao, who used to...
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Review of Guangdong Radio `Hotline' Program
employer refused to pay but tried to persuade her to stay with the parlor during the current high season. Miss Pan says she herself is also facing a similar case at the moment. 4. A Mr. Zhang, a migrant laborer working in Guangzhou and planning to pay a home visit during the Spring Festival season, calls in to urge the...
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EC's `Anti-Dumping Measures' on Foreign Goods
are of long-term duration, according to EC officials. The commission has also voted to keep up the momentum of a package of anti-dumping measures adopted five years ago. The anti-dumping list, put forward by the EC commission Monday, covers polyester fibers manufactured by South Korea, Turkey and Taiwan and ferrosilico...
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Li Ruihuan Addresses CPPCC Meeting
conscientiously carry it out. Now I would like to discuss several views. The Third Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee was another extremely important meeting held in the course of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization in our country. The Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, ...
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Role in International Competition `Increasing'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 5 (XINHUA) --- China is becoming increasingly involved in worldwide economic competition by exporting its own goods, technologies, labor services and capital, according to a researcher at the China Foreign Policy Studies Center. In an interview with XINHUA toda...
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Government `Ready' for Exchange Rate Fluctuations Free Conversion of Renminbi in Trade Must Be Realized Before Readmission to GATT
exchange rates has pros and cons, and they have to sell their foreign currency earned to banks according to the swap rate and buy foreign currency from banks according to the swap rate, but the system has become more reasonable. He said: Whether or not the time is ripe to unify the exchange rates should be determined b...
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`Big Achievements' Made in Geological Prospecting
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 3 (XINHUA) -- Geological prospecting in China scored big achievements in 1993, an official from the ministry of geology and minerals said today. According to the official, experts have appraised various geological structures of 18 blocks in the northern Tarim b...
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Premier Lien Chan on Southeast Asian Visit Meets Singapore Officials
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By C.T. Liang and Lilian Wu] [Text] Singapore, Jan. 4 (CNA) -- Republic of China [ROC] Premier Lien Chan began his second full day of visit in Singapore Tuesday [4 January] by golfing with Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and other officials. Before the round of golf, Lien ha...
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Beijing TV Airs Mao Centenary Documentary Part Twelve
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Beijing Central Television Program One Network in Mandarin at 1210 GMT on 24 December broadcasts the twelfth and final part of the documentary entitled: "Mao Zedong." The final part, which lasts for 50 minutes, is entitled: "Later Years," and focuses on Mao's role in the Cultural Rev...
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Official Involvement in Kidnappings Decried
in the middle of the 1980's, and have increased greatly in the 1990's. According to statistics provided by the Guangdong provincial procuratorial organs, from 1990 to 1992 the incidence of such cases increased 52 percent. Information from Shanghai shows that in the first quarter of last year, cases classified as of the...
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Article on Macroeconomic Regulation, Control II. The Content and Scope of Macroeconomic Regulation and Control III. Problems in the Present Macroeconomic Regulation and Control
balance between aggregate demand and aggregate supply; 2) the problem of big economic structures such as the proportion between industry and agriculture, the proportion between various industrial departments, the relationship between industry and trade, and the relationship between production development and constructi...
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Minister Examines Development of Power Industry I. The Power Industry Cannot Move Out of the "Bottleneck" Condition If It Merely Follows the Course of Conventional Development II. To Effect "Unconventional" Development, It Is Necessary To Concentrate on Deepening Reform, Transforming Management Mechanisms, Optimizing t...
system, adopting the standardized joint-stock system, promoting the separation of the government from the enterprises, transforming the enterprise management and operation mechanisms, and establishing a modern system for the power producing enterprises. In particular, it is necessary to actually intensify marcocontrol,...
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Power-Generation Capacity Goal Over Target
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 6 (XINHUA) -- China installed power generators with a total capacity of more than 12 million kw last year, five percent over the state's target. According to the State Planning Commission, altogether 62 sets of medium- and large-size generators were constructed...
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Agriculture Minister Speaks on Crops, Rural Economy
and increase the unit yield this year. The sown acreage must be at least 1.65 billion mu. Efforts should be made to readjust the plan in various regions and the types of crops that they grow so that there will be large acreage for rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, and miscellaneous crops of good quality. Preferential measur...
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Nuclear Corporation Head Views 1993 Achievements
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report on New Year interview with Jiang Xinxiong (5592 1800 7160), general manager of the China National Nuclear Corporation, by staff correspondent Lu Zhenhua (7120 2182 5478); place, date not given: "Jiang Xinxiong on China's Nuclear Industrial Development"] [Text] The year behind ...
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International Strategists Discuss Issues
conflicts were emerging. The Russian situation and its future strategic tendency also attracted serious attention. Third, there was a multitude of contradictions within the Western world, and the leading position of the United States was being continuously weakened. The contradictions among the United States, Japan, an...
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U.S. Report on PRC Prison Exports
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Short commentary" by Cang Mang (5547 5413): "A Wise Move"] [Text] The U.S. Government journal, FEDERAL REGISTER, recently published the findings of an investigation which acknowledged that the Qinghe sock factory did not export its products to the United States, and that this is unl...
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Areas Told To Spend More Fighting Endemic Diseases
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "Localities Told to Spend More on Disease Control"] [Text] Local governments are being urged by the State to take new steps to eradicate the various endemic diseases that currently threaten the health of more than 500 million Chinese farmers. Chen Minzha...
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Areas Told To Spend More Fighting Endemic Diseases
the founding of the Endemic Diseases Society of China. The society is a nongovernmental organization composed of specialists in endemic illnesses and volunteers from different State departments, institutes and industrial enterprises. The society was founded to help spread State policies and regulations on endemic disea...
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`Yearender' Views Global Military Situation
possibly intensify centrifugal forces among the Western countries, which could finally become a new challenge to the United States. Russia, which is in the midst of deep economic and political crises, is still declaring its wish to preserve its position as a major world power. While reducing its military forces by a bi...