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FBIS3-58560_0
Karayalcin Supports Iraqi Territorial Integrity
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Murat Karayalcin, state minister and deputy prime minister, has said Turkey will not allow Iraq's territorial integrity to be disturbed. In a speech at the Washington ball of the Turkish-American Friendship Council, where he was the guest of honor, Karayalcin said peoples of ma...
FBIS3-58565_1
Papoulias, Owen Brief Media on Bosnia Talks
Athens. We also welcome Ambassador (Marsais) and Messrs. (Landlow), (Ramsarand), (Sabenoir) and (Dan) from the European Commission. The subject of our talks is known; it is the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina. We exchanged views, we briefed each other on the latest developments and the ongoing effort by the cochairmen [of...
FBIS3-58588_0
Government Imposes Sanctions on Libya
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Swiss Government has threatened sanctions against Libya in line with the United Nations sanctions imposed in connection with the Lockerbie airliner bombing. The Swiss Foreign Ministry said Libyan state assets in Swiss banks would be frozen, all air traffic connections with ...
FBIS3-58617_4
Alphandery on Economic Policy, 1994 Prospects
recovery. [Robin] The French people have only recently rediscovered the market economy and its cyclical fluctuations, which are well-known facts in the United States. What are you saying to them to make them accept that such developments are normal and are better than the rigid and interventionist economic system which...
FBIS3-58623_0
Islamic Group Supports UN Air Strikes on Bosnian Serbs
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Geneva, Jan 17 (AFP) -- The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) called Monday [17 January] for UN Secretary General Butrus Butrus-Ghali to authorise air strikes "without delay" against Bosnian Serb forces. Foreign ministers from leading nations of the OIC met here with...
FBIS3-58624_0
Pakistani Minister on Bosnia Declaration
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Islamic Conference Organization [ICO] has demanded immediate lifting of arms embargo against Bosnia-Herzegovina. The call was made in a joint declaration adopted at the end of a special ministerial meeting of the ICO contact group in Geneva. Giving details of the declaratio...
FBIS3-58628_0
Klima Concludes Economic Talks in Southeast Asia
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Good Chances in Southeast Asia"] [Text] There are good prospects for Austria's export trade to the Southeast Asian threshold countries. Transportation Minister Viktor Klima, who visited Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia, accompanied by a delegation of leading indu...
FBIS3-58631_0
Foreign Office Denies Approving Lockerbie Trial Plan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Severin Carrell report: "Reports of UN Venue for Bomb Trial Denied] [Text] The Foreign Office yesterday strenuously denied reports that it had approved a proposal to try the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing at a United Nations court in the Netherlands. A spokesman for the...
FBIS3-58637_0
Coalition Develops Growth, Employment Program
Language: German Article Type:BFN ["hen."-initialed report: "Government Intends To Become Active on the Labor Market Before the Election"] [Text] Bonn -- In view of growing unemployment, the Federal Government is planning to extend the existing instruments in terms of labor policy in the course of the year. Hence, subs...
FBIS3-58644_0
Daily Comments on Clinton's European Policy
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Jacques Amalric commentary: "Europe After Clinton"] [Text] Officially, all of President Clinton's European interlocutors are satisfied: The Twelve, who heard the White House chief praise the European Union and recognize its separate identity in the security and defense sphere; the NAT...
FBIS3-58656_1
* Favorable Outlook for High-Tech Exports
research and development expenses are in excess of 4 percent of sales volume is considered to be high tech in the Statistic Center's calculations. High-tech products accounted for 12.6 percent of Finland's exports last year, which was 1.6 percentage points more than in 1991. The most important high-tech exports were co...
FBIS3-58659_1
* Survey Shows Satisfaction With Health Care System
survey of randomly selected consumers of health care services undertaken by Finland's Consumer Association and Finland's Patient Association in October-November is to be believed, Finns are quite satisfied with the health care they receive. Fully 84 percent of the 1,043 individuals who answered the questionnaire were e...
FBIS3-58660_1
Prime Minister on NATO Evolution, Partnership for Peace
those terms. For a long time there have been talks among all the NATO nations and there have been gradual developments. After the last summit the NACC (North Atlantic Cooperation Council) was the concrete response for increased cooperation between NATO countries and the former WP countries. Now we are building further ...
FBIS3-58661_1
Editorial Views Partnership for Peace, Bosnia Threat
If only these Serbs, the strongest side in war-torn Bosnia, were to finally say to themselves that this time NATO is in earnest about its warning. Then the UN peacekeeping forces could at least perform some of their humanitarian mission among people who are under threat from the horrors of a second winter of war. Howev...
FBIS3-58673_0
Ciller Comments on Clinton, Middle East Issues
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, addressing a True Path Party assembly group meeting today, said U.S. President Bill Clinton's contacts regarding the Middle East constitute a significant development for world peace. She pointe...
FBIS3-58675_0
Message to Baghdad, Kurdish Problem Viewed
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Ertugrul Ozkok: "Message to Saddam: Talk With Kurds"] [Excerpts] The talks that have been held with the Iraqi delegation in Ankara did not focus only on the question of the oil in the pipeline between Turkey and Iraq. The question of northern Iraq was also discussed, as we ...
FBIS3-58677_0
Interview with UK's Douglas Hurd
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Douglas Hurd, British secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, by satellite from his London office by Mehmet Ali Birand on the "Crossfire" program -- live, in English with superimposed Turkish translation] [Text] [Birand] Now, sir, there are a number of...
FBIS3-58698_1
EC, U.S. Agree To Boost Uruguay Round Results
with certain Asian countries; - The situation in some specific sectors (maritime services, financial services); - The situation concerning public procurement. The GATT agreement covers the contracts concluded by the central authorities. The EC attaches great importance to further progress by the United States in libera...
FBIS3-58721_0
Attack on Plane Halts German Flights To Sarajevo
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Bonn (DPA) -- A German supply aircraft was hit by a projectile today, the second such incident since the start of the UN airlift to Sarajevo. The German Defense Ministry confirmed that a projectile hit the wing of a Luftwaffe Transall as it was approaching to land in the Bos...
FBIS3-58741_0
Defense Minister on European Union Membership
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Defense Minister Werner Fasslabend by Peter Pirker; place and date not given -- recorded] [Text] [Pirker] As far as the timing and the priority of participation in Partnership for Peace with NATO are concerned, are you siding with the chancellor rather than your party c...
FBIS3-58753_0
Editorial Views Clinton's First Year
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Editorial by Leo Wieland: "Clinton's First Apprentice Year"] [Text] New bumperstickers can be seen in the United States marking the anniversary of Clinton's first year in office. They read: "Don't blame me -- I voted for Bush." However, this criticism is not representative. Most Ameri...
FBIS3-58776_3
German Foreign Minister Views Ankara Talks
raised with our Turkish friends. [Correspondent] You have given me a clue, Mr. Kinkel. Turkey has been seen not exactly as a bastion of human rights. Its policy toward the Kurdish minority, in particular, is being criticized strongly. What will you tell your Turkish counterpart in connection with this? [Kinkel] Douglas...
FBIS3-58777_1
Foreign Ministers Hold News Conference
and views were exchanged on international and regional issues at this first meeting, which is part of the consultative mechanisms that have been set up. He added all participants shared the view that Turkey -- as a European country -- needs to get closer to the continent's political, economic, security and defense stru...
FBIS3-58778_0
Government, Syria Reportedly Sign Security Agreement
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] It has now been learned that a top secret agreement was signed between the Turkish Republic and the Syrian Arab Republic on 1 December. The 15-point agreement mostly deals with security issues. The second article of the agreement, which provides for "joint operations against te...
FBIS3-58779_0
Commentary on Clinton-Al-Asad Meeting
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Sami Kohen: "All Right, But a Disadvantage Exists" -- punctuation as published] [Text] As far as Turkey is concerned, President Clinton's decision to include the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] problem in his talks with President Hafiz al-Asad in Geneva and to urge Syr...
FBIS3-58788_0
Government Issues Complaint to Iranian Ambassador
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Switzerland has protested to Iran over its alleged failure to help a Swiss investigation into the murder in Geneva four years ago of an Iranian opposition leader. The Swiss Foreign Ministry said it had formally complained to the Iranian ambassador that the Tehran government had...
FBIS3-58799_1
Editorial Views EP Session, Threat Balkans Poses to EU
chorus of the litany of many political parties, and over the next few months the population will continue to be confronted with it. After all, the European election campaign will soon be starting, and a not inconsiderable number of candidates will declare their great belief in the European idea. Their words will meet w...
FBIS3-58801_1
EEA Oversight Body Begins Reviewing EFTA Laws
[European Union] are agreed that the last unresolved issues in the supplementary protocol to the EEA [European Economic Area] agreement must be resolved before the end of January. The two sides fixed this deadline at the first meeting of the EEA Mixed Committee in Brussels yesterday. The issues have to be resolved if t...
FBIS3-58816_1
Economic Institute Sees Signs of Growth in East Europe
figure in 1989. Hungary, the favoured country for Western investment, would again experience zero growth this year, but Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria would go through their fifth consecutive year of a decline in GDP of about two percent. But this would represent a sharp improvement from a decline of about six percent ...
FBIS3-58826_3
Hurd Views NATO Summit in Brussels
NATO treaty says an armed attack against one signatory should be considered an attack against them all. Britain has gone to war twice this century in Europe on behalf of others. Through NATO we would be ready to do so again if necessary. But a decision to extend NATO's territory and commit our troops to the defence of ...
FBIS3-58827_3
Sinn Fein Leader Discusses Peace Initiative
which wasn't agreed, but within a broad time frame, moving us all in that direction. In other words, the British joining the persuaders. The British moving, with Dublin. And all of it done in consultation with ourselves and seeking the consent and the maximum consent and participation of the Unionists. Now that clearly...
FBIS3-58827_29
Sinn Fein Leader Discusses Peace Initiative
IRA will come to a decision to come to a cessation by taking its own counsel. Secondly, I wish to assist that process, as I have said. I've been part of a broad peace process and hopefully as a strand of that by finding a proposition to put to the army leadership. The reason I haven't put that to the army leadership is...
FBIS3-58828_7
Foreign Minister Interviewed on Diplomatic Issues
nationals live in Canada, because Quebec religious figures have been working in Haiti for many years, because there are deep-rooted ties." After two years with no apparent progress, the foreign minister suggests it is time for Canada to abandon its passive stance and "lean on the Americans." "They need to start speakin...
FBIS3-58830_0
Government Demands Standard EU Regulations on Refugees
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "ban": "Bonn Concerned About Refugees"] [Text] Bonn, 21 January -- In spite of opposition from other European states, the Federal Government is demanding a common European Union (EU) regulation on accepting refugees from the former Yugoslavia. On Friday [21 January], dur...
FBIS3-58841_11
Research Institute Reports on Economy
on the causes of the recession, it leads to confusion to repeatedly mention dues that are "too high" and "too high" a level of social benefits. These assertions do not tally with the fact that the enormous expansion of employment in the late 1980's and the 1990's took place within such a social framework. It makes just...
FBIS3-58841_15
Research Institute Reports on Economy
inflation rate will remain stable. The reduced supply of one particular commodity does not automatically lead to a decline in the demand for other goods, because as a rule, a reduction in supply is accompanied by the redistribution of income, which does not have to affect effective demand. As a result, a reduction in d...
FBIS3-58844_0
Antifascist Group Says Police `Obstruct' Activities
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "sp": "Antifascists Criticize Police"] [Text] Hannover, 18 January -- The Goettingen "Autonome Antifa" group has accused the police of attempting to obstruct its antifascist activities. The Lower Saxon Land Office of Criminal Investigations [LKA] has been investigating t...
FBIS3-58847_1
Schoenhuber Says 1994 `Year of Decision'
than the present generation. Moreover, one must take into account that resistance in those unfortunate 12 years not only meant restrictions or even the loss of one's civil existence, but that quite frequently it even lead to death. We Republikaners are filled with great pride that a man such as resistance fighter Hans ...
FBIS3-58847_2
Schoenhuber Says 1994 `Year of Decision'
own or of certain groupings. Petitions for referenda and referenda must be rated more highly. The watering down of traditional links and values must end, liberalism must not be confounded with libertinism. The harmful influence of the American way of life, which is characterized by success-based thinking at any price, ...
FBIS3-58847_5
Schoenhuber Says 1994 `Year of Decision'
state. Besides, we regard it as legitimate to hold a referendum on whether the church tax makes sense or does not. What must also be exposed is the hypocrisy, particularly in the case of "Christian" politicians, who are least qualified to moralize. In my former capacity as a journalist I repeatedly had the experience t...
FBIS3-58859_0
Authorities Place Kurdish Leader Under House Arrest
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, Jan 22 (AFP) -- French authorities have placed under house arrest a Kurdish leader and are planning to expel him despite his assertion that his political actions are legal, an anti-racism group said here Saturday [22 January]. The Movement Against Racism and for Friendsh...
FBIS3-58871_0
* Admiral Says Russian Military's Goals Uncertain
Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Trond Bo: "Increasing Russian Military Activity"] [Text] The election in Russia could lead to a more unstable military situation with additional forces put into position, a Norwegian admiral feels. The unstable situation in Russia and a reduction in advance stockpiling f...
FBIS3-58873_0
Iranian Kurdish Activist Injured by Letter Bomb
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] A letter bomb has badly injured an Iranian Kurdish activist in Stockholm and police say the attack was likely to be politically motivated. A spokesman for the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, based in Paris, blamed the Iranian Government for the bombing. The injured man i...
FBIS3-58880_0
Twenty Reportedly Killed in Mardin `Terrorist' Raid
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Terrorists raided the Akyurek and Ormancik villages in Mardin's Savur District last night, killing a total of 20 persons, mostly women and children. Seven persons were injured in the incident. Two of the terrorists who participated in the mass...
FBIS3-58926_1
Energy, Technology Assistance to Bulgaria Outlined
and East Europe. Over the past few days, he has established contacts for projects concerned with the improvement of gas supplies, the generation of electricity, coal vaporization, the cleaner combustion of lignite, and technological training in his country. Bulgaria relies heavily on Russian supplies of natural gas, nu...
FBIS3-58935_1
Berlusconi Would Privatize Health, Pensions
colored cards that the candidates of the new party "Forza Italia" are committing to memory. In reading these cards, one gets the impression tht the only way to enter fully into the Berlusconian neofree-enterprise universe is to picture Italy as an enormous supermarket in which all citizens are basically potential consu...
FBIS3-58937_0
Defense Minister Comments on Europe, Bosnia
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Berlin (DDP/ADN) -- The "political revolution in Europe" is not yet over, in the view of German Defense Minister Volker Ruehe. Germany wants to contribute toward integration and cooperation with East and Central Europe very much in the spirit of the last NATO summit, through an ...
FBIS3-58938_1
Weekly Describes Serbian, Libyan Ties
country. From Libya, Serbian trading activities are being extended to other countries in the Middle East and the entire world: from Cairo to Nicosia and via New York and Ottawa, as far as the Caribbean Cayman Islands. Succeeding the largest Yugoslav foreign trade concern, General-Export, which was dissolved in 1989, th...
FBIS3-58938_4
Weekly Describes Serbian, Libyan Ties
been transferred from states formerly belonging to the Soviet Union via Cyprus, a further $10 billion came from East Europe, and possibly as much as $5 billion from Serbia. Genex bosses already talk of Cyprus being a "financial parking place" that should be used, but with caution. That is because there are agents of al...
FBIS3-58938_5
Weekly Describes Serbian, Libyan Ties
that will extend until the year 2013, for the supply of 3.3 billion cubic meters of Siberian natural gas at a price of $270 million. However, the Genex traders nevertheless prefer business in the Arab world. It is easier to pull things off there and the profits are better. Thus, the weapons dealer Bekir Trhulij (whose ...
FBIS3-58943_5
Article Views Concern About Ostpolitik
therapy." One can only hope that the change in the government improves the disastrous mood in the country and thus, takes the "wind out of the sails" of Zhirinovskiy (Hornhues). Just prevent things from hardening -- that is the motto of Bonn's Russia policy. Carefully, but consistently Russia should be guided into the ...
FBIS3-58969_0
* Toxic Waste From Continent Greatest Threat
Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ole Mathismoen: "SFT Fears Hidden Environmental Catastrophe"] [Text] Norway's Pollution Authority [SFT] fears that the tolerance threshold for environmental toxins will soon be reached in Norway. "We are concerned. There are enormous gaps in our knowledge about the effec...
FBIS3-58969_2
* Toxic Waste From Continent Greatest Threat
to go before crabs can be fished out of the Frie Fjord. But it is entirely within the realm of possibility to get there," Rensvik said. While most Norwegian toxic waste has a concrete source that can be identified and cleaned up, it is harder in the case of foreign pollutants. Norwegian pollutants harm one end of a fjo...
FBIS3-58977_2
Ciller Cited on Russia, Greece, Kurdish State
and Greece? [Ciller] Disappointment awaits those countries that are not friendly to us. They will not get what they are after and will suffer enormous losses. I am stating this openly. I am saying this with a pride derived from being an Islamic country and a Muslim. They might threaten us and shout war cries, but they ...
FBIS3-58991_0
Chirac, Juppe Refuse To Head EU Election List
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Paul Guilbert commentary: "The Shadow of the Presidential Election"] [Text] After Chirac, Juppe: The rejection by the president and then the secretary general of the RPR [Rally for the Republic] of the idea of heading the majority's list in the European elections, goes beyond reasons ...
FBIS3-58992_0
Rocard Accuses Government of `Spineless Diplomacy'
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Editorial by Michel Rocard, former prime minister and Socialist Party secretary general, under the "Opinion" rubric: "France's Image Questioned: `Spineless Diplomacy Hurts France's Image'"] [Text] Sarajevo, Taiwan, Bern; what is the connection between these three distant places? Answe...
FBIS3-58993_0
Antiterrorist Police Arrest 10 Alleged PKK Supporters
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Marseilles, France, Jan 25 (AFP) -- Ten alleged supporters of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were arrested here on Tuesday [25 January] on suspicion of extorting funds for the separatist organisation, which is banned in Turkey. Police, including officers from an antiterrorist ...
FBIS3-58994_4
* Economic Intelligence Model Outlined
might thus prove counterproductive in some cases. Moreover, the indispensable rules for protecting confidentiality constitute obstacles, in a number of cases, such that the sharing of the wealth contained in information is impossible. And so it is that overall the norms for classifying information in the public departm...
FBIS3-59001_1
French Senate: Schengen `Inapplicable' by 1 Feb
the German secretary of state to the Chancellery responsible for European questions, said yesterday morning that the elimination of identity checks at the borders of the nine European Union countries would have to be postponed again because it is "totally impossible on 1 February." The implementation of this agreement ...
FBIS3-59008_0
Postponement of Schengen Accords Expected
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed ABS (ADB): "Expected Postponement of Schengen Measures Until Latter Half of Year"; as released by Brussels BELGA Database] [Text] Brussels, 14 Jan (BELGA) -- The implementation of the Schengen accords (Benelux, France, Germany) on exempting travelers from controls at st...
FBIS3-59017_0
Regions Urged To Set Up Direct Links With EU
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Ian Murray: "Regions Bypass Whitehall To Cash In on Helpful Brussels"] [Text] Britain's regions are being urged to use Brussels as "a Whitehall bypass" to promote projects that are blocked by central government. They believe bureaucrats in Brussels are more accessible and s...
FBIS3-59019_0
Industry Survey Confirms Steady Recovery in Economy
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Article by Phillip Coggan: "CBI Survey Affirms Steady Economic Recovery"] [Text] The UK economy is improving steadily with few signs of an upsurge in inflation, according to yesterday's Confederation of British Industry's [CBI] quarterly industrial trends survey. The survey endorses ...
FBIS3-59026_0
Government Approves Agreement on Czech Border Traffic
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn, Jan 14 (CTK) -- The German Government approved a Czech-German Agreement on Border Area Traffic today, the German Interior Ministry said. The document is ready for signing, the ministry said, adding that it enables people in both countries to cross the border into the othe...
FBIS3-59042_0
FRG's Kinkel on Turkey's Regional Role
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara (DPA) -- Germany's Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel met Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller in Ankara today. He was also received by Turkish President Suleyman Demirel. Kinkel held joint consultations beforehand with Douglas Hurd and Hikmet Cetin, his British and Turkish cou...
FBIS3-59043_0
UK, Germany Promise Support, Warn About Human Rights
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara (DPA) -- Germany and Britain have promised support to Turkey, as an important country on the border between Europe and Asia, but also warned it to adhere to human rights. After talks with Douglas Hurd and Hikmet Cetin, his British and Turkish counterparts, Federal Foreign...
FBIS3-59052_3
Russian Officers Reportedly Involved in Illegal Trading
Wuensdorf was suspected of smuggling cigarettes. While the final withdrawal of the troops, scheduled for the end of August, is approaching, greed amongst the WGT troops is on the increase. Military prosecutors are investigating the case of officers selling off a complete set of aerial photographs of the former GDR terr...
FBIS3-59060_0
Restrictions on Exports Viewed
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "The Customers Stay Away"] [Text] Asylum experts in the Interior Ministry feel that they have been made fools of. The 7 May 1993 asylum treaty with Poland had already been settled, when the Federal Export Office (BAFA) performed its duty: It raised objections. The...
FBIS3-59081_0
Rehn Cited on EU Membership, Partnership for Peace
Language: Danish Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with Defense Minister Elisabeth Rehn, Swedish People's Party presidential candidate, by Maria Romantschuk in Helsinki; no date given: "Finnish `Queen' Wants To Be President"] [Text] Helsinki -- "My leadership will be synonymous with more openness. Hopefully we will...
FBIS3-59089_4
Foreign Minister Pangalos Views Turkey, PKK
the crisis of 1987 erupted. [Pangalos] We did not start it. Look, even this discussion is ridiculous. All this should be settled in line with international rules. If there is a settlement, fine. If there is not, then the question must be taken to the International Court of Justice in the Hague and settled there. [Biran...
FBIS3-59094_0
Iraq-Turkey Pipeline Reportedly Damaged by PKK Bomb
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline sustained heavy damage after PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] militants bombed it last night. The damage to the pipeline, which was sabotaged at a point near the town of Cizre in Sirnak district, is estimated to be 500 billion Turkish lira. BOTAS [T...
FBIS3-59095_9
Delay of Army Discharges Viewed
result of escalating events in the southeast region. Statistics from 1993 indicated that, despite official statements, there was a 100 percent increase in the number of armed activities in that region and Kurdish separatism had claimed a twofold increase in lives that year compared to 1992. As Tolon put it, Turkey was ...
FBIS3-59101_1
U.S. Bosnia Policy Ascribed To Lack of Vital Interests
is causing problems for Bosnia's Serbian and Croatian armed forces. As in May 1993, the United States is still in favor of lifting the arms embargo which is affecting Bosnia -- a measure to which the European countries which have sent contingents to the former Yugoslavia are still hostile. If the UN bodies agree, Washi...
FBIS3-59118_2
Trade Prospects With Australia Viewed
recent deals -- such as Tate & Lyle's 325 million Australian dollar purchase of Bundaberg Sugar, or United Biscuits' acquisition of Smiths Snackfood -- have sustained the UK's relative position, while the U.S. share of foreign investment in Australia has slipped and Japan's has grown. The steady deregulation and privat...
FBIS3-59128_0
Police Seize Evidence from Right-Wing Extremists
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Berlin/Bonn (DPA) -- In large-scale raids against right-wing extremists mainly in Berlin, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, police today seized evidence. Flats in Lower Saxony and North-Rhine Westphalia belonging to members of the "Direct Action/Middle Germany" gro...
FBIS3-59141_1
Editorial Views Clinton's State of Union Address
world, but the economy is our fate." With these words, the foreign minister, who was murdered by the Nazis, anticipated several cubic meters of political literature: A purse that is doing all right is a nice pillow to rest on for those in power. But if the man in the street gets the feeling that his material existence ...
FBIS3-59168_0
PKK's `First Time' Use of Toxic Explosives Noted
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] A group of Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] terrorists killed 20 people, including four village guards, in two villages in Mardin's Savur district. For the first time, the terrorists used toxic explosives to attack the villages. Two PKK groups attacked Ormancik and Akyurek a...
FBIS3-59232_0
Air Force Operation Into Northern Iraq Detailed
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Air Force Command warplanes carried out an operation against the Zhalah camp of the terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization in northern Iraq. Heavy losses were inflicted on the PKK terrorists in the camp, who are believed to nu...
FBIS3-59233_0
Ciller: Air Strike `Political Decision'
Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [News conference by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller at the chief of the General Staff's Office on 28 January -- recorded] [Text] At 0900 this morning, our Air Force hit the Zhalah camp. As you know, the Zhalah camp recently replaced the al-Biqa' Valley. The terrorists were being trained a...
FBIS3-59247_2
New Balladur Stability Pact `Anodyne'
horrifying prospect for many East European states and an idea which, interestingly, was also rejected by the Hungarians, the nation traditionally thought to have most to gain from any border revisions. Furthermore, the French were initially vague about U.S. participation in the plan, so heightening suspicions that thei...
FBIS3-59248_0
Rabin Addresses Council of Europe
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Rabin Addresses Council of Europe"; as released by Brussels TEXTLINE database] [Text] Mr. Rabin tells the Council of Europe assembly that "I come from Jerusalem to tell you that the government of Israel yearns for peace... Israel will be very forthcoming in its...
FBIS3-59250_0
European Cogeneration Technology Association Established
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Environment -- Six Member States Set up Cogen Europe (Association for Promotion of Cogeneration Technology (CHP) Throughout Europe)"; as released by Brussels TEXTLINE database] [Text] The Cogen Europe association has been set up to promote the implementation th...
FBIS3-59255_5
Article Reviews Western Economic Policies I. Emphasize Stimulating Economic Growth; Besides Monetary Policies, Attention Is Focused on Fiscal Policies, Especially Direct Government Investments II. Putting Industrial Policy on the Government's Policy Agenda III. Trade Management Has Become the Theme of the West's Trade ...
interests while the rise and fall of industries should be determined by the market. Although some European countries and the United States have at times adopted policies to help certain industries, they have mostly been in the form of assistance and not direct promotion, and they have never been systematic. Since the l...
FBIS3-59259_4
Liu Guoguang Interviewed on Role of Foreign Banks
mechanisms, and technical equipment. Therefore, foreign banks hold a marked advantage in both their operation and the attraction of capable people. Practice in China during recent years shows that in areas and business fields that foreign banks have entered, such as the international clearing business and the foreign e...
FBIS3-59260_0
ECONOMIC DAILY on Merits of Tax Sharing System
Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Article by Gao Shusheng (7559 2579 3932): "The Tax Sharing System Is Spreading Like Wildfire"] [Text] As fiscal system reform is playing a very key role in China's reform process, the significant new fiscal reform measures that are going into effect are arousing widespread attention ...
FBIS3-59261_2
Commentator on Personal Income Tax Reform
countries as a reference. 1. Efforts have been made to expand the sphere of the Individual Income Tax Law to include Chinese citizens, foreigners and self-employed industrial and commercial establishments into a single uniform individual income tax law. 2. In accordance with international practice, the concept of "resi...
FBIS3-59263_0
Article Suggests Countering Antidumping Actions
Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Article by Zhang Yuqing (1728 3768 0615) of the Treaties and Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade: "New Trends in Foreign Antidumping Actions Against China's Export Products"] [Text] On 7 July 1993, the U.S. Department of Commerce gave its final judgement ...
FBIS3-59264_6
Comprehensive Family Planning in Impoverished Areas Major Characteristics of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas The Current Situation Regarding Comprehensive Handling of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas
cadres and employees. They also attack people and matters which damage family planning work and forcibly enforcing the policy with "nail families" and "nut families" who have had excessive births; major administrative departments, including industrial and commercial, civil affairs, urban construction, insurance, revenu...
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Comprehensive Family Planning in Impoverished Areas Major Characteristics of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas The Current Situation Regarding Comprehensive Handling of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas
cultivated land divided into two parts--the grain ration land and the responsible contracted land--the former is allocated according to number of family members, and the latter according to number of people in the labor force, but some places allocated lands totally according to number of family members. When allocatin...
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Comprehensive Family Planning in Impoverished Areas Major Characteristics of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas The Current Situation Regarding Comprehensive Handling of Family Planning Work in the Impoverished Areas
multiple excessive births, they only charge something over 100 yuan, and call it a minor penalty; some excessive birth parents roam about or cause trouble, beyond the reach of village cadres' power; also the latter dare not take forceful measures, and this is called a difficult penalty. Some family planning cadres did ...
FBIS3-59267_5
PLA Use of Force Against Taiwan Assessed New Developments in the Combat Strength of Taiwan's Armed Forces Speculation Over the Chinese Communists' Use of Force Against Taiwan Submarine Mines Are the Weapons That Cause Headaches to Taiwan Military Taiwan Relies on Imports for Raw Materials and Oil, It Is Hard for Its Ec...
anti-submarine warfare, though the Chinese Communist navy has more than 100 submarines, it is estimated that only about one half of them can be put into use during the initial stage of fighting while the rest will remain in a state of maintenance or refitting. Moreover, among the usable submarines of the Chinese Commun...
FBIS3-59270_3
Poll on `Deteriorating' Local Political Ecology
election. Now that all political parties and candidates are well aware of the voters' discontent with interference in politics by landholding financial groups and the underworld and are trying to break off relations with them, what are the images of the candidates of various parties in the eyes of voters? According to ...
FBIS3-59284_3
Journal Examines Criminal Societies Overview of Organized Crime Main Occupation of Criminal Gangs: Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
in smuggled pornography throughout the entire Huanghuagang district. Control of all underground trades in Guangzhou is divided up between different gangs, a fact that has already been verified very early by security personnel. Most of the independent small street vendors in the country's largest small commodities marke...
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Journal Examines Criminal Societies Overview of Organized Crime Main Occupation of Criminal Gangs: Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
institutions, or have escaped from prison. They will risk their everything to fight the police to take personal revenge. Arms Trading, A Casual Affair On New Year's Day of 1986, a military convoy on its way to relieve a garrison on the Sino-Vietnamese border was stopped when it approached a small town near Menglian. A ...
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Journal Examines Criminal Societies Overview of Organized Crime Main Occupation of Criminal Gangs: Smuggling, Drug Trafficking
dispute. In actual fact, much of the immoral trade in Shenzhen is tacitly permitted by the police, and the criminal gangs have their informers right inside the police. 6. It has come to light in recent years that the criminal gang organizations, for more effective operations, have started to hire intellectuals at great...
FBIS3-59287_0
Taiwan Import-Export Controls Analyzed
Language: Chinese Article Type:CSO [Article by Zhang Shanbin (4545 0810 2430), Research Office, Anhui Provincial Superior People's Court: "Critique of Taiwan's Import-Export Control Laws"] [Text] I In the course of trading with foreign countries over a long period of time, the fiscal and legislative authorities in Taiw...
FBIS3-59289_13
Xu Jiatun's Memoirs on Drafting Basic Law British Cooperation Still Needed After 1997; Britain Participates in Entire Process of Basic Law Drafting Tan Yaozong's Proposal To Protect Labor Interests Rejected; Nomination of Li Zhuming and Liao Yaozhu to Drafting Committee Provokes Controversy Misunderstood Zheng Weirong ...
because they might need to draw on me to make arrangements for some specific tasks. Ji Pengfei convened a meeting of the chairmen and vice chairmen of the drafting committee to discuss this proposal. The vice-chairmen from Hong Kong all actively approved, Y.K Pao being the first to express approval. An Zijie mentioned ...
FBIS3-59294_8
Article Says State Revenues Falling Rapidly
sorts of extravagance and waste prevalent, and social group consumption up sharply. In the first three quarters of 1992, nonproductive group-consumption spending grew over 30 percent in 21 mainland Chinese provinces, cities, and autonomous regions. There is basically no way to calculate the group-consumption spending t...
FBIS3-59306_3
Impact of Sino-British Agreement Assessed
for making suitable plans. Furthermore, as the Hong Kong Government becomes increasingly a "lame duck" government, it will have even greater difficulties gaining majority support in the Legislative Council. At the same time, as the Hong Kong Government must perforce concentrate on managing the difficult Sino-British re...
FBIS3-59308_11
Wang Ruowang on Politics of Three Gorges Project Compatriots Are Responsible for Stopping the Chinese Communists' Wanton Behavior
If workers at the lower levels have problems, do all of them need to ask the commander-in-chief on the work site to solve them ? The work site covers an area about dozens of li in diameter. If anything goes wrong in terms of quality, how does the commander-in-chief at the top know who has caused all this? As soon as th...
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Article Describes Root Causes of Corruption
and small-scale activities need administrative approval at every turn; without it, nothing can be so much as talked about. Therefore, making and using connections, doing business through influence, "greasing palms," and "cutting red tape" have become the "standard topics" in economic life. From this, there have arisen ...