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FBIS4-23012_0 | Construction of Strains Producing FI- and T-Antigens to | Plague Microbe 947C0098A Moscow BIOTEKHNOLOGIYA in Russian No. 6, Nov-Dec 92 pp 59-62 947C0098A Moscow BIOTEKHNOLOGIYA Russian CSO [Article by I.V. Darmov, I.V. Marakulin, S.N. Yanov, A.A. Byvalov, T.G. Abdullin, Ye.V. Smirnov, Scientific Research Institute of Micro-biology at the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kirov; UD... |
FBIS4-23012_1 | Construction of Strains Producing FI- and T-Antigens to | The marked protective action of the I-fraction, also referred to as FI-antigen, to the plague microbe is well known; atypical forms of the Yersinia pestis agent which do not synthesize the I-fraction and are found in natural foci can usually be produced from preparations on the basis of antibodies to the mice toxin or ... |
FBIS4-23016_0 | Design of Chromosome DNA Probe Species-Specific for | Yersinia pestis 947C0198 Moscow GENETIKA in Russian Vol.29 No.3, Mar 1993 [manuscript submitted 06 Mar 92] pp 417-422 947C0198 Moscow GENETIKA Russian CSO [Article by O. V. Norkina, A. N. Kulichenko, G. A. Shovodayeva, R. Kh. Boshnakov, M. Yu. Aksenov, Yu. A. Popov, A. Ts. Tomov, V. K. Kyesovskiy, I. G. Drozdov, A. L. ... |
FBIS4-23017_0 | Cloning Vectors for Escherichia Coli and | Endorhizospheric Nitrogen Fixer Klebsiella Oxytoca VN13 Based on Replicon of Natural HSD Plasmid pZE8 947C0109B Kiev BIOPOLIMERY I KLETKA in Russian Vol. 8 No. 5, Sep-Oct 92 pp 48-53 947C0109B Kiev BIOPOLIMERY I KLETKA Russian CSO [Article by M.F. Alekseyev, G.L. Kovtunovich, A.N. Kravets, A.S. Solonin, Molecular Biolo... |
FBIS4-23020_4 | Set of Dry Coagglutinating Diagnosticums To Detect and | formalin-killed Francisella tularensis of the vaccine strain 15. In a study of five series of preparation using 96 strains of tularemia causative agent, including freshly isolated agent, the sensitivity of reaction with formalin-treated suspensions ranged from 10 to 10[.sup]-1[/] units based on standard turbidity and f... |
FBIS4-23021_0 | Nonpedigree Mice -- Bioproducers of Monoclonal Antibodies | to Capsular Plague Microbe Antigen 947C0236B Moscow ZHURNAL MIKROBIOLOGII, EPIDEMIOLOGII I IMMUNOBIOLOGII in Russian No. 2, Feb 92 (manuscript received 14 Jan 91) pp 73-74 947C0236B Moscow ZHURNAL MIKROBIOLOGII, EPIDEMIOLOGII I IMMUNOBIOLOGII Russian CSO [Article by Z.L. Devdariani, V.A. Fedorova, M.S. Verenkov, A.I. C... |
FBIS4-23021_1 | Nonpedigree Mice -- Bioproducers of Monoclonal Antibodies | mineral oil pristane (Sigma, United States) in the amount of 0.5 ml. The specific activity of the ascitic fluid was determined through a reaction of indirect hemagglutination with commercial plague erythrocytic antigen diagnosticum manufactured at the Central Asia Antiplague Institute (Alma-Ata) and through the indirec... |
FBIS4-23022_11 | Instructions on Registration of Potentially Hazardous | 4.7. Dermal absorption 5 yes 5 TL[.sub]50[/] 5 no 5 not studied 4.8. Sensitization 5 yes 5 no 5 not studied 4.9. Embryotropic action 5 yes 5 no 5 not studied 4.10. Gonadotropic action 5 yes 5 no 5 not studied 4.11. Mutagenic action 5 yes 5 no 5 not studied 4.12. Carcinogenic action in man: 5 yes 5 no 5 not studied n\20... |
FBIS4-23024_0 | Genes of Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics of | Serratia Marcescens Clinical Strains and Enzymes Encoded by Them 947C0099B Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA in Russian Vol. 37 No. 11, Nov 92 pp 10-14 947C0099B Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA Russian CSO [Article by A.N. Kolganov, S.B. Vakulenko, National Antibiotics Research Center, Moscow] [Abstract] The mech... |
FBIS4-23028_0 | Antibiotic Sensitivity of Plague Microbe Strains From | Foreign Countries 947C0099F Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA in Russian Vol. 37 No. 11, Nov 92 pp 23-24 947C0099F Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA Russian CSO [Article by G.N. Galenko, A.K. Akiyev, V.Ye. Tarasova, Scientific Research Antiplague Institute of the Caucasus and Trans-Caucasus, Stavropol] [Abstract] T... |
FBIS4-23029_0 | Cefotaxime Efficacy in Experimental Plague Infection | CSO [Article by L.N. Makarovskaya, A.I. Shcherbanyuk, I.V. Kasatkina, V.A. Zurabyan, Antiplague Scientific Research Institute, Rostov-na-Donu] [Abstract] The value of third generation cephalosporins, particularly third generation cefotaxime which is distinguished from first and second generation preparations by improve... |
FBIS4-23030_0 | Doxycyclin in Preventing Experimental Plague Induced by | Agent Strain Versions 947C0099H Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA in Russian Vol. 37 No. 11, Nov 92 pp 26-28 947C0099H Moscow ANTIBIOTIKI I KHIMIOTERAPIYA Russian CSO [Article by E.D. Samokhodkina, I.V. Ryzhko, A.I. Shcherbanyuk, I.V. Kasatkina, R.I. Tsurayeva, T.A. Zhigalova, Antiplague Scientific Research Institute... |
FBIS4-23037_3 | Saltykov Report on State of Russian S&T in 1993 | for electric and thermal power at a number of power-consuming institutes more than 60 percent of the budget assets, which are being allotted for scientific research, are being used to pay for energy resources. The situation with regard to communications services is similar. The situation with the financing of research ... |
FBIS4-23040_4 | Russian Gold Technology More Easily Sold Abroad Than at Home | the former Soviet Union. The accumulated experience is unique and the new technological solutions are still protected as inventions. Precisely Russian gold technology has opened the way to the production of gold from deposits regarded as poor, unsuited for commercial exploitation. After reexamining the conditions of go... |
FBIS4-23050_0 | New Technological Process for Production of Tire Cord and | Its Equipment Design 947M0008B Mytishchi KHIMICHESKIYE VOLOKNA in Russian No. 5, Sep-Oct 93 pp 37-39 947M0008B Mytishchi KHIMICHESKIYE VOLOKNA Russian CSO [Article by M. V. Bogdan, A. A. Grom, and A. F. Goncharenko, NPO ``Khimtekstilmash,'' Chernigov; UDC677.021.12] [Abstract] Tire cord is presently still being produce... |
FBIS4-23084_17 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 1 JUNE 1994 | because the subcommittee recommendations, which were expected in March, were delayed until May. Consequently, MITI will not complete its elaboration of implementation rules until July. Manufacturers are also gloomy over prospects for any concrete actions because MITI has incorporated "policy assessments" as part of the... |
FBIS4-23084_24 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 1 JUNE 1994 | remittances out of "consideration" for the U.S. Government, which has been "irritated" by Japanese remittances to North Korea because of the DPRK's suspected nuclear weapons program. The 20 May ASAHI quoted financial sources as saying that Ashikaga Bank had suspended dollar remittances because it feared "some sort of r... |
FBIS4-23084_90 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 1 JUNE 1994 | p 20) SOUTHEAST ASIA - INDONESIA: Prospects For Renewed Economic Ties With Iraq -- Indonesian Trade Minister S.B. Joedono and Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf recently discussed renewing economic ties in anticipation of the lifting of the UN embargo on Iraq. Indonesia's exports to Iraq had reached $83.3 ... |
FBIS4-23084_91 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 1 JUNE 1994 | infrastructure project undertaken by private companies from the two countries. The first phase of the project involves the construction of two 150,000-kw generating plants in Bukit Assam, South Sumatra, at a cost of about $340 million. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 1995, and the plants will be in operatio... |
FBIS4-23089_19 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-020--WEST EUROPE | Elf Aquitaine oil company and Syntelabo, the pharmaceutical lab of the L'0real group, which in 1989 established an 18-member office responsible for coordinating information collected throughout the world. This office not only scans scientific magazines but garners important information from seminars, where researchers ... |
FBIS4-23089_27 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-020--WEST EUROPE | peace between him and Greenspan is destined to be brief, Nigro notes. He concluded, "This can only create new problems for the U.S. economy. It is a vicious circle." For this reason, Clinton and his advisers have let it discreetly be known that they do not understand why Greenspan and his aides believe interest rate in... |
FBIS4-23109_5 | Havana Cracks Down on Flagrant Black Marketeers | self-employment in the service sector- -which amounted to an endorsement of underground economic activity--has apparently made it easier for Cubans to camouflage the sale of state merchandise on the black market where goods fetch a higher price than they would in the state's price- controlled stores. Given that the reg... |
FBIS4-23112_1 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-021--WEST EUROPE | 'Alarms' Business Community Spain: Key Economic Figures Take a Fall EU Eco-Fin Agrees on Rules for Financial Services Car Manufacturers Form New Research Group FRANCE Editorial on Clinton, Bentsen, Kantor Sapin Supports Deficit Reduction First COB Justifies Sanction Power GERMANY Expert Explains Lagging German Investme... |
FBIS4-23112_22 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-021--WEST EUROPE | DEUTSCHES ALLGEMEINES SONNTAGSBLATT in German 27 May 94 p 4) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY FLOURISHING--The German environmental technology industry is flourishing, according to an article in the 18 May FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU. The National Association of the German Waste Disposal Industry (BDE) estimates that the in... |
FBIS4-23112_24 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-021--WEST EUROPE | supporting a project which, for the first time, will produce teflon fibers by means of a fluidized solids technique, without the use of heavy metals. The fibers are a versatile asbestos substitute. (Joel S. 733-6503) (Hamburg DIE WELT in German 18 May 94 p WR4) ITALY BANK OF ITALY GOVERNOR ON ECONOMY--At an annual boar... |
FBIS4-23114_58 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 15 JUNE 1994 | the Hyundai Technology Development Corporation, will serve as the group's designated aircraft manufacturer. The latter is slated to take charge of the production of all rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, including assembly production of helicopters through a technology agreement with Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries and ... |
FBIS4-23114_72 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 15 JUNE 1994 | INDONESIA: Coal Production Figures, Volume of Deposits Reported -- The president of the state-run coal company P.T. Bukit Asam recently stated that Indonesia has 36 billion tons in coal deposits, which would be sufficient to meet domestics needs for the next 300 years if consumption is controlled. On the other hand, In... |
FBIS4-23123_3 | Anti-Reformist Masol Named Premier by Kravchuk and Leftists | nomination, leftist Supreme Soviet First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Tkachenko announced that 12 of the Supreme Soviet's commissions backed Masol's candidacy, while two opposed and three abstained (Kiev radio, 15 June). Masol was quickly approved by the Supreme Soviet, but angry democrats and nationalists boycotted the e... |
FBIS4-23131_68 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 29 JUNE 1994 | computers to Samsung Data Systems, and deflecting coils (used in monitors) to Samsung Electro- Mechanics. According to the newspaper, Samsung Display Systems will have invested 500 billion won ($625 million) by 1998 to expand its share of the world's TFT-LCD market to 7-8 percent. In addition, the 7 June MAEIL KYONGJE ... |
FBIS4-23131_85 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 29 JUNE 1994 | establish a $400- million, duty-free trade complex at Don Sai Island, Laos, to be called the Golden Triangle Company. The trade center will be a duty-free port with goods supplied by various countries, including Laos, Burma, the PRC, and Singapore. Goods from the PRC will include garments, herbal medicines, and farm to... |
FBIS4-23146_9 | Peace Talks Tackle Issue of `Hidden' Frelimo Troops | the number "the government now says refers to its troops differs from the figure of 26,480 soldiers the CCF submitted to Unomoz." Renamo thinks that between 14,480 and 10,480 soldiers could have been "put aside" for the formation of a private army. Commenting on the disbanding of paramilitary forces, Renamo noted that ... |
FBIS4-23163_1 | TEC Releases Draft Document on Arms Industry | of R420 million [rand] a year. Unless the expenditure is maintained the industry will lose its technological edge and much of its design and development capabilities, the working document states. A joint management system has been recommended for technology development and to co-ordinate long-term planning of all milit... |
FBIS4-23183_0 | South African Press Review for 29 May | BFN [Editorial Report] SUNDAY TIMES Opposition to Taxes Criticized -- "The perpetual handwringing of the country's richest people, who seem to regard any taxation as though it were a flesh-gobbling virus, is becoming tiresome," begins the Johannesburg SUNDAY TIMES in English on 29 May in a page-18 editorial. "The lates... |
FBIS4-23200_0 | RPF Says U.S. Assistance Mandated Too Late | BFN [Text] The U.S. Government has finally allowed to support the UN Mission in Rwanda. The U.S. Government has set aside $35 million to finance the UN Mission in Rwanda. Bill Clinton's government has also pledged to send tanks and transport planes for African troops to be sent in Rwanda as UN troops. U.S. Government h... |
FBIS4-23204_3 | Army Linked to Arms Traffic With Rwanda | between Hutus and Tutsis, already sensitive within the Kivu due to the ethnic clashes in the neighboring countries, have grown with the present Rwandan crisis, and that Kinshasa's policy was therefore rather to receive Tutsi refugees in South Kivu (Bukavo, Uvira) and Hutu refugees in North Kivu (Goma, Masisi, Rutshuru)... |
FBIS4-23295_0 | GCA, Frontline State Leaders Hold Meetings in Harare Conference Assesses Spread of AIDS | BFN [Text] Harare June 2 SAPA -- Africa is likely to remain mired in poverty unless the AIDS scourge is arrested through the commitment of more resources, the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) said in Zimbabwe on Thursday [2 June]. According to the GCA's African Population Advisory Committee (APAC) report presented in ... |
FBIS4-23357_0 | Journalists Jailed for Publishing `False' Reports | BFN [Text] Addis Ababa, 2 Jun (KNA/PANA) -- The third bench of the Central High Court in Addis Ababa has sentenced Daniel Kifle, a journalist, to 18 months' imprisonment after finding him guilty of publishing malicious canards in a private Amharic weekly, FENDISHA, reports PANA. According to the central prosecutor's of... |
FBIS4-23359_3 | President Moi Delivers Madaraka Day Address | celebrate this day when we attained internal self-government it is also appropriate to review the political atmosphere in our country. Seventeen months ago we held the elections which ushered in a multiparty Parliament. The elections were preceded by intensive political activities, which unfortunately, divided Kenyans ... |
FBIS4-23373_1 | Rebels Capture Kabgayi; UN Suspends Evacuations | town to stop the killings, UN officials said. [passage omitted] A UN team sent to Kabgayi this week to investigate the reports of mass slaughter said there had been killings, but not on the scale first believed. Relief officials, however, cast doubt on their conclusions. UN officials said privately that the fact that t... |
FBIS4-23380_0 | Demonstrators Killed in Clashes With Police | BFN [Text] A demonstration in the Afar District of Arhiba was violently repressed by police this morning, who used tear gas and real bullets. According to medical sources, two people are believed to have been killed, and several are reported to have been wounded. The demonstrators are protesting against the police, who... |
FBIS4-23465_0 | Abiola Request to U.S. Government Reported | BFN [Text] Lagos, 6 June (PANA) -- The political temperature in Nigeria remained high Monday [6 June] with a report that millionaire Moshood Abiola is seeking the support of the United States Government in his bid to be installed as president of the West African country. Abiola; who claimed victory [word indistinct] 12... |
FBIS4-23477_2 | `Discrepancy' in Troop Figures Documented | figure was accepted, leaving a total of 12,000 troops missing." After the issue was submitted to the CSC, it returned to the CCF on 5 May 1994. Since then the CCF has held four meetings to discuss the issue. "All these meetings were unfruitful," Segala says in his letter to the UN's Aldo Ajello. Segala's memorandum goe... |
FBIS4-23479_8 | Chissano Addresses Frelimo Cadres Meeting | We have a party which has more than 900,000 members. We have the best cadres in the country. We have youth and women on our side. What we need is just to work hard, with great tenacity, since no victory is obtained without efforts and sacrifice. I repeat: Victory has to be prepared, victory has to be organized. Let us ... |
FBIS4-23575_0 | 20 Wounded in Security Forces-Protestors Clash | BFN [Text] About 20 people have been injured by gunfire in Djibouti when police dispersed a demonstration against the bulldozing of homes in an Afar district of Djibouti's capital. Afar sources and the United Front of the Djibouti Opposition said four people were killed during Sunday's [5th June] protest in the Ahabia ... |
FBIS4-23608_0 | Heavy Fighting Continues in Kigali; Massacre Reported Priests Witness Massacre | BFN [Text] Heavy fighting broke out once again this morning in several districts of Kigali. According to UN representatives on the ground, cease-fire talks are getting nowhere and the airport remains closed. We spoke yesterday evening of the latest massacre which had targeted at a group of Tutsi children. Two clergymen... |
FBIS4-23609_0 | Heavy Fighting Continues in Kigali; Massacre Reported RPF Confirms 170 Killed | BFN [Text] One hundred and seventy people were killed on Friday [10 June] by government forces and militias in Kigali. The victims were taken from a church at Nyamirambo where over 190 had taken refuge. Government troops and militias attacked the church with machine guns and grenades. The 170 people were mainly Tutsis ... |
FBIS4-23638_1 | OAU Ministerial Council Continues Session in Tunis Egyptian, Libyan Ministers Interviewed | no need to elaborate further on it. Libyan Foreign Minister 'Umar al-Muntasir replied to AL-ANWAR'S questions as follows: [Abu-Mansur] Is the "Lockerbie" case included in the African summit's agenda? Are you seeking an African stand supporting your views as was the case, for example, with the Arab League? [Al-Muntasir]... |
FBIS4-23651_0 | Europeans Reportedly Involved in Right-Wing Army | BFN [Report by De Wet Potgieter] [Text] Police are investigating a case involving more than 15,000 European tourists who have entered the country over the past few months but have not yet left. They are apparently illegally in the country. This has led to rumors of secret plans to establish an underground "national arm... |
FBIS4-23688_0 | RPF Troops Find Mass Grave | BFN [Excerpts] According to news sent to us by our colleague Louise Kayibanda in Gitarama the Rwandan Patriotic Front [RPF] troops found an enormous hole where many people had been buried. Louise Kayibanda says that along the Gitarama-Nyanza road, there are many refugees who escaped the killings and other refugees who ... |
FBIS4-23727_0 | Renamo Charges Irregularities in Registration Process | BFN [Report by correspondent Rafael Omar in Nampula] [Text] The voter registration process in Nampula Province is experiencing problems. The Mozambique National Resistance [Renamo] Party has been complaining about an alleged presence of Tanzanian citizens in Matibane and Cabeceira posts in Mossuril District, as well as... |
FBIS4-23788_0 | Further on Massacres | BFN [Text] Bujumbura, June 15 (AFP) -- Fears that ethnic fighting in Rwanda is spreading to neighbouring Burundi increased Wednesday [15 June] as aid officials questioned who was to blame for a massacre of 100 refugees in the north of the country. The massacre Monday in Bugabira, in the northern province of Kirundo, wa... |
FBIS4-23805_0 | Iscor Entering Titanium, Heavy Metals Industry | BFN [Text] Pretoria June 15 SAPA -- Iscor [South African Iron and Steel Corporation] said on Wednesday [15 June] it was entering the titanium and heavy metals industry by acquiring 100 per cent of the shares and claims in Natal Mineral Sands from Shell (South Africa) and Rhoex. Subject to certain conditions, the effect... |
FBIS4-23811_1 | HNP Policy Changes Published | politics has been rewritten as follows: - The HNP's foundation is nationalism. It is based on preference for what is your own, a universal right of persons and groups. - Society in South Africa is not one single community, but a diversity of communities which differ in race, culture, language, and religion. To try to i... |
FBIS4-23818_0 | WFP: Aid Distribution Tied to UNITA Authorization | BFN [Text] The World Food Program [WFP] has suspended all humanitarian aid flights in Angola, because the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] has not authorized the planned flights into areas under its control. The negative effects of the WFP's measure can already be seen. Mercedes Sayagues, WFP... |
FBIS4-23839_0 | Rwandan Refugees Massacred, Fleeing to Bujumbura | BFN [Text] Hundreds of refugees have flooded into Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, following an Army crackdown on armed civilians and reports of massacres near the border with Rwanda. Reports said over a hundred people who fled into Burundi to escape Rwanda's bloodbath had been killed at Bugabira in the Kirundo Province. ... |
FBIS4-23846_0 | Camp Ban on Suspected Mass Killers Sparks Riot | BFN [Text] Nairobi, June 16 (AFP) -- Rwandan refugees rioted in a camp in Tanzania and threatened to kill foreign relief workers in anger at a ban on suspected mass killers entering the camp, aid officials said Thursday [16 June]. About 50 foreign aid workers left the camp after angry refugees hurled stones and shouted... |
FBIS4-23910_0 | Government Resisting Broader Foreign Affairs Role | BFN [By Cherilyn Ireton and Edyth Bulbring] [Text] South Africa's fledgling government this week resisted insistent demands to become embroiled in foreign conflicts that would detract from its priority of domestic reconstruction. At the Organisation of African unity summit in Tunis this week, President Nelson Mandela w... |
FBIS4-24155_0 | HRC Reports Violent Deaths Down During May | BFN [Text] Johannesburg June 23 SAPA -- The national violence death toll dropped by 60 per cent from April's 487 to 195 during May, the Human Rights Committee [HRC] said on Thursday [23 June]. In its monthly report the HRC said violence in KwaZulu/Natal had continued to drop, with the May death toll of 104 the lowest r... |
FBIS4-24235_0 | Ex-French Police Official Says RPF Killed President | BFN [Excerpt] Paul Barril is back in a tale worthy of science fiction: The former National Gendarmerie Intervention Unit commander and former star of the Vincennes Irish saga claims to be in possession of the black box from the plane in which the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed on 6 April. Eric Jung has ju... |
FBIS4-24269_0 | UNITA Claims Plane Shot Down | BFN [Text] Military sources say National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] antiaircraft forces shot down a Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Labor Party [MPLA-PT] airplane in Huila Province on 26 June 1994. The sources say a Russian-made MiG-23 was hit while attacking civilian targets in Ng... |
FBIS4-24290_3 | Private Investigator Claims To Have Black Box | returned from his Rwandan visits with the Kigali airport control tower tapes: three large, Assmann-brand aluminum reels, each containing eight hours of tape. These should contain the last conversations between the presidential plane and the tower controllers on 6 April. He also has in his possession all the telexes rec... |
FBIS4-24308_0 | Police Ban Opposition Demonstration, Arrest 20 | BFN [From the "Focus on Africa" program] [Text] The Senegalese opposition are continuing to agitate for the release of party leaders Abdoulaye Wade and Landing Savane. Pressure has been building up since last week when two of Wade's colleagues, Mody Sy and Samuel Saar, went on hunger strike. They were detained in conne... |
FBIS4-24356_2 | Former Gendarme's Black Box Story Questioned | given afterward? One might also wonder whether the remains of the black box shown on French television were not something put together to make people forget the existence of a compromising "original." In addition, Barril supposedly discovered parts of the SAM-7 missile launchers in Massaka. So the elite shooters, undou... |
FBIS4-24363_1 | Peng Peiyun Discusses Women's Conference With UN Official | finance, materials and manpower have also been supported by governments at all levels and the Chinese people as well." Many non-governmental organizations also have shown their aspirations to contribute to the World Women's Conference, she said, adding: "This will be an important guarantee for us to make preparations w... |
FBIS4-24364_0 | Chen Muhua on Importance of World Women's Conference | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 29 (XINHUA) -- Chen Muhua, vice-chairwoman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, said here today that the Fourth World Conference on Women to be held here next year will be of great significance in raising women's social status. The NPC vice-chairwoman made the remarks ... |
FBIS4-24365_0 | Liu Huaqiu, UN Official Discuss Upcoming Women's Conference | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 29 (XINHUA) -- Chinese official Liu Huaqiu today shared the view with visiting Gertrude Mongella, secretary general of the Fourth World Conference on Women, that they would enhance ties and cooperation and make concerted efforts for the successful convocation of the conference. During their talk... |
FBIS4-24379_0 | Tiananmen Prisoners' Letter Describes Torture | BFN ["Tiananmen Five Years On" feature from the "Agenda" section: "Crackdown Continues"] [Text] Five years after tanks thundered into Tiananmen Square and troops fired a hail of bullets at protesting students, many of the survivors are still suffering in Chinese jails. Those arrested after the 1989 campaign were senten... |
FBIS4-24379_1 | Tiananmen Prisoners' Letter Describes Torture | law has become the violent forerunner of more sweeping punishments. Since 1989, while China has continued to enjoy Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading status with the United States, there has been no official statement of regret concerning the killings and no qualification of the "rioter" tag slapped on each victim. The... |
FBIS4-24380_0 | Dissident Yu Haocheng Leaves for U.S. | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 28 (AFP)--Chinese dissident intellectual Yu Haocheng left Beijing Saturday for the United States, more than three years after he first applied to the authorities here for an exit visa, his wife said. "Yu left this morning on a Northwest Airlines flight for New York," where he is to take up a res... |
FBIS4-24382_0 | Bereaved Family Demands Police Stop `Harassing' Them | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 30 KYODO -- A Beijing family whose son was shot dead five years ago during pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square when the army marched on the city has demanded that police stop harassing them and let their son rest in peace. Jiang Peikun, professor at the prestigious People's Universi... |
FBIS4-24383_2 | Surveillance of Dissidents in Beijing Continues | guests. Beijing is always tense around the time of the massacre anniversary, but this year residents have been struck by the bizarre extremes to which the authorities have been going. Among other things, officials have reportedly cancelled a charity bazaar, an art exhibition and a tennis club dinner, all sponsored by f... |
FBIS4-24384_2 | Article Views Status of Leading Dissidents | Zhihong and his sister Chen Zihua made a living by doing temporary jobs. Chen Ziming was originally president of the Beijing Research Institute of Social Sciences and Economics, a nongovernmental think tank. According to his family, Chen Ziming, after several years of hardship in jail, remains loyal to his view on the ... |
FBIS4-24389_2 | Article Lauds Success of Penal System, Part 6 | robbery, and harming and hindering the execution of public affairs. He was dissatisfied with the sentence when he was sent to Shandong Beishu Prison and made an attempt to escape. A small embroidery needle has changed his life. He told this reporter that after he had been caught again in an escape attempt, instructing ... |
FBIS4-24390_0 | Spokesman Denies Report of 28 May Lhasa Demonstration | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 30 (AFP)--The Chinese government denied Monday a report by the Tibet Information Network (TIN) that hundreds of people had demonstrated Saturday in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. "No incident of this kind occurred, according to our information," a government spokesman for the Tibet Autonomous Regio... |
FBIS4-24402_0 | Underground Prodemocracy Movement Helps Judge Flee China | BFN [By Chris Dobson and Billy Wong Wai-yuk] [Text] Yellow Bird, the underground movement responsible for helping hundreds of political activists escape from China, is still operating -- five years after it was formed in the bloody wake of the crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square. One of the latest p... |
FBIS4-24424_1 | Shanghai's Use of Foreign Capital Discussed | basket" was not necessarily a "vegetable." What is astute and wise about Shanghai is that its people pay attention to efficiency. The rate of success in forming joint ventures was high, and the economic results were good. Among the nearly 4,000 foreign-funded enterprises in Shanghai, more than 80 percent are making pro... |
FBIS4-24429_0 | Guangzhou Leaders Warn Against Foreign Espionage | BFN [Text] Foreign espionage remains a threat to Guangzhou's political and social stability as well as the overall safety of China according to Guangzhou leaders. "Activities by foreign spies in China aimed at subversion, infiltration, divisiveness and rebellion have not stopped," the Guangzhou party secretary, Gao Sir... |
FBIS4-24435_0 | Preparation for Henan's Xiaolangdi Dam Project Viewed | BFN [Text] Zhengzhou, May 28 (XINHUA) -- Four Chinese and foreign companies have won the bid for three major parts of the World Bank financed Xiaolangdi water control dam construction project on the middle reaches of the Yellow River. The Inpergilo company of Italy, the No. 14 Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Engine... |
FBIS4-24439_0 | Zou Jiahua, Conference Views Rural Electrification | BFN [By reporter Zhang Chaowen (1728 6389 2429)] [Text] Beijing, 25 May (XINHUA) -- Jointly sponsored by the State Planning Commission, the State Economic and Trade Commission, and the Ministry of Power Industry [MPI], a national work conference on rural electrification, which opened in Beijing today, declared that Chi... |
FBIS4-24441_0 | Song Jian Discusses Cleaning Up Huai He | BFN [By reporters Zhu Youdi (2612 1635 2769) and Kong Xiangying (1313 4382 6601)] [Text] Hefei, 26 May (XINHUA) -- An on-the-spot meeting sponsored by the State Council Environmental Protection Committee on reviewing the law enforcement of environmental protection in the Huai He basin concluded in Bangbu, Anhui, today.... |
FBIS4-24443_0 | Tong Zhiguang Discusses Foreign Trade Strategy | BFN [Article by Tong Zhiguang (0157 1807 1639): "My Opinion of Strategy for Foreign Trade Development in 1990's"] [Text] Conglomeraton is one of the major characteristics in the present international situation of economic relations and trade. The process of "integration" of the world economy will be a long-term one, bu... |
FBIS4-24457_0 | Need To Increase Investment in Power Supply Noted | BFN [Article from the "Opinion" page by Minister of Power Industry Shi Dazhen: "Power Industry To Accelerate Reform"] [Text] China's power industry is responsible for meeting the ever-increasing demand for electricity as the country builds up its socialist market economy. Without the necessary supply of power, the enti... |
FBIS4-24457_2 | Need To Increase Investment in Power Supply Noted | for each county in the country and 95 per cent of the country's rural households to have access to electricity. It is hoped that the State, with the backing of relevant departments, will increase its annual investment so that the input constitutes at least 2 per cent of GNP, the minimum required to ensure the industry'... |
FBIS4-24469_0 | Police Beat, Round Up 40 Tibetan Merchants | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 27 KYODO -- Armed police beat and rounded up some 40 Tibetan merchants who demonstrated against a tax hike in the Tibetan city of Lhasa, informed sources said Friday [27 May]. The policemen also confiscated the camera, films and passports of four foreign travellers, including American tourists, ... |
FBIS4-24470_0 | Paper Details Police Clash With Demonstrators in Tibet | BFN [From Robbie Barnett in Lhasa] [Text] Chinese police are alleged to have beaten demonstrators and arrested five Tibetans when shopkeepers staged a protest in Lhasa, according to sources in the city. Up to 200 Tibetans joined a crowd in the Tibetan capital on Friday [27 May] protesting against tax increases. The dem... |
FBIS4-24481_0 | Yunnan Accelerates Power Industry's Construction | BFN [Text] Kunming, May 31 (XINHUA) -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province, rich in hydropower and coal resources, is now engaged in the construction of power plants and stations, aiming to become a power base for south China and even the neighboring countries. It is estimated that the province has coal deposits of 22.9 ... |
FBIS4-24525_1 | `Exiled' Dissidents Refused Visas for Hong Kong Visa Applications `Rejected' | in Hong Kong. Liu Binyen and Ruan Ming, who went to the U.S. in 1988, were to come to Hong Kong at the beginning of next month to speak at a seminar organised by the Democratic University, an organisation preaching democratic theory. Both men have been told by British consular officials in New York that their visa appl... |
FBIS4-24526_0 | `Exiled' Dissidents Refused Visas for Hong Kong Pro-Beijing Groups Praise Refusal | BFN [By Ming Man] [Text] Key advisers to Beijing say the Hong Kong Government is headed for smoother relations with the mainland following the move to stop two dissidents entering the territory. Pro-Beijing legislator and Preliminary Working Committee member Tam Yiu-chung said Hong Kong's relationship with Beijing woul... |
FBIS4-24529_0 | March Held Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre Marchers `Scuffle' With Police | BFN [By Linda Choy] [Text] A march to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre ended with minor scuffles yesterday after police blocked access to the Xinhua (New China News Agency) headquarters. The confrontation came after a three-hour march in which protesters demanded redress for the suffer... |
FBIS4-24530_0 | March Held Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre Accuse Police of `Abusing Powers' | BFN [By Flora Wong] [Text] Police abused their discretionary right to ban petitions composed of unspecified materials during Sunday's demonstration outside the Xinhua News Agency, representatives of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China said yesterday. Police clashed with a sma... |
FBIS4-24531_0 | Journalists Resign Over Dropped Tiananmen Documentary | BFN [By Fung Wai-Kong and Linda Choy] [Text] Six senior journalists in ATV's [Asia Television Limited] News and Public Affairs Department resigned yesterday after the station management rejected a documentary about the 1989 Beijing massacre. At least two other reporters indicated they were also ready to resign from the... |
FBIS4-24532_0 | Editorial Laments Self-Censorship By TV Company | BFN [Editorial: "Sad For Press Freedom"] [Text] The resignation of senior news executives and journalists at ATV [Asia Television Limited] last night has brought the debate over self-censorship in the Hong Kong media into sharper focus. The phenomenon has often been discussed but rarely has there been such clear eviden... |
FBIS4-24543_1 | `Exiled' Dissidents Refused Visas for Hong Kong Visa Applications `Rejected' | in Hong Kong. Liu Binyen and Ruan Ming, who went to the U.S. in 1988, were to come to Hong Kong at the beginning of next month to speak at a seminar organised by the Democratic University, an organisation preaching democratic theory. Both men have been told by British consular officials in New York that their visa appl... |
FBIS4-24544_0 | `Exiled' Dissidents Refused Visas for Hong Kong Pro-Beijing Groups Praise Refusal | BFN [By Ming Man] [Text] Key advisers to Beijing say the Hong Kong Government is headed for smoother relations with the mainland following the move to stop two dissidents entering the territory. Pro-Beijing legislator and Preliminary Working Committee member Tam Yiu-chung said Hong Kong's relationship with Beijing woul... |
FBIS4-24547_0 | March Held Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre Marchers `Scuffle' With Police | BFN [By Linda Choy] [Text] A march to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre ended with minor scuffles yesterday after police blocked access to the Xinhua (New China News Agency) headquarters. The confrontation came after a three-hour march in which protesters demanded redress for the suffer... |
FBIS4-24548_0 | March Held Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre Accuse Police of `Abusing Powers' | BFN [By Flora Wong] [Text] Police abused their discretionary right to ban petitions composed of unspecified materials during Sunday's demonstration outside the Xinhua News Agency, representatives of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China said yesterday. Police clashed with a sma... |
FBIS4-24549_0 | Journalists Resign Over Dropped Tiananmen Documentary | BFN [By Fung Wai-Kong and Linda Choy] [Text] Six senior journalists in ATV's [Asia Television Limited] News and Public Affairs Department resigned yesterday after the station management rejected a documentary about the 1989 Beijing massacre. At least two other reporters indicated they were also ready to resign from the... |
FBIS4-24550_0 | Editorial Laments Self-Censorship By TV Company | BFN [Editorial: "Sad For Press Freedom"] [Text] The resignation of senior news executives and journalists at ATV [Asia Television Limited] last night has brought the debate over self-censorship in the Hong Kong media into sharper focus. The phenomenon has often been discussed but rarely has there been such clear eviden... |
FBIS4-24551_0 | Underground Prodemocracy Movement Helps Judge Flee China | BFN [By Chris Dobson and Billy Wong Wai-yuk] [Text] Yellow Bird, the underground movement responsible for helping hundreds of political activists escape from China, is still operating -- five years after it was formed in the bloody wake of the crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square. One of the latest p... |
FBIS4-24566_0 | China-Southeast Asia Commercial Committee To Be Set Up | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 30 (CNS) -- With the approval of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, a non-government commercial body, namely the China-Southeast Asia Commercial Committee, will be set up in China in a bid to develop economic and trade relations between the country and Southeast Asian countries. Following preparatio... |
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