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FBIS4-45850_0
Diarrhea Outbreak Kills Seven in Toumlan District
BFN [Text] Between 8 March and 10 April, an extensive outbreak of diarrhea occurred in Ban Hong La-eng, Ban Uthai, Ban Toumlan, Ban Chengsoun, and Ban Meung in Toumlan District, Saravane Province. A total of 188 people were afflicted with the disease; seven died. Bountong, head of the Toumlan District Public Health Ser...
FBIS4-45862_0
Data Reflects Deterioration in Nutritional Standards
BFN ["uj"-signed report: "The Nourishment of Children in Socially Weak Families Is Very Poor"] [Text] Bratislava -- Since the first wave of food price increases in 1991, in the wake of the liberalization of prices, milk consumption in Slovakia has declined 12.7 percent. According to data of the Research Institute of Nu...
FBIS4-45863_0
Health Minister Claims UN Sanctions Caused 30,000 Deaths
BFN [Text] Geneva, April 19 (AFP) -- The rump Yugoslavia Tuesday [19 April] said UN sanctions against it had caused the deaths of 30,000 people, including 15,000 children. Yugoslav deputy health minister Svetlana Arsenic told the UN children's committee here that despite provisions to allow medical equipment into Yugos...
FBIS4-45864_0
Kosovo: Contagious Diseases Kill 221 Kosovars in 1993
BFN [Unattributed report: "Over 221 Kosovars Died of Contagious Epidemics Last Year" -- issued by the Democratic League of Kosovo"] [Text] During the last year, the population of Kosova suffered from 33 contagious epidemics, thus leaving behind the death toll of 221. Compared to the data from the previous year (1992), ...
FBIS4-45866_0
North, Central American Health Report Through 13 May
BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional public health and epidemiological developments monitored through 13 May. Ecuador Diphtheria -- Ecuadoran Health Minister Patricio Abad announced on 12 May that a diphtheria epidemic that appeared in Ecuador at the beginning of the year is subs...
FBIS4-45867_0
Southern Cone Health Report Through 5 May
BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on epidemics and diseases monitored through 5 May: Argentina AIDS --Buenos Aires Province Health Minister Juan Jose Mussi voiced concern over the increasing number of AIDS cases in the Buenos Aires urban area, where eight people in every 100,000 are infec...
FBIS4-45868_0
Southern Cone Health Report Through 12 May
BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on epidemics and diseases monitored through 12 May. Bolivia Cholera/rabies/leishmaniasis -- Regional Health Secretary Carlos Perez said that cholera, rabies, and leishmaniasis decreased considerably in La Paz Department in the year's first quarter as comp...
FBIS4-45872_1
Environmental Cleanup Plan to Reverse Deteriorating Health
wastes. Along with this has come an increase in the incidence of infestations of different kinds, such as mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, and rodents. All this brings with it a deterioration in hygiene and health habits, which in turn brings significant changes in the incidence and mortality rates of contagious disease...
FBIS4-45873_1
Dengue, Diphtheria, Malaria Figures Reviewed Dengue Figures Contradictory
cases of classic dengue fever had been identified in the last few weeks. This amounts to 20 percent of the total population. As a result he even asked for the declaration of a health emergency in the Canton of Macara. This same information was confirmed on the following day by Dr. Dalton Arevalo, the director of the Ho...
FBIS4-45879_2
Malaria Reported Endemic in Calcutta
not all zones where anti-vector measures are required can be reached. Staff shortage is a problem. In all 88 vacancies in the Corporation's Vector Control Department have yet to be filled in", Dr. Dey adds. Largely responsible for the patient's resistance to drugs is the growing tendency among medical practitioners to ...
FBIS4-45880_0
Anthrax Suspected as Cause of Elephant Deaths
CSO [Text] Even as another elephant in the North Bengal forests is suspected to have fallen prey to the dreaded disease, anthrax, veterinary doctors and wildlife officials are divided over the cause of the recent deaths. The carcass of an elephant was found in south Raidak on Friday. Wildlife officials suspect it to be...
FBIS4-45883_0
Duma Committee Considers AIDS Prevention Law
BFN [Article by Galina Yudkevich under the "Draft Law" rubric: "What Guarantees Will People Infected With HIV Have" -- from the "Retsept" section] [Text] First, a few figures cited by Vadim Pokrovskiy, head of the Russian Anti-AIDS Center, at a meeting of the [State Duma] Health Care Committee, where the draft law "On ...
FBIS4-45889_0
Infectious Diseases on Rise in Moscow
CSO [Newsbrief under the "In Moscow" rubric: "Infectious Diseases Continue to Attack"; based on material from the Postfactum Information Agency] [Text] The incidence of infectious diseases continues to increase in Moscow. Especially alarming is the number of cases of diphtheria (a 3.2-fold increase since 1992), measles...
FBIS4-45894_0
Over 200 Diphtheria Carriers in Ajaria
BFN [From the "Vesti" newscast] [Summary] In Ajaria, Georgia, 210 carriers of diphtheria have been registered and 62 people are ill with the disease, the Iberia news agency reports. The Georgian Health Ministry has appealed to the local population to go to clinics for inoculation.
FBIS4-45906_0
Austrian Blood Products Suspected in Hepatitis Case
CSO [Article by Jan Gunnar Furuly: "Fear of Virus in Medicine for Hemophiliacs"] [Text] Director Thor Krey Jacobsen at No-Re-Farm criticizes the virus cleansing methods used by an Austrian supplier of Norwegian hemophilia medication. The National Health Inspection Agency yesterday halted all further use of a particular...
FBIS4-45908_3
Spread, Concern Over Mad Cow Disease Reviewed
theory has been assailed by critics of the ministry. Mark Purdey, a Somerset farmer and independent researcher, believes that the use of organophosphate pesticides, used from the 1980s as a sheep dip and to treat warble-fly infestation in cattle, could have damaged the animals' immune system, exposing them to the disea...
FBIS4-45931_1
Space Agency Head on U.S. Proliferation Concerns, MTCR
to the United States, saying: "We want to make it plain that we really never had military objectives." The United States acknowledges the blandishments: "The creation of the civilian agency puts relations between the two countries back on track," commented an American diplomat. There is a clear motive behind these Braz...
FBIS4-45949_3
Concern Expressed Over Intent of London Talks Confused Responses
officials in New Delhi accepted that these were indeed official talks, but made it clear that they wished to "stay away from the numbers game," and refrained from commenting on whether this was the "fourth," or just "another" round of talks. This coyness conceals more substantive issues. The three rounds of bilateral t...
FBIS4-45956_1
Editorial Condemns U.S. Official's `Threat' of Force
certain countries' nuclear programs and is indirectly assisting and supporting the advancement and success of their programs. The most conspicuous example is Israel. Informed sources are aware that Israel not only has the capability to produce nuclear weapons, it also has a huge stockpile of such weapons. Despite knowi...
FBIS4-45958_13
Strategist Views Russian Nuclear Potential
out new and original ways of parrying the threat from "nuclear smugglers and double-dealing governments." For instance, the potential threat of nuclear terrorism could be eliminated by implementing the idea of global information transparency in the nuclear sphere, whereby secret activity in manufacturing and moving not...
FBIS4-46025_2
Editorial Praises Leghari Nuclear Stance in U.S.
it has achieved is that the United States is not pressuring Pakistan now to roll back its nuclear program unilaterally. This is an important and positive change in the U.S. attitude. However, the United States should also admit that the Pressler Amendment cannot bring an end to the arms race and halt attempts to manufa...
FBIS4-46036_0
Experimental Facility To Treat Liquid Nuclear Waste
BFN [Vladimir Kuvardin report; from the "Pacific Ocean" program] [Text] Our listeners are sure to know that a joint Russian-Japanese commission on problems of storage and utilization of liquid radioactive waste -- ZHRO [zhidkiye radioaktivnyye otkhody] for short -- worked in April in Tokyo, Vladivostok, and Bolshoy Kam...
FBIS4-46038_0
Officials Assess U.S. Agreements on Missile Transfer, Space
BFN [Text] Kiev [no dateline as received] -- Members of Ukraine's working delegation to Washington attended a briefing at Ukraine's Foreign Ministry on 17 May. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Shmarov, who led the delegation, believes the signing of the memorandum on mutual understanding between the governments ...
FBIS4-46090_1
Draft Document on Arms Industry Released
current level of R[rand]420 million 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...
FBIS4-46161_3
Al-Qadhdhafi on Algeria, Lockerbie, Oppositionists
international jurists, namely that a Scottish court be sent to another country -- The Hague, for example. And that the two suspects be handed over to the Arab League and then to this court under agreed UN guarantees. This is the latest solution we have heard. It is not a Libyan solution or a Libyan proposal. It is a pr...
FBIS4-46177_0
BKA Reports Decline in Extremist Arson, Bomb Attacks
BFN [Unattributed report: "No All-Clear Sounding"] [Text] The good news first: In 1993, the number of arson and bomb attacks fell by 41 percent compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, the figures that have been now released by the Federal Office of Criminal Investigations [BKA] are anything but comforting. In a co...
FBIS4-46181_0
Sixteen PKK Members Caught, Said `Trained in Greece'
BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Seven terrorists were killed in clashes with security forces in Batman's Beseri and Siirt's Kurtalan and Baykan Districts and on Gabar Mountain near Sirnak. Four terrorists, one of them a foreigner, surrendered to the security forces in a bid to benefit from the repentance ...
FBIS4-46182_1
`Concrete' Documentation of PKK-Armenia Cooperation Claimed
the Armenian priests by taking their photographs. Ocalan, considering that he is no longer comfortable in Syria or Lebanon, conferred with his guests on the possibility of moving to Armenia. The extremist Dachnak Party in Armenia has occasionally provided the PKK with funds and arms through the Armenian priests in Leba...
FBIS4-46183_0
PKK Leader Ocalan Orders Regrouping After Heavy Losses
BFN [Text] The route suffered by the PKK [Kurdish Workers Party] at the hands of the security forces in recent days has been admitted by the leader of the organization Abdullah Ocalan. Ocalan severely warned the members of the organization, saying that there has been an incredible number of losses. [Correspondent Fatih...
FBIS4-46189_0
Fourteen `Terrorists' Captured in Istanbul
BFN [Text] Istanbul, May 23 (A.A) -- Fourteen terrorists including two women were captured during operations by security forces in Istanbul, it was reported on Monday. A statement by security headquarters said among those captured were also military leaders of the terrorist organization. Automatic rifles, handguns, han...
FBIS4-46193_0
Kurdish Leader Threatens To Reiterate Attacks on Tourists
BFN [Article signed WDN: "Kurdish Leader Kani Yilmaz Denies Triumphant Reports From Ankara"] [Text] Kani Yilmaz is the representative in Europe of the National Front for the Liberation of Kurdistan (ERNK), which is closely linked with the guerrilla movement PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan]. Yesterday [18 May], at a pre...
FBIS4-46193_1
Kurdish Leader Threatens To Reiterate Attacks on Tourists
Kurds streaming to join their ranks and fight the Turkish state." "However," Yilmaz went on immediately, "the Turkish Government of Prime Minister Ciller is peddling false victories. As time goes on, the Turkish Army is daring less and less to engage in direct confrontation with the guerrillas, and is consequently swit...
FBIS4-46195_0
Loyalists Bomb Sinn Fein Fundraiser in Dublin Unionist Leader on Dublin Bombing
BFN [Text] In Belfast the Ulster Unionist leader James Molyneaux said he regretted what had happened [attack on Dublin pub on Saturday], but it was the inevitable result of the fears loyalists had over the Downing Street declaration. He spoke to Brendan Wright of our northern staff [in Belfast]: [Begin recording] Molyn...
FBIS4-46196_0
FBIS TERRORISM REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: 19-27 May
CSO Editor's Note: The FBIS Terrorism Desk welcomes suscribers' comments and suggestions at (703) 733-5512. Highlights and major incidents in this edition of the FBIS Terrorism Report include: Algeria/Germany Germany's DPA news service reports that two arms seizures this month--one in Morocco, one in France--uncovered ...
FBIS4-46197_0
SELECTED VIDEO REPORTS
CSO The following list includes terrorism-related video reports extracted from FBIS Video Program Summaries from 19 to 27 May, ordered alphabetically by country. Each entry is prefaced by the name of the city where the report originated, followed by the FBIS TV Center order number (e.g., BOG 94-001) and the date of bro...
FBIS4-46218_0
UK Press Reports Iran's Involvement With IRA MI6 Target
CSO [Article by Robert Porter, chief reporter: "MI6 Targeting Iran as Main Threat to West"] [Excerpt] Britain's public warning to Iran to sever its links with the IRA stems from a policy decision that MI6 should target the Iranians as the most potent threat to Western security. The decision was taken when the collapse ...
FBIS4-46219_3
UK Press Reports Iran's Involvement With IRA How Network Operated
Hague. Each took place with accredited Iranian diplomats, most of whom were attached to the Ministry of Information (MOI) in Tehran, a cover for Iranian intelligence. Apart from Ghaffari, three key Iranians have been identified by British intelligence. They are Ali Reza Hakkikian, chief MOI representative in Bonn until...
FBIS4-46228_0
Guerrilla Attacks Cause Oil Spill, Leave Three Policemen Dead
BFN [From the "Seven O'Clock Newscast"] [Text] Today, ELN [Army of National Liberation] guerrillas blew up a stretch of the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline near the municipality of Pelaya in southern Cesar Department. More than 8,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into Gamboa ravine that flows into the Zapatosa marsh. This r...
FBIS4-46247_0
Army Reports Results of Aries Operation Against SL Huanuco SL Reduced by 40 Percent
BFN [Text] Lima, 26 May (EFE) -- On 25 May the Peruvian Army concluded the antiterrorist offensive that began in April in the jungle zone of Leoncio Prado Province, Huanuco Department. [see item PY2605033494 in previous Terrorism Report] The Army qualified the operation as successful, despite accusations of having indi...
FBIS4-46248_1
Army Reports Results of Aries Operation Against SL 80 Percent of Huallaga SL `Eradicated'
Joint command stepped up actions to destroy the most radical and bloodthirsty Shining Path, SL groups, namely the Peoples Guerrilla Army which basically comprises the "Mar Rojo" -- which has 300 members divided into three or more companies -- and the "Fuerza Local" battalions. At the start of the operation there were 2...
FBIS4-46249_0
Political Violence Statistics for March 1994
CSO [DESCO Special Report No 35: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] During March 1994 political violence increased slightly, compared to the months of January and February. There were 43 attacks on persons, or 10 percent more than in January...
FBIS4-46249_1
Political Violence Statistics for March 1994
the Red Cross]. The wave of attacks which took place during the last few days of March involved a series of actions in anticipation of the anniversary of the coup d'etat of 5 April. Most of the attacks in Lima involved acts of sabotage against branch banks, supermarkets, and high voltage electricity pylons. However, th...
FBIS4-46251_0
Iran's Velayati To Visit Iraq, Discuss `Policy Against' U.S.
BFN [Unattributed report: "Four Items on Velayati's Agenda During His Visit to Baghdad"] [Text] Tehran, London, AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT -- Tehran announced yesterday that Iranian Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati has accepted an invitation to visit Iraq early next month. Velayati, who will be the first Iranian minister to...
FBIS4-46288_4
March Interview With Pan Am Bombing Suspects
facts as these surface. They have already given their verdict on their televisions. How can we expect justice from them?" At the end of this interview, Ibrahim al-Ghuwayl emphasized to them that the accusation being levied against them about destroying the Pan Am airplane by the United States and Britain appears to be ...
FBIS4-46300_3
Serbian Muslims Reportedly Trained as Commandos in Turkey
of Izetbegovic's party, which is active in Sandzak. It was the United States that put forward the plan to establish a Muslim state in Europe. Saudi Arabia is openly supporting it. Besides, Turkey's secret diplomacy on Balkans is being financed by Saudi Arabia. Deputy Hacic, whose confessions have already been published...
FBIS4-46302_3
ELA, 17 November Attacks Compared
Kurds in European countries such as Germany. It is assumed that the bomb attacks on the German [Company] "Miele" (by 17 November) in the building also housing the UN High Commissioner and on the Greek office on refugees which works with the UN (by ELA) are directly related to the Kurdish issue and its repercussions in ...
FBIS4-46309_0
SABAH Article on PKK-Armenian Link Called `Lie'
BFN [Text] The photograph that the newspaper SABAH published last Tuesday under the headline "Dirty Alliance!" exposed this paper's ties with the "intelligence units" and how it is being used by these circles. [Text of SABAH article appears as item NC2605092094 in previous Terrorism Report] It has been ascertained that...
FBIS4-46313_2
PKK Reportedly Shakes Down Kurds, Takes Revenge on Dropouts
personal attacks on German visitors to Turkey. In Bensheim in Hesse the windowpanes of a travel agency were broken. Afterward, consulates and superhighways were occupied. The dramatic climax occurred when two women set themselves on fire on the occasion of the Kurdish spring festival in Munich. In addition to this new ...
FBIS4-46314_0
Dev-Sol, Islamic Group Members Caught in Ankara
BFN [Text] Thirteen members of an illegal leftist organization and four members of a radical religious organization were caught in Ankara. In a news conference, Ankara Security Director Orhan Tasanlar said that the suspects belonging to Dev-Sol [Revolutionary Left] posted placards, distributed pamphlets, and threw Molo...
FBIS4-46319_0
New Group Bombs Istanbul Ecumenical Patriarchate Greek Government, Parties React
BFN [Text] There was a new provocation yesterday by fanatic Islamists against the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Fanari, Istanbul, on the eve of the conquest of Constantinople. An Islamic organization placed three powerful time-bomb devices, which fortunately were discovered in time and dismantled. The Greek Government rea...
FBIS4-46321_4
Fall in Support Could End IRA Violence
mainland. In Ulster, active service units are supported by similar numbers of part-time volunteers blooded in minor sorties. Behind the volunteers, within the Catholic strongholds, are the supporters who offer safe haven in an estimated 2,000 homes: "There is always someone to run them a bath to wipe out the evidence,"...
FBIS4-46337_4
Hizballah Said Ready To Abduct Israelis in Germany `Western Intelligence' Cited
in Germany in cooperation with Revolutionary Guard elements. It seems that Tehran has given the green light for the implementation of the operation in Germany despite its relations with it. Besides avenging al-Dirani, Iran wants to pressure the Bonn government to keep it from going too far in the current trial of perpe...
FBIS4-46342_0
China Southern Airlines Flight Hijacked to Taiwan Hijacker Named
BFN [Excerpts] [passage omitted] According to preliminary reports, the plane was hijacked by a 36-year-old man (Chou Wen-chiang), using a carving knife and a flash light. The airport police have taken him from the plane for investigation. It was initially determined that there were no accomplices. During the interrogat...
FBIS4-46370_0
Iran's Velayati Meets Hizballah's Nasrullah in Damascus
BFN [Text] The secretary-general of the Hizballah Islamic revolutionary movement of Lebanon met the foreign minister of our country ['Ali Akbar Velayati] in Damascus this morning. According to a report by the Central News Unit correspondent, at that meeting, which took place at the Iranian embassy, the latest developme...
FBIS4-46414_0
Fadlallah on U.S. Stand, Egyptian Instability
BFN [Interview with 'Allamah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah by Rif'at Sayyid Ahmad in Beirut's Southern Suburb; date not given] [Excerpts] Ahmad: The Arab and Islamic situation is now experiencing changes and events, especially in light of developments in the Arab-Zionist conflict. What is your general assessment of this si...
FBIS4-46418_0
Ambassador Proposes Lockerbie Trial in The Hague
BFN [Unattributed article: "Libya/Italy: Libyan Proposal for Lockerbie Trial"] [Text] (ANSA) Rome, June 8 -- Libya wants a trial at the International Court of Justice in The Hague for two of its citizens accused of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Libya's ambassador to Rome 'Abd-al-Rahman Shalqam told Lower House foreign af...
FBIS4-46425_0
German Official Says PKK Involved in Drug Trade, Blackmail
BFN [Peter Scherer report: "Turks Control Heroin Trade"] [Text] Wiesbaden -- Members of extremist organizations banned in Germany are suspected of not only being involved in the political underground in Germany, but also in international heroin deals, Klaus Juergen Timm, chief of the Criminal Office of the land of Hess...
FBIS4-46428_0
`Antiauthority Struggle' Responsible for Bomb Attack
BFN [Text] Shortly after midnight two cars from the Forest Department were the target of a bomb attack outside the Ministry of Agriculture on Akharnon Street. An unidentified caller to a private radio station said the terrorist group Antiauthority Struggle was claiming responsibility for the attack.
FBIS4-46435_2
Kurdish Businessmen Murdered, Goverment Blamed `Chain of Murders' Noted
contractor Fevzi Arslan, and his brother Sahin were kidnapped at gun point in their Aksaray office in Istanbul and their bodies were later found on the Istanbul-Ankara highway. Buldan was previously taken into custody in 1992 when police raided his house in Istanbul and discovered he was hosting DEP Diyarbakir Deputy L...
FBIS4-46436_0
Kurdish Businessmen Murdered, Goverment Blamed Kurdish Parties Condemn Murder
BFN [Excerpts] Ankara--The Democracy Party (DEP) and People's Democracy Party (HADEP) have condemned the killings of three pro-Kurdish businessmen Savas Buldan, Haci Koray and Adnan Yildirim. [passage omitted] "This is not an isolated incident. It is just a link in the chain which started with the death of Vedat Aydin ...
FBIS4-46437_0
Kurdish Businessmen Murdered, Goverment Blamed Ciller's 1993 Speech Implicated
BFN [Text] The attacks on Kurdish businessmen began when they were targeted in a statement by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Istanbul on 4 November 1993. During her news conference at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Ciller said: "Turkey is facing an expanding terrorist movement that has assumed the natu...
FBIS4-46438_0
Three Provinces Alerted Against Joint PKK-ASALA Activities
BFN [Sezai Sengun report: "Joint Action by PKK and ASALA" -- place names as published] [Text] Ankara--Acting on information that the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] terrorists in Armenia are preparing to infiltrate into Turkey, officials have placed the security forces in Kars, Ardahan, and Igdir Provinces on a state of al...
FBIS4-46440_0
PKK Leader Discusses DPK, U.S. Views on Turkey
BFN ["Text" of interview with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan by the German-based Kurdish news agency KURD-A; place and date not given] [Excerpts] KURD-A: Mr. Ocalan, we want to hear from you about the outcome of Turkey's extensive military operations against the PKK [Kurdish Workers Party]. Ocalan: It could be said that th...
FBIS4-46440_1
PKK Leader Discusses DPK, U.S. Views on Turkey
in South Kurdistan [Iraqi Kurdistan]. How do you assess Turkey's role in the clashes between the Democratic Party of Kurdistan [DPK] and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK]? Ocalan: This is how the plan worked out recently is unfolding. The head of the special warfare is shouting every day: "We want to attack northern I...
FBIS4-46443_0
PKK Gives Own Casualty Figures for May
BFN [Text] Kurd-a/Botan--In its No. 37 press release, ARGK [People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan] Press Bureau informed the press and public on war casualty figures for May. After indicating that the "Spring Offensive" has now given way to the "Summer Offensive" and that the ARGK has increased its forces numerically a...
FBIS4-46445_0
PKK Militants Cited on Developments
BFN [Punctuation as published] [Excerpts] Zele/Brussels, KURDISH NEWS AGENCY--President Suleyman Demirel has recently mentioned several times that the "question of terrorist activities" has been resolved and the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] has been crushed. Demirel's remarks usually came after an argument on the questi...
FBIS4-46445_3
PKK Militants Cited on Developments
also commented on the "package on democracy." He said: "It will provide for an increase in the number of village guards, establishment of tribal political parties, cooperation with Democratic Party of Kurdistan [DPK] leader Mas'ud Barzani, programs aimed at suppressing the people. In fact, that is why the Turkish offic...
FBIS4-46446_0
PKK Supporters Said Planning To Pressure U.S. Congress
BFN [Report by Sedat Sertoglu: "An Appalling Trap for Turkey"] [Text] Several groups in Europe, which are supported by pro- Greek-Cypriot and pro-Armenian elements in the U.S. Congress and Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand, have put into effect a very dangerous plan, which can fragment Turkey. These groups, which have not been ...
FBIS4-46453_2
Budget Cuts Causing `Destruction' of Army, Navy
of the draft Russian Federation Law "On the State Budget for 1994," which preserves the level of defense expenditure proposed by the government, has created a ludicrous situation in the Army and Navy. The sum of R37.1 trillion represents a mere 42 percent of the requirement, and this money could be enough only to pay p...
FBIS4-46459_8
The Russian Navy's Structural Development Problems
of carrier-based aircraft, especially with the utilization of airfields of contiguous states upon their return with the launch range of sea-launched long-range cruise missiles and even strategic aviation. The most effective weapon to repel sea-launched long-range cruise missile and carrier-based aviation strikes -- is ...
FBIS4-46459_10
The Russian Navy's Structural Development Problems
[CIS Unified Naval Forces]. All the same a navy is only ships, submarines and support ships. However, today besides that, it also has at its disposal naval aviation, coastal missile and artillery units, naval infantry and coastal defense units, and also arsenals, ship repair plants and shops, engineer units and rear se...
FBIS4-46461_1
Decline of Research Fleet
the sea. For well-known reasons, however, today it is practically impossible to maintain the unique fleet and to carry out research through the means of the state budget only. Last year, therefore, the Institute of Oceanography of the Russian Academy of Sciences leased the reseach ship "Akademik Sergey Vavilov" to the ...
FBIS4-46462_2
Strategic Studies Center's Tasks Outlined
the so-called nearby foreign countries. The main point here is revealing factors of strategic risk on Russia's borders, which have emerged following the collapse of the USSR and the formation of the new independent states: interethnic conflicts, territorial claims and disputes, the creation of national armies and the q...
FBIS4-46462_5
Strategic Studies Center's Tasks Outlined
contain a forecast on the postwar development of the countries which were once part of Yugoslavia, and the Balkan region as a whole. [Khrustov] It follows from what you have said that the task of the RSSI specialists is to analyze information, summarize it, and make forecasts. From what sources do you obtain this infor...
FBIS4-46465_8
Competitiveness, Profitability of Russian Weapons
must be decided by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The rest should be left to industry. [Poroskov] Attempts were repeatedly made to break away from the monopoly of one department (Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations) in foreign trade with weapons.... [Kuznetsov] The state monopoly in thi...
FBIS4-46468_14
Serebryakov on Russian Military Doctrine
the Russian Army? Are all ties set up and working in exemplary fashion? Can the quality of the personal and financial support provided to the Army today be taken as the model? But the section of the doctrine that expounds the concept of activity in the military-technical area is especially surprising. This section is p...
FBIS4-46469_141
Secrets of Unrepulsable Attacks
aviation. Fascist aviation still continued its raids, but when encountering the opposition of fighter aviation, coordinated with respect to target, time, and space, it gradually reduced its activeness. Even such well-armed aircraft as the J-88 and He-111 could not break through to their targets without substantial loss...
FBIS4-46469_255
Secrets of Unrepulsable Attacks
these components is different. Let us suppose that you know the combat missions and intentions of the adversary, but in the other case you know only that the adversary will be somewhere in the sky. The answer is clear. The more complete the data, the more weighty will be the contribution made to foresight by strict cal...
FBIS4-46469_306
Secrets of Unrepulsable Attacks
react positively to the ideas of reducing the instruments and switches in the cockpit, and to further automation of control, but they want to reserve for themselves the right of choice: when to fly in automatic mode, and when to intervene in this mode, to shift to manual control of the aircraft. Have they paid attentio...
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Secrets of Unrepulsable Attacks
automation here? No, it works reliably. To make it the scapegoat is simply frivolous. Why, then, did so many treat automation with skepticism and mistrust? The old way was well known, tested repeatedly in practice, and seemed by force of habit to be more reliable than the new way, although the new way possessed many ad...
FBIS4-46470_9
Summing Up the Results of the Past Year and Looking to Next
examining ships' hulls, equipment and systems. In the fleets, the role of staff specialists has been reduced in the support and maintenance of the technical readiness of ships. They are permitting leniency in the accomplishment of maintenance inspections and they are not taking timely steps to eliminate malfunctions or...
FBIS4-46478_0
Treaty Limits Needed on ASW Activity
CSO [Article by Capt 1st Rank (Ret) B. Makeyev: "Limiting Antisubmarine Activity as a Factor of Strategic Stability"] [Text] Limiting antisubmarine activity may be viewed as an important part of the overall problem of finding ways to reduce military activity in the world ocean. The end of the Cold War, elimination of f...
FBIS4-46479_3
In a Checkmate Situation
the causes of the accident, came to at that time and the "independent panel of experts" that was conducted by the helicopter crewmen themselves -- the fellow servicemen of the dead comrades. Both the one and the other cited the prolonged gaps in flights from the decks of ships as one of the causes of the accident. It r...
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Preparation of Nuclear Subs for Patrol Raises Concern
is being disbanded, the training has not been conducted for several years. As for when a new center will be ready, no one knows. At the old center, the crews underwent training for almost two months, purposefully and continuously, which did a great deal to raise the level of knowledge and training of all categories of ...
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How the Large Antisubmarine Warfare Ship `Vasiliy Chapayev'
completed, during the course of which the ship's fate was drastically altered... "... If you glance at `Chapayev's' biography and its service record, it becomes obvious that this is a ship-laborer. The first combat service was immediately after its transfer from Leningrad where they built it. Then, in the winter of 197...
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Design History of First Cruiser Helicopter Carrier Told
also necessitated additional work and coordination of the supply plan with the executors and higher organizations. In the course of planning the ship, the office and its contractors successfully solved a number of new troubling problems in practically all specialties with the participation of naval and air force specia...
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Design History of First Cruiser Helicopter Carrier Told
8 Lynx, 4 AV-212 9 AV-212 Super Frelon number of landing 4 2 1 2 pads number of 2 1 - 1 elevators ASW: missile 1x2 Vikhr - - 1x2 Asroc ASM launcher launchers (combined with SAM launchers) torpedo 2x5 5330mm - 2x3 324-mm 2x3 324-mm torpedo torpedo torpedo launcher launcher launcher mortar 2 RBU-6000 - - - Surface-to-air...
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Voronin of Defense Industry Committee Argues Case for
are no longer functioning and they could begin to be irrevocably destroyed in the very near future. Unless urgent measures are adopted, it will take us decades to reach the level we were at in the late eighties and early nineties. [Chernyak] But the West can still afford to build aircraft carriers -- it has lots of mon...
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Losses Due to Weapons Sales Efforts
CSO [Article by Vladimir Kucherenko: "How Does Russia Trade in Weapons?"] [Text] There is probably no area that's a greater mystery to the layman than this. We all wholeheartedly believe that Russia and its powerful military-industrial complex are capable of conquering world markets, putting an end to the shameful depe...
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Impact of Conversion on Job Prospects
question of weapons, that is a problem for the politicians. But let us not drag into political battles scientists who can find a solution to practically any problem if the finance is available. If there is a financially advantageous order to be had, even if it is directed against humanity, people will always be found w...
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Lopatin Analyzes History, Results of Military Reductions
3 million in the Near East, around 10 million in Asia, 3.5 million in America and 1 million in Africa). In Russia the numerical strength of the standing army also rose: in 1725 there were 210,000 in the regular Army, 28,000 in the Navy, and 100,000 Cossacks; in 1913 there were 1.35 million, including over 1,700 general...
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Government Underfunding of Army Scored
declared benefits. Pay has been frozen. And instead of a suitable food allowance, all they have received is compensation equal to one minimum wage. Indeed, the government has accumulated quite a lot of these fruitful ideas, the main one of which, it emerged, is not only to set a defense budget below even the lowest lev...
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Army's Nuclear Monitoring Service Described
nuclear weapons. What progress has been made? "Plenty," Colonel V. Kovalenko, deputy chief of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry's Special Monitoring Service, said. "In December 1992 we signed a memorandum of cooperation with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which deals with similar issu...
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Tunguska Air Defense System
CSO [Article by Colonel V. Zhitnikov under rubric "TEKHNIKA I VOORUZHENIYE Catalog": "Tunguska Gun-Missile Air Defense System"] [Text] The system is intended for air defense of motorized rifle (tank) regiment subunits against strikes by tactical and army aviation, fire support helicopters, cruise missiles and remotely ...
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Leaders Convene Conference on Measures To Improve Discipline Radetskyy Stresses Impact on Force Readiness
of military units, organizations and institutions. Why, while constantly and daily occupied with questions of strengthening military discipline, are we forced to admit that there is a drop in the overall level of organization and order and a rise in the crime rate? The unfavorable influence of the social climate that i...
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RF Troops Serve as Armenia's Border Guards
checkpoint, in a word, the painfully familiar native "Armenian landscape"--V.A.). [Arutyunyan] We know from past years that the so-called border regime was quite strict. What kind of changes have there been in the essence of the border regime? [Ilin] By a decision of the Government of Armenia a number of forces that us...
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Duma's Sulakshin on Impact of Defense Cuts on Industry
substantiation: we work and attract, but neither the domestic nor the foreign entrepreneur comes to us and hardly will come in the next few years! Help can be expected from nowhere except the state. To sum up briefly, no positive results are seen from past reforms, with little exception. On the other hand, devastation ...
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Kirov Plant Shut Down
CSO [Article by Andrey Bagrov and Andrey Sinitsyn: "The Kirov Plant Has Shut Down: The Putilov Workers Have Gone on Leave Until October"] [Text] The threat of a halt in the production of strategic missiles and the initiation of sausage production is the most popular argument in the discussions of the directors of the m...
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Russian Counterintelligence Officer Interviewed
intelligence centers of the NATO bloc, portraits of F. E. Dzerzhinskiy and Yu. V. Andropov (despite the changes, the occupant of this office remains faithful once and forever to assimilated principles), and a pile of telephones on a little table, ready for instantaneous communication with the most remote points in the ...
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Field SAM Systems Have Always Been the World's Best! But the
Tor SAM system. A state monopoly, on the other hand, exists in the trade for this good. It seems to me that the prices should be coordinated among the governmental bodies and the producers. [VPK] What business relationships are taking shape between you and American specialists and businessmen? [Yefremov] The United Sta...