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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:07:14 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN peacekeeping chief says Japanese troops to be requested
              for Cambodia
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08/21

U.N. PEACEKEEPING CHIEF SAYS JAPANESE TROOPS TO BE REQUESTED FOR CAMBODIA

TOKYO (AUG. 21) UPI - Yasushi Akashi, chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in
Cambodia, told Japanese political leaders Friday the United Nations will
officially ask Japan to send troops to the war-torn country at the end of this
month.

Meeting with Koshiro Ishida, chairman of the the centrist Komei (Clean
Government) Party, Akashi said the stage has been set for Japanese
participation in the massive peacekeeping operation currently under way in
Cambodia, according to local news reports.

Japan's Diet, or parliament, passed a controversial law in June sanctioning the
dispatch of troops overseas to join U.N. peacekeepers. Japanese soldiers
expected to join the U.N. mission in Cambodia between mid-September and October
would be the first dispatched to foreign soil since the end of World War II.

Sohei Yamashita, chief of Japan's Defense Agency, said plans call for 600
troops to join the U.N. peacekeeping operations in Cambodia in three stages,
followed by a 75-member civil policing team by the end of October.

Yamashita, director general of the agency, said the Cabinet will adopt a
detailed plan in early September, and the government expects a formal request
from the United Nations later this month.

The U.N. headquarters has so far informally asked Tokyo to send the 600
Self-Defense Forces members to help repair roads and bridges in Cambodia.

The United Nations has also unofficially asked Japan to send personnel to
oversee next year's scheduled election.

Akashi, who met earlier with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, told senior
Foreign Ministry official Tadashi Ikeda on Thursday that Beijing pledged
earnest efforts to ensure that Cambodia elections will be held on schedule next
spring.

Ikeda planned to depart Friday for Bangkok to try to reel the Khmer Rouge back
into Cambodia's fragile peace process.

Ikeda, director general of the ministry's Asian Affairs bureau, was to meet
with Thai government officials and possibly Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan
Saturday, ministry officials said.

The Khmer Rouge, militarily the strongest of the three factions fighting the
Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh government, is the only one to refuse to disarm
and demobilize its troops in accordance with a U.N.- brokered peace plan signed
last October.

The faction demands more authority for the Supreme National Council and
confirmation that Vietnam has withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia.

Ikeda was expected to propose setting up an administrative advisory committee
under the council and a committee from all factions and the U. N. peacekeeping
mission to verify Vietnam's withdrawal. Hanoi insists all troops were pulled
out in 1989.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:19:00 EDT
From:         LINDA@NUHUB.BITNET
Subject:      GUAM:Typhoon Omar

I read a short news article on Typhoon Omar and its effects on Guam.
Apparently more than 750M dollars in damage occurred, but I have few details.
Does anyone on this list have details?

Douglas B. Hanson
Bioengineering Department
Forsyth Dental Center
140 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115   linda@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:16:21 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VA studies female VN Vets

USA TODAY
Sept. 4-7, 1992

VA STUDIES FEMALE VIETNAM VETS:

   The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs approved a study
Thursday of reproductive disorders among the 9,000 women who
served in Vietnam. A private company will interview nurses and
other female veterans in an attempt to pinpoint the reproductive
health consequences of serving in Vietnam.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:11:52 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: China may be behind shipping raids on VN ships
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08/30

CHINA MAY BE BEHIND SHIPPING RAIDS - OFFICIALS

    HONG KONG, Aug 30, Reuter - A wave of raids on Vietnam-bound ships may be
part of an official Chinese crackdown on the smuggling of luxury goods into
China, a Hong Kong shipping industry official said on Sunday.
    Shipping agents say that up to 14 ships carrying cargo to Vietnam have been
raided by Chinese officials in the past five weeks and they have accused Chinese
authorities of official piracy.
    They say the officials have been seizing the vessels' registration papers
and confiscating their cargoes.
    Michael Farlie, director of the Hong Kong Ship Owners Association, said the
seizures could be part of a Chinese crackdown on goods destined for China
through its land border with Vietnam.
    "The ships are loaded from Hong Kong, all luxury goods like cars and
electronics, all heading for Hon Gay, a Vietnamese port close to the Chinese
border," he said. "It's a curious place for so many shiploads of luxury goods to
be going to."
    He said the raids were not piracy because they were aimed only at ships
heading for Vietnam. "They haven't tried to seize any other ships so it's like
some sort of official embargo."
    The Hong Kong government has demanded an explanation from China over an
incident on Friday in which a Vietnamese cargo ship was boarded in Hong Kong
waters by armed men believed to be Chinese security guards.
    The cargo ship Tramy, which was chased by several speedboats carrying armed
men two miles southwest of Hong Kong's Stanley Beach, was held for five hours
and later released. No further details of the incident were available.
    So far there has been no response from China.
    "Clearly, we don't know what they are up to and we would like very much the
Chinese to explain to the government and Hong Kong public," Acting Secretary for
Security Ian Strachan was quoted by local newspapers as saying.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:29:21 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Neo-Nazis burned Vietnamese refugee house in Germany
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08/26

	BERLIN (UPI) -- Right-wing extremists in the east German of Rostock
fought street battles with police for a fourth straight night Wednesday,
shortly after Chancellor Helmut Kohl vowed to use ``extreme severity''
to end the violence.
	Some 1,600 riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse
about 900 right-wing extremists gathered in front of a gutted hostel for
political-asylum seekers.
	The extremists -- including neo-Nazis and skinheads -- threw stones and
firebombs at police, shouting, ``Germany for the Germans!'' and
``Foreigners get out!''
	Police fought running street battles with the rioters until about 3
a.m., when officers managed to get the situation under control.
	A police spokesman said the melee left 65 officers injured, including
several who badly burned by molotov cocktails. Authorities arrested 25
extremists.
	Wednesday's tough police action contrasted with official inaction
Monday, when 1,000 right-wing extremists set fire to the same hostel
while officers stood by but failed to intervene. Some 100 Vietnamese
refugees managed to flee the burning building without suffering major
injuries.
	Chancellor Helmut Kohl Tuesday called the violence ``a disgrace for
our country.
	``We will take action against violent racism with extreme severity,''
Kohl said a few hours before the fourth night of violence began.
	The Rostock disturbances, which began Saturday, represent the worst
outbreak of anti-foreign violence in Germany in years.
	Police said a total of 130 officers sustained injuries in the four
nights of rioting, with 220 right-wingers arrested.
	Violence against foreigners has increased dramatically in the past 18
months. So far, extremists have killed nine foreigners in 1992, compared
to three in 1991.
	Last year, authorities registered a total of 1,483 violent acts
against foreigners -- a fivefold increase from 1990. Police estimate
Germany has 40,000 right-wing extremists.
	The government links growing anti-foreign sentiment to an influx of
asylum seekers, mainly from eastern Europe.
	A record of 233,904 people applied for German asylum in the first six
months of 1992. The figures do not include most of the 200,000
Yugoslavians who have entered Germany since civil war hit their homeland
last year.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:44:59 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: India to import more rice from VN
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08/26

INDIA TO IMPORT MORE RICE FROM VIETNAM

NEW DELHI (AUG. 26) XINHUA - INDIA IS NEGOTIATING WITH VIETNAM ON THE IMPORT OF
360,000 TONNES OF RICE FROM THAT COUNTRY.

A CONTRACT TO THIS EFFECT WAS SIGNED HERE RECENTLY, LOCAL PRESS REPORTED TODAY.

THOUGH INDIA HAS BEEN INSISTING ON IMPORTING HALF A MILLION TONNES OF RICE FROM
VIETNAM, THERE HAVE BEEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES ON THE PRICE OF
RICE, THE REPORT SAID.

WHILE INDIA HAS BEEN INSISTING ON PURCHASING THE RICE AT THE INTERNATIONAL
PRICE, VIETNAM IS LEARNT TO HAVE PITCHED THE PRICE A BIT TOO HIGH.

SOURCES SAY THAT VIETNAM IS OFFERING ITS RICE TO INDIA AT 195 U.S. DOLLARS A
TONNE WHEREAS ITS LAST SALE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET WAS FOR 178 U.S.
DOLLARS A TONNE.

HOWEVER, INDIA WAS ABLE TO PERSUADE A VISITING VIETNAMESE TEAM TO SUPPLY
140,000 TONNES OF RICE AT AROUND 178 U.S. DOLLARS A TONNE. NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE
BALANCE QUANTITY ARE CONTINUING AND OFFICIALS ARE HOPEFUL OF CLINCHING THE DEAL
SHORTLY.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:45:00 +8
From:         ISROBERT@CPHKVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Refugees

i'd write a reply to this, but it is far too long to encompass all at once.
suffice to say that there is a fair amount of exaggeration and
misrepresentation - 50,000 refugees is a number closer to reality,
though i accept that there were 60,000 a while ago.
if you have been to hong kong, then please come and criticise, otherwise
don't pontificate.
i will try to write a more comprehensive reply later, time permitting.
robert - isrobert@cphkvx.bitnet
and please sign such articles - not all of us get headers, mr. x.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:05:57 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: US-Cambodia
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08/20

US-Cambodia

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

By GEORGE GEDDA
 Associated Press Writer
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council may soon be forced to consider
further measures against the Khmer Rouge if that group continues its refusal to
cooperate with the Cambodian peace process, the State Department said Thursday.
   Spokesman Richard Boucher said Khmer Rouge refusal to disarm its forces and
to assemble its troops in a single location represent serious obstacles to
fulfillment of the peace process.
   Khmer Rouge leaders have said they will not take these steps until the United
Nations verifies that all Vietnamese troops have left Cambodia.
   Vietnam maintains that all of its troops were withdrawn in 1989, ending a
10-year presence in Cambodia in which they fought the Khmer Rouge and other
rebel groups.
   The Khmer Rouge have not provided evidence that Vietnamese troops remain in
Cambodia.
   The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Edward Perkins, said last month
that the international community cannot wait for the Khmer Rouge indefinitely
and should be prepared to implement the Cambodian peace agreement with or
without them.
   Boucher said, "Clearly, if the Khmer Rouge continue to obstruct the peace
process, we expect that the Security Council may have to continue further
measures against the Khmer Rouge and consider those measures shortly,"
   Boucher said U.S. officials have been discussing options with non-Communist
Cambodian parties, with other Security Council members and with other interested
parties.
   Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger raised the issue on Monday
with Japanese Ambassador Takakzu Kuriyama, Boucher said.
   The Khmer Rouge killed large numbers of Cambodians during their brutal
1975-79 rule. The peace agreement signed last fall ended a 13-year war in which
the Khmer Rouge and other rebel groups fought Vietnamese troops and the
pro-Hanoi government they had installed in Phnom Penh.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:10:13 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Nguyen Thi Dinh died
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08/29

Obit-Dinh

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Thi Dinh, a former
Communist insurgency leader and one of the country's few top female officials,
has died, the official media reported Saturday. She was 72.
   The Vietnam News Agency, monitored in Bangkok, said Dinh died Wednesday night
in Ho Chi Minh City. It did not give a cause of death.
   Dinh was a former member of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee.
She also was honorary president of the Vietnam Women's Union, which disseminates
and implements party policy among women.
   Dinh became prominent at the start of the North Vietnamese Communist
insurgency against the U.S.-backed governments of South Vietnam.
   In January 1960, under her chairmanship, local cadres mapped out plans for an
uprising in Ben Tre in the south. She was among the executive leaders of the
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, formed later that year.
   She was named vice minister of defense of the Provisional Revolutionary
Government created after Communist forces won the war in April 1975 and
reunified the country.

----------------------------
08/29

VIETNAMESE VICE-PRESIDENT DIES

    HANOI, Aug 29, Reuter - Vietnamese vice-president Nguyen Thi Dinh, a heroine
of her country's wars against the French and the Americans, died in Ho Chi Minh
city on Wednesday at the age of 72, official newspapers said on Saturday.
    Dinh, born on March 15, 1920 in the southern province of Ben Tre joined the
Vietnamese Communist Party in 1938 and was imprisoned for three years in 1940.
    She became deputy commander of the South Vietnam Liberation Armed Forces in
1965 and was appointed brigadier-general in 1974.
    She was a former party central committee member and former vice president of
the Women's International Democratic Federation.
    Dinh was chosen as one of six vice presidents of Vietnam's state council in
June 1987.
    An official described her as the most outstanding woman in Vietnam's modern
history.
    Dinh's body is to lie in state in Ho Chi Minh City and will be buried there
on Monday, the newspapers said.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:09:12 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Clinton wants full VN MIA accounting before normal ties
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08/29

CLINTON WANTS FULL VIETNAM MIA ACCOUNTING BEFORE NORMAL TIES

    LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug 29, Reuter - Democratic U.S. presidential
candidate Bill Clinton said on Saturday he would consider normalising relations
with Vietnam only after every single U.S. soldier still listed as missing in the
war is accounted for.
    Clinton also said he would support the peace process in Cambodia and
described North Korea as "one of the most intransigent communist regimes in the
world" whose desire to stockpile weapons of mass destruction should be a major
U.S. security concern.
    Clinton was answering questions posed to him via satellite by members of the
Asian-American Journalists Association which was holding a convention in
Washington.
    One questioner asked what his policy would be towards "normalisations with
communist countries such as North Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam."
    "With regard to Vietnam I would like to re-establish relations at some point
in the future but in good conscience I cannot do it until I am satisified that
we have literally run down every last case involving POWs and MIAs," Clinton
said.
    "There are still too many unanswered questions there for me," said Clinton,
whose failure to serve in the Vietnam War has prompted critics to allege he
manipulated circumstances to avoid the U.S. draft, a charge he has vigorously
denied.
    "It may be our government's fault as much as anything else but I want that
issue resolved before we discuss any normalisation," he said.
    "I want to support the peace process in Cambodia. I think we have to watch
for any return of the abuses of the Khmer Rouge," he said.
    "In terms of North Korea, my sense is that if we're going to have progress
there it will have to come from progress made among the Korean peoples
themselves," Clinton said.
    "North Korea is still one of the most intransigent of all Communist regimes
in the world and I am frankly more interested now in protecting the security
interest of South Korea and other nations against what may be a continuing
attempt by the North Koreans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:02:32 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Surfing competition in VN
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08/31

BRF--Vietnam-Surfing

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Vietnam is catching the surfing wave, with help
from American surfers.
   A delegation of U.S. surfing and beach management experts visiting Vietnam
this month promised to help it finance and organize an international surfing
competition in December, the official Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
   The team also promised to help the Vietnamese Ministry of Information,
Culture and Sports develop better beach management and water sports, according
to the report monitored in Bangkok.
   The American delegation is led by Bruce S. Hopping, chairman of the
International Surfing Association.
   It visited Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam, the central coastal towns of
Danang, Qui Nhon and Nha Trang, and the beach resort of Vung Tau at the
country's southern tip.
   Surfers from the United States, Indonesia, Japan and other countries have
registered for the December competition, the news agency reported.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:46:09 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: France believe US lifting VN trade embargo soon
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08/26

FRANCE SEES U.S. LIFTING VIETNAM TRADE EMBARGO SOON

    PARIS, Aug 26, Reuter - A French government minister just back from a trip
to Vietnam said on Wednesday he was convinced the United States would its lift
an embargo on trade with Hanoi soon after the U.S. presidential election in
early November.
    "I am convinced that the embargo can be lifted as soon as possible after the
U.S. elections," French Public Works, Housing and Transport Minister Jean-Louis
Bianco told a news conference.
    Both sides have agreed to try to finish by the end of 1992 investigations of
135 priority cases of missing Americans believed to have survived plane crashes
or other incidents during the Vietnam War.
    Washington has said it wants more help from Hanoi clearing up questions
about the fate of missing servicemen before lifting the embargo, slapped on
Hanoi in 1964, or normalising relations.
    Officials in Dien Bien Phu said on Wednesday that a U.S. investigator had
been searching Vietnam's remote northwest for clues to what happened to the men.
    In May, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong said Washington could
lift the trade and investment embargo by 1993.
    During his visit, Bianco and his counterparts signed accords the French
minister said will clear the way for French firms to help Vietnam modernise its
transport infrastructure.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:10:58 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN warns it may take steps against Khmer Rouge
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08/25

U.N. warns it may take steps against Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

   TOKYO (UPI) -- The chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cambodia Tuesday
said the United Nations may take steps to force Khmer Rouge guerrillas to comply
with a recent peace accord, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said.
   Yasuo Akashi, head of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC),
made the comment during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
Akashi did not clarify whether he meant the U.N. planned possible economic or
military action.
   The Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, is the only faction
that has not disarmed and demobilized in accordance with a U.N- brokered peace
plan signed last October.
   During its four-year reign, the Khmer Rouge allegedly killed some 1 million
Cambodians before Vietnamese troops invaded and drove the group from power.
   Recently, the Khmer Rouge has demanded more authority for the Supreme
National Council, a reconciliation body composed of four Cambodian factions.
   The Khmer Rouge also wants confirmation Vietnam has withdrawn all of its
troops, something Hanoi insists occurred in 1989.
   Tuesday, Akashi told Miyazawa UNTAC has confined its role to activities
falling under U.N. Charter Chapter 6, dealing with peaceful settlement of
disputes.
   But officials quoted Akashi as saying that unless the Khmer Rouge disarms,
the U.N. Security Council might decide to take action called for by charter
Chapter 7, which authorizes economic sanctions or military force.
   Akashi warned the Khmer Rouge must disarm by October at the latest.
   Earlier, the UNTAC leader, who arrived in Japan last Thursday for a week-long
visit, said Cambodian elections may be held next May without Khmer Rouge
participation. But in talks with Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe, Akashi said
there could be no free and fair elections if Khmer Rouge guerrillas continue
denying UNTAC access to areas under the group's control.
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