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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:20:42 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Santiago Sane
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    Reuter, Manila, April 7 - A leading candidate in next month's
Philippine presidential election on Tuesday dismissed newspaper reports
that she had undergone psychiatric treatment as black propaganda spread
by her rivals.
    Allegations that feisty ex-judge Miriam Santiago was not mentally
fit to run were invented by her enemies "because she is now the
front-running presidential candidate," her campaign headquarters said in
a statement.
    "(Santiago) never had an alleged nervous breakdown, and was never
confined in any alleged institution," the statement said.
    The newspapers said allegations about Santiago's mental condition
were made in a paper distributed anonymously around Manila.
    The paper has increasingly been a subject of media speculation,
prompting an election commissioner to call on candidates in the May 11
poll to prove they are sane.
    Santiago, who has consistently emerged in opinion polls as the
voters' favourite of the seven presidential candidates, is a former
judge who worked as immigration commissioner and agrarian reform
minister under President Corazon Aquino.
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Organization: Vietnam Insight
Editor: Chan Tran
Address: PO Box 7826, San Jose, CA 95150, USA
Phone: (408) 226-2261
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:10:31 PDT
From:         Vietnam Insight <vinsight%netcom.com@HUSC6.BITNET>
Subject:      Hanoi Blames Exiles For Subversion

VIETNAM BLAMES EXILES FOR SUBVERSION
(Vietnam Insight January 1992)

Hanoi accused Vietnamese living overseas of trying to bring down the
communist system by importing subversive films and literature.

An official newspaper said "a disguised music videotape" was discovered
recently in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, capital of the former
South Vietnam until the 1975 communist takeover.

"In between music programmes, there are pictures of the August coup in
the Soviet Union which have been distorted and bear a clear reactionary
content," the army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan said on Dec. 30, 1991.

The tape was produced by an organization calling itself the Union of
Free Vietnam and smuggled into Vietnam as a gift, it said. The paper did
not say where the organization was based.

The newspaper accused overseas Vietnamese of trying to import various
documents, books and films "with distorted contents intended to arouse
hostile psychology in the country."

The videotape, titled "Spring Romance" was directed by Nguyen Vo Ky,
general secretary of the Union of Free Vietnam, it said.

Vietnam has resisted political liberalization despite the collapse of
its communist allies in the Soviet bloc. It has repeatedly urged people
to be vigilant of sabotage by what it calls "reactionary forces."

Note from Vietnam Insight:

Vietnamese democratic movements around the world formed the Free Vietnam
Alliance in July 1990 to coordinate efforts to effect democratic changes
in Vietnam. The organization is based in Paris and currently directed by
Professor Nguyen Vo Ky.
--
Vietnam Insight (vinsight@netcom.com)
Chan Tran, editor
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 11:47:31 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Thai Journalist Threatened
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   AP, Bangkok, April 11 - In a letter on Friday to the Foreign
Ministry, the Reuters bureau chief in Bangkok, Kevin Cooney, said four
unidentified men accosted an employee of the television news service
Visnews on the night of April 5. He wrote that they "manhandled" the
Visnews employee and asked him questions about the home address, car and
movements of Reuters correspondent Suthin Wannabovorn, a Thai national.
   The men "left the clear impression that they were searching" for the
correspondent "with the intention of doing him harm" or at least to
intimidate him, said Cooney's letter, released Saturday by Reuters.
   Foreign Ministry spokesman Sakthip Krairiksh did not immediately
respond.
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:48:57 PDT
From:         "Kevin F. Gaw" <6500GAW@UCSBUXA.BITNET>
Subject:      ENCYCLOPEADIA BRITANNICA

Greetings fellow networkers.  I am in the process of trying to
locate a used set of the Encly. Britannica and was wondering if any
of you all can help me out.  I am a poor student (naturally) so....

Kevin Gaw
6500gaw@ucsbuxa.bitnet
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:23:20 EDT
From:         david dettman <USER65CQ@UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject:      Indonesia lists?

Hello,
    A couple days ago a mis-routed message came through the net about
'PDB - Network for Indonesia'.  Can someone please fill me in on this
list and/or any other news or culture lists for Indonesia.  Please
_send_ mail to me direct and do not reply to the list.
                                     Terima kasih, David Dettman
                                     David_Dettman@um.cc.umich.edu
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:17:19 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Returned Refugees Interrogated
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    Reuter, Phnom Penh, Angus MacSwan, April 16 - Cambodian refugees
returning home under U.N. protection have been questioned by government
police about their political affiliations.
    "This is something we are not happy about and it is being
investigated," Ian Guest of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) told reporters on Wednesday evening.
    "In a country that is preparing for democracy we do not want people
discriminated against because of factional loyalties."
    Guest said police had entered villages and resettlement sites to
question refugees about which camp they had lived in.
    It was too early to say if the police action was part of an overall
plan but if so it would be viewed as a clear violation of a government
pledge to respect the political neutrality of the returnees, Guest said.
    Thirty foreign police monitors of the multinational U.N.
Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) were moving into the west of
the country to supervise the government police.
    "Their presence will be very important," Guest said.
    The police are from Ghana, India, Indonesia, Singapore, the
Philippines and France. A battalion of Malaysian Rangers is providing
security at the reception centres where the returnees spend their first
few nights back in their homeland.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:42:36 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Suchinda Weeps at Farewell
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   AP, Bangkok, April 8 - New Prime Minister Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon
on Wednesday bade a tearful farewell to army colleagues and met with
leaders of the parties that will form his government.
   His appointment was approved by the king on Tuesday.
   Suchinda wept as he replied to congratulatory remarks by deputy army
commander Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi, who is expected to take over the
commander's post on Thursday. By law, Suchinda had to resign his posts
as army and armed forces commander to accept the prime minister's job.
   Suchinda reportedly said he would refuse to appoint any politicians
found guilty of corruption by a committee established by the junta after
the coup. Several senior members of the coalition backing him had assets
seized by the committee.
   But on Tuesday, he hinted that he might be willing to compromise in
the case of politicians who won re-election two weeks ago.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:36:34 EDT
From:         Loren Ryter <ST701831@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Correction: Harvard East Timor forum on April 21

Correction:  the Harvard forum on East Timor will be held on April
21, not on April 12 as previously mentioned.  Here is a corrected
version of the flier:

                    Harvard University's
            John F. Kennedy School of Government
                          present
                    an ARGO Forum event:

   ______________________________________________________________
 /                                                                \
|                   MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR:                        |
|                                                                  |
|           CASE STUDY IN UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY             |
 \.______________________________________________________________./

                         - with -

                        Larry Dinger
          US State Department Indonesia Desk Officer

                     Benedict Anderson
Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

                        Allan Nairn
            New Yorker Magazine/ Massacre survivor

                        Amy Goodman
          Pacifica Radio news editor/ Massacre survivor


                       Noam Chomsky
                  Institute Professor, MIT

                     - moderated by -

                       Henry Steiner
          Director of Human Rights Program, Harvard Law


      smuggled video tape of the massacre will be shown


            :       Tuesday, April 21, 1992         :
            :              8:15 pm                  :
            :        Institute of Politics          :
            :           79 JFK Street               :
            :        Cambridge MA 02138             :
            :           (617) 495-1360              :
            :                                       :
            :     free and open to the public       :


                      co-sponsored by:

Harvard Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, Asian American Association,
Harvard College Democrats, Radcliffe Union of Students, Democratic
Socialists of America, Harvard Filipino Forum, Anthropology Club,
Harvard Chapter of Amnesty International, East Timor Action Network/
Rhode Island, Portuguese American, Portuguese Continental Union,
Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

   Portuguese Embassy Officials will be in attendence
   Indonesian Embassy Officials have been invited
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:22:09 EDT
From:         "K. Mat-Salleh" <matsalle@HERBARIUM.BPP.MSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Introduction to a language center...
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 >
>New York, April 11, 1992
>
>Dear Netters:
>
>We have just received a brochure introducing a Center for Vietnamese Language
>and Literature Studies for Foreigners in Hanoi.
>
....


I don't know if my request is appropriate here but wonder if
I can have a suggestion on where to get a help in translating
a botanical [=technical] paper written by vietnamese colleague in
Russian.

Please email me if you think personal correspondance is more
appropriate for this request.

-K.

______________________________________________________________________

K. Mat-Salleh                         matsalle@herbarium.bpp.msu.edu
Beal-Darlington Herbarium             bitnet:    matsalle@msu.bitnet
Michigan State University             faxmail:   (517) 353-1926
East Lansing, MI 48824-1312           voicemail: (517) 355-4696
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:11:29 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject: Massacre? What Massacre?
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    Reuter, Dhaka, Anis Ahmed, April 8 - Burma's embassy in Dhaka on
Wednesday dismissed claims by refugees that Burmese troops had opened fire
on Moslems at prayer in a village mosque, killing at least 200 and wounding
150.
    "We don't have any knowledge about any such incident. Such reports
appear to be a baseless propaganda against us," a senior embassy
official said.
    "There's no truth in it," he said.
    Foreign ministry sources in Dhaka said on Tuesday that Rangoon had
admitted that 37,000 Rohingya Moslems who had valid nationality
registration had fled from Arakan.
    Earlier the Burmese junta had said the Rohingyas were illegal aliens
who would not be allowed to return.
    Dhaka insists all the refugees who have flooded into southeastern
Bangladesh since early last year are Burmese nationals and must go back.
    "Ending the Rohingya influx and repatriation of the refugees will be
discussed during an expected visit to Dhaka by Burmese Foreign Minister
U Ohn Gyaw," a foreign ministry official told reporters.
    "We have received indication that the visit may take place later
this month," he said without giving details. "This is a positive outcome
of Eliasson's visit to Rangoon."
    The Burmese foreign minister cancelled a planned visit to Bangladesh
in January without giving any reason.
    "No date for his (forthcoming) visit has been fixed. We are still
negotiating it," the Burmese embassy official said.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:01:14 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Manerplaw Siege Intensifies
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    Reuter, Bangkok, David Brunnstrom, April 15 - Karen guerrillas say
fierce battles are continuing for their besieged headquarters with the
Burmese army increasing its attacking force to more than 20,000 men.
    The Manerplaw base, on Burma's border with western Thailand, was
under attack from the south and the west, said a Karen news release
dated Tuesday.
    The Burmese army wants to take Manerplaw before the start of monsoon
rains that create huge difficulties in jungle warfare, rendering many
supply routes impassible.
    The capture of Sleeping Dog Hill allowed the Burmese to shell
Manerplaw for the first time this year, threatening not only the
survival of the Karen movement, but that of allied political groups that
have made the base their headquarters since the junta brutally
suppressed a pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
    In mid-March the government began attacking the southern defence
line of Manerplaw and took three hill positions, the Karen release said.
It said severe battles were continuing for the first defence line on
that perimeter.
    Casualties in March were 49 Karen killed and 151 wounded with 11
missing in action, the statement said. It claimed the guerrillas killed
96 government troops and wounded 174 others.
    The guerrillas charged that 700 porters dragooned into the
government army died during the month.
    The government has also tried to take Kaw Moo Ra, the other
remaining Karen frontier base, 150 km (90 miles) to the south. The Karen
statement said the guerrillas repelled a government attack there on
March 14 killing 55 enemy troops and wounding 97.
    The Karen statement reported big battles in several other districts
of Karen state and neighbouring Mon state and accused government troops
of murdering, raping and forcibly relocating villagers.
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:52:09 PDT
From:         tun@PHY.UCSF.EDU
Subject:      Re: Frontline in Manerplaw
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              Publications/Task Force" at Apr 9, 92 3:28 pm

  >Remark: Scanned from FBIS.
  >Article Views Karen Frontline in Manerplaw
  >BKO504054192 Bangkok THE NATION in English 5 Apr 92 p 4
  >[By Gavin Lewis in Manerplaw] >

  >[Text] The crack of sniper fire silences, for a moment, the early morning
  >jungle chorus.  Taking my cue from the Karen soldiers around me, I ignore the
  >         [...]
  >
  >Clearly, the Rangoon regime put itself under unnecessary pressure by naming
  >the exact date by which Manerplaw was to come under its control.  March 27,
  >Burma's National Armed Forces Day, undoubtedly sounded a romantic note in the
  >ears of Ne Win, Khin Nyunt and Saw Maung, but reality proved a little more
  >difficult.
  >
Not only was it Burma's National Armes Forces Day, it was also divisible
by 9. Why is it important? It is important to Ne Win, who is still
believed to be in control from behind-the-scence, is a ardent beliver in
numerology. Burma watchErs will remember that he is obsessed with number 9.

After he declared most of burma's currency in 1987 worthless, where by making
 people
go broke overnight, burma came out with 45 and 90 demoniation!!! Can anyone
think of any nations in the world who came up with such a crazy denomination
in currency?

Believe it or not, Ne Win or Shu Maung (his real name) ran Burma in this
fashion for 26 years... no wonder why the country went broke!!! Ne Win is his
pseudonym use during WWII.

As a burmese, I admit that burmese are very much into numerology but
since I was broght up in the West, I don't understand the significance of it.
I think its all some hocus-pocus.
Even today, burmese still carry out significant event, such as wedding,
opening of a restaruant, buying of a house, ordaining to monkhood, etc..
take place only after consulting to numerologist.

Coban Tun
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:15:02 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Man's Best Friend
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    Reuter, Manado, Moses manoharan, April 8 - Black-tongued dogs are man's
best friend in one Indonesian province -- preferably fried.
    In Christian-dominated Minahasa region of the Indonesian province of
North Sulawesi, dog meat is the most sought-after delicacy among gourmet
dishes ranging from bats to mice.
    They are often sold fresh from the cage where they languish until a
customer asks for "RW" -- pronounced "er way" in Indonesian.
    "RW is code for the Indonesian words for 'fine-haired'," tourist
guide Nova Lumanauw said.
    "Asking for dog's meat is hard on the ear," she said with a blush.
    If dogs with black tongues are in demand because of their rarity,
fluffy-haired canines are relatively safe because their flesh is
considered to have poor taste and texture.
    An old-time resident said the taste for dog developed during the
World War Two Japanese occupation when there was not much else to eat.
    In Manado's main market, Agus Ringkuangan cooks dog bones in a large
pan, crouching bare-chested beside an iron-barred cage in which other
dogs destined for the table whimper.
    Ringkuangan, "Because of You" tattooed in English across his chest
in memory of a long-discarded lover, said a dog costs 35,000 rupiah
($17). Eager customers snap up the meat by noon every day.
    "We fry it in red hot peppers and eat it with a toddy," he said with
a laugh.
    "Dog meat-eating is largely confined to men and is a very macho kind
of thing to do," one Manadonese woman said. Men think it increases
sexual prowess, she said.
    This macho image has ensured the survival of the custom long after
the deprivation of war was replaced by prosperity from the booming clove
trade in the 1970s.
    Johnny Kaeng said live dogs are taken off butcher's tables in
deference to Moslem sentiment during the fasting month of Ramadan.
    "We sometimes pity the dogs which come to our tables, but what to
do...life must go on," Kaeng said with a sigh.
    Innkeepers in Manado maintain the best meat is from stray dogs. The
flesh of pedigree animals is too watery. It tastes squishy, one said
with a grimace.
    Other dishes vying for the palate in Minahasa are reputed to have
medicinal properties. Bat for example is deemed to have low cholesterol
and is alleged to cure asthma while strengthening the heart. It is
cooked in coconut milk.
    Mice also have low cholesterol, a local driver said. Aficionados of
the rodent often demand to see the tail before selecting one for the
table.
    If the tail is white, it is a forest mouse. If it is long-tailed, it
comes from the rice fields.
    Indonesians, inhabitants of the world's largest Moslem country,
won't eat church mice. That timorous creature is considered poisonous.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:00:05 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      China Spurns Rohingyas
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    Reuter, Beijing, April 15 - China made clear on Wednesday it would
not intervene on behalf of tens of thousands of Moslems flooding into
Bangladesh from Burma to escape persecution by the military government.
    Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, in a meeting
with his Chinese counterpart Qian Qichen on Monday, appealed to Beijing
to use its influence over Rangoon's government to help the refugees.
    According to an account of the meeting by the Iranian news agency
IRNA, Velayati called on China to urge Rangoon to stop persecuting
Moslems.
    He urged Qian "to exploit his good offices with the government in
Myanmar (Burma) to stop the banishment of Moslems in that country so
that dislodged Moslems can return home," the news agency said.
    Asked to comment on the report, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
said on Wednesday:
    "We always hope that Myanmar and Bangladesh will through direct
dialogue and conversation make a proper settlement of the issue that has
arisen recently on the boundary of the two countries."
    China maintains that its foreign policy is based on the principle of
non-interference.
    China is Burma's closest friend and main supplier of arms, but it is
coming under increasing pressure to abandon its ally and join
international efforts to isolate Rangoon and halt military sales.
    Western diplomats say China has supplied fighter jets, tanks and
other heavy weapons to Burma.
    There is no sign that Beijing will yield to pressure.
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