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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:18:09 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Solomons Welcomes Wingti
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/* ---------- "SOLOMONS - MAMALONI - WINGTI" ---------- */
SOLOMONS - MAMALONI - WINGTI:  PACNEWS,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 22 1992

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni says the election of Paias
Wingti as the leader of Papua New Guinea brings new hope of mending the rifts
created between the governments of the two  countries through the "mishandling
of the Bougainville crisis."

Mr Mamaloni says the Bougainville issue remains a "stigma of embarrassment" to
the Melanesian Spearhead Group, and more so to the leaders of the two
countries.

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister made these remarks in a letter to Mr Wingti
congratulating him on behalf of the government and people  of Solomon Islands
on his election as Prime Minister of PNG.

Mr Mamaloni says that with Mr Wingti at the helm of the PNG  government he is
confident the new Prime Minister could achieve a lasting  solution to the
Bougainville issue.

The Honiara government has suspended all formal discussions with Port Moresby
on the Bougainville issue in the last three months, but in  his note, Mr
Mamaloni indicated that he would be having more consultation with his new PNG
counterpart on the Bougainville issue.

The earliest opportunity provided for the two leaders to discuss the
Bougainville issue would be the extraordinary Melanesian Spearhead  Group
meeting in Port Vila next week.

But while Prime Minister Mamaloni has confirmed his attendance,  there's been
still no confirmation from Port Moresby on whether Mr Wingti  will attend.
...ends.

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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 11:58:10 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Nuclear Tourism
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/* ---------- "BIKINI - TOURS" ---------- */
BIKINI - TOURS:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 23 1992

People from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands have expressed reservations
about a plan aimed at turning a fleet of warships sunk  by nuclear tests into a
tourist attraction.

The Bikini islanders were removed to Kili Island as a result of  United States
nuclear testing on their atoll.

Some of them now say they fear foreigners will be the people most  likely to
profit from a tourism scheme of the kind proposed.

Several nuclear tests were carried out above and around the fleet  of 90 ships
and submarines, many of which sank in the island's lagoon.

Among them were well-known Japanese and American battleships which  are now
accesible to divers.

A local council economist, Jack Niedental, says the council has now decided to
start slowly and plans to erect a small hotel capable of  initially handling
eight tourists. ...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:47:11 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Fiji Telecoms Troubles
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/* ---------- "FIJI - FPTL" ---------- */
FIJI - FPTL,  PACNEWS;  PACNEWS ED - 2,    JULY 21 1992

The new board of the Fiji Posts and Telecommunications Limited has reinstated
the former Chief Executive Emori Naqova.

But board chairman Berenado Vunibobo said today a condition of Mr Naqova's
reinstatement is that he must undergo retraining.

Mr Naqova has been told to turn the company around to respond to the needs of
its customers and enhance profitability without undue  increases in its
charges.

The former board headed by businessman Robert Lee forced the Naqova  to resign
in February this year on the grounds that he did not have the qualities to lead
the company into the future.

The forced resignation led to widespread dissatisfaction in the compnay which
erupted into a five day strike by 1,500 employees when the company's General
Manager Telecommunications Pratap Singh was given instant dismissal late last
month.

The employees demanded the reinstatement of both men and the  dismissal of the
old board which resigned.

During a second strike last week angry employees cut 21 key cables disrupting
telecommunications services on more than 19,000 lines.

Most services have been restored but several thousand lines still  remain out
of operation.

Mr Singh's dismissal will go before Fiji's permenanet arbitrator later this
month on the grounds that it was unfair...ends

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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:04:54 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      SOLOMONS: Controversial Road
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/* ---------- "HONIARA ROAD" ---------- */
HONIARA ROAD:  SIBC,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 24 1992

Work on the 5-million US dollar project to improve the main road of  the
Solomon Islands capital, Honiara is to start in September.

The Minister of Transport, Works and Utilities, Ben Gale, says  engineers and
surveyors from the Kumagai Gumi Construction company of Japan  arenow surveying
sections of the main road which need upgrading.

Mr Gale says engineering and survey works should finish in August to ensure
that stage-one of the project linking central Honiara with  theeastern part of
the capital begins in September.

Stage-two would cover the section between central Honiara and the western part
of the town.

He said the seven-mile long main road will have four lanes and a  number of
under-ground and over-head walkways.

Solomon Islands Opposition Leader Joses Tuhanuku has criticised the 5-million
dollar loan to upgrade the road claiming it was  masterminded by the Kumagai
Gumi company for its own interest.

Mr Tuhanuku claims that the company, which has recently completed a major
bridge project in Honiara, has drawn up the project and got  itself involved in
securing the required loan finance from the Marubeni  Bank of Japan with which
it has close links. ...ends.

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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:55:53 +0400
From:         "NCSE01::YRJOLA"@TNCLUS.TELE.NOKIA.FI
Subject:      TH: Demand for satellite dishes increases
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From:	NCSE01::YRJOLA       21-JUL-1992 09:32:55.03
To:	yrjola
CC:
Subj:	   THAILAND: DEMAND FOR SATELLITE DISHES INCREASES


          Media, 26 Jun 1992, P.8:-
          According to Samart Satcom and Loxley Group,
         the sales and interest from consumers in
         Thailand for satellite dishes have risen. A 30%
         rise was reported in May 1992. Potential buyers
         were said to have been "spurred" by television
         censorship.
          Distributors are currently waiting for a
         liberalisation policy from the Government to
         allow the free sales of satellite dishes.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:42:00 EDT
From:         LIAU_A@CC.DENISON.EDU
Subject:      MY: Hudud laws
X-To:         seasia-l%msu.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu

Dudes and dudettes,

Is it true that the Hudud Laws in Kelantan are no longer being
implemented?  Or is this old news?

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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:31:58 PDT
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      testmail (IGNORE)
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testing
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:38:00 CDT
From:         Karl Rambo <AA0492@UOKMVSA.BITNET>
Subject: (COPY) THIS IS NOT A FALSE REPORT

SEASIA-L Graduate Students or recent Graduate Students at US universities:
The following proposed tax law changes may be of financial interest to you
and I encourage you to contact your Congressperson to support this bill.
As many of you felt in your wallets, tax changes in the '80s really did a
job on the incomes of grad students on various assistantships at U.S.
institutions. As this forwarded message indicates, there is a move afoot to
re-establish the exempt status of stipends. Unfortunately, I don't know
anything more than what is contained in this notice I received on an
anthropology list.  -- Karl Rambo  Bitnet: AA0492@uokmvsa.bitnet
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From:         JOBRIEN@IUBACS.BITNET
Subject:      THIS IS NOT A FALSE REPORT
To:           Karl Rambo <AA0492>,
              David Brockus <AA1492>

House of Representative Bill H.R. 4418

[Source: Friday, 26 June 1992 13:38:06 EDT
 "Rahman A. Soomro" <rahman@alpha.ces.cwru.edu>]

     There is a bill, currently being considered by the U. S. House of
Representatives which would RETURN THE STIPENDS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS TO
A TAX EXEMPT STATUS.  Prior to the Reagan-Bush (No New Taxes!) era, Graduate
Student Stipends were not taxed, and Tom Lewis (R-
Florids) has proposed a bill which not only would make stipends TAX-EXEMPT, but
would also RETURN ALL TAXES PAID SINCE 1986 on Grad. income.  The Bill is H.R. 4
418 and is currently under consideration, though I am not sure if it has cleared
committee or not.
     To support the bill, call or write your local congressman and ask them to
support it.
     If you do not know who your rep. is, call (800) 347-1997 (THE FEDERAL INFOR
MATION CENTER) and ask.
     Come on folks, lets support our own interests.  All this has about gone
far enough, don't you think?
     Please put this out on every listserver that you have access to.

John O'Brien
Indiana University
Sociology Department
NIMH program in the measurement of affect and affective processes.
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:02:15 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Marshalls' Malnutrition
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/* ---------- "MARSHALLS - MALNUTRITION" ---------- */
MARSHALLS - MALNUTRITION:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 23 1992

A conference in the Marshall Islands has been told that malnutrition is the
main cause of death for children under the age of five.

A former assistant secretary of health, Janice Alfred, has told the Mother and
Child Health Conference in the capital Majuro that  Marshall Islanders now have
the highest infant mortality rate in Micronesia.

She says one third of all deaths in the country are among children under five.

And she says 20 per cent of children under seven are malmourished, and 40 per
cent of those between seven and 14 years of age are malnourished.

A Roman Catholic priest, Father Jim Gould has said Marshall  Islandersare doing
to their children with malnutrition what the  United States did with the
nuclear bomb to people in the region forty years ago when  itcarried out tests
there.

Father Gould says the problem needs to be tackled by everybody and cannot be
left to the government.

He says the problem of unsupervised and poorly educated youth could show up in
less than ten years in increasing gang activities and crime.  ...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:53:47 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Samak says crackdown "normal"
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 00:37:41+0700
From: kamol@munnari.oz.au (Kamol Hengkietisak)

     PRACHAKORN Thai Party leader Samak Sundaravej yesterday
described the crackdown on protesters during the May
demonstrations as "normal".
     Apart from protecting the country from outside attack,
soldiers normally have a duty to quell internal riots, he said. So
when unrest occurs troops are duty-bound to take action.
     Mr Samak was speaking before yesterday's party meeting. He
said it was the first time he had spoken to reporters in over a
month.
     He said it is normal that losses result from a crackdown
aimed at preventing the greater damage that occurs if a riot is
allowed to get out of hand.
     He was surprised that the blame was put only on the military
and not on those who set buildings on fire.
     Former coalition parties did what they could and should under
the declared state of emergency issued on the night of May 17.
     The coalition parties had nothing to do with the state of
emergency. No one was able to summon a Cabinet meeting so late at
night.
     Under the state of emergency, the coalition parties could
only let the matter rest with the Capital Security Command.
     Other political parties, if they had been in the coalition,
would have done the same thing in the same situation.
     He also described as "normal" the resignation from the PTP of
former MP Sanya Sathirabutr, who he said is the only former MP who
has resigned.
     He said three other former MPs from Chanthaburi Province who
reportedly have resigned -- Warothai Pinyasas, Prawat Ootamote and
Thawatchai Anampong -- are still by his side.
But one of the three, Mr Warothai, later said he will wait and see
how much the PTP's image improves.
     He will then decide before the candidate registration period
whether or not to run in the election under the PTP banner, and
even on whether to go on "playing politics".
     Mr Warothai said he will choose the party which can ensure
over 20 seats so that he can do some good for the country as an MP
by being able to submit motions in the House.
     Mr Samak later said he has decided to lead the PTP in the
next election after accepting others' comments that as the PTP's
founder he should not give up the party.
     He said he regrets his earlier expressions of weariness of
politics.
     He said a political party should be wound up in a timely
fashion after an election outcome is produced, as a boxer is
declared defeated in the boxing ring itself, not away from the
ring.
     He said the PTP has finalised the list of 35 candidates for
Bangkok and the party will field slightly over the legal
requirement of 120 candidates nationwide.
     He said it is not worth fielding too many candidates for the
small number of seats expected to be gained.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:52:41 +0400
From:         "NCSE01::YRJOLA"@TNCLUS.TELE.NOKIA.FI
Subject:      IN: New DG for Post & Telecommunications
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From:	NCSE01::YRJOLA       21-JUL-1992 09:44:26.12
To:	yrjola
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Subj:	   INDONESIA: NEW DG FOR POST & TELECOMMUNICATIONS


          The Indonesia Times, 14 July 1992, p.3:-
          In Indonesia, the newly appointed Director
         General of Post and Telecommunications of
         Indonesia is Djakaria Purawidjaja.
          Mr Djakaria has the Air Force rank of Air
         Commodore.
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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Malaysian Losses
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:35:00 GMT

Am I boring the other readers? Sorry.
Malaysia suffers losses in Hockey team to Spain,
and Foo Kok Keong.
	Foo said that he lost to Ardy Wiranata because he was too careful and
make too many mistakes. Ardy was superb defensively.

If the losses keeps up, there will not be any need for postings.

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet

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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:01:16 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Nuclear Topsoil
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/* ---------- "BIKINI CLEANUP" ---------- */
BIKINI - CLEAN-UP:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 24 1992

Exiled Bikini Islanders are reported to be finalising plans to
scraperadioactive topsoil off their atoll so they can safely return  to their
Marshall Islands home.

A Bikini local government council adviser, Jack Niedental, says the islanders
want to remove 36 to 50 centimetres of soil in an effort  torid Bikini atoll of
Caesium-137.

The United States took the atoll in 1946 and conducted 23  atmosphericnuclear
tests in the area.

Mr Niedental says preparatory work for the topsoil removal has been completed,
but that he still wants to talk to some more experts on  the best way to
approach the job.

He says getting enough clean topsoil for all of Bikini was out of  thequestion,
but it might be possible to get enough for the areas  where people will live
and establish gardens.

US scientists say the project is no longer necessary but Bikinians  are said to
have no more faith in what the United States says.

The 18-hundred Bikinians now live on Kili, 700 km to the south-east. ...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:56:02 PDT
From:         Larry Engelmann <ENGELMAN@SJSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Burmese prostitutes and AIDS
              30 Jul 1992 12:31:25 -0700 from <RLYSLOFF@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU>

Be careful with this story.  From the very beginnint it smelled like bullshit.
 A request for a primary source or a secondary source came up with zero.  My ow
n feeling from looking at it and being familiar with the region is that somebod
y thought they would run up the flag to see who might salute.  Don't do it.  Th
ere is no source for this story.  It has even less validity than the accounts b
y the phoney Kuwaiti witness to Iraqi atrocities committed against Kuwaiti babi
es in Kuwait city.  Didn't happen.  It is always a victory for the individuals
who spread these stories if anyone believes.  Remember what John Kenneth Galbra
ith said:  At any given moment as many as 20 million Americans will believe any
thing.  This is one of the stories to prove that.  And remember, more people in
 this country have actually taken rides on flying saucers than people from any
other country in the world.  Sure they injected them with a lethal drug.  Sure
they did.  And  Elvis Presley was seen on the Road to Mandalay recently.
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:33:13 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN floods leave 38,000 homeless
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07/29

VIETNAM FLOODS LEAVE 38,000 HOMELESS

    HANOI, July 29, Reuter - Floods in northern Vietnam have swamped thousands
of houses making 38,000 people homeless, an official newspaper reported on
Wednesday.
    Tuyen Quang, capital of Ha Tuyen province, and 48 nearby villages were
indundated after torrential rains raised the levels of the Lo and Gam rivers,
Nhan Dan reported.
    It said 8,147 houses were flooded. More than 200 homes, 220 schools and
health clinics were destroyed along with 16 bridges and sluices.
    There was no information about casualties.
    Last week, abnout 200 people were killed in a mud and rock slide caused by
heavy rain in Cao Bang, a province adjoining Ha Tuyen.
    Every year storms and floods cause heavy damage and loss of life in Vietnam.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:17:20 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      MY: Whipping Pimps & Madams
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/* ---------- "Malaysia: Tough Anti-Prostitution" ---------- */
San Francisco Examiner
July 20, 1992

Malaysia eyes harsher anti-prostitution laws

Associated Press

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The government is considering a law that
would allow it to seize the assets of pimps in an effort to curb
prostitution.

Law Minister Syed Hamid Jaafar Albar said the law was one of several
amendments to the Women's and Girl's Protection Act of 1973 that the
government was proposing.

Officials said Friday that the governmental also planned to establish
mandatory whipping for convicted pimps and madams. Currently, only
pimps are whipped, and only at the discretion of a judge.

Penalties for procuring would also increase from the current maximum
fine of $4,000 or five years in jail or both.
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