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From: RDHILL@HKUCC.BITNET (NAME 'R D HILL, GEOGRAPHY & GEOLOGY,
              UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG')
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Date: 28 Sep 92 09:44:00 GMT
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Southeast Asia Collection
The University of Hong Kong does not have a separate collection for the region
but has a fairly extensive holding of materials mainly published in the last
20 years or so. t has a fair collection of older materials, mainly in reprint
but  also some early works in original editions. The holdings of informally-
published materials is very weak, largely as a result of not having a specialist

librarian to oversee the collection. Equallly the holdings of documents on
fiche or similar media are very weak. There is also rather little documentary
material on China-Seasia relations other than a  few British Foreign Office
records on fiche. urther details from the HKU library itself. Little in
anything other than English and Chinese.   HILL
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:53:01 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN to sign oil deal with Mitsubishi

10/01

Vietnam to sign oil deal with Mitsubishi

    HANOI, Oct 1, Reuter - Mitsubishi Oil Co. Ltd of Japan said on Thursday it
was scheduled to sign a contract with Hanoi's state oil company, Petrovietnam,
to explore for oil off the southern Vietnamese coast.
    Mitsubishi Oil, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp, told Reuters it would sign
a 25-year production sharing contract in Hanoi on October 6.
    It will be the fourth Japanese company or group to sign an exploration
contract with Vietnam this year.
    Petrovietnam signed contracts with Idemitsu Oil Development and with a
Japanese group comprising AEDC Vietnam -- a subsidiary of AOC Energy
Development Company -- and Teikoku Oil (Offshore Vietnam) in June.
    It signed a third exploration contract with C. Itoh of Japan and Britain's
Lasmo in August.
    Companies from Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands and other countries
have been searching for oil off Vietnam's coast since the late 1980s, but none
has found commercial amounts.
    Vietnam's joint oil venture with Russia, Vietsovpetro, produced 3.9 million
tonnes of crude in 1991 and forecast 5.4 million for this year.
    Hanoi's accusations that China is prospecting for oil in Vietnamese waters
have recently strained relations between the two nations, who fought a brief
border war in 1979.
    "Last May, China signed a contract with an American company for drilling
oil. The area is precisely on the continental shelf of Vietnam. We have asked
China to cancel the contract," Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam said
last month.
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:08:00 +1000
From:         DAVIDB@VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject:      ET: Jolliffe on Timor talks

Title: Talks to resume on Timor future
Source: The Age (Melbourne)
Date: 28 Sept 1992
Byline: Jill Jolliffe
Dateline: Lisbon, Sunday
Remark: Slightly abridged

    Portugal and Indonesia have agreed to resume negotiations
in December over the political future of East Timor, after a
meeting between the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Mr Joao de
Deus Pinheiro, and his Indonesian counterpart, Mr Ali Alatas.
    The exploratory meeting, classified by the Portuguese
minister as "talks about talks", was held in the New York
office of the UN Secretary General, Dr Boutros-Ghali.
    In an interview with Portugal's state-run RTP channel soon
afterwards, Mr Deus Pinheiro said that he expected East
Timorese representatives would eventually be involved in the
negotiations.
    Previous talks were broken off in October last year after
more then two years of meetings when a planned Portuguese
parliamentary delegation to East Timor was suspended by
Jakarta.
    The Dili massacre on 12 November, following the
suspension, led to an atmosphere of open hostility between
Jakarta and Lisbon, although the Portuguese leaders said they
saw continued talks as the only possible solution.
    Portugal appears determined to drive a hard bargain in the
forthcoming negotiations. Mr Deus Pinheiro said Lisbon wanted
a "comprehensive and internationally acceptable solution on
East Timor" and that he expects "a long, delicate process".
    He said their difficulty was heightened by the fact that
Portuguese and Indonesian positions were "180 degrees apart".
    To illustrate the point, Mr Alatas said Jakarta was not
prepared to include East Timorese representatives in the
talks, because East Timorese had already voted for integration
with Indonesia, in July 1976. Mr Deus Pinheiro insisted that
"the East Timorese have a right to be consulted".
    Mr Deus Pinheiro said the talks in December would also
start just between the foreign ministers, at a place to be
decided, presided over by the UN Secretary-General or his
personal representative.
    He said it would be the first of a series of regular
encounters.
    In Lisbon the Timorese resistance representative, Mr Jose
Ramos Horta, greeted the New York meetings as a positive
development and said he expected that East Timorese would
enter directly into the negotiations at a later stage.
    He said there was a proposal on the table at the UN for a
Vatican delegation including Timorese Catholic representatives
to attend as observers.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:53:51 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: US general checks MIA report in Hanoi prison

10/01

U.S. general checks MIA report in Hanoi prison

    HANOI, Oct 1, Reuter - A U.S. general heading the search for servicemen
missing from the Vietnam War visited an infamous prison in Hanoi on Thursday to
check rumours that Americans had been seen there.
    Brigadier-General Thomas Needham and his experts were granted the rare tour
of Hoa Lo prison, the "Hanoi Hilton" where U.S. pilots taken captive during the
war were confined.
    "There was no American or Caucasian seen inside the prison,"
Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Donovan, the head of a U.S. office that is trying to
account for missing servicemen, told Reuters.
    Vietnamese government spokeswoman Ho The Lan told a separate news
conference on Thursday that Needham's visit inside the prison proved that
rumours about American servicemen still alive in Vietnam were false.
    "The result showed those reports are totally unfounded," she said.
    The emotional and politcally sensitive issue of Missing- in-Action (MIA)
servicemen has blocked normalisation of relations between Vietnam and the
United States which has kept a crippling trade embargo in place against its
former adversary.
    Needham said Hanoi also promised to help the United States in its stepped
up efforts to resolve questions about the missing Americans.
    He told Reuters in an interview that Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le
Mai had pledged continued assistance in resolving the fate of 135 men who might
have survived plane crashes, as well as other reports of missing Americans
supposedly seen alive.
    Needham said U.S. teams that have been scouring the Vietnamese countryside
since 1988 had found no evidence indicating any of the missing men were alive.
    The general heads the U.S. military Joint Task Force-Full Accounting
created in January to accelerate investigation of missing servicemen. He has
travelled to Vietnam about a dozen times this year.
    Needham held day-long talks with Vietnamese officials on Wednesday to
assess progress made in the last search and to plan another month-long field
investigation by six American teams beginning in mid-October.
    The United States and Vietnam agreed earlier this year to finish by
mid-January 1993 at least an initial investigation of 135 cases of men who
might have survived plane crashes and been captured during the war.
    "We're right on course for that," Needham said on Thursday.
    Those 135 cases are among 2,266 men whose remains were never recovered from
Indochina.
    He said special U.S. investigators had been checking about one so-called
live sighting report per week in recent months.
    In one recent case, investigators tracked down a man described by locals as
a black American serviceman. The man turned out to be a Vietnamese whose father
was a Senegalese soldier who served in the French colonial forces before 1954.
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 12:31:42 -0500
From:         Max Becherer <becherer@SUNA0.CS.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Re: VN Price Weekly No. 22 (1992)

  Who are these figures supposed to benefit ?  Foreign investors out to exploit
the Vietnamese people ?  Vietnamese traitors who do business with the VC ?



Refer comments, suggestions, flames to

                 Max Becherer    becherer@cs.uiuc.edu

       Nothing Evil lasts forever -- the Future belongs to the Free.
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:37:49 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS: VN was not a 'class war', study says

09/30

Vietnam was not a 'class war,' study says

	CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) -- A new Pentagon study has found that --
contrary to popular believe -- almost as many middle- and upperclass
American youths died in Vietnam as working class ones.
	``The belief that affluent citizens were conspicuously missing from
the Vietnam war dead is harmful to all Americans,'' researchers at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded in a study conducted for
the Army. ``It demeans the sacrifices of the wealthy...and the non-
wealthy.''
	MIT scholars, who studied family incomes of all 58,000 American
soldiers who died in war, found that affluent communities had only
``marginally lower'' casualty rates than the nation as a whole, while
poorer cities and towns had just ``marginally higher'' ones.
	In fact, the survey found, four wealthy communities -- Beverly Hills,
Calif., Chevy Chase, Md., Great Neck, N.Y., and Belmont, Mass. --
actually had casualty rates that exceeded the national average.
	Reporting their findings in the journal Operations Research, MIT
professor Arnold Barnett and two other scholars said the data offered
``substantial evidence that, in terms of the bereavement it brought to
America, Vietnam was not a class war.''
	The researchers added that ``prestigious newspapers, magazines and
Academy Award-winning movies (which) have depicted the conflict as a
'class war''' have perpetrated a ``great exaggeration.''
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:36:28 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN defense minister warns army of threats

09/28

Vietnam defence minister warns army of threats

    HANOI, Sept 28, Reuter - Vietnamese Defence Minister Doan Khue has warned
the army it must fight against what he described as imperialist plots to
destroy socialism, the official army newspaper reported on Monday.
    In a strongly-worded speech made recently to troops in central Vietnam, he
said unidentified enemies had been encouraged by the collapse of the Soviet
Union and were now stepping up efforts to end Communist Party rule in Vietnam.
    "Their target is to liquidate the revolutionary achievements and wipe out
the socialist system in the world," he said.
    He said hostile forces were trying to destroy Vietnamese socialism by using
military means and "peaceful evolution," a term also used by China to describe
Western attempts to spread ideas about political pluralism.
    Khue, who is ranked fifth in the 13-man Communist Party Politburo,
described "peaceful evolution" as a dangerous force that could seep through
the society, and even the party, without people realising it.
    "They try their best to carry out distorting propaganda, to take advantage
of our mistakes in order to maliciously arouse and spread doubt and vagueness,"
he said.
    "'Peaceful evolution' takes place in all aspects of politics, ideology,
economy, culture, diplomacy and uses many forces, many means and from many
directions, anywhere and anytime, (and affects) everyone from top government
levels down to the grassroot masses," he said.
    The unusually strong speech followed the National Assembly's unanimous
election of General Le Duc Anh as Vietnamese president last Wednesday. Anh, a
battle-hardened soldier, controls foreign policy, defence and internal security
for the party.
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Khue said, so-called imperialist
and reactionary forces had stepped up efforts to establish a "new world order"
controlled by the United States.
    Diplomats said several similar editorials published in Hanoi newspapers a
few weeks ago warning of threats from hostile forces indicated Vietnam's
disappointment at failing to normalise relations with the United States.
    Washington also maintains a tough trade embargo against Hanoi, and denies
Vietnam access to credit from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and
other lenders.
    Khue said unidentified enemies would be trying to establish forces within
the party and among Vietnamese people in order to overthrow the system.
    He said a current campaign to reorganise the party was one key way to fight
against enemies' attempts at "peaceful evolution."
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:58:06 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Anand to return to private sector

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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 15:54:01+0700
From: Yongyuth Pahirah <yongyuth@ipied.tu.ac.th>

The Nation Oct 2 edition

  FORMER prime minister Anand Panyarachun, who left office yesterday, said he
  would return to work at the Saha Union Co.

  ``After stepping down from the post of premier, I will have a rest,'' Anand
  said. ``I still do not know what to do next. I have scarcely laid any plans
  in my life. I will become an employee of Saha Union Company again, anyway.''

  He declined to compare his administration with the new Chuan Cabinet, saying
  administrations should compete with one another only in their achievements
  and not in quarrelling.

  Anand brushed aside a question about whether another ``political accident''
  might see him become prime minister for the third time, saying the new
  government has been formed and taken an oath of office before His Majesty
  the King.

  ``From now on it is the duty of the Thais and MPs to help the government to
  work for the country's prosperity,'' he said.

  The first Anand administration, formed after the Feb 23 coup last year,
  lasted 13 months while his second government, installed after the bloody May
  crisis, lasted for three months and two weeks.

  Asked if he would write his autobiography, Anand said he had never had such
  an idea because he would be unable to refrain from criticizing other people
  which was unacceptable to Thais.

  ``Most Thais are narrow-minded. I've got quite different habits from the
  Thais in general,'' he said.

  Anand said he did not care about any accusations against him because they
  were ``a waste of time''.

  ``If we know there is dung there, we should avoid stepping on it. What's the
  point in stepping on it?'' he said.

  A group of MPs has asked the Counter Corruption Commission to investigate
  what it describes as ``irregularities'' in the Anand administration's
  handling of the 3-million-line telephone expansion projects, the laying of
  underwater cable and contractual changes with major oil distributors.

  Anand said he bade farewell to HM the King before the King left for Taksin
  Rajanives Palace in Narathiwat province recently.
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:09:05 EST
From:         MPARIKES@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Subject:      Re: Woooowww....wooooowww

    I need to ask two questions concerning these East Timor ordeal, just
    to get a clearer picture ;

 1. Why does the East Timorese is so persistent (like you say)
    to be independent.
    What are the benefit for them as an Independent country, and
    why being Indonesian is so bad for them ?

 2. What do they have to live on as an Independent country ?


 Waiting for your reply,
 M. Parikesit,   mparikes@cs.indiana

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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:13:00 EST
From:         GSUSSMAN%EMERSON.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      Vietnam Insight

While there are certainly no strictures against the practice, I certainly
have to question the use of this medium for blatantly self-serving
propaganda of the kind served up by "Vietnam Insight."  There is nothing
inherently "heroic" about dropping leaflets from airplanes with
unsolicited messages calling on the population below to rise up against
their government.  In this country (USA), the law expressly forbids this
kind of behavior, although the CIA has frequently been found instigating
uprisings elsewhere.

However, one has to ask what "Vietnam Insight" actually stands for.  Cer-
tainly the dictatorial regimes of Diem, Ky, Thieu and the other puppets of
the U.S. government in Vietnam were among the worst human rights violators
of the 20th century, murdering and torturing tens of thousands of civilians
who opposed foreign intervention in their country.  It seems rather obvious
that not many people, with the exception "Vietnam Insight," would be
nostalgic for these exiled reactionaries.  History is replete with examples
of "democratic" imposters, waiting their turn to reinstall the ancien regime
and the caste system of the bygone "golden era."
Anyone interested in airplane drops like the one described by "Vietnam
Insight" propagandists should take a look at the CIA comic book, reproduced
by Grove Press in NY, that was dropped on and intended to destabilize the
Nicaraguan govt. several years ago.  The CIA publication is called "Freedom
Fighters' Manual" and is little more than a primer on urban terrorism.
I have no doubt that "Vietnam Insight" is inspired by if not funded by the
same camp.
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 14:28:00 GMT
From:         "Vietnam Publications" <0004741206@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VN Price Weekly No. 22 (1992)

VN Price Weekly, No. 22 (1992)
Copyright (c) 1992 by Vietnam Publications (email: vinexco@mcimail.com)

Prices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, Can Tho as of October 3, 1992:

HELLO AGAIN, OVER THE COURSE OF ONE MONTH:
*** US dollar fell in free market
*** Gold increased except for Hanoi free market
*** Price of gasoline, urea fertilizer and cement increased

         Notes: "0", "+", "-", "unchanged", difference since
                previous VN Price Weekly report, in parentheses.
         All suggestions for improvement are welcome.

1. US Dollar:
   ForEx HCM: buy 10,930 dong/US (-40) since 10/02/92.

   Vietcombank (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    10/03 10850/10930  10750/10935  10800/10940  10800/10945
           (+80/-40)    (+50/+65)      (0/-30)    (+30/-25)

   Market (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    10/03 10860/10880  10820/10840  10840/10870  10840/10860
          (-100/-100)  (-150/-160)  (-110/-100)  (-110/-110)

   Vinexco NY exchange rate (dong/US dollar):
           HCM     HANOI   DANANG   NHATRANG   CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------
    10/03  10910   10770   10850    10800      10900
           (+40)   (+20)   (+100)    (0)       (+50)

2. Other currencies at Vietcombank (buy/sell):

     Swiss Franc   French Franc   Deutsch Mark
   ---------------------------------------------
     8296/8960     2154/2327      7283/7866
     (+42/+197)     (-9/+31)     (-103/+24)

3. Gold:
   State (Gold 99% Au, retailed buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    10/03  460/470   464/470   463/471   454/459
           (+2/+2)   (+1/-3)   (+1/+1)   (+3/+3)

   Market (Gold 99% Au, buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    10/03  462/470   457/463   454/463   454/460
           (+5/+5)   (-5/-5)    (0/0)    (+4/+4)

4. Other prices in HCM City (unchanged except for gas and urea and cement)

   Average rice            d 2,050 / kg        [ga.o te? thu*o*!ng]
   Pork [ham]              d21,500 / kg        [thi.t lo*.n mo>ng sa>'n]
   Sugar [Grade 1 white]   d 4,000 / kg        [crystalized, produced locally]
   Fish sauce (15%)        d 2,000 / liter
   Gas [A72-A76]           d 2,300 / liter (+100)
   Fertilizer [urea-type]  d 2,100 / kg (+150)
   Cement                  d40,000 / 50kg bag (+1000).
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:20:00 CDT
From:         Carol Mitchell <MITCHELL@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Libraries with Southeast Asia Collections

The Directory of Special Libraries will include some of the information you are
seeking. Perhaps the best source is speaking with individual libraries who make
up CORMOSEA, Committee on Research Material on Southeast Asia: Cornell Univ.,
Ohio Univ., Northern Ill. Univ., Arizona State Univ., Univ. of Michigan, Univ.
of Washington (for Northwest Consortium), Univ. of California-Berkeley, Univ. of
Hawaii, Univ. of Wisconsin, Yale Univ. All of these libraries have research
level collections and will have special collection strengths--either country,
period of history, or format (the Univ. of Wisconsin has over 300 videos from
Southeast Asia and a large music cassette collection).  Back issues of the
CORMOSEA Bulletin will describe special acquisitions as well as joint project.
One notable cooperative project is the collection of local-level materials from
Indonesia; participants collect all local-level documentation from a given area
in Indonesia.  The present chair of CORMOSEA, Fe Susan Go is associated with the
University of Michigan; the present chair of collection development
subcommittee, Carol Mitchell, is with the University of Wisconsin.