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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:17:05 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      ID: Military: Xanana will get civil trial

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                       Copyright 1992 Reuters, Limited
                           The Reuter Library Report

                      December  8, 1992, Tuesday, BC cycle


BYLINE: By Moses Manoharan

DATELINE:  JAKARTA,  Dec 8

   Indonesia will put captured East Timorese rebel chief Xanana Gusmao on trial
in a civil court in about three months, a senior military officer said on
Tuesday.

   Air Force Vice-Marshal Teddy Rusdi, top aide to army commander General Try
Sutrisno, did not say what the charges would be. He said the government believed
Xanana was behind protests which  Jakarta  says led to an army massacre in East
Timor in November 1991.

   Witnesses say up to 180 people were killed in the firing at a cemetery in the
capital Dili, while the government puts the toll at 50 dead and 66 missing.

   ''We know he was behind it,'' Rusdi told Reuters, adding that the trial, by a
panel of judges, would be final proof that  Jakarta  was being unfairly blamed
by human rights groups for the violence.

   The trial is expected to focus international attention on not just Xanana,
who led the Fretilin guerrillas fighting Indonesian rule for 16 years, but also
the territory's status.

    Jakarta  annexed East Timor in 1976, a year after the departure of its
Portuguese colonial rulers. The United Nations does not recognise the move.

   The government on Monday finally allowed the International Committee of the
Red Cross to visit Xanana in  Jakarta,  three weeks after he was arrested in
East Timor.

   ''We have nothing to hide,'' Rusdi said, adding that the media would be
allowed to meet him only after he had been further interrogated.

   Xanana appeared on Indonesian television after his capture to urge his fellow
rebels to surrender, an appeal that the military says was accepted by about 200
followers at the weekend.

   It is not clear if those who surrendered were members of Fretilin. The
military has recently estimated the guerrillas' dwindling numbers at between 150
and 200.

   The weekend surrender appeared to be in response to an Indonesian government
offer of clemency.

   East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop, Carlos Ximenes Belo, has also been
reported by Indonesians newspapers as having offered seven churches where the
guerrillas can surrender.

   The territory's population is predominantly Catholic.

   Its military commander, Brigadier General Theo Syafei, has warned of tough
action against those who reject the clemency offer.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:08:10 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Fire victims at SIUC

Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 10:36:36 EST
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From: ASPIREL@ucs.indiana.edu
Subject:      Fire Victims-SIUC
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 From:  PO1::"AQ01@SIUEMUS.BITNET" "AQ01000" 10-DEC-1992 15:28:08.16
 To:    Multiple recipients of list INTER-L <INTER-L@VTVM2.BITNET>
 CC:
 Subj:  Fire Victims-SIUC

 Southern Illinois University at
 Carbondale experienced a tragedy Sunday night.  A
 fire was set in an apartment building housing mostly foreign
 students.  Five students (mostly ASEAN) are dead and others injured.
 All their personal belongings were destroyed.  The
 police have confirmed that the fire was indeed arson.
 They are looking for the arsonist/murder.
      The survivors have lost everything.  At this
 time the International Office has informed me that
 they have secured sufficient clothing for the
 immediate future , however, clothing, pots and pans,
 personal items, etc. are all needed.  Their International
 Student Council has set up an emergengy fund.  Please
 send any donations to the following address:
     International Student Council
     Fire Victims' Assistance
     % 1st National Bank and Trust
     509 S. University
     Carbondale, Ill. 62901

     Bank phone:  (618)457-3381

      hank you.

 Toni LISTON, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
 AQ01@SIUEMUS
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Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:06:35 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      ID: ASEAN goes ahead with AFTA

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                      Copyright 1992 Kyodo News Service
                            Japan Economic Newswire



DATELINE:  JAKARTA,  Dec. 11 Kyodo

   The six countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
agreed Friday to proceed with the formation of an ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
from January 1 next year.

   Secretary of Trade and Industry of the Philippines Rozalino Navarro told a
press conference following a meeting of ASEAN trade and industry ministers that
it had also been reaffirmed that local content for products to be included in
the scheme is 40%.

   He said that AFTA will adopt both 'fast track' and normal programs.

   The fast track program applies to 15 products.

   He said that all ASEAN countries will announce, in their respective capitals
on December 22, a preliminary list of products to come under AFTA.

   Under the scheme, tariffs in intra-ASEAN trade will gradually be reduced to a
maximum of 5% by the year 2008.
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Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:59:20 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: King asked to help Sulak

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:10:04+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>

AMNESTY International has written to His Majesty the King
expressing concern that social critic Sulak Sivaraksa will be
arrested and jailed upon his return to Thailand on Monday.

The international human rights organisation said in a press
release from London that it had sent the letter to the King last
Tuesday. It called on the Thai Government to ensure that Professor
Sulak is not arrested when he returns and is at all times safe
from harm.

In September 1991, former army chief Gen Suchinda Kraprayoon filed
defamation and lese majeste charges against Mr Sulak for remarks
he allegedly made about the military and the monarchy during a
talk at Thammasat University on August 22, 1991.

The discussion was held during a time of increasing opposition
against the military junta under Gen Suchinda, which staged the
February 23, 1991 coup d'etat against the Chatichai Choonhavan
government.

Mr Sulak was reportedly in physical danger following his comments.
When the arrest warrant was issued he went into hiding and fled
the country to avoid being tried. He is returning to face the
charges now that Thailand has returned to democratic rule.

Amnesty International said that if arrested on the charges, Prof
Sulak would be a prisoner of conscience and the organisation would
demand his immediate and unconditional release.

Amnesty said Mr Sulak's arrest for his remarks would be a
violation of his rights to freedom of opinion and expression.

Amnesty urged that Mr Sulak be given a fair trial and found
innocent if his remarks are judged to be true or to constitute
fair comment made in good faith about matters subject to public
criticism, as provided for under Thai law.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:25:21 PST
From:         Charles Scheiner <cscheiner@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!

/* Written  9:24 pm  Dec 17, 1992 by cscheiner@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.easttimor
 */
/* ---------- "STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!" ---------- */
      ***** Urgent Action Alert *****

to:   Human rights and solidarity groups

from: Jose Ramos-Horta

re:      Protest UN "Human Rights" seminar in Jakarta!

date: December 17, 1992

The UN Human Rights Center in Geneva has decided to accept Indonesia's
outrageous invitation to host an Asia-Pacific human rights workshop in
Jakarta on January 26-28, 1993!

Invitations have already been sent to governments and human rights experts.

I am appealing to every solidarity group and every non-governmental
organization around the world to launch a campaign of protest and a
denunciation of this decision by the United Nations.

Such a seminar was to have been held in December 1991, but it was delayed
because of the November massacre in Dili. The human rights situation in East
Timor and Indonesia has not improved.

I make a special appeal to NGO's of the Asia-Pacific region, including
Indonesians, to oppose this bizarre gathering which makes a mockery of human
rights in Indonesia and in East Timor.

Ask the U.N. Human Rights Center in Geneva if they are planning to hold
human rights seminars in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), Tienanmen
Square, Guatemala City, and Zagreb (Serbia).

Protest notes must be in the strongest possible language. Human rights
experts who accept the invitation to Jakarta must also be denounced publicly.

Please fax letters of protest immediately to:
   Center for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva
   fax: 41-22-917-0123
Fax copies to
        Alvaro De Soto, Special Assistant to the Secretary General in New York
        fax: 1-212-963-4879

If we cannot prevent the seminar, every government and expert who attends
must be urged to condemn the human rights situation in East Timor and in
Indonesia, and to distribute the report of the Special Rapporteur on
Torture, the latest UN Human Rights Subcommission report on East Timor and
information from Asia Watch and Amnesty International.

Thank you for your quick and energetic response. Time is of the essence.
------
Alert distributed by the East Timor Action Network/US,
    PO Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602 USA
    Tel.914-428-7299  Fax.914-428-7383  Email cscheiner@igc.apc.org
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:19:39 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      ID: Pertamina wins case

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 17:08:22 CST

                       Copyright 1992 Reuters, Limited
                           The Reuter Library Report

                      December  3, 1992, Thursday, BC cycle


BYLINE: By Peter Bohan

DATELINE: SINGAPORE, Dec 3


   Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina won a 15-year legal battle on
Thursday to recover millions of dollars frozen in Singapore that it said were
bribes paid to a former top official by two German companies.

   Singapore High Court judge Lai Kew Chai, in a 214-page ruling, said Pertamina
had proved its claims that some $76 million frozen in offshore accounts at
Sumitomo Bank were ill-gotten gains and ordered Sumitomo to pay the oil company
the funds.

   The case, first heard in 1977, pitted Pertamina against the widow and estate
of Achmad Thahir, long-time assistant to Pertamina's president director
Lieutenant General Ibnu Sutowo.

   Thahir, who died of a heart attack in 1976 and whose salary was $9,000 a
year, left more than 56 million marks ($35 million), and $1.2 million in joint
accounts with his second wife Kartika Ratna Thahir at Sumitomo's Asian Currency
Unit (ACU) in Singapore.

   The funds, including interest, had grown to $81.8 million by March, 1992,
roughly divided into $76 million in 17 mark accounts and $5 million in two U.S.
dollar accounts, according to Pertamina's attorneys.

   Pertamina argued in court that the money came from bribes and secret
commissions paid to Thahir in 1974-75 by two German companies, Siemens AG and
Kloeckner Industrie-Anlagen GMBH, in order to secure contracts to build the
Krakatau steel plant.
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Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:33:38 EST
From:         ADW.SAP@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
Subject:      Earthquake in Indonesia

The only info that I got from CNN (last night) was that 68 reported dead,
and about 120 reported severely injured.

ADW.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:11:41 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: UN expects release of 21 kidnapped peacekeepers

12/16

U.N. EXPECTS RELEASE OF 21 KIDNAPPED PEACEKEEPERS IN CAMBODIA

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (DEC. 16) UPI - The United Nations said Wednesday 21 of
its peacekeepers in central Cambodia were kidnapped by left-wing Khmer Rouge
soldiers, but said it expected them to be freed soon.

''We are confident they will be released at the earliest tomorrow,'' U.N.
spokesman Eric Falt said Wednesday night.

Four military observers, 15 Indonesian soldiers and two Cambodian interpreters
were seized Tuesday and Wednesday by a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers 93 miles
northwest of Phnom Penh.

Falt said a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers captured two U.N. military observers
at about noon Tuesday. When the two failed to return to their base Wednesday
morning, two more observers - including an American - accompanied 15 Indonesian
troops and two translators on a mission to find them.

''They found the (observers') vehicle along the road and proceeded to O Sala
village with a (Khmer Rouge) guide. In the early afternoon we were informed the
two (observers) there plus part of the group were being held at the location,''
the spokesman said.

Wednesday afternoon, ''We notified the local (Khmer Rouge) representative. He
expressed surprise and said the (Khmer Rouge) did not know the incident had
happened,'' the spokesman said.

''He reacted very quickly. In less than two hours he told us an order had been
issued for the release. The order has to go through their headquarters network
before reaching the local commander.

''It appears the local commander acted on his own and that the higher
authorities did not have knowledge of the action,'' Falt said.

The spokesman said the local commander holding the 21 peacekeepers agreed to
release the U.N. captives as soon as he had an order from above, and that order
has now gone out.

''This means we are confident they will be released at the earliest tomorrow.
It's dark now and they are not going to leave their location tonight but
tomorrow morning, in all likelihood, they will be released,'' Falt said.

Khmer Rouge soldiers held six peacekeepers of the U.N. Transitional Authority
in Cambodia for three days earlier this month at a river base in Kompong Thom
Province. The peacekeepers were later released unharmed.

UNTAC is overseeing implementation of a peace agreement signed in Paris one
year ago by the Phnom Penh government, the Khmer Rouge and two non-communist
factions aimed at ending 13 years of conlfict in Cambodia. Under the accord,
UNTAC is to take the country to elections in scheduled for May next year.

However, the Khmer Rouge since mid-June has refused to cooperate with U.N.
peace-keeping efforts.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:02:13 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Govt urged to improve K12 education

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:14:42+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>

by Peter Mytri Ungphakorn in Pattaya

THE GOVERNMENT should urgently tackle the severe inadequacy of
secondary education in order to avoid social conflict and the
disruption of development, a number of academics said yesterday.

One critic, Thailand Development Research Institute president Ammar
Siamwalla, said secondary education was a pressing problem that
neither the Anand nor the Chuan government had attempted to solve.

"The Education Ministry is untouchable territory," he said.

Prompting the calls was a warning from Dr Chalongphob Sussangkarn, a
TDRI programme director, that even if improvements are introduced now,
for several decades to come, three quarters of the population will be
seeking employment without secondary schooling.

This could cause serious problems of inequality and conflict as the
economy develops and industry increasingly requires better-educated
workers.

"The doors to the better jobs in industries and services are gradually
closing on those with just primary education," Dr Chalongphob told
TDRI's year-end conference yesterday.

"More and more, demand is not for just young workers, but young and
educated workers."

The "somewhat depressing conclusion", is that people with only primary
education "are at the bottom end of the income distribution pile, and
they are likely to stay there for some time.

"Thus Thailand is in the worst of situations, with widening income
inequality and limited opportunities for socio-economic mobility for
the poorest groups."

Dr Chalongphob warned that "Thailand is now close to a major critical
threshold of imbalance, which may have wide-ranging repercussions on
development.   "Unless major improvements in economic opportunities
are provided to the mass of people with low education, one cannot
envisage a harmonious development path in Thailand for much longer
into the future."

Dr Philippe Annez, World Bank mission chief in Bangkok, said "even
poor Vietnam is better endowed" in its secondary-level-educated
population.

He said the Government should get the Education Ministry to take
action instead of wasting time "thinking". The Government should also
ease constraints on private secondary schools, and strengthen
secondary school networks so that improvements can be spread to the
countryside.

According to Dr Chalongphob's calculations, even if 100% of all
primary school leavers continue into secondary education this year,
and if that rate is maintained, "there will still be 70% of Thailand's
workforce in the year 2000 who have only primary education or less".

This, he predicts, will worsen income inequality.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:11:31 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: US economist advises VN

12/12

FAMOUS U.S. ECONOMIST ADVISES VIETNAM

    HANOI, Dec 12, Reuter - Merton Miller, a Nobel prize-winning American
economist, advised officials in communist Vietnam on Saturday on how to create
a capital market.
    Miller, who arrived in Hanoi on Friday, met finance and foreign ministry
officials and national assembly deputies on Saturday morning, Hanoi officials
told Reuters.
    He was scheduled to hold talks with Deputy Prime Minister Phan Van Khai,
Vietnam's top economic planner, later in the day.
    Miller, who received the 1990 Alfred Nobel memorial prize for economic
science, made the two-day visit at Vietnam's request.
    While Vietnam's communist party says it will keep its monopoly on power, it
launched free-market reforms in the 1980s that have basically replaced central
planning with a market economy.
    World Bank officials recently told Reuters those reforms, which slashed
state subsidies and freed up the private sector, were more successful and
advanced than those now being attempted in Eastern Europe.
    The Vietnamese government has moved cautiously in the last year towards
eventual privatisation of some state-owned companies and says it hopes to set
up a stock market by the mid-1990s.
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From:         Shiro Saito <SHIRO@UHUNIX.BITNET>
Subject:      /sign off from seasia

Tell listserv at msu unsub seasia-l
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Subject:      sign off

To Whom,  please take my name off the list. Thank You, Steve Morin
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:44:01 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Army PR seminar

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From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


THE Army wants its personnel to be more open to receive and
disseminate news to suit the modern world in the Age of Information,
Army Chief Vimol Wongwanich said yesterday.

Gen Vimol was referring to the Army's seminar on its public relations
work which ended yesterday.

"In the Age of Information, it is very important for us to establish
good understanding with the people. So we want our public relations
personnel to know how to achieve this goal," he said when commenting
on the objectives of the seminar.

On the subject of the moral necessity of informing the people of news
as opposed to preserving military secrets, Gen Vimol said: "We must be
able to make a suitable decision about what should be made known to
the public."

To be better informed, the Army will invite experts in various fields
to speak at its monthly meeting, he said.

Gen Vimol joked: "We have tried to get in touch with the people for a
long time. In fact, the signs `Military Zone. Off-limits to outsiders'
are only old structures erected a long time ago."

Assistant Army Chief Gen Yutthana Khamdee, who presided over the
closure of the seminar, said what had been learned from the seminar
will be put into practice to better inform the public of the Army's
affairs.

Army deputy secretary Col Banchorn Chavalsilp said the Army's public
relations work in the past was more like propaganda, which caused the
people to lose faith in the Army.

He said an adjustment in public relations methods would give a clearer
picture of the Army's responsibilities.

The use of radio and television to disseminate information will also
be stepped up, he said.
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:40:35 EST


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