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Subject: RFE/RL Daily Report for August 31, 1992 (long)
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:31:39 GMT
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                      RFE/RL Daily Report

                                         No. 166, August 31, 1992

       SUCCESSOR STATES TO THE USSR

FIGHTING CONTINUES DESPITE ABKHAZ CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT.  Abkhaz
Parliament Chairman Vladislav Ardzinba and Georgian Defense
Minister Tengiz Kitovani signed a ceasefire agreement in Sochi on
29 August, which will go into effect on 31 August, Russian TV
reported. The two men also discussed the possibility of
establishing a Russian-Georgian peacekeeping force for the
region, in which Armenia might also participate. Further fighting
between Abkhaz and Georgian forces near Gagra on 30 August
resulted in several dozen killed on both sides, Western agencies
reported.  (Liz Fuller, RFE/RL Inc.)

UNIDENTIFIED WARSHIP SHELLS GEORGIAN TROOPS.  On August 30, an
unidentified warship shelled Georgian troops stationed in the
Abkhazian city of Gagra, on the Black Sea coast some 50
kilometers southeast of Sochi. According to ITAR-TASS, the
bombardment inflicted heavy casualties among the Georgian troops
and severe damage to the city. Georgian Defense Minister Tengiz
Kitovani, whose credibility is suspect, to say the least, told
ITAR-TASS that the attack had been carried out by a Russian
vessel, an accusation denied by the Russian navy headquarters. A
duty officer there reportedly told TASS that "there were no
Russian military vessels in the area." (Doug Clarke and Liz
Fuller, RFE/RL Inc.)

YELTSIN MAY APOLOGIZE TO JAPAN, RECOGNIZE SOVEREIGNTY.  The
Japanese Kyodo News Service on 29 August said that Russian
President Boris Yeltsin may formally apologize for the Soviet
seizure of 600,000 Japanese World War II prisoners of war when he
visits Japan in mid-September.  The agency, quoted by UPI, said
that such an apology was in the draft joint communique. The
document was also said to contain Russian recognition of Japanese
sovereignty over the Southern Kuril islands.  Japanese Foreign
Minister Michio Watanabe, on his depature for Moscow on 29 August
in preparation for Yeltsin's visit, said that Japan would be
flexible on the timing and conditions for returning the disputed
islands as long as Moscow recognized Japanese sovereignty over
them.  (Doug Clarke, RFE/RL Inc.)

EMBASSY EVACUATIONS IN KABUL, BAGHDAD. The last group of Russian
citizens was evacuated from Kabul on 29 August. The mission had
been briefly halted when one Russian aircraft was destroyed by a
rocket attack. Russian media reported one wounded; AFP said
several were wounded and noted that evacuees had not been
equipped with protective clothing for the rescue operation. In
Baghdad, the evacuation of dependents of personnel working at
Russian institutions has also begun.  According to an
unidentified Russian diplomat cited by Izvestiya on 29 August:
"there is some nervousness [in Baghdad]...  We do not want to
repeat the Kabul situation." (Suzanne Crow, RFE/RL Inc.)

LATEST ON RUSSIA'S FOREIGN DEBT. Acting Russian Prime Minister
Egor Gaidar told a news conference on 28 August that Russia could
not pay more than $2 billion in 1992 towards servicing its
convertible currency debt, Reuters reported. On the same day,
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Shokhin announced that
Russia could pay no more than $2.5 billion annually "without
damage to the economy," according to Interfax.  Principal and
interest payments originally due in 1992 amounted to about $20
billion, but this has been reduced by rescheduling to about $10
billion.  However, to judge from the ITAR-TASS coverage, the G-7
meeting on 28 August that dealt, inter alia, with the Russian
debt, ended inconclusively. (Keith Bush, RFE/RL Inc.)

CENTRAL BANK PASSIVE TO RUBLE'S PLIGHT? The Russian Central Bank
appears willing to let the ruble continue to float unsupported
despite its recent 20% plunge and widespread expectation of
further devaluation.  Dmitrii Tulin, a deputy chairman of the
monetary authority, rejected rumors (ITAR-TASS on 27 August) that
the bank was about to put the ruble back on a fixed exchange rate
with the dollar, Western sources reported on 28 August.  Chairman
Viktor Gerashchenko, who has criticized intervention to support
the ruble in the past, brushed off last week's ruble drop as
temporary. He implied that Russian export revenues in the coming
months will bring enough dollars to the exchange market to push
the ruble's value back up, ITAR-TASS reported the same day.
(Erik Whitlock, RFE/RL Inc.)

SHUMEIKO CRITICIZES WESTERN LACK OF INVESTMENT.  Russian Deputy
Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko has criticized Western
businessmen for not investing in the Russian economy.  He told
ITAR-TASS on 27 August that the West seems to be reluctant to let
Russia enter the world market.  He rejected charges that Western
investments in Russia are not legally protected, and cited as an
example the law on entrepreneurship.  He also denied that the
Russian government is only following the instructions of the IMF.
He stated that he himself had negotiations with the IMF during
which no conditions were set.  (Alexander Rahr, RFE/RL Inc.)

GOSSNAB TO BE ABOLISHED?  Effective 1 January 1993, Russian
enterprises will be responsible for finding and purchasing their
own inputs without help from the Gossnab or state supply system.
This was the essence of a decree signed by acting Russian Prime
Minister Egor Gaidar, according to The Times of 31 August, which
quoted Interfax of unspecified date.  It was not made clear what
will become of Gossnab and its employees. The Times suggested
that the decree on the elimination of central distribution was
one of several measures promulgated while the opposition was out
of town. Another one was said to deprive so-called personal
pensioners of their privileges. (Keith Bush, RFE/RL Inc.)

TURKISH-RUSSIAN AGREEMENTS. Turkish radio reported on 28 August
the initialling of a friendship declaration and other agreements
with Russia.  The accords consist of pledges to cooperate in the
fields of transportation and defense, a protocol pledging to
increase Russian natural gas supplies to Turkey, and cooperation
between the two countries on the reconstruction and expansion of
the gas pipeline over Turkish and Russian territories.  The
declaration also calls for agreement on investments, and notes
that the first round of the Turkish-Russian economic cooperation
committee meetings will be held in October.  The declaration was
initialed by State Minister Cavit Caglar and Russian State
Secretary Gennadii Burbulis.  It will go into effect after being
signed by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin. (Suzanne Crow, RFE/RL Inc.)

VOLSKY: ANDROPOV'S TRUE HEIR? Writing in Den (no.34), Mikhail
Morozov sheds new light on the roots of perestroika and the roles
played by Mikhail Gorbachev and Arkadii Volsky, the leader of the
"industrial lobby." According to the article, Mikhail Gorbachev
was not a protege of Yurii Andropov, who attempted to oust
Gorbachev from the Politburo because of the latter's failure to
improve the performance of the agricultural sector.  The article
depicts Gorbachev's selection to become general secretary as the
result of the intrigues of former Soviet foreign minister Andrei
Gromyko.  Moreover, Morozov indicates that the true heir of
Andropov was not Gorbachev, but rather Volsky. At the same time,
the article portrays Volsky as a party technocrat whose economic
and managerial skills are being overestimated.  (Alexander Rahr,
RFE/RL Inc.)

BURBULIS ON REFORM. In an interview with Novoe vemya (no.35),
Russian State Secretary Gennadii Burbulis defended President
Boris Yeltsin's political balancing act between the right and the
left as absolutely necessary to retain social order.  He noted
that his present functions included the strategic planning of
foreign and domestic policies, information policy, cooperation
with other political parties and organizations, as well as
control over personnel, science, education and culture.  He
indicated that he was not worried about his loss of power, since
the present stage of reform requires that different politicians
lead the government now that the reform process has advanced
beyond its initial stages. He called upon democrats to become
civil servants. (Alexander Rahr, RFE/RL Inc.)

INDIA TO BUY TANK ENGINES FROM POLAND. Indian officials announced
on 28 August that India had signed a $14.3 million contract to
buy 200 T-72 tank engines from Poland.  Both India and Poland
build the Soviet-designed T-72 under license. India has depended
heavily on factories in the former USSR to provide components for
the many Soviet weapons systems it produces.  It had been
receiving T-72 engines from plants in Ukraine, and according to
the UPI report, will have to pay Poland more than two times the
price it had been paying for the engines. The agency indicated
that the former states of the USSR had failed to honor their
commitments under a two-year accord signed with India last
January, according to which the continuation of supplies under
the terms agreed with the Soviet Union would have been
guaranteed. (Doug Clarke, RFE/RL Inc.)

SHEVARDNADZE AND THE GEORGIAN ELECTIONS. Having stated on 25
August -- the final deadline -- that he intends to stand as a
candidate for the Mshvidoba (Peace) bloc in the parliamentary
elections scheduled for 11 October, Eduard Shevardnadze has been
asked by several of the parties concerned to disassociate himself
from this bloc and stand as an independent candidate for the post
of parliament chairman, ITAR-TASS reported on 30 August.  The
Georgian State Council had amended the election law on 29 August
to allow for the simultaneous election of a parliament chairman,
who will be elected by secret ballot on a majority basis and who
must receive a minimum of one third of all votes cast. The
parliament chairman may not be a member of any political party or
bloc.  The rationale cited for asking Shevardnadze to stand as a
separate candidate was that his alignment with Mshvidoba would
give that bloc an unfair advantage; the fact that the main party
within Mshvidoba is the successor to the Georgian CP was not
mentioned.  (Liz Fuller, RFE/RL Inc.)

TATARSTAN AND RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS REACH AGREEMENT ON FINANCES AND
OIL. Tatarstan Prime Minister Muhammat Sabirov told a press
conference in Kazan on 28 August that a recent agreement signed
by the Tatarstan and Russian governments had settled disputed
questions regarding finances and oil, and that Russia had lifted
its budget blockade of Tatarstan, ITAR-TASS reported.  It had
been agreed that 2.1 million tons of Tatarstan oil would go
towards paying off the external debt of the former Soviet Union,
and that Tatarstan would be allowed to dispose of 5 million tons
itself.  As a matter of principle Tatarstan had been refusing to
pay tax revenues into the Russian federal budget, insisting on
only lump sum payments.  The report does not indicate that
Tatarstan has abandoned this principle.  (Ann Sheehy, RFE/RL
Inc.)

MAJOR COAL AND NEW OIL DEPOSITS DISCOVERED IN TATARSTAN. "Vesti"
reported on 27 August that coal deposits at least as vast as
those of the Donetsk basin have been discovered in Tatarstan. New
oil deposits were also discovered. If the report is true, it is
likely to strengthen the determination of the Tatarstan
authorities to assert their sovereignty vis-a-vis Russia. (Ann
Sheehy, RFE/RL Inc.)

MOLDOVAN-ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL MEETING. Romanian President Ion
Ilescu met for four hours with Moldovan President Mircea Snegur
in Husi on the Romanian side of the common border on 28 August.
The two presidents informed the Romanian media afterwards that
they had discussed economic issues, and that Snegur had also
briefed Iliescu on current negotiations--from which Romania has
since July been excluded--to settle the Dniester conflict.  This
meeting prompted most of the Romanian press to renew its attacks
on the Snegur government for bowing to Russia's demand that
Romania be excluded from the negotiations and for opposing
unification with Romania. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.

"DNIESTER REPUBLIC" TO REIMPOSE RUSSIAN SCRIPT ON "MOLDOVAN
LANGUAGE." A draft "law on languages," currently before the
"Dniester Republic Supreme Soviet," would reimpose the Russian
alphabet for the "Moldovan language" (i.e.  Romanian) in schools
there, Radio Rossii reported on 24 August.  Moldovan schools in
that area switched to the Latin script following its
reinstatement in Moldova in 1989, and have since resisted the
"Dniester" authorities' orders to return the "Moldovan language"
to the Russian alphabet.  The proposed measure would give the
"Dniester" Russian authorities a pseudo-legal basis for enforcing
compliance.  (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)

                   CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

FIERCE FIGHTING IN SARAJEVO. International media from 28 to 31
August reported particularly intense combat as Bosnian forces
tried to break the siege while Serb units replied with tank and
artillery fire. On 30 August a tank shell hit a bread line and
killed 15 in a suburban marketplace.  On 31 August the BBC quoted
a UN observer as saying that the shell had come from Serb
positions and the market was deliberately targeted. The New York
Times quoted the same UN spokesman as saying: "It would be nice
if we could turn ourselves into a police force and run up into
the hills and grab those people and arrest them and bring them to
justice." (Patrick Moore, RFE/RL Inc.)

UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS GORAZDE. The BBC on 30 August reported that
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced that his troops
are ending their siege of the mainly Muslim town, but the
broadcast added that the Bosnian forces at the same time claimed
they had broken the encirclement themselves.  "Panic" was
reported among the Serbian civilian population in the surrounding
area. One Serbian woman said that Muslim soldiers burned down the
local Serbian church in apparent retaliation for the Serbs'
destruction of mosques.  The situation remains unclear, however,
and the UN has postponed sending in a relief convoy. (Patrick
Moore, RFE/RL Inc.)

MASS GRAVES FOUND AT MOSTAR. On 30 August Reuters reported the
discovery near Mostar of mass graves of some 200 people, mainly
Muslims but some Croats, a local pathologist said.  Muslims and
Croats claimed Serb irregulars killed the civilians in mid-June
as part of an ethnic-cleansing operation, but Karadzic said it
was the work of the Croats. The area was the scene of
particularly vicious fighting and outright massacres between
Croats and Muslims on the one hand and Serbs on the other during
World War II.  The discovery in question is the first evidence of
mass killings in the current conflict, and Croat and Muslim
officials in Mostar are continuing to look for more graves.
(Patrick Moore, RFE/RL Inc.)

PANIC MEETS RUGOVA.  Belgrade's Politika TV reported on 27 August
that Milan Panic, prime minister of the rump Yugoslavia, met in
London with Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the Democratic Alliance of
Kosovo (DSK) and president of the self-proclaimed Republic of
Kosovo.  It was the first official meeting between a top federal
official and a DSK leader. Sources close to Panic told Politika
TV that the leaders discussed the situation in the Serbian
province and the measures the federal government intends to take
to solve Kosovo's problems.  According to Radio Croatia, Panic
told Rugova that his government will restore self-government,
which it lost in 1990. DSK vice president Fehmi Agani stated on
28 August that he welcomes the Panic-Rugova talks "irrespective
of the outcome." He added that the London conference on the
former Yugoslavia "has fulfilled our expectations" by having
placed greater emphasis than ever before on the independence of
Kosovo. (Milan Andrejevich, RFE/RL Inc.)

SERBS QUARRELING OVER KOSOVO? Nonetheless, Serbian prime minister
Radoman Bozovic told a group of businessmen in Serbia on 27
August that Serbia will not allow itself to be "dismembered at
any cost under international pressure for an alleged protection
of minority rights" in the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina or
in the predominantly Muslim Sandzak region. On 28 August
Belgrade's independent radio B-92 commented that Panic's Kosovo
policy challenges the official line advanced by Serbian president
Slobodan Milosevic and Dobrica Cosic, president of the rump
Yugoslavia and chief of the federal army. Commenting on the
London conference the radio said "while Slobodan fiddles, Milan
threatens to light the fire under his feet by shouting to the
world "I expect Mr.  Milosevic to comply, or else." (Milan
Andrejevich, RFE/RL Inc.)

ROMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS SLOVENIA, CROATIA.  Returning
from the London conference, Adrian Nastase stopped over to visit
Slovenia and Croatia on 28 and 29 August. Radio Bucharest said
that Nastase was received by the presidents of the two countries
and signed agreements for establishing diplomatic relations. In
early August Romania offered to host a conference of the states
born on the ruins of former Yugoslavia. (Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL
Inc.)

MORE TALK ABOUT GABCIKOVO-NAGYMAROS. On 28 August MTI reported
that, prompted by informal information received by the Danube
Commission from Czechoslovakia concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros
hydroelectric project, Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall
wrote letters to Czechoslovak federal prime minister Jan Strasky
and Slovak prime minister Vladimir Meciar Czechoslovakia
reportedly is continuing its plans to put the plant into
operation.  The project will change the flow of the Danube river
after 15 October and slightly alter the Hungarian-Slovak border.
Strasky told CSTK on 28 August that, should the
Czechoslovak-Hungarian border be changed, he would agree to
turning to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for a
decision but said both countries should resort first to political
negotiations.  Slovak deputy prime minister Roman Kovac echoed
Strasky's statements, adding that Meciar's planned visit to
Hungary on 9 September could help resolve the problem. MTI
reports that Hungarian foreign minister Geza Jeszenszky will be
in Prague on 2 September and will also hold talks with Meciar.
(Judith Pataki & Jiri Pehe, RFE/RL Inc.)

POLAND CELEBRATES SOLIDARITY'S FOUNDING. On 30 August government
leaders, labor activists, and ordinary workers celebrated the
12th anniversary of the 1980 strikes that paved the way to the
founding of the Solidarity labor union. According to a PAP
report, President Lech Walesa told a gathering in Gdansk that
Poland now "has to think how to use that great [historic] victory
to better [current] effects." Solidarity chairman Marian
Krzaklewski took part in ceremonies remembering workers killed by
communist security forces in 1982 in the city of Lubin. Several
other commemorative gatherings were held in cities throughout the
country. Occasional meetings will be also held on 31 August, with
Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka scheduled to attend a gathering in
the industrial center of Stalowa Wola. (Jan de Weydenthal, RFE/RL
Inc.)

POLISH GOVERNMENT TO DISMISS STRIKERS. Striking workers in the
car parts factory in Tychy and in the Silesian Rozbark coal mine
have received dismissal notices from the plant management.  These
strikes are regarded by the government as illegal because they
started before the conclusion of negotiations between the unions
and the management.  The notices are to take effect today. In the
meantime, PAP reports that on 30 August fourteen striking Rozbark
miners went on a hunger strike to protest the government's
refusal to take part in direct negotiations on the situation in
the mine.  The government has refused to negotiate with the
strikers, arguing that such talks should involve only workers and
management and not state authorities. Even so, the decision to
dismiss strikers has certainly been backed by the government
itself. In a related development at the conclusion of a meeting
held on 30 August the national leadership of Solidarity demanded
that the labor leaders should meet with President Walesa and
Prime Minister Suchocka to develop a new economic strategy to
deal with current social problems.  (Jan de Weydenthal, RFE/RL
Inc.)

ROMANIAN MINERS PROTEST LIVING STANDARDS. The miners called for a
week of demonstrations to protest declining living standards and
worsening conditions in the mining industry. Radio Bucharest
reports that a first rally was held on 29 August in Deva,
southern Transylvania. The protests, which are organized by the
Mine Union Federation, the Alfa Trade Union Cartel, and other
union associations, come amidst preparations for general and
presidential elections, scheduled for 27 September.  The unions
threaten a nationwide strike if authorities do not take steps to
protect jobs and guarantee social security. Meanwhile, Romania's
coalition government has vowed to go ahead with new subsidy cuts
on food, basic services, and energy despite threats of labor
unrest.  (Dan Ionescu, RFE/RL Inc.)

SCREENING FOR LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENT CANDIDATES?  On 28 August the
Lithuanian chief elections commission adopted a 26-question
application form for candidates in the Lithuanian parliamentary
elections on 25 October. The candidates will have to state
whether they have ever been employed by foreign secret services,
been recruited by the KGB, or been a member or officer in the
Lithuanian Communist Party.  Vytautas Radzvila, chairman of the
Lithuanian Liberal Union, told the RFE/RL Lithuanian Service that
he feels that, in order to avoid any suggestion of political
discrimination, it would have been preferable not to have singled
out membership in the Communist Party but rather to inquire about
membership in any political party. (Saulius Girnius, RFE/RL Inc.)

LATVIAN BORDER GUARDS KILLED. Two Latvian border guards died of
bullet and stab wounds on 26 August at the Yasenitsy post at the
Russian-Latvian border. According to BNS of 29 August, quoting
Diena, the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Criminal Records
Department said that the four Latvian border guards stationed at
the post had been drinking and quarreling that night.  Latvian
authorities refused further comment, but reports do not suggest a
political motive. (Riina Kionka, RFE/RL Inc.)

HAVEL PLANS RETURN TO PUBLIC LIFE. Speaking to reporters after
dinner with Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus on 29 August,
former Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel said he was planning
to return to public life soon. Havel said that he did not
necessarily want to become the president of the Czech Republic
when the post is created but that he would like to be active in
public life in some capacity.  Havel also said that he was
satisfied with the 26 August talks between Klaus and Slovak Prime
Minister Vladimir Meciar, which produced an agreement that
Czechoslovakia will be divided into two states on 31 December
1992.  Havel said that the talks helped to calm down the public.
(Jiri Pehe, RFE/RL Inc.)

ZHELEV SHARPLY CRITICIZES UDF. At a press conference in Sofia on
30 August, Bulgarian president Zhelyu Zhelev called on the ruling
UDF to end its "policy of confrontation," or the coalition will
soon face "isolation and new elections," BTA reports.  Zhelev
accused the UDF government of declaring "all-out war" against
trade unions, the press, and the entire extraparliamentary
democratic opposition, and for trying to provoke conflicts
between different state institutions, including the presidency.
Referring to a opinion poll which suggests that the Socialist
Party is now ahead of the UDF, Zhelev warned the cabinet of the
consequences of ignoring the end results of its acts.  (Kjell
Engelbrekt, RFE/RL Inc.)

TOLGYESSY CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT. During a press conference on 28
August, Peter Tolgyessy, chairman of the opposition Alliance of
Free Democrats (AFD), criticized the performance of the governing
Hungarian Democratic Forum, MTI reports. Tolgyessy called that
the situation in the country "critical" and said the government
has no program to deal with the problems. Tolgyessy announced
that the AFD will hold a conference on 13 November and said he
expects the party will have a new leadership and a new program.
(Judith Pataki, RFE/RL Inc.)

COUNTER-OFFER ON BULGARIAN DEBT SETTLEMENT.  Deutsche Bank,
representing the more than 300 creditor banks to which Bulgaria
owes a total of $12 billion, has delivered a proposal on
resettlement, government spokeswoman Nadezhda Mihailova announced
on 30 August.  Mihailova told Reuters that no details could be
given at present but that for the first time the possibility
exists for an overall settlement.  Bulgaria presented its plan to
the creditors in early August. (Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL Inc.)

RUSSIA DECREASES GAS SUPPLIES TO LITHUANIA.  On 29 August the
Lentransgaz firm cut supplies of natural gas to Lithuania by 55%,
Radio Lithuania reports.  Lithuania normally receives 7 million
cubic meters of gas a day from Russia.  Lithuanian gas officials
said that deliveries would be cut first to those enterprises that
have accumulated large debts to Russian suppliers. Household
users of gas should not expect any cuts in deliveries but may
have to pay more for their gas. (Saulius Girnius, RFE/RL Inc.)

ESTONIA'S INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT FALLS. Estonia's industrial output in
July was 37% lower than for the same period last year, BNS
reports.  Production fell the most in the paper, lumber, and
construction materials industries.  BNS reports that production
rose in some light industrial sectors such as clothing
manufacturing, meat packing, and textiles.  (Riina Kionka, RFE/RL
Inc.)

OPIC MISSION IN LITHUANIA. On 30 August, after completing visits
to Tallinn and Riga, a delegation of US businessmen sponsored by
the Overseas Private Investments Corporation (OPIC) arrived in
Vilnius, Radio Lithuania reports. On 31 August Prime Minister
Aleksandras Abisala and his deputy Bronislavas Lubys will
participate in an OPIC conference in Vilnius on investment
opportunities. Delegation head Fred Zeder told a news conference
in Riga on 29 August that the first result of the trip will be
the opening of an office of the US pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly
in Riga in September, BNS reports. (Saulius Girnius, RFE/RL Inc.)

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