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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:23:35 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      FIJI: Rabuka Hides Corruption
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/* ---------- "FIJI - CORRUPTION REPORT" ---------- */
FIJI - CORRUPTION REPORT:  FIJI TIMES,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 27 1992

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says the findings of a corruption probe
after his 1987 military coups may not be revealed to the public.

General Rabuka told the Fiji Times he "did not know" if the  findings of the
operation, instigated by the military government after the 1987 coups, will
ever be known.

Operation Yavato was the code name for an investigation into  "irregular and
unethnical practices by government officers".

The task was undertaken by a joint police and military team.

According to the Fiji Times the findings would have embarrassed the former
Alliance government and its leading bureaucrats.

General Rabuka said the findings are classified and he had not seen  them yet.

But he confirmed the investigation had been completed and was with  the
Director of Public Prosecutions, Isikeli Mataitoga.

Earlier, General Rabuka told parliament the report would only be  known after
it was declassified, enabling it to be tabled before the House.

The Fiji Times says departments investigated included the Prime Minister's
Hurricane Relief Fund and Bomas (Business Opportunity Management Advisory
Service), a branch of the Fijian Affairs Board  set up to help Fijians in
Business.

The Hurrican Relief fund was reported to have been abused by certain senior
officers.

The operation ceased soon after the interim government took office.

The Fiji Times says questions have been raised by some members of  thepublic
over the findings of Operation Yavato being shelved  because some top civil
servants could be summoned before the court. ...ends.

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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:20:10 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      CMB: Halt To Khmer Rouge Aid
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/* Written 10:13 am  Jul 22, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:humanrights */
/* ---------- "Cambodia" ---------- */
San Francisco Chronicle
July 22, 1992

Security Council Halts Aid to Khmer Rouge

United Nations - The Security Council voted 15 to 0 yesterday to
stop all international aid to the Khmer Rouge for failing to meet
its obligations in the U.N.-sponsored peace agreement in Cambodia.

Citing what it called the Khmer Rouge's repeated violations of the
accord, the council authorized the U.N. staff in Cambodia to prevent
any of the rehabilitation aid sent there from reaching the guerrilla
group. The Khmer Rouge is the only one of four factions that signed
the peace agreement to refuse to disarm and regroup its military
forces under U.N. control.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:44:20 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN opens fishing port in disputed islands
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              seasia-l@msu.BITNET, vietnam@cco.caltech.edu, vn-news@saigon.com

07/28

Vietnam opens fishing port in disputed islands

 	BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Vietnam recently set up a fishing port in
 the disputed Spratly islands, the state-run Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
 said in a report monitored here Tuesday.
 	``A fishing port was inaugurated on July 19 at a major island in the
 Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago to meet the increasing activities of
 state-owned fishing enterprises and private fishermen in the area,'' VNA
 said.
 	``Apart from being an anchoring and sheltering place for fishing
 boats and ships the port will also serve as a fuel supply station and
 provide other services for fishermen.''
 	Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines claim
 sovereignty all or part of the Spratlys, an archipelago in the South
 China Sea.
 	The islands, which are sprinkled across major shipping lanes, are
 believed to hold vast reserves of mineral and oil.
 	All claimants except Brunei have military installations in the
 islands and the dispute is considered potentially explosive.
 	China last February passed a law reiterating its claim over the
 Spratlys and reserving the right to use military force there.
 	Hanoi also issued a protest to Beijing earlier this month after
 Chinese troops planted a territorial marker on a reef in the islands.
 	Vietnam and China fought a brief naval battle over the Spratlys in
 1988, which left 77 Vietnamese sailors dead and two of Hanoi's patrol
 boats at the bottom of the sea. Chinese casualties, if any, are unknown.
 	The VNA report said ``Mai Duc Chinh, vice-chairman of the People's
 Committee of Khanh Hoa Province, of which the Truong Sa (Spratly)
 islands are an administration unit, and Nguyen Van Chi, chairman of the
 people's committee of Truong Sa district, were present at the
 inauguration'' of the fishing port last week.
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:49:15 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      IN: Malaysian AIDS Study Dubious
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/* Written  5:41 pm  Jul 29, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "Malaysian AIDS 'Study' Dubious" ---------- */

    Reuter, Jakarta, July 29 - Indonesia said on Wednesday it doubted a
report by a Malaysian minister that tens of thousands of Indonesians and
other illlegal immigrants there were infected with the virus which
causes AIDS.
    "I doubt their findings, especially to say 160,000 people out of
475,000. It's impossible," Djumhana Sumantri, director of contagious
diseases at the health ministry, told Reuters.
    Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians work illegally in Malaysia,
mostly in plantations.
    Malaysia's Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub told
reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Monday that three out of every 10 illegal
immigrants who surrendered under an amnesty programme were infected with
the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV).
    He said a total of 475,000 illegal immigrants had signed up under
the programme and the HIV carriers would be deported.
    Megat Junid did not give any reasons for the extraordinarily high
reported rate of infection nor did he say if the results of the testing
were independently confirmed.
    A Malaysian opposition leader has urged Kuala Lumpur to review its
migrant labour policy following the claim.
    Indonesian Health Minister Adhyatma was quoted by the Kompas
newspaper as saying the Malaysian report was unbelievable.
    Indonesia says the disease is not yet a major problem despite the
huge number of prostitutes, though officials admit they have no idea how
many carriers there are in the population of 180 million, the world's
fourth largest.
    Djumhana said the government had tested 200,000 people, of whom 64
had HIV including 24 with AIDS.
    A recent World Bank report said Indonesia could be the only large
developing country left where it was possible to prevent the disease
becoming a major national problem.
    In Kuala Lumpur, some Malaysian employers said they were rushing to
have Indonesian maids tested for the HIV virus.
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:27:50 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      FIJI: Public Order Act
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/* ---------- "FIJI - ATTORNEY GENERAL" ---------- */
FIJI - ATTORNEY GENERAL, DAILY POST; PACNEWS ED-1, JULY 29,1992

Fiji's Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Apaitia Seru says  the
country'a Public Order Act is still in force and has warned it would be
activated when appropriate.

Mr Seru was responding to Opposition Leader Jai Ram Reddy's call that the
government invoke the act against people who make inflammatory statements which
incite racial hatred.

Mr Reddy made the call following Fijian nationalist leader Sakeasi Butadroka's
remarks that all ethnic Indians be expelled.

Mr Reddy said the government must be prepared to uphold the law and  the rights
of the Indian community at all times.

Attorney General Seru said the Public Order Act is meant to help maintain
public order in an emergency.

He said Mr Butadroka's remarks were made in parliament and were therefore
covered by parliamentary privilege.

But he said people who made remarks to incite racial antagonism  outside
parliament could be prosecuted....ends

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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:57:02 +0400
From:         "NCSE01::YRJOLA"@TNCLUS.TELE.NOKIA.FI
Subject:      BRUNEI: Funds allocated for phone facilities
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From:	NCSE01::YRJOLA       21-JUL-1992 09:41:30.29
To:	yrjola
CC:
Subj:	   BRUNEI: FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR PHONE SERVICES


          Borneo Bulletin, 13 Jul 1992, p.3:-
          According to the Minister of Communications in
         Brunei, the government has allocated a large
         amount of funds (figures not disclosed) to
         develop telephone services in the country.
          It was further disclosed that by 1995, most
         areas throughout the country will have access
         to sophisticated telephone services.
          No Further Details
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Organization: Central Michigan University
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:05:01 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      VN: VN songs avail. via FTP (fwd)
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:32:01 EST
From:         Larry Jewell <jewell@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject:      VN Folksongs via ftp...

Some of you might find this interesting, others may not.  It's a democracy,
so you don't even have to pick one :-).


I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:

pd1:<msdos.education>
NHAC1-A2.ZIP    CAI hypertext: VN Folk Songs, Vol#1 RelA
NHAC2-A2.ZIP    CAI hypertext: VN Folk Songs, Vol#2 RelA

Nhac1/Nhac2 are two volumes of VN folk songs in hypertext styles
format.  Run in MS/PC DOS with EGA/VGA graphics.

Hung
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Hung P. Ho, Jr. (John)     USC DENTISTRY    PH.SYSTEMS          CCCOGP
                           hho@usc.edu      hung@phsys.com      hung@cccogp.com
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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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From:         Vietnam Insight <vinsight@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      VI:Freedom for Vietnam First

***********
Freedom for Vietnam First
***********

WASHINGTON, DC - USA: US congressmen who served in Vietnam during the
war have launched a campaign "Freedom for Vietnam First" upon the 17th
anniversary of the communist take-over of the entire nation.

Congressmen Duncan Hunter, Tom Ridge, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim
Ransted, Frank Riggs, Dana Rohrabacher, Dan Burton, Robert K. Dornan,
Bill Zeliff introduced to Congress on April 30, 1992 a bill titled "The
Freedom First For Vietnam Act of 1992," barring the lifting of the U.S.
embargo against Vietnam until Vietnam becomes a free nation.

The three Vietnam veterans that signed the bill are Duncan Hunter
representing California, Tom Ridge representing Pensylvania, and Randy
"Duke" Cunningham representing California.

Upon April 30, Washington office of representative Dana Rhorabacher's
also issued a press release titled "Do not let the roadmap for
normalization stops respect for human rights and democracy in Vietnam."



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Vietnam Insight (vinsight@netcom.com)
Chan Tran, editor
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:19:32 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      MY/IN: The Great AIDS Hoax?
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/* Written  5:16 pm  Jul 28, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "The Great AIDS Hoax?" ---------- */

Remark: The study on which these reports are based has not yet been
reported, so the projections for AIDS cases among Indonesian migrant
workers remain unvalidated.  On the face of it, the figures seem
wildly inflated, perhaps their public release politically motivated.
  -- John (apakabar@igc.apc.org)

______________________________________

    Reuter, Kuala Lumpur, July 28 - Malaysia should review its migrant
labour policy following the reported detection of nearly 160,000 illegal
foreign workers infected with the virus which causes AIDS, an opposition
leader said on Tuesday.
    Democratic Action Party secretary-general Lim Kit Siang said the
"most shocking" discovery could cause grave problems.
    Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub told reporters on Monday
that three out of every 10 illegal immigrants who surrendered under an
amnesty programme were infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus
(HIV).
    He said a total of 475,000 illegal immigrants had signed up under
the programme and the HIV carriers would be deported.
    Megat Junid did not give any reasons for the extraordinarily high
reported rate of infection nor did he say if the results of the testing
were independently confirmed.
    Most of the illegal immigrants are from Indonesia, a country not
thought to have a major AIDS problem.
    The deputy minister's remarks apparently took senior leaders by
surprise.
    Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he was worried but added that
he did not know whether a comprehensive medical examination had been
carried out on the immigrants.
    "It this is true, we cannot accept them and must send them back
because they pose a danger to our society," he was quoted by the
national Bernama news agency as saying.
    Lim said Malaysia would suffer from an AIDS (Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) explosion unless the government saw the situation
as a national crisis.
    "This is most shocking and has catapulted Malaysia to be on par with
Thailand in the number of AIDS carriers," he said.
    Malaysia had earlier reported 3,371 HIV carriers and 52 people with
full-blown AIDS.
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:22:45 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      BU: Democratic Voice of Burma
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/* Written 10:06 am  Jul 20, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:humanrights */
/* ---------- "Burma" ---------- */
San Francisco Chronicle
July 20, 1992

Broadcasts to Burma Support Opposition

Oslo, Norway - On the eve of the third anniversary of Nobel
laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, Burmese democracy
activists started daily radio broadcasts to their military-
ruled homeland yesterday.

Transmissions by the Democratic Voice of Burma were made from
a shortwave transmitter in Kvitso, an island in northern
Norway, said Hallvard Kare Kuloy, chairman of the independent
Norwegian Burma Council.

Listeners in Thailand said the broadcast was audible but
suffered strong interference from a much stronger station on
an adjacent frequency. There was no immediate word from Burma.

Kuloy said the first broadcast was a memorial to Suu Kyi's
father, Aung San, who led his country to independence from
Britain.

Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won parliamentary
elections in 1990 but was prevented from taking power by
Burma's generals, was placed under house arrest on July 20,
1989. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:05:30 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Bougainville Peace Talks?
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/* Written 11:12 pm  Jul 21, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "BOUG-WINGTI" ---------- */
BOUG - WINGTI:  RA,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 20 1992

Bougainville rebels have proposed an early meeting with Papua New Guinea's new
Prime Minister, Paias Wingti, in a bid to find a  peaceful solution to the
secessionist crisis.

The proposal has been made in a letter congratulating Mr Wingti on  his
election as Prime Minister.

The congratulatory letter signed by the Bougainville spokesman in Solomon
Islands, Martin Miriori, said it was hoped Mr Wingti would  stand firm on his
commitment during the election campaign to adopt a more  open approach to
solving the Bougainville crisis.

The letter said it was hoped Mr Wingti would meet Bougainville  leaders soon.

Mr Wingti says he plans to outline his plans for Bougainville  during the
official opening of Parliament on August the 4th. ....ends.

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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:58:35 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: 2 Vietnamese families murdered in Cambodian village
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              seasia-l@msu.BITNET, vietnam@cco.caltech.edu, vn-news@saigon.com

07/24

TWO VIETNAMESE FAMILIES MURDERED IN CAMBODIAN VILLAGE

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (JULY 24) UPI - Two Vietnamese families, including a
seven-day-old baby, were slaughtered in a village in southwest Cambodia in what
a U.N. official described Friday as a ''gruesome crime.''

A group of 30 unidentified men dressed in military uniforms entered the village
of Tukmeas, about 80 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, Tuesday yelling ''we want
to kill all the Vietnamese enemy,'' a U.N. spokesmen said.

A seven-day-old baby was ''smashed to the ground'', a man was disembowelled and
other family members - including children aged 7, 9, 12 and 16 - were shot
the spokesman said Friday.

In all, eight people were killed and two injured, the spokesman said, quoting
U.N. military observers who went to the village.

''This was clearly an attack against Vietnamese people,'' said the spokesman
for the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), which is overseeing
implementation of a Cambodian peace accord signed in Paris last October to end
13 years of civil war.

Villagers told the UNTAC observers that after the slaughter, the men ran
towards a hideout of the Khmer Rouge, although a U.N. official in Phnom Penh
stressed there is no evidence that the attack was carried out by the Maoist
faction.

Another UNTAC source said Khmer Rouge fighters were captured by government
police near the village two days before, and the massacre may have been in
retaliation.

The Khmer Rouge, the largest of the three former resistance groups which fought
the Vietnamese-installed government, have repeatedly made public
anti-Vietnamese statements, and have said that all illegal Vietnamese
civillians should be deported from Cambodia.

UNTAC chief Yasushi Akashi Thursday appealed to all four factions to ''refrain
from taking any action or making any public statement which might arouse racial
unrest,'' a warning diplomats say was aimed at the Khmer Rouge.

The U.N. spokesman also revealed Friday that three U.N. policemen were attacked
Thursday night while driving on a country road about 60 miles southwest of
Phnom Penh, and two received gunshot wounds.

One of the wounded was taken to the U.N. field hospital in Phnom Penh, while
the other received a minor injury.

The three Algerians were heading towards Kampot, 90 miles from the capital,
when 12 unidentified assailants attacked their U.N.-marked vehicle near Chhuk
village, the U.N. spokesman said.

''We think it was a mistake because as soon as they attacked, they started
screeming 'UNTAC' then fled,'' the spokesman said.

Bandit attacks are common on country roads, but this is believed to be the
first on a U.N. vehicle.
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:55:04 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      TH: Princess Sirindhorn Award
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/* ---------- "HRH Princess Sirindhorn wins ASEAN " ---------- */
Various sources, July 21.

  HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has been awarded ASEAN achievement
Award for community work.
  The ASEAN Institute's award is for her distinguished community service to
improve the quality of life of Thais.
  Her frequent trips to remote areas are said to have successfully promoted
education, public health and vocational training. Among projects initiated
by the Princess is a lunch scheme for children in rural areas.
  Because of her tight scheduled, Princess Sirindhorn is unable to attend
the award presentation ceremony of Friday (23) in Jakarta. The award will
later be presented to the Princess in Bangkok.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:49:49 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Western Samoa Chief Justice
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/* ---------- "WSAMOA - CHIEF JUSTICE" ---------- */
WSAMOA - CHIEF JUSTICE:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 22 1992

Western Samoa's new Chief Justice, Tiavaasue Falefatu Sapolu, has  been sworn
in  despite controversy over his appointment.

As acting Chief Justice two years ago, he jailed a newspaper editor  for
contempt after the newspaper revealed he was sitting in judgement  on a murder
trial where his sister was the defence lawyer.

The Court of Appeal later threw out the verdict against the editor.

In a speech at his swearing in, Tiavaasue said man by nature has his faults and
only God is perfect and inflalible.

He's promised to observe the independence, integrity and  impartiality of the
judiciary.

Critics of the appointment have said that in a small country like Western
Samoa, there are bound to be conflicts of interest when  judges are drawn from
the local bar.

Last week, the Western Samoa Law Society expressed concern that Tiavaasue could
end up hearing cases in which he had earlier been involved as a lawyer.

But it withdraw its comments after the government said that a  different judge
would be brought in from overseas for such cases. ....ends.

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