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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:06:05 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Repay old Soviet debt

12/10

Vietnam begins to repay old Soviet debt

    HANOI, Dec 10, Reuter - Vietnam has begun to repay its 9.67 billion rouble
(US$2.3 billion) debt to the former Soviet Union, Russian ambassador to Hanoi
Rashid Khamidulin said.
    "Vietnam has stated its readiness to repay its debt," Khamidulin said.
"That's a very important principle.
    "Secondly, Vietnam has begun repayment of the debt," he told reporters.
"It's a small amount, but the process has begun. That's very important."
    The ambassador gave no details on the repayment or if Hanoi and Moscow had
agreed an exchange rate. Disagreement on the rate has helped block earlier
agreements.
    Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet said on Wednesday that Hanoi had to
pay off its arrears to the International Monetary Fund and reimburse its debts
to foreign countries.
    The former Soviet Union used to be Vietnam's main supplier of economic and
military aid.
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:36:03 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: S.Korea to establish full diplomatic ties with VN

12/14

SOUTH KOREA TO ESTABLISH FULL DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH VIETNAM

HANOI (DEC. 14) DPA - Vietnam and South Korea will announce full diplomatic
relations next week, sources in Hanoi said Monday.

South Korean Foreign Minister Lee Song Ook is scheduled to pay a two-day
official visit to Hanoi on December 20 to announce the establishment of full
diplomatic ties.

During the Cold War period North Korea was a close ideological ally of
Vietnam's, and the two communist countries still maintain diplomatic relations.

South Korea set up a liason office in Hanoi in August this year, and also
funded the establishment of Vietnam's liason office in Seoul in November.

Full diplomatic ties will pave the way for more bilateral cooperation,
especially in economic ties, a Korean diplomat said here.

South Korea is poised to compete with Japan in trade and investment activites
in Vietnam next year when the United States is expected to lift its embargo on
the country.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:12:30 MET
From:         Fred Melssen <U211610@HNYKUN11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Gopher

Hi,

  You can access GOPHER on telnet, this will give an idea how GOPHER
works. The address is:  TELNET sunic.sunet.se
                            or 192.36.125.2  (numeric)
                        login as: gopher

You can get GOPHER software from ftp: ftp-address: boombox.micro.umn.edu
                            or 134.84.132.2  (numeric)
                            directory: pub/gopher

Yours,

  Fred Melssen
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:51:48 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN hands over remains of US soldiers

12/15

VIETNAM HANDS OVER REMAINS OF U.S. SOLDIERS

    By Bill Tarrant
    HANOI, Dec 15, Reuter - Vietnam on Tuesday handed over to the U.S. military
the remains of Americans killed at least two decades ago, as the old foes try
to bury the bitter legacy of the Indochina war.
    American servicemen put eight wooden boxes inside metal caskets in a solemn
ceremony on the tarmac of Hanoi's Noi Bai international airport.
    Watched by a few Vietnamese officials, an American honour guard
representing the army, navy, air force and marines placed a folded U.S. flag,
wrapped in plastic, on each of the caskets before loading them onto a C-141
cargo plane.
    "The Vietnamese don't like us to display the American flag in their
country," said army Lieutenant Colonel David Fredrikson, public affairs
director of a military Joint Task Force Full Accounting (JTFFA) in Hawaii.
    Washington has refused to open diplomatic ties with Hanoi. But on Monday it
announced it was easing the economic embargo imposed on Hanoi in 1964 by
allowing American firms to open offices and hire staff in Vietnam.
    Fredrikson said the flags would be draped over the caskets once the plane
was on its way to Guam and then to Hawaii.
    Vietnamese officials said the boxes contained the bones, teeth, clothing or
other personal belongings of 20 soldiers found over the last few weeks by joint
U.S.-Vietnamese search teams or handed over by villagers to Hanoi officials.
    "It is extremely rare to find even an almost complete set of remains,"
Fredrikson said.
    U.S. military doctors who examined the remains in Hanoi last weekend said
they were confident they would be able to identify at least 10 sets once they
got back to the U.S. army's Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu.
    The handover ceremony had been planned for weeks.
    The White House said it relaxed its embargo due to Vietnam's increased
cooperation in determining the fate of Americans unaccounted for from the
Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
    "We welcome the news and it is an encouraging gesture," Ho Xuan Dich, head
of the Vietnamese Missing-In-Action (MIA) office, told Reuters before handing
the wooden boxes to U.S. army Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Donovan, who heads a U.S.
MIA office in Hanoi.
    "But the U.S. side must go further," Dich said, adding that Hanoi and
Washington could resolve the MIA issue faster if the United States normalised
relations.
    Fredrikson said Vietnam's decision to open its archives to U.S. experts had
been a breakthrough, although belated.
    Dich said Vietnam had handed over a total of 404 sets of remains, including
those on Tuesday, since 1973. Fredrikson said only 270 sets had been identified.
    "You sometimes get a commingling of remains. It's not uncommon to get
animal remains," he said.
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:08:43 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Embargo up to Clinton

USA TODAY Update
Dec. 15, 1992

TRADE TO VIETNAM CLOSER:
   The White House took a giant step Monday toward rolling back
the 17-year-old trade ban against Vietnam. U.S. business owners
will be allowed to sign contracts, open offices, hire staff and
conduct preliminary studies in preparation for doing business in
Vietnam "should the embargo be lifted," White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said.

LIFTING EMBARGO UP TO CLINTON:
   President Bush Monday eased restrictions against Hanoi. But the
embargo continues, Bush said, effectively leaving the final
decision up to the incoming Democratic administration.
President-elect Bill Clinton has said he would consider
normalizing relations with Vietnam, but only if Hanoi gave a full
accounting of the fate of more than 2,000 POWs:MIAs from the
Vietnam War.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:03:21 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Sulak facing arrest

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

SOCIAL critic Sulak Sivaraksa is expected to be arrested the moment he
arrives in Thailand this morning, police sources say.

Mr Sulak, who has lived in exile in Sweden since the National
Peacekeeping Council seized power in February last year, has been
charged with lese-majeste.

He has also been charged with defaming former prime minister Suchinda
Kraprayoon.

Policemen will be sent to wait for Mr Sulak, who is expected to be
travelling on THAI airliner, at Don Muang airport and are expected to
take him to the Office of the Attorney-General, sources say.

Last week Amnesty International wrote to His Majesty the King
expressing concern that Mr Sulak will be arrested and jailed when he
returns to Thailand.
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Subject: ID: Ad spending exceeds forecasts
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:50:45 GMT
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To: "Indonesian Students @ Janus" <indonesians@janus.berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 17:08:06 CST

                           Source: Reuter Textline
                           Business Times (Singapore)

                                December  3, 1992

    BATY SUBAKTY, chairman of the honorary council of the Association of
Indonesian Advertising Agencies, estimated recently that advertising
expenditures would reach 1.03 trillion rupiah (S$ 803.4 million) this year,
higher than the previous estimate of 978 billion rupiah.

    The  Jakarta  Post reported that he told participants at a seminar on
prospects for the economy, businesses and advertising agencies, held at the
Manggala Wanabhakti building, that advertisement billings for newspapers would
reach between 490 billion rupiah and 516 billion rupiah - or about 38.3 per cent
of total expenditure.

    Other major benefactors from advertisement billings include television
stations, which expect to earn between 463 billion rupiah and 488 billion
rupiah; radio, whose estimated earnings will be between 128 billion rupiah and
135 billion rupiah; magazines earning between 110 billion rupiah and 116 billion
rupiah, and outdoor advertising venues with earnings of between 76 billion
rupiah and 81 billion rupiah.

    Cinemas will only secure between 11 billion and 12 billion rupiah in
advertising revenues next year.

    Mr Baty, who is a former executive chairman of the association, said the
pattern of spending in the advertising industry next year would still emphasise
television advertising, especially since more private television broadcasting
stations would begin operations next year.

    "The new private TV stations in  Jakarta,  Palembang, Jogjakarta and Lampung
will significantly affect the advertising expenditures figures next year,
especially if the TV station in Semarang also begins broadcasting next year," he
said.

    Mr Baty also said TV commercials had a positive impact on the advertising
industry in general.

    "The existence of TV ads has resulted in faster growth in advertising
expenditures over the last two years. The growth, which previously averaged 19.5
per cent a year, has soared to 44.7 per cent," he said.

    Mr Baty also noted adver tisers were getting more demanding about the
quality of promotional materials and now chose media which they considered to be
the most effective for promoting their products.

    "Food and drinks, and toiletries, for example, are more appropriately
advertised on television, while banks and insurance companies, automobiles and
property will be more effectively promoted through the print media," he added.
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:35:30 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Former Australian PM Hawke in VN

12/14

FORMER AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER HAWKE IN VIETNAM

    HANOI, Dec 14, Reuter - Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke arrived
in Vietnam on Monday at the head of a business delegation, the Australian
embassy said.
    The embassy said it had few details but described it as an important visit.
Hawke was ousted as premier by Paul Keating earlier this year.
    Australia was the fourth biggest foreign investor in Vietnam in money terms
by mid-1992, after Taiwan, Hong Kong and France.
    The Vietnamese government has approved 22 Australian projects worth $292
million in telecommunications, seafood production and other sectors.
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Subject: SG: SIFlash Diary, 14 Dec 92
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:18:08 GMT
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                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  16-Dec-1992 09:16am EST

     To:  Southeast Asia Listers               ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )

   From:  Kent Mulliner                              Dept:  Library
          MULLINER                                 Tel No:  614-593-2707

Subject:  SG:  SIFlash Diary, 14 Dec 92


Forwarded from Singapore Gopher (SIFlash) with permission

Diary,  14 December 1992

The by-election fever at the Marine Parade GRC has cast a long
shadow over other news items in Singapore. In Marine Parade
itself, rallies are held at carparks each night. Posters,
banners, pamphlets and flags are found everywhere. Pick-ups with
loud hailers transverse the estate, blaring the season's message
in four languages. The newspapers are filled with accusations,
retorts, statistics, insightful commentaries by insightful
journalists ("The beginning of the end for WP leader Jeyaretnam
?") and mug shots (of politicians), the works. Quite predictable.

As this little island celebrates the advent of the year end
bonus, Isetan Havelock is closing down with the Biggest Sale (Up
to 80% off) while Timeszone Central reports that "people are
spending their money late this Christmas". Then there are reports
that there are plans to revolutionise shopping in Singapore by
introducing "sophisticated shopping centres" to Housing estates.

The Sunday Times reports that the new Miss Singapore Tourism is
a 20-year old law undergraduate in NUS. Miss Serena Goh had her
photograph splashed in page three of the day's papers. She wins
two tickets to any SIA destination, a party for 50 people at
Raffles Hotel and three nights at Hilton's Givenchy suite with
daily breakfast and dinner at the Harbour Grill.

To all those going off for X'mas Holidays, enjoy,
sifters.




Received:  16-Dec-1992 09:18am
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:58:48 EST
From:         Belinda Ong <CPDBONG@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

Can someone at Michigan State University check the User-ID (email) of Dr. Anne
Ferguson for me? Please send her email address directly to me.  Thank you in
advance.

Bee Ong
cpdbong@ukcc.uky.edu
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:10:58 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Sihanouk makes food aid appeal for Cambodia

12/16

CAMBODIAN PRESIDENT PRINCE SIHANOUK MAKES FOOD AID APPEAL FOR CAMBODIA

BEIJING (DEC. 16) UPI - Cambodian President Prince Norodom Sihanouk appealed
Wednesday for international food aid to prevent widespread famine in Cambodia.

In a short appeal issued from his residence in Beijing, Sihanouk said severe
droughts had badly affected this year's rice crop, leaving Cambodia 200,000
metric tons short of the amount needed to ''avoid famine in several parts of
the country.''

''I therefore humbly appeal for prompt government food aid for the toiling
people of Cambodia, especially peasants, who are going to go hungry,'' Sihanouk
said.

He warned Cambodia would face ''a dramatic shortage of food in 1993,'' if no
international aid is forthcoming.

Sihanouk, 70, president of Cambodia's Supreme National Council grouping the
country's four rival factions, is receiving medical treatment in the Chinese
capital.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:10:15 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Delegation leaves for Beijing to meet Sihanouk

12/15

CAMBODIAN DELEGATION LEAVES FOR BEIJING TO MEET PRINCE SIHANOUK

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (DEC. 15) UPI - National Assembly Chairman Chea Sim left
for Beijing Tuesday to meet with Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, who has threatened to stop working with the government and U. N.
peacekeepers unless they control political violence.

Chea Sim, who is also leader of the ruling Cambodian People's Party, led a
four-member delegation that is to meet with Sihanouk, who is receiving medical
treatment in Beijing, a government official said.

The trip comes a day after Sihanouk threatened to stop cooperating with the
U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and with the Phnom Penh
government unless they take effective measures to stop a wave of political
violence.

''I cannot fail to react when confronted with the increasing acts of political
terrorism and the continuation, with absolute impunity, of politically
motivated crimes,'' the former Cambodian monarch said in a statement on Monday.

In the most recent incident, an official of the faction loyal to Sihanouk,
known by its French acronym FUNCINPEC, alleged Phnom Penh government soldiers
gouged out the eye of a party member in a gruesome attack on Saturday.

The FUNCINPEC official charged the victim, 30-year-old Su Sareth, was attacked
because he had reported to U.N. registration teams he thought there were
Vietnamese attempting to illegally register for next year's elections.

However, Defense Minister Tea Banh Tuesday denied government soldiers were
behind the attack.

''The root (of the political violence) is from the Khmer Rouge, which is
creating instability in the country and blaming the government,'' he said.

The radical Khmer Rouge faction, which was ousted from power by invading
Vietnamese troops in 1979, has refused to cooperate with U.N. peacekeeping
efforts since last June.

The government, the Khmer Rouge, FUNCINPEC and another non-communist resistance
faction signed a peace agreement in Paris in October, 1991 aimed at ending 13
years of conflict in the country.

Under the accord, UNTAC is to bring the country to elections scheduled for May
next year.

Sihanouk, 70, is head of state and chairman of the Supreme National Council,
which groups UNTAC and leaders of the country's four former warring factions.
He has previously threatened to resign as a bargaining ploy.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:08:40 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Sihanouk threatens to sever ties with UN

11/14

PRINCE SIHANOUK CITES POLITICAL HARASSMENT, THREATENS TO SEVER TIES WITH U.N.

BANGKOK (DEC. 14) DPA - Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has threatened to
stop working with the United Nations and the Phnom Penh government if they
cannot guarantee protection for his party, according to a statement made
available in Bangkok on Monday.

Sihanouk said workers of the United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful
and Cooperative Cambodia, which he founded more than a decade ago, have been
subjected ''to cruel attacks'' by political assailants.

The head of Cambodia's Supreme National Council (SNC) accused the U.N.
Transitional Authority for Cambodia (UNTAC) and the government of the State of
Cambodia for failing to give adequate protection to his political followers and
those of other paarties contesting elections scheduled for next May.

Sources at the United Front's Bangkok office said the declaration, which was
issued in Beijing, was aimed at forcing UNTAC to put a stop to political
harassment by followers of the Phnom Penh government.

United Front spokesman Ek Sereywath said the incidents of terrorism against his
party associates took place in UNTAC-controlled areas, adding, ''the
perpetrators were riding in government Jeeps''.

So far the Khmer Rouge have borne most of the blame for stalling the Cambodian
peace plan. The Khmer Rouge complain that UNTAC has never verified that the
Vietnamese withdrew completely from Cambodia and that SNC has no political
power to assure a fair general election next year.
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:53:05 -0330
From:         sasamoah@ENGR.MUN.CA
Subject:      favour

        Could someone help me to erase some of my 'junk' mails.  Also I will
like to erase my name from SEASIA user list.
                                                Thanks
                                                            Sam
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:07:49 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: 1st ex-Soviet republic visits VN

12/11

FIRST EX-SOVIET REPUBLIC VISITS VIETNAM

    HANOI, Dec 11, Reuter - Vietnam received the vice president of Armenia,
Gagik Arutyunyan, on Friday -- the first senior official from a former Soviet
republic to visit Hanoi.
    Vietnamese vice president Nguyen Thi Binh told Arutyunyan during a
welcoming ceremony that his visit would help build a new relationship of
cooperation between the two countries.
    Hanoi once depended on Moscow for most economic and military aid, but has
set up diplomatic relations with Armenia and most of the newly independent
republics since the Soviet collapse.
    "Our relationship developped mainly through the former Soviet Union, so
that has limited the deep mutual understanding between our peoples," Arutyunyan
 said.
    He said Armenia expected to sign several agreements with Vietnam on
expanding cooperation during his two-day visit.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:38:12 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Banharn says Praman supports him

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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 23:31:25+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


CHART Thai Party secretary-general Banharn Silpa-archa said yesterday
that party leader Pramarn Adireksarn, apart from party members, also
supports him to lead the party in the future.

He said Pol Gen Pramarn's opinion is the same as that of party
advisory chairman ACM Somboon Rahong.

Mr Banharn, however, said he is satisfied with his present position.
When he will become party leader and who will replace him as
secretary-general is a matter that will be decided in the future, he
added.

Chart Pattana Party leader Chatichai Choonhavan, former Chart Thai
leader, said Mr Banharn is suitable to take the leadership because he
has been with the party for almost 19 years.

Meanwhile, a factional leader in the Chart Thai Party, Narong Wongwan,
suggested that his faction should deserve the secretary-general post
if a key Chart Thai member is appointed new leader.

Mr Narong who dissolved his own Samakkhi Tham Party to merge with
Chart Thai, however, assured that he would not contest the party
leadership in the next election.

He voiced support for Mr Banharn as the most suitable person to lead
Chart Thai, claiming the latter is capable and has guts.
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