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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:18:40 -0500
From:         IDKS500@INDYVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Looking for somebody in Honolulu, Hawaii

Hi every body,


One of my friend is planning to move to the suburbs of Honolulu, Hawaii
some time in the mid August. he would like to contact any body who lives
in that area for some general information. He may not need much
help as his company already took care of his accomadation, etc.
However, He would like to get in touch with some people who can
give him some info about the area.

Please respond to my email or his email address.

Thanks in advance.

Mohd. Asri
Email: wpaar@ttacs.bitnet

My friends name and tp.#
Salim Ilmudeen
Texas Tech Uni.
Email: wpmsm@ttacs1.ttu.edu
       wpmsm@ttacs.bitnet
Tel.   (806) 765-0971 (H)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:15:54 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      SOLOMONS: Happy with TV
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/* Written 11:00 pm  Jul 29, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "SOLOMONS - TV" ---------- */
SOLOMONS - TV:  PACNEWS,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 27 1992

Residents of the Solomon Island's capital Honiara are reported to be satisfied
with watching the opening of the Barcelona Olympic Games through the country's
trial television service.

A spokesman for Solomon Telekom which is running the trial says the signal has
been received very clearly in most parts of  Honiara...since transmission
started on Saturday.

The test transmission is part of a two-month feasibility study to determine
whether a full television service should be introduced  intothe country.
...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:48:24 PDT
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Subject:      PAC: Tonga Sports-Religion Clash
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TONGA - SUNDAY:  RA,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 21 1992

The Tongan parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban sports broadcasts on
Sunday.

The latest controversy erupted earlier this year when a Chinese company
building a big hotel was granted a licence for Sunday work.

Although the licence was soon revoked the issue was pushed along by Radio
Tonga's decision to provide live coverage of the national  rugbyteam's matches
first against Western Samoa and then New Zealand.

Public outrage in the highly religious Kingdom led to a 16-six  victory for a
parliamentary motion to ban all sports broadcasts on Sunday.

Those voting against the motion included the Prime Minister and 5  of his
ministerial colleagues.

Tonga's constitutional guarantees on the sabbath are so strict that  they are
widely interpreted as forbidding even the climbing of a coconut tree to collect
its fruit. ...ends.

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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:21:29 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PAC: Fiji Defense Aid
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FIJI - MCKINNON:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 23 1992

New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Don McKinnon, says New Zealand will  not rush
to resume defence aid and cooperation with Fiji.

In a letter to the Fiji Labour Party, Mr McKinnon has welcomed the manner in
which Fiji's general elections were conducted.

But on the question of defence relations, Mr McKinnon says these  will be
carefully considered and New Zealand would not rush into resuming defence
relations.

Fiji and New Zealand have traditionally had close defence ties, but these were
suspended after the 1987 military coups.

The Fiji Labour Party is opposed to New Zealand and other countries resuming
defence ties with Fiji.

Two weeks ago, Australia announced it would resume its defence ties  with Fiji
immediately. ...ends.

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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:19:28 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG/SOLOMONS: Summit
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MELANESIAN - TIES:  RNZ NEWS/RA,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 29 1992

The prime ministers of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have met for the
first time since Solomon Islands broke off top-level contact with PNG over the
Bougainville dispute.

The two leaders met at Henderson International Airport for thirty minutes
Tuesday before flying to Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, for  the extraordinary
meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead group of countries.

That meeting is to concentrate on finding a solution to the  Bougainville
Crisis.

At a news conference, Papua New Guinea's new Prime Minister, Paias Wingti said
the relationship between PNG and Solomon Islands was a  very important one
which deteriorated under his predecessor Rabbie  Namaliu.

He said his reception by Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Solomon Mamaloni, was
a very positve sign for future relations between the  two countries.

Mr Mamaloni told the news conference he had great confidence in Mr Wingti's
administration.

He said the suspension of contacts between the two countries is now over and
the long standing ties between their peoples can be  re-established.

Mr Mamaloni said the recent sour relations had been due to a lack of contact
between the two nations.

He said he wants his government to remain a mediator in the  Bougainville
crisis.

Mr Mamaloni also called for a truce between the PNG defence forces and the
Bougainville Revolutionary army.

He said such a move would show the good faith of both sides towards  apeaceful
solution of the Bougainville crisis.

Mr Mamaloni said Solomon Islands would like to play the role of  mediator in
settlling the crisis, and had advocated several times that the dispute must be
settled by the proven Melanesian method of  negotiation. ...ends.

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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:09:48 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Japan aims to resume VN aid by year-end
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07/27

JAPAN AIMS TO RESUME VIETNAM AID BY YEAR-END

    TOKYO, July 27, Reuter - Japan aims to end the deadlock over millions of
dollars in old debts owed to it by Vietnam and resume aid by the end of this
year, a Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.
    "We want to wind up the negotiations with Vietnam over the unpaid debt issue
pending for years as soon as possible," the official said. "The talks may end in
a couple of months, but in a more conservative estimate, they could last till
the end of the year and we aim to finish up by then."
    Tokyo has suspended official development assistance (ODA) to Hanoi since
Vietnam's troops invaded Cambodia in December 1978. Vietnam's ties with the rest
of the world have improved since it withdrew them in 1989.
    Communist Vietnam now seeks trade and investments to spur its economy, and
some industrial powers are eager to develop possible oil resources there.
    Vietnam has stalled since 1980 principle and interest repayments to Japan
that resulted from yen loans made to the South Vietnamese government in the
1970s for building power plants and buying commodities.
    The ministry official declined to disclose the exact sum of the old debts,
but said Hanoi has repaid only a portion of them.
    Japan extended loans totalling 27.73 billion yen ($216 million) to South
Vietnam between 1970 and 1974.
    "There is a long way before we can say Japan will extend this much for
improving infrastructure and that much for commodities imports," the official
said.
    Vietnam has not yet made official requests for future aid programmes, but
has told Tokyo of its plans to use aid money to upgrade utilities, roads and
ports once Japan's ODA was resumed, he said.
    Japan last provided yen loans worth 10 billion yen ($78.1 million) in
1978/79. Grants in humanitarian medical supplies and technological assistance
have been exempted from the aid ban.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:31:25 -0700
From:         RLYSLOFF@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Burmese prostitutes and AIDS
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Awhile back there was a news item regarding Burmese prostitutes who
were repatriated after they were found to be HIV positive (or perhaps
even with full blown AIDS, I'm not sure).  After they were returned to
Burma, the news was that they were injected with a lethal drug.  Does
anyone know more about this?  And can you provide sources for this
news?  Please reply to me directly.

		Rene T. A. Lysloff

RLYSLOFF@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU  or RLYSLOFF@POMONA.BITNET
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:52:43 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PH: WWF Bird Sanctuary
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/* Written 11:38 am  Jul 23, 1992 by gn:deliavilla in cdp:reg.philippine */
/* ---------- "WWF:Siberian Birds on the Philippi" ---------- */
Embargoed For Release on Thursday, 23 July, 1992      31/92

SIBERIAN BIRDS SAFER IN NEW PHILIPPINE SANCTUARY

   GLAND -- Migratory birds, many of them escaping the harsh
   Siberian winter, now have another sanctuary in the central
   Philippine island of Olango.

   Some 920 hectares of Olango Island's coastline was declared a
   wildlife sanctuary by the government in May 1992, after several
   years of work by WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature and its local
   partner, the Philippine Wetland and Wildlife Conservation
   Foundation (PWCF).

   "Annually, between 40 to 60 thousand migratory shorebirds
   choose Olango over many of the other surrounding islands as a
   stopover," said Ms. Perla Magsalay, Executive Director of the
   PWCF and head of WWF's Olango Wetland Community Programme.

   The fascinating array of Olango's visitors include the
   threatened Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmutus) and the
   endangered Chinese Egret (Egretta eulophotes). The island is a
   tourist attraction as well.

   WWF funded a survey of the Olango wetland in 1987. In 1990, WWF
   started the Olango Wetland Community Programme, which seeks to
   complement the conservation efforts undertaken by the PWCF. The
   programme contains key elements which aim to suggest ways of
   sustainable living to the 20,000 island people who depend on
   Olango's coastal resources.  These include rehabilitation and
   reafforestation of the mangroves and developing fish cage
   culture and ecotourism activities.

   "While four years of campaigning has given Olango the sanctuary
   status it deserves, the challenge is now to make the area a
   model in sustainable living," said Dr. Christopher Hails,
   Director of the Asia/Pacific Programme at WWF International.

   While a majority of the island's population is engaged in the
   shellcraft industry, they depend largely on Olango's marine
   resources for food and mangroves for fuelwood. Illegal coral
   gathering for export purposes, offshore dynamiting and cyanide
   fishing have taken a toll on Olango's marine life.

- Ends-

For more information, please call Chng Soh Koon at WWF
International, (+41-22 364 95 73)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:58:58 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Banchob says justice will prevail
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 92 03:09:24+0700
From: kamol@munnari.oz.au (Kamol Hengkietisak)

     THE restructuring of the Internal Peace-keeping Command and
Capital Security Command is being carried out as ordered by Prime
Minister Anand Panyarachun, Defence Minister Gen Banchob Bunnag
said yesterday.
     Gen Banchob said he has been reported on the progress but
declined to give details saying that he has to report the Prime
Minister first.
     Regarding the committee set up by the Defence Ministry to
investigate the May tragedy, Gen Banchob said he has been closely
following the probe. The committee has 45 days since its
commissioning to present its findings.
     Asked if senior officers were in the brutal military
crackdown on the protesters, the minister said he will have to see
the investigation results first.
     Asked whether the officers concerned would be transferred if
found guilty, Gen Banchob said he did not want to answer anything
with an "if".
     He refused to say whether former prime minister and defence
minister Gen Suchinda Kraprayoon would be summoned to testify
before the investigating committee since Army Chief Gen Issarapong
Noonpakdee told the panel that he was ordered by Gen Suchinda to
quell the demonstrators.
     The defence minister said the question should be raised with
committee chairman Gen Pichitr Kullavanijaya.
     Gen Banchob affirmed that the military committee will not
disappoint the people as both the chairman and committee members
will be fair and straightforward.
     He said he already has in his mind what to do if the
investigation results of the Government-appointed committee and
the military committee come out differently but did not elaborate.
     On the annual military reshuffle, Gen Banchob said the matter
has not been considered but that everything will be carried out
according to the policy laid down by the Prime Minister.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:07:04 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Oz Withdraws 'Copters
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/* ---------- "PNG - HELICOPTERS" ---------- */
PNG - HELICOPTERS:  RA,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 20 1992

Australia's Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, says he understands Australian-
supplied helicopters have been withdrawn from use in the secessionist Papua New
Guinea island of Bougainville.

The Australian governmnent had called for clarification on the role  of the
Iroquois helicopters, after claims that the PNG Defence Force  wasusing them as
gunships.

Papua New Guinea's Defence Minister and Defence Force commander  denied the
allegations.

Interviewed on Australia's SBS television network, Senator Evans  saidthe
apparent withdrawal may have been motivated by the bad  press Port Moresby has
been getting over the issue. ....ends.

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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:09:43 PDT
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:08:20 -0400
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Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN mining landslide buries hundreds of workers
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07/26

VIETNAM MINING LANDSLIDE BURIES HUNDREDS OF WORKERS

BANGKOK, THAILAND (JULY 26) UPI - A landslide at a mine in northern Vietnam has
buried hundreds of workers, official Radio Hanoi reported Sunday.

The broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, gave no indication of casualties from the
disaster on Friday, but said rescuers were still searching for any survivors.

''Hundreds of people were buried at the depth of 90 feet when a landslide
occurred in Tra Linh District, Cao Bang Province, in northern Vietnam,'' the
radio said.

''The victims were all workers at a manganese mine. The People's Committee of
Cao Bang Province is now concentrating efforts to rescue those workers,'' the
report said.

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07/27

VIETNAM DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER VISITS DISASTER SITE

    HANOI, July 27, Reuter - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh left
Hanoi on Monday for a remote northern mountain province where a landslide killed
about 200 people, officials said.
    Rescue workers dug through dirt, mud and rock on Monday in search of
survivors. The landslide engulfed about 40 miners' huts last Saturday, on the
mountainside near the Chinese border, officials in Cao Bang province said.
    "It's the biggest disaster that ever hit Cao Bang. It's very hard to put a
number yet on the casualties," Trinh Tuyet, deputy director of the province's
administrative office, said by telephone.
    One of the 17 survivors pulled from the disaster later died in hospital from
injuries, officials added.
    Torrential rain unleashed the landslide in Quang Trung village, Tra Linh
district, in the early hours of the morning. Workers from a nearby manganese
mine were sleeping in the huts, Tuyet told Reuters.
    Police, soldiers, miners and local people working in rescue teams recovered
about 50 bodies.
    Details of the disaster were delayed in reaching the Vietnamese capital
Hanoi by poor communications.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:55:35 EDT
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Subject:      TH: Chavalit wants PM post
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 00:39:02+0700
From: kamol@munnari.oz.au (Kamol Hengkietisak)


     THERE may be another massacre after the September 13
election, New Aspiration Party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said
yesterday.
     The election will see more rigging and vote-buying, and will
be followed by a parliamentary dictatorship, he said.
     Speaking at the "Day of New Aspiration" at the Central Plaza
Hotel, he said the so-called "vicious cycle" will return as a
result of the Anand II Government's House dissolution, which is
"like a coup overthrowing Parliament".
     Parliamentary dictatorship will be worse than coups and must
be eradicated. Vote-buying in the election cannot be stopped.
     The NAP will once again have to work against "black water"
politics in an effort to create democracy.
     "The NAP has concluded that the coming election will be far
worse than before, and vote-buying won't be stopped," he said.
     The NAP will continue to fight for democracy no matter how
dirty the election is.
     "I will be the 21st prime minister. This is not a passion but
a way to protect the people from misery," he said.
     The Anand II Government, not the armed forces, is to blame
for the May massacre. The Anand I government installed after the
February 23, 1991 coup did not reject dictatorial rule then.
     "The Anand I government did not reject dictatorial rule and
that finally led to the May massacre. The Anand II Government is
not doing any better," he said.
     The September 13 election will be followed by an even more
serious parliamentary dictatorship, and then by an incident
similar to the May massacre.
     The military has been only slightly damaged after the May
incident, but the government under ex-premier Suchinda Kraprayoon
and the whole country suffered a lot more.
     "Soldiers will not kill people without orders from the
government," he said.
     It was the six-party alliance in the Suchinda government
which had the people killed and wounded in the May incident. The
parties in that alliance deserve to be called the "parties of
evil".
     "The world community will look at Thailand as a barbaric
country. The image of the government and the country must be
corrected. The image of the armed forces is secondary," he said.
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Subject:      PNG: New Defense Minister
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/* ---------- "BOUG - PNG - HAVINI" ---------- */
BOUG - PNG - HAVINI:  PACNEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 29 1992

The self-styled interim government on Bougainville has expressed  concern over
the appointment of former PNG Police Commissioner and  controller of the state
of emergency on Bougainville, Paul Tohian as the country's new Defence
Minister.

International representative of the Bougainville interim government, Moses
Havini said in Port Vila, Vanuatu, that Mr Tohian had a "bad  track record" in
his dealings with the Bougainville state of emergency operations in 1989.

Mr Havini said the new Defence Minister was the one who gave the "illegal shoot
to kill" order on Bougainvilleans, and also led a  failed coup against the
former Namaliu government.

However, he said the interim government welcomes the appointment of
Bougainville MP in the PNG Parliament, Michael Ogio as the Minister  to head
conflict resolution on the island. ...ends.

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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:55:49 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN, Laos accede to ASEAN treaty as 1st communist nations
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07/22

VIETNAM, LAOS ACCEDE TO ASEAN TREATY AS FIRST COMMUNIST NATIONS

MANILA (JULY 22) DPA - Vietnam and Laos Wednesday became the first communist
nations to accede to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) treaty
on friendship and cooperation.

Agreement on accepting the two ASEAN non-members came in Manila at the 25th
annual meeting of the organisation originally set up in 1967 as a bulwark
against a perceived communist threat.

The agremeent was signed by Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam and his
Laotian colleague Phoune Sioraseuth.
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