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 SUBJ TAKEALL-- press service log: xinhua english 16 apr
 Full Text Superzone of Message
 1    S43001 ql eeeee hkaee .aa HAB005 afg041513hke -- nigeria takes steps to
 reduce public spending
 2    lagos, april 15 (xinhua) -- the nigerian government will ban the civil
 servants from using official cars and state-financed houses in an effort
 to reduce public spending, the local press reported today.
 3    File: D:PAXINHUA BVEDPAMSG301.MSG Words: 121 S43002 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB008 mee041520hke -- turkish, syrian officials start talks on
 4    improving relations
 5    damascus, april 15 (xinhua) -- turkish interior minister ismet sezgin
 today began talks with syrian officials aimed at defusing tension between
 the two countries over an alleged syrian role in fermenting kurdish unrest
 inside turkey.
 6    File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG302.MSG Words: 344 S43003 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE001 hke-- yeltsin turns down government's resignation offer
 7    moscow, april 15 (xinhua) -- russian president boris yeltsin said today he
 do not accept the government's resignation offer, itar-tass reported.
 8    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAHSG303.MSG Words: 101 S43004 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HABO18 afg041514hke -- mozambique's rebels insist on discussing
 9    constitution with government
 10   maputo, april 15 (xinhua) -- the mozambique national resistance (renamo)
 rebels have reaffirmed their stand on discussing the country's
 constitution with the government at the peace negotiations now under way
 in rome.
 11   File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG304.MSG Words: 297 S43005 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB003 eaed041511hke -- imf to aid former soviet republics
 12   washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- the international monetary fund plans to
 grant russia and 14 other former soviet union republics 25 to 30 billion
 U.S. dollars in assistance over four years, imf managing director michael
 camdessus said today.
 13   File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG305.MSG Words: 358 S43006 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE001 hke-- experts agree to speed up phase-out of cfcs
 14   geneva, april 15 (xinhua) -- about 150 experts from 56 countries agreed
 here today on the necessity of accelerating the phase-out of cfcs
 (chlorofluorocarbons) and halons from this year to 1996.
 15   File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG306.MSG Words: 363 S43007 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NABOO5 eaed041512hke -- u.s. to impose sanctions against libya tonight
 16   Washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- u.s. president george bush is to issue an
 executive order later today to formally impose u.s.  sanctions against
 libya, according to white house officials.
 17   File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG307.MSG Words: 186 S43008 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB006 eaed041513hke -- britain to send medical team to yugoslavia
 18   london, april 15 (xinhua) -- britain would send 260 army medical personnel
 to yugoslavia as part of the united nations peace-keeping force, new
 defense secretary malcolm rifkind announced today.
 19   File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG308.MSG Words: 145 S43009 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
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 HAB026 mee041519hke -- tripoli quiet on first day of sanctions
 20    (by li zhurun)
 21    tripoli, april 15 (xinhua) -- the libyan capital was quiet on the first
 day of the u.n. sanctions that include arms embargo, suspension of air
 links and reduction of ciplomatic representation in u.n. member states.
 22    File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG309.MSG Words: 634 S43010 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB031 mee041521hke -- iranian foreign minister to visit kuwait
 23    kuwait city, april 15 (xinhua) -- iranian foreign minister ali akbar
 velayati is scheduled to arrive here on april 18 on a three-day official
 visit to promote bilateral relations, the kuwaiti news agency reported
 today.
 24    File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG310.MSG Words: 322 S43011 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB033 mee041522hke -- mideast states honor sanctions, but open
 25    alternative services
 26    cairo, april 15 (xinhua) -- a number of middle east countries are rushing
 to establish new ferry service and flights to points near the libyan
 border as alternative traffic links as u.n. sanctions against libya vent
 into effect today.
 27    Files D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG311.MSG Words: 321
 28    OW1604200692TAKEI
 29    S43012 qi eeeee hkaee  aa IWE002 hke-- experts agree on earlier ban on
 ozone eaters
 30    (repeat with corrections)
 31    geneva, april 15 (xinhua) -- about 150 experts from 56 countries agreed
 here today on the need for an earlier phase-out of chemicals which can
 destroy earth's protective ozone layer.
 32    File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG312.MSG Words: 408 S43013 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE002 hke-- colombian economy to suffer from energy crisis
 33    santa fe de bogota, april 15 (xinhua) -- the colombian economy, especially
 industry and trade, is expected to suffer from the serious energy crisis
 throughout 1992, according to a press report here today.
 34    File: D:PAXINHUA BWEDPAMSG313.MSG Words: 218 S43014 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 VSE001 hke -- exchange quotations
 35    beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the state administration of exchange control
 this morning published the renminbi exchange rates against convertible
 foreign currencies. there is no change in the rates.
 36    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG001.MSG Words: 162 S43015 ql eeeee  aa INE006
 37    activity of peruvian terrorists in argentine denied
 38    buenos aires, april 15 (xinhua) -- "no activity of the peruvian terrorist
 organization shining path has been detected in argentina," said argentine
 domestic security vice-minister cesar giorgia here today.
 39    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG002.MSG Words: 237 S43016 ql eeeee  aa INE009
 40    foreign investments in venezuela drop sharply
 41    caracas, april 15 (xinhua) -- political instability in venezuela has led
 to a sharp drop in foreign investments.
 42    according to figures released by the foreign investment superintendence
 agency here today, there was a new foreign investment of only 9.5 million
 u.s. dollars in march, a decrease of 87 percent from february.
 43    File: D:PAXINHUABTHUPAMSG003.MSG Words: 113 S43017 ql eeeee  aa INE010
 44    venezuela suspends diplomatic relations with peru
 45    caracas, april 15 (xinhua) -- the venezuelan government decided today to
 suspend diplomatic relations with peru.
 46    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG004.MSG Words: 84 S43018 ql eeeee  aa IWE005
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 47    norway proposes emergency csce meeting on bosnian crisis
 48    stockholm, april 15 (xinhua) -- norway has appealed to call an emergency
 meeting of the conference on security and cooperation in europe (csce) to
 discuss the growing tension in bosnia-herzegovina.
 49    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG005.MSG Words: 131 S43019 ql eeeee  aa INE011
 50    teenage pregnancies increase in mexico
 51    mexico city, april 15 (xinhua) -- the pregnancy rate among girls in the
 age group of 15 to 19 has reached 30 percent in mexico, according to a
 press report here today.
 52    File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG006.MSG Words: 325 S43020 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE001 hke -- mike tyson assigned prison
 53    washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- former heavyweight boxing world champion
 mike tyson will stay behind bars for six years at the indiana youth
 center, the indiana department of correction said on wednesday.
 54    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG007.MSG Words: 209 S43021 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE008 hke-- agricultural project funded by world bank praised
 55    nanchang, april 16 (xinhua) -- the jihu agricultural comprehensive
 development project in east china's Jiangxi province, which is funded by
 the world bank, has been listed as a first-class project by world bank
 officials.
 56    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG008.MSG Words: 307 S43022 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE022 hke-- penglai develops tourism
 57    jinan, april 16 (xinhua) -- the beautiful beaches, delicious seafood,
 clean environment and good services of penglai, a small coastal city
 located in the northeast of the shandong peninsula, has attracted
 increasing numbers of both foreign and domestic tourists.
 58    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG009.MSG Words: 208
 59    0W1604200792TAKE2
 60    S43023 ql eeeee hkaee  aa WSE009 hke-- china's first power station
 simulator created
 61    shijiazhuang, april 16 (xinhua) -- a power research unit in shijiazhuang,
 capital of north china's hebei province, has recently worked out the
 country's first thermal power station simulating system.
 62    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGOlO.MSG Words: 128 S43024 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE004 hke --finland pushes for ex-soviet troops out from baltic states
 63    helsinki, april 15 (xinhua) -- the president of finland, manno koivisto,
 on a one-day working visit to lithuania today, called for the withdrawal
 of the former soviet army from the three baltic states.
 64    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO11.MSG Words: 169 S43025 qi eeeee  aa INE012
 65    france expels six libyan diplomats
 66    paris, april 15 (xinhua) -- france expelled six libyan diplomats after the
 united nations security council's sanctions against libya took effect.
 67    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO12.MSG Words: 169 S43026 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE002 hke -- czechoslovakia implements sanctions against libya
 68    prague, april 15 (xinhua) -- czechoslovakia announced today it is joining
 some countries in implementing the u.n. security council resolution on
 sanctions against libya.
 69    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO13.MSG Words: 129 S43027 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE006 hke --germany asks libyan diplomats to go home
 70    bonn, april 15 (xinhua) -- the german foreign ministry today ordered two
 libyan diplomats in bonn to leave for home in a move to apply the u.n.
 sanctions against libya for its refusal to hand over two suspects in the
 lockerbie bombing.
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 71   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO14.MSG Words: 162 S43028 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE002 hke -- sweden takes men's team title at european table tennis
 72   bonn, april 15 (xinhua) -- sweden won the men's team title at the 18th
 european table tennis championships in sttugart, germany, by beating
 england 4-1 in the event's final on Wednesday.
 73   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO15.MSG Words: 174 S43029 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE012 hke --35th session of commission on narcotics closes
 74   vienna, april 15 (xinhua) -- the 35th session of the u.n. commission on
 narcotic drugs closed here today.
 75   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO16.MSG Words: 137 S43030 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 SPE003 hke -- wednesday's results at european table tennis
 76   bonn, april 15 (xinhua) -- following are the results at the 18th european
 table tennis championships on Wednesday in sttugart of germany:
 77   men's final:
 78   sweden beat england 4-1
 79   jorgen persson, sweden, bt chen xinhua, england, 21-8, 21-19
 80   carl prean, england, bt mikael appelgren, sweden, 21-19, 21-16
 81   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO17.MSG Words: 172 S43031 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE013 hke --italy urges ukraine to continue disarmament
 82   rome, april 15 (xinhua) -- italian prime minister giulio andreotti today
 told his ukrainian counterpart, vitold fokin, that italy wants ukraine to
 continue following the road of arms control.
 83   File: D:PAXINBUA BTBUPAMSGO18.MSG Words: 210 S43032 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE009 hke --hurd to visit turkey, likely greece
 84   london, april 15 (xinhua) -- british foreign secretary douglas hurd will
 visit turkey and probably greece next week to discuss regional affairs and
 their relations with europe, the foreign office said today.
 85   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO19.MSG Words: 174 S43033 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE004 hke -- cis leads at world gymnastic championships
 86   paris, april 15 (xinhua) -- the commonwealth of independent states began
 the world individual gymnastic championships with a flying start with
 grigori misutin and vitaly scherbo dominating the men's events and
 svetlana boginskaya leading in the women's events.
 87   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG020.MSG Words: 264
 88   0W1604200992TAKE3
 89   S43034 ql eeeee .aa IAE002 hke -- major news items in leading philippine
 english newspapers
 90   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 philippine english newspapers:
 91   manila bulletin:
 92   -- the national power corp. and the manila electric co. approved yesterday
 a three-point contingency program designed to insure uninterrupted power
 supply on election day and during
 93    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG021.MSG Words: 229 S43035 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE008 hke --consumer price rises in western germany
 94   bone, april 15 (xinhua) -- consumer prices in western part of germany in
 march were 4.8 percent higher than those of the same month last year,
 reaching the highest level recorded in the past decade.
 95    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG022.MSG Words: 157 S43036 ql eeeee  aa INE015
 hke -- imf sets membership terms for former soviet republics
 96   washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- the executive board of the international
 monetary fund has submitted membership resolutions to the board of
 governors, proposing that 14 of the former soviet republics be admitted to
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 imf membership.
 97  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG023.MSG Words: 365 S43037 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE011 hke --Ireland wins right to alter ec protocol
 98  london, april 15 (xinhua) -- Ireland said today that it had won agreement
 from its european community partners to its request to alter a special
 protocol of the maastricht treaty which recognizes the irish
 constitutional ban on abortion.
 99  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG024.MSG Words: 210 S43038 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HABO86 hke04l6Ol-- 11 people killed in plane crash
 100  canberra, april 16 (xinhua) -- eleven people were killed and four others
 critically injured Wednesday when a commuter plane crashed into mountains
 in papua new guinea's highlands, according to the australian associated
 press (aap).
 101  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAIKSGO25.MSG Words: 213 S43039 qu eeeee hkaee aa
 HABO87 hke041602-- peace negotiator killed by bougainville rebels
 102  canberra, april 16 (xinhua) -- a key peace negotiator for southern
 bougainville in papua new guinea is reported to have been killed, along
 with seven others, by secessionist rebels on the strife-torn island.
 103  File: D:PAXINHUA BTEUPAMSG026.MSG Words: 383 S43040 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IAE001 hke -- libya expels european, Japanese diplomats
 104  cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- libya summoned the chief diplomats of six
 european countries and japan Wednesday informing them of its decision to
 expel some members of their embassy in retaliation.
 105  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG027.MSG Words: 237 S43041 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE004 hke --czechoslovakia revises constitution on presidential election
 106  prague, april 15 (xinhua) -- the czechoslovak parliament today amended the
 country's constitution on presidential elections.
 107  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO28.MSG Words: 187 S43042 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE005 hke --libya refuses to give exit visas to 250 bulgarians
 108  sofia, april 15 (xinhua) -- about 250 bulgarians, who wanted to leave
 libya before u.n. sanctions against tripoli came into effect wednesday,
 were stranded in the country after they were refused exit visas.
 109  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG029.MSG Words: 121 S43043 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE007 hke -- Wednesday's results at world gymnastics championships
 110  paris, april 15 (xinhua) -- Wednesday's leading provisional qualifiers for
 the semi-finals of the world gymnastics championships here:
 111  women
 112  vault:
 113  svetlana boginskaya, cis, 9.90 points
 114  henrietta onodi, hungary, 9.90
 115  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG030.MSG Words: 268 S43044 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE018
 116   second "five-plus-one" bloc ministerial meeting closes
 117  lisbon, april 15 (xinhua) -- portugal and five portuguese- speaking
 african countries agreed here today on establishing a standing body to
 promote the cooperation among them.
 118  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG031.MSG Words: 137
 119  0W1604201092TAKE4
 120                      S43045 ql eeeee  aa INE018
 121  latin american to speed up economic growth in 90s, says world
 122  bank
 123  Washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- latin america's economies are expected to
 grow at an annual rate of 4.2 percent during the 90s, significantly higher
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 than the 1.6 percent annual rate in the 80s, the world bank said today.
 124  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG032.MSG Words: 335 S43046 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB001 hke-- china, japan produce credit card telephones
 125  tianjin, april 16 (xinhua) -- the telephone equipment factory attached to
 the ministry of posts and telecommunications has produced debit/credit
 card telephones for the first time.
 126  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG033.MSG Words: 129 S43047 ql eeeee  aa SPE008
 127  anders nielsen leads at european badminton championships
 128  london, april 15 (xinhua) -- english anders nielson reached the
 quarter-finals without dropping a game in the men's singles at the
 european badminton championships Wednesday in glasgow of scotland.
 129  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPANSG034.MSG Words: 187 S43048 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE004 hke-- more free markets set up in china
 130  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- by the end of 1991 china had a total of
 74,675 free markets, a 7.8 percent increase over the figure for 1990,
 according to a recent national meeting on free market management held in
 hangzhou, capital of east china's zhejiang province.
 131  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG035.MSG Words: 169 S43049 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB003 hke -- zhuhai developing islands for tourism
 132  zhuhai, april 16 (xinhua) -- zhuhai city in guangdong province will invest
 at least 10 million yuan in developing its offshore islands into tourist
 attractions this year.
 133  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO36.MSG Words: 139 S43050 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE013 hke -- u.s. expels three libyan diplomats from u.n. mission
 134  Washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- the u.s. administration began to impose
 u.n. sanctions against libya today by expelling three libyan diplomats
 from the u.n. mission.
 135  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG037.MSG Words: 500 S43051 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE006 hke --serbs in bosnia ordered to mobilize
 136  belgrade, april 15 (xinhua) -- leaders of a self-proclaimed serbian
 republic in bosnia-herzegovina late Wednesday called for an all-out
 mobilization of all defense forces under their control, the belgrade-based
 tanjug news agency said.
 137  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG038.MSG Words: 137 S43052 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB005 hke-- japan company to invest in tianjin new technology
 138  tianjin, april 16 (xinhua) -- Japan's mitsumi electric co. ltd is to
 invest 20 million u.s. dollars in an enterprise in tianjin's new
 technology development zone.
 139  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG039.MSG Words: 115 S43053 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE014 hke --estonian-russian talks end without agreement
 140  helsinki, april 15 (xinhua) -- estonian and russian delegations failed to
 reach agreement here today on the withdrawal of former soviet troops from
 estonia in their first round of talks, according to reports from tallinn.
 141  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG040.MSG Words: 143 S43054 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE007 hke -- russia to carry out u.n. sanctions on libya
 142  moscow, april 15 (xinhua) -- russia is implementing the u.n. sanctions
 against libya and said it could expel libyan diplomats in moscow, a
 russian foreign ministry spokesman said today.
 143  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG041.MSG Words: 116 S43055 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE009 hke-- china to expand coal exports
 144  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china plans to increase coal exports to
 countries in eastern europe and the middle east in a push to ensure its
 share of the world market, according to huang shaochen, vice-president of
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 the china national coal import and export corporation (cnciec).
 145  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG042..MSG Words: 267
 146  0W1604201592TAKE5
 147  S43056 ql eeeee hkaee  aa IAE004
 148  major news items in leading pakistani english newspapers
 149  islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 pakistani english newspapers today:
 150  the pakistan times:
 151  --u.n. secretary general's special envoy on afghanistan benon sevan said
 Wednesday that u.n. peace plan is fully on track and the recent happenings
 in afghanistan will have no effect on it.
 152  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG043.MSG Words: 199 S43057 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB002 hke-- rehabilitation program helps treat over 800,000 disabled
 153  Beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- a five-year rehabilitation program for the
 disabled in china has helped treat more than 800,000 people, according to
 an official from the china disabled persons' federation.
 154  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG044.MSG Words: 458 S43058 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE003 hke-- china works out regulations to limit overfishing
 155  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the chinese government has made strenuous
 efforts over the past few years to regulate fishing with a series of laws,
 "china daily" reported today.
 156  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG045.MSG Words: 371 S43059 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE002 hke-- pudong zone to get property consultancy
 157  shanghai 16 (xinhua) -- the shanghai uni-trust property trust and
 consultants ltd, the first of its kind, has been given approval for
 establishment in the pudong development zone of shanghai, the biggest city
 in east china.
 158  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG046.MSG Words: 137 S43060 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IWE007 hke -- opec pledges to contribute to improving environment
 159  vienna, april 15 (xinhua) -- secretary general subroto of the organization
 of petroleum exporting countries pledged here today that the opec will
 make its own contribution to the improvement of the environment.
 160  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG047.MSG Words: 173 S43061 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB004 hke-- beijing newspaper highlights
 161  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- highlights of today's beijing-based
 newspapers:
 162  the major national newspapers carried articles about the ongoing
 nationwide "hope project", designed to help children in poor areas get an
 education.
 163  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO48.MSG Words: 481 S43062 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE013 hke-- news briefs
 164  hanghzhou, april 16 (xinhua) -- today's news in brief:
 165  scientific achievements
 166  the zhejiang engineering institute in east china's zhejiang province has
 made 506 scientific achievements over the past six years. of these, more
 than 340 have been applied to production.
 167   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG049.MSG Words: 139 S43063 ql eeeee  aa IWE019
 168  estonian-russian talks end without agreement
 169  helsinki, april 15 (xinhua) -- estonian and?russian delegations failed to
 reach agreement here today on the withdrawal of former soviet troops from
 estonia in their first round of talks, according to reports from tallinn.
 170   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG050.MSG Words: 141 S43064 ql eeeee  aa IUE008
 171   hungary seeks closer economic ties with canada
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 172   budapest, april 15 (xinhua) -- hungary signed with canada today an
 agreement on avoidance of dual taxation to further improve the investment
 environment for canadian businessmen and develop economic relations with
 that country.
 173   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG051.MSG Words: 180 S43065 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IAE003 hke -- arab reactions to u.n. sanctions against libya
 174   cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- arab countries canceled all flights to libya
 or closed their air space to libyan planes on wednesday when u.n. air
 sanctions against libya took effect, but many arabs and muslims condemned
 the anti-libyan campaign.
 175   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG052.MSG Words: 320
 176   0W1604201692TAKE6
 177   S43066 ql eeeee hkaee  aa IUE003 hke --u.n. envoy appeals for calm in
 bosnia
 178   belgrade, april 15 (xinhua) -- u.n. special envoy cyrus vance today
 appealed to all the warring parties in bosnia-herzegovina to end fighting
 and observe the latest truce so as to secure a permanent peace in the
 republic.
 179   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG053.MSG Words: 551 S43067 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE016 hke --ariane blasts off into space
 180   paris, april 16 (xinhua) -- the ariane-441 rocket blasted into the space
 at 1:25 paris time today from the kourou space center in french guiana.
 181   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG054.MSG Words: 133 S43068 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 0AB119 hke041604-- singapore airlines to start first flight to new york
 182   singapore, april 16 (xinhua) -- singapore airlines (sia) will start its
 first flight to new york on July 2, announced by sia managing director
 last night.
 183   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG055.MSG Words: 165 S43069 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IAE005 hke -- major news items in leading Japanese newspapers
 184   tokyo, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 Japanese newspapers today:
 185   asahi, yomiuri, mainichi
 186   -- eminent persons' meeting on environment opened in tokyo on wednesday.
 187   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG056.MSG Words: 111 S43070 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE006 hke-- news briefs
 188   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- today's news in brief:
 189   paging systems
 190   public paging systems have been set up in 254 chinese cities since the
 first such service appeared in shanghai in 1984, and the country is
 expected to see a yearly growth of 150,000-250,000 pagers in the coming
 five-year period along with the increasing
 191   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG057.MSG Words: 208 S43071 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE011 hke -- manchester makes official olympic bid
 192   london, april 15 (xinhua) -- manchester has officially bid for hosting the
 olympic games in the year 2000.
 193   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG058.MSG Words: 97 S43072 qi eeeee hkaee   aa
 IWE010 hke --france's economic growth to be under 2 percent in 1992
 194   paris, april 15 (xinhua) -- france's economic growth rate in the first
 half of this year will be less than 1 percent and, if the world economy
 fails to pick up markedly, its growth rate for the whole year will be
 under 2 percent, an official report says.
 195   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG059.MSG Words; 309 S43073 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE020 hke -- chrysler chief: u.s. needs strategy to compete with japan
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 196  new york, april 15 (xinhua) -- u.s. automakers need "realistic and
 supportive policies" to compete with japan, chrysler chairman lee iacocca
 said here today.
 197   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG060.MSG Words: 279 S43074 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE009 hke -- inflation rate down in hungary
 198  budapest, april 15 (xinhua) -- hungary's inflation rate fell sharply in
 the first quarter of this year to 7.9 percent from the 16.9 percent in the
 same period of last year.
 199   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG061.MSG Words: 146 S43075 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE021 hke -- republican party leader urges buchanan to quit race
 200  Washington, april 15 (xinhua) -- republican national chairman rich bond
 today urged patrick buchanan to quit the presidential race as the
 conservative commentator renewed his campaign in california.
 201   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO62.MSG Words: 342 S43076 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IAE006 hke -- major news items in leading indian newspapers
 202  new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 indian english newspapers today:
 203  the hindustan times
 204  -- prime minister p v narasimha rao Wednesday made an impassioned plea to
 all political parties to take communal and caste issues out of the
 nation's agenda and refrain from
 205   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG063.MSG Words: 155
 206  0W1604201792TAKE7
 207                      S43077 ql eeeee hkaee  aa VSDO12 hke-- singapore and philippines call for
 greater regional
 208   cooperation
 209  Beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- singapore and philippines called for the
 promotion of a greater regional cooperation here today in their statements
 at the ongoing 48th session of the united nations economic and social
 commission for asia and the pacific (escap).
 210   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG064.MSG Words: 420 S43078 qi eeeee  aa WSDO07
 211   chinese veteran leader meets delegation of hk company
 212  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- bo yibo, vice-chairman of the central
 advisory commission of the chinese communist party and honorary president
 of the china council for the promotion of international trade (ccpit), met
 with a delegation from the Jardine fleeting holdings ltd. of hong kong here
 this morning.
 213   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG065.MSG Words: 126 S43079 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE010 hke -- valesa hopes for new polish-russian relations
 214  Warsaw, april 15 (xinhua) -- polish president lech walesa proposed today
 that poland and russia iron out their differences in the past and build a
 brand-new relationship by leaving their discord to history.
 215   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG066.MSG Words: 184 S43080 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB148 hke041605-- australia opens plant to atomize toxic waste
 216  canberra, april 16 (xinhua) -- australia has opened its first plant
 designed specifically to atomise toxic wastes, which is deemed as the
 world's first commercial hazardous toxic waste eliminator.
 217   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG067.MSG Words: 207 S43081 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB149 hke04l606-- malaysia's palm oil output rises
 218  kuala lumpur, april 16 (xinhua) -- malaysia's crude palm oil output rose
 by 15.29 percent to 441,390 tons by the end of march, 58,530 tons more
 than in febuary, according to the palm oil registration and licensing
 authority (porla).
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 219   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG068.MSG Words: 170 S43082 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB150 hke04l607-- foreign aid makes up 65.1 pct of nepal's expenditure
 220   kathmandu, april 16 (xinhua) -- foreign assistance will be 65.1 percent of
 nepal's total development expediture during its eighth plan period from
 July 16, 1992 to July 15, 1997.
 221   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAKSG069.MSG Words: 150 S43083 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB155 hke041608-- malaysian bank opened in colombo
 222   colombo, april 16 (xinhua) -- the first bank of a member country of the
 association of south-east asian nations (asean), malaysia, has been opened
 in colombo, local press reported today.
 223   File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG070.MSG Words: 198 S43084 ql eeeee .aa SPB009
 224   italian wins belgian cycling race
 225   brussels, april 15 (xinhua) -- italy's giorgio furlan broke from the pack
 with three kilometers and held on to win the 204-kilometer fleche vallone
 cycling classic on wednesday in buy of belgium.
 226   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG071.MSG Words: 165 S43085 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE011 hke-- gingdao city uses more foreign funds
 227   qingdao, april 16 (xinhua) -- qingdao, a coastal city in east china's
 shandong province, scored big achievements in attracting and using foreign
 funds during the first quarter of this year.
 228   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG072.MSG Words: 161 S43086 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB158 hke041608-- emergency fund sought for thai workers in libya
 229   bangkok, april 16 (xinhua) -- the manpower development departmant (mdd)
 has sought an urgent allocation of 3.8 million u.s. dollars to help thai
 workers in libya in case the situation becomes worse there.
 230   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG073.MSG Words: 291 S43087 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB159 hke041610-- india's exchange reserves cross 5.5 billion dollars
 231   new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- india's foreign exchange reserves crossed
 5.5 billion u.s. dollars at the end of the first week of april 1992,
 according to a local press report today.
 232   Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG074.MSG Words: 215
 233   0W1604201892TAKE8
 234   S43088 ql eeeee hkaee  aa SPE012 hke -- china wins swiss women's
 volleyball tourney opener
 235   geneva, april 15 (xinhua) -- china beat hosts switzerland in straigh sets
 to win the opening game of an international women's volleyball tournament
 wednesday in montreux, switzerland.
 236   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG075.MSG Words: 134 S43089 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE013 hke -- china wins swiss women's volleyball tourney opener
 237   montreux, switzerland, april 15 (xinhua) -- china beat hosts switzerland
 in straigh sets to win the opening game of an international women's
 volleyball tournament here on Wednesday.
 238   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG076.MSG Words: 134 S43090 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB166 hke041613-- nepalese-foreign joint ventures granted permission
 239   kathmandu, april 16 (xinhua) -- the nepalese government has granted
 permission to establish various industries, including those with foreign
 collaboration, the local english daily +the rising nepal+ reported today.
 240   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG077.MSG Words: 163 S43091 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IAE007 hke -- xinhua international news summary at 07:00 gmt
 241   cairo -- libya summoned the chief diplomats of six european countries and
 Japan Wednesday informing them of its decision to expel some members of
 their embassy in retaliation.
 242   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO78.MSG Words: 197 S43092 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
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 WSW001 hke-- chinese ufo organization to hold conference
 243    beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the china ufo research organization (curo)
 will hold a national conference next month in beijing.
 244    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG079.MSG Words: 200 S43093 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE014 hke-- Jiangsu adopts measures to help poor areas
 245    nanjing, april 16 (xinhua) -- east china's Jiangsu province is adopting
 positive measures to help poor areas in the northern part of the province
 to cast off poverty.
 246    File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG080.MSG Words: 219 S43094 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE012 hke-- qinghai fighting severe drought
 247    xining, april 16 (xinhua) -- local governments in western china's qinghai
 province are putting forth great effort to battle the worsening 10-month
 drought which has had a severe impact on daily life and industrial and
 agricultural production.
 248    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG081.MSG Words: 329 S43095 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB006 hke -- china abounds in mineral water resources
 249    beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- chinese nutrition and public health experts
 recently called for the state government to tap the country's abundant
 mineral water resources, according to today's "guangming daily."
 250    the beiji-ng-based national paper said that over 500 sources of eight
 categories of mineral water have been discovered, including carbonic acid,
 silicic acid, strontium, zinc, lithium, bromine,
 251    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO82.MSG Words: 156 S43096 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB176 afg041601hke -- senior u.s. official meets angolan leaders
 252    luanda, april 16 (xinhua) -- u.s. assistant secretary of state for african
 affairs herman cohen has held talks with angolan government and opposition
 leaders to assess the country's peace and elections process.
 253    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG083.MSG Words: 182 S43097 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB178 afg041602hke -- zambia's forests in danger
 254    lusaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- zambia will lose all its wood- lands in 20
 years if deforestation continues at the current annual rate of about
 300,000 hectres, the +times of zambia+ reported today.
 255    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO84.MSG Words: 138 S43098 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB179 afg041603hke -- zambia removes picture-taking ban
 256    lusaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- the zambian government has lifted a ban on
 photograph-taking of all public places and tourist attractions except
 military installations.
 257    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO85.MSG Words: 132
 258    0W1604202392TA1CE9
 259    S43099 ql eeeee hkaee  aa PABOO1 mee041601 -- gulf economic news in brief
 260    abu dhabi, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are today's gulf economic news
 in brief:
 261    -- mamma: bahrain is to issue currency notes and coins in new shapes and
 dimensions by the end of this year, a banrain monetary agency (bma)
 spokesman said on Wednesday.
 262    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO86.MSG Words: 229 S43100 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 WSW004 hke -- new -zealand deputy prime minister to visit china
 263    beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- deputy prime minister and minister of
 external relations and trade of new zealand-don mckinnon will visit china
 from april 24 to 29, at the invitation of chinese state councillor and
 foreign minister qian qichen.
 264    File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG087.MSG Words: 85 S43101 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB188 hke041612-- thailand queries ec decision on tape copying
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 265  bangkok, april 16 (xinhua) -- a senior official of the thai commerce
 ministry has queried the european community's (ec) calculation of damage
 caused by copied sound recordings in thailand.
 266  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG088.MSG Words: 257 S43102 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB192 hke041621-- over 60,000 families given drought relief in sri lanka
 267  colombo, arpil 16 (xinhua) -- over 60,000 out of the 150,000 families
 affected by drought in sri lanka have been given relief by government, the
 local newspaper +island+ reported today.
 268  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSGO89.MSG Words: 182 S43103 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB194 hke041623-- thai, u.s. forces to stage joint military exercise
 269  bangkok, april 16 (xinhua) -- an annual exercise of a joint thai-u.s.
 combined armed forces will take place in thailand beginning on april 26,
 thai armed forces chief of staff pisit saligupta said here today.
 270  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG090.MSG Words: 166 S43104 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE019 hke-- anhui university probes new administrative methods
 271  hefei, april 16 (xinhua) -- anhui university in hefei, the capital of east
 china's anhui province, has formed a board of trustees to enhance school
 administration and reduce requirements for state funding.
 272  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG091.MSG Words: 219 S43105 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSW005 hke -- foreign minister of yemen to visit china
 273  Beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- abdul kareem al-iyani, minister of foreign
 affairs of the republic of yemen, will visit china from april 20 to 22 at
 the invitation of chinese state councillor and foreign minister qian
 qichen, announced a chinese foreign ministry spokesman at a weekly press
 conference here today.  enditem 16/04/92 08:25 GMT
 274  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG092.MSG Words: 79 S43106 ql eeeee  aa SPE015
 275  european badminton championship results (1)
 276  london, april 15 (xinhua) -- following are the results at the european
 badminton championships on wednesday in glasgow of scotland:
 277  men's singles, first round:
 278  1-poul-erik hoyer-larsen, denmark, bt hannes. fuchs, austria, 15-9, 15-5
 279  patrik andreasson, sweden, bt bruce flockhart, england, 15-5,
 280  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG093.MSG Words: 197 S43107 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSW006 hke -- gulf cooperation council secretary-general. to visit china
 281  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- secretary-general of the cooperation council
 for the arab states of the gulf abdulla yaccoub bishara will visit china
 from april 24 to 29, at the invitation of the chinese ministry of foreign
 affairs, a chinese foreign ministry spokesman announced at a weekly press
 conference here today.  enditem
 282  File: D:PAXINHUA BTRUPAMSG094.MSG Words: 80 S43108 ql eeeee  aa SPE006
 283  european badminton championship results (2)
 284  women's singles (first round):
 285  1-lim xiao Bing, sweden, bt nina sundberg, finland, 11-1, 11-0
 286  nicole baldewein, germany, bt peggy mampsaey, belgium, 11-2, 11-0
 287  5/8-helen troke, england, bt wioletta wilk, poland, 11-2, 11-4
 288  erica van den heuvel, netherlands, bt natalia ivanova, cis, 8-11, 11-8,
 11-3
 289  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG095.MSG Words: 322
 290  OW1604202492TAKE16
 291  S43109 ql eeeee hkaee  aa WSBOO8 hke -- hainan maintains good social order
 292  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- southern china's hainan province is
 maintaining good political and social stability, the "people's daily"
 reported today.
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 293   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG096.MSG Words: 233 S43110 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO12 hke -- export-oriented economy develops in beijing suburbs
 294   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- an export-oriented economy continues to
 develop in the suburbs of beijing, the chinese capital.
 295   File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG097.HSG Words: 105 S43111 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSDO16 hke-- china's foreign trade volume registers growth
 296   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china exported goods valued at 14.97 billion
 u.s. dollars during the first quarter of 1992, up 12.7 percent over last
 year's same period.
 297   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG098.MSG Words: 126 S43112 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSV003 hke -- hungarian foreign minister to visit china
 298   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- minister of foreign affairs of the repubic
 of hungary gizo yesenski will visit china in late april, at the invitation
 of chinese state councillor and foreign minister qian qichen, a chinese
 foreign ministry spokesman announced at a weekly press conference here
 today.  enditem 16/04/92 08:49 GHT
 299   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG099.HSG Words: 75 S43113 ql eeeee  aa IUE012
 300   major headlines in leading russian newspapers
 301   moscow, april 16 (xinhua) -- the following are the news headlines in
 today's leading russian newspapers:
 302   sovietskaya rossiya:
 303   -- "russia is neither broken nor in a mess"
 304   tatiyana koryagina said she was against authorizing the russian president
 special power and against approving his economic
 305   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG100.MSG Words: 241 S43114 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE015 hke-- gansu boosts power industry with pooled funds
 306   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- over the past few years northwest china's
 gansu province has markedly boosted its electric power industry by
 utilising multiple investment fund channels, today's "economic daily"
 reported.
 307   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG101.MSG Words: 143 S43115 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO14 hke -- bei3ing decentralizes power to approve foreign-funded firms
 308   beijing, april 16 (xinhua)-- the beijing municipal government has decided
 to give more power to counties, districts, government bureaus and
 corporations to approve the establishment of foreign-funded enterprises.
 309   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG102.MSG Words: 167 S43116 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSH002 hke -- hungarian foreign minister to visit china
 310   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- minister of foreign affairs of the repubic
 of hungary gizo yesenski will visit china in late april, at the invitation
 of chinese state councillor and foreign minister qian qichen, a chinese
 foreign ministry spokesman announced at a weekly press conference here
 today.  enditem 16/04/92 08:53 GMT
 311   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG103.MSG Words: 75 S43117 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB206 hke041614-- india buys more oil in spot market
 312   new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- india has bought more crude oil in spot
 market than in term contracts in current financil year, reversing earlier
 trends, local press reported today.
 313   File; D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG104.MSG Words: 228 S43118 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB207 hke041618-- India plans to import gold
 314   new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- india is considering the possibilities of
 importing gold through official channels, local press reported today.
 315   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG105.MSG Words: 86
 316   0W1604202692TA1(E11
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 317  S43119 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB208 hke04l616-- indo-u.s. pact on digital
 services
 318  new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- an american company will provide first
 international digital private line service between the u.s. and india,
 local press reported today.
 319  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG106.MSG Words: 213 S43120 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB209 hke041626-- bangladesh tea exports decline drastically
 320  dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- bangladesh's export of tea declined
 drastically over the past nine-month period of the current fiscal year
 (July 1991-June 1992), posing a bleak future for the country's second cash
 crop after jute.
 321  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG107.MSG Words: 280 S43121 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 BAB211 hke04l624-- power crisis perils 10 bin u.s. dollar export target
 322  manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- the spate of brownouts in mindanao and luzon
 would take its toll on the country's 10 billion u.s. dollar export target
 for this year, the department of trade and industry warned wednesday.
 323  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG108.MSG Words: 132 S43122 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD023 hke-- production recovering in state-owned enterprises
 324  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china's state-owned enterprises registered
 steady increases in output value and profits in the first quarter of this
 year after a three-year period of stagnation, according to a spokesman
 from the state statistics bureau.
 325  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG109.MSG Words: 205 S43123 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO13 hke-- gongbei customs cracks down smuggling
 326  zhuhai, april 16 (xinhua)-- the gongbei customs in this south china
 special economic zone uncovered some 490 smuggling cases in the first
 three months of this year.
 327  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG110.MSG Words: 101 S43124 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSW007 hke -- china to send military observers to cambodia
 328  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- at the request of the secretary-general of
 the united nations, the chinese government will send to cambodia soon 47
 military observers and a military engineering contingent of 400 people,
 who will join in the work of the u.n. transitional authorities in
 cambodia.
 329  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG111.MSG Words: 90 S43125 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSV008 hke-- spokesman on chemical weapons left over by japan
 330  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china hopes that a satisfactory solution
 will be found to the problem of the chemical weapons left over by japan in
 its war of aggression against china, a chinese foreign ministry spokesman
 said here today.
 331  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG112.MSG Words: 106 S43126 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE018 hke-- china grants preferential policies to electronics industry
 332  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the chinese central government recently
 decided to institute a series of preferential policies during 1992 which
 are favorable to the country's electronics industry.
 333  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG113.MSG Words: 259 S43127 ql eeeee  aa SPE017
 334   barcelona, sampdoria qualify for european cup final
 335  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- barcelona and sampdoria survived the
 newly-introduced mini-league trial to qualify for the european soccer cup
 final in london on may 20.
 336  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG114.MSG Words: 277 S43128 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB225 hke04l6l9-- fire guts 976 houses in central nepal
 337  kathmandu, april 16 (xinhua) -- fire gutted some 750 houses belonging to
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 481 families tuesday and the day before in three villages of parsa
 district, central nepal, news reaching here reported today.
 338   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG115.MSG Words: 173
 339   0W1604202792TAKE12
 340   S43129 ql eeeee  aa SPE016
 341   wednesday's results of european cup soccer competitions
 342   paris, april 15 (xinhua) -- following are the results and standings at the
 european club soccer competitions on wednesday:
 343   european champions cup:
 344   semi-final series:
 345   group a:
 346   sampdoria, Italy, ties, panathinaikos, greece, 1-1
 347   anderlecht, belgium, bt red star belgrade, yugoslavia 3-2
 348   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG116.MSG Words: 227 S43130 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB228 hke04l627-- mrs aquino called to court again
 349   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- philippine president corazon aquino might be
 compelled by the court of appeal to be present in the court for the case
 that she sued a newspaper columnist for libel five years ago.
 350   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG117.MSG Words: 242 S43131 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB229 hke041629-- philippines to issue passport to marcos' son
 351   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- the philippine government has approved the
 passport application of the late president ferdinand marcos's only son,
 ferdinand jr., president corazon aquino's chief aid said today.
 352   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG118.MSG Words: 219 S43132 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD025 hke-- china pledges to implement relevent provisions
 353   of un security council resolution 748
 354   beijing april 16 (xinhua) -- china pledges to implement relevent
 provisions of the u.n. security council resolution 748, chinese foreign
 ministry spokesman wu jianmin said here today.
 355   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG119.MSG Words: 186 S43133 ql eeeee  aa WSD028
 356   chinese defence minister meets air force commander of peru
 357   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- general qin jiwei, chinese state councillor
 and minister of national defence, met with general armando velarde
 ramirez, commanding general of the peruvian air force, and his party at
 the great hall of the people here this afternoon.
 358   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG120.MSG Words: 87 S43134 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB243 hke04l622-- usa becomes major importer of bangladesh's exports
 359   dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- the united states has become the major
 importer of bangladesh's exports, especially garments.
 360   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG121.MSG Words: 147 S43135 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB244 hke04l6l7-- roundup: strenuous efforts on to avoid further
 361   bloodshed in afghanistan
 362   (by vu dingbao)
 363   Islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- amid reports of increasing mujahideen
 pressure on kabul, strenuous efforts are being made to seek the
 implementation of the u.n. peace formula for afghanistan to avoid further
 bloodshed in that war-torn country.
 364   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG122.MSG Words: 541 S43136 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE024 hke -- galvin expected to retire as top commander of nato
 365   forces
 366   brussels, april 16 (xinhua) -- the north atlantic treaty organization
 (nato) is expected to announce soon the retirement of general john r.
 galvin as top commander of allied forces in europe, nato sources said on
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 thursday.
 367   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG123.MSG Words: 121 S43137 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB248 hke041620-- bangladesh tea exports decline drastically
 368   dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- bangladesh's export of tea declined
 drastically over the past nine-month period of the current fiscal year
 (July 1991-june 1992), posing a bleak future for the country's second cash
 crop after jute.
 369   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG124.MSG Words: 280 S43138 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSR016 hke-- china to tighten quality control on export products
 370   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the state administration for the inspection
 of import and export commodities recently announced new regulations
 designed to ensure the quality of china's export products, according to
 today's "economic information daily."
 371   the new regulations not only cover product quality, but also the quality
 control management system of export-oriented enterprises.
 372   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG125.MSG Words: 187
 373   0W1604203292TAKE13
 374   S43139 ql eeeee hkaee  aa IWE026 hke -- major news headlines in leading
 british papers
 375   london, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are major news headlines in leading
 british newspapers today:
 376   the times:
 377   -- libya attempted to break the world embargo on its air links yesterday
 and threatened tit-for-tat expulsions against countries which ordered its
 envoys to leave.
 378   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG126.MSG Words: 170 S43140 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE020 hke-- high-technology promotes quality of vegetable seeds
 379   shenyang, april 16 (xinhua) -- the chunguang seed company in benxi city in
 northeast china's liaoning province has succeeded in using high-technology
 to breed quality vegetable seeds for both domestic and international
 markets.
 380   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG127.MSG Words: 245 S43141 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB255 hke041609-- emergency fund sought for thai workers in libya
 381   bangkok, april 16 (xinhua) -- the manpower development departmant (mdd)
 has sought an urgent allocation of 3.8 million u.s. dollars to help thai
 workers in libya in case the situation becomes worse there.
 382   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG128.MSG Words: 291 S43142 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE022 hke-- nanhu development zone in shenyang takes shape
 383   shenyang, april 16 (xinhua) -- construction of the nanhu science and
 technology development zone in shenyang, the capital of northeast china's
 liaoning province, has progressed smoothly over the past four years.
 384   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG129.MSG Words: 153 S43143 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE021 hke-- Jiangsu uses foreign loans to develop irrigation
 385   nanjing, april 16 (xinhua) -- construction of an agricultural irrigation
 project funded by a 104.5 million u.s. dollar loan from the world bank
 began recently in east china's Jiangsu province.
 386   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG130.MSG Words: 162 S43144 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE026 hke-- shandong famers purchase pension insurance
 387   jinan, april 16 (xinhua) -- over 750,000 farmers in east china's shandong
 province have purchased pension insurance since 1991 when the province led
 in the country in establishing a rural pension insurance system.
 388   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG131.MSG Words: 170 S43145 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSE025 hke-- Jilin province pays attention to recovery of waste products
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 389  changchun, april 16 (xinhua) -- northeast china's Jilin province has
 recovered over six million tons of waste products valued at over 2.28
 billion yuan in the past 42 years since the founding of new china.
 390  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG132.MSG Words: 202 S43146 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB258 afg041604hke -- somali warlords agree on food relief
 391  nairobi, april 16 (xinhua) -- the two warring factions in the somali
 capital of mogadishu have agreed to safeguard the first large shipment of
 food to hundreds of thousands of hungry people in the city.
 392  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG133.MSG Words: 278 S43147 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 WSE034 hke-- weather forecast for major foreign cities
 393  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for ten major foreign
 cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on april 17 issued
 by china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.m. today:
 394  tokyo: min. 8 degrees c., max. 16 degrees c., overcast to cloudy.
 395  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG134.MSG Words: 169 S43148 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 VSE033 hke -- weather forecast for major chinese cities
 396  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for 12 major chinese cities
 for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on april 17 issued by
 china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.m. today:
 397  beijing; min. 9 degrees c., max. 20 degrees c., cloudy to clear, gentle to
 fresh breeze.
 398  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG135.MSG Words: 247
 399  0W1604203392TAXE14
 400  S43149 ql eeeee hkaee  aa IVE025 hke -- georgia accepted as member of nacc
 401  brussels, april 16 (xinhua) -- the former soviet republic of georgia was
 formally accepted as a member of the north atlantic cooperation council
 (nacc), nato sources said on thursday.
 402  File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG136.MSG Words: 138 S43150 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE018 hke -- both dollar, stocks up in tokyo
 403  tokyo, april 16 (xinhua) -- the u.s. dollar ended higher against the
 Japanese yen on the tokyo foreign exchange today, closing at 133.45 yen,
 up 0.20 yen from wednesday's finish of 133.25 yen.
 404  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG137.MSG Words: 141 S43151 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB270 hke041630-- tamil rebels forcing civilians to smuggle gunpowder
 405  colombo, april 16 (xinhun) -- tamil rebels are now forcing civilians
 leaving northern city Jaffna for colombo to carry a small quantity of
 gunpowder, according to reports reaching here today.
 406  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG138.MSG Words: 194 S43152 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB274 hke041631-- u.n. special envoy visits kabul
 407  islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- u.n. special envoy on afghanistan benon
 sevan left here today for kabul to negotiate with government officials and
 mujahideen commanders for avoiding a bloodshed in afghanistan.
 408  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG139.MSG Words: 197 S43153 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSDO14 hke-- support from china obtained on u.n. role: ghali
 409  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- united nations secretary-general boutros
 boutros ghali said here today that he has obtained "clear and strong
 support" from china for the u.n.'s new role and actions in peace-keeping
 and promoting co-operation in economic and social development.
 410  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG140.MSG Words: 531 S43154 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB278 hke041632-- australian foreign minister condemns killing of key
 411  peace negotiator in png
 412  canberra, april 16 (xinhua) -- australian foreign minister gareth evans
 said today that he was +appalled+ by the killing of tony anugu, a key
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 peace negotiator for southern bougainville in papua new guinea (png), and
 seven of his associates.
 413   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG141.MSG Words: 265 S43155 ql eeeee .aa WSD033
 414   pla chief of staff meets peruvian force commander of peru
 415   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- general chi haotian, chief of general staff
 of the chinese people's liberation army (pia), met with and hosted a
 dinner for general armando velarde ramirez, commanding general of the
 peruvian air force, and his party here this evening.
 416   File; D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG142.MSG Words; 89 S43156 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB029 hke-- housing will become a dominant consumption item in china (1)
 417   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- (editor's note: the following is a series of
 stories on the housing reform which will have a profound impact on 300
 million urban residents in china.  since 1949 china has used a housing
 system which essentially allocates free housing to urban residents who
 only pay nominal rents equal to or less than three percent of their wages.
 since such a housing system resulted in a chronic housing shortage, as
 well as
 418   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG143.MSG Words: 340 S43157 ql eeeee  aa WSD032
 419   npc leader meets ecuadoran visitors
 420   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- lei jieqiong, vice-chairman of the chinese
 national people's congress (npc) standing committee, met with waiter
 guerrero, president of the ecuadoran supreme court of justice, and his
 party at the great hall of the people here this afternoon.
 421   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG144.MSG Words: 82 S43158 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB282 hke041633-- high-frequency earthquakes recorded at philippine
 422   volcanoes
 423   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- five high-frequency earthquakes were recorded
 at mt. pinatubo volcano during the past 24 hours, ending at 6 a.m., while
 one at taal volcano in the same period.
 424   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG145.MSG Words: 262
 425   OW1604203492TAKE15
 426   S43159 ql eeeee hkaee  aa VSB037 hke-- housing will become a dominant
 consumption item in china (2)
 427   in southwestern china, a survey made by the chengdu branch of the
 industrial and commercial bank shows that 20 percent of the residents
 deposit money for purchasing houses.
 428   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG146.MSG Words: 347 S43160 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE020 hke -- chang reaches h.k. tennis open quarter-finals
 429   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- american michael chang edged compatriot
 Jim grabb for a quarter-final berth at the 300,000 u.s. dollar hong kong
 open tennis tournament on thursday.
 430   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG147.MSG Words: 118 S43161 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 VSB038 hke-- housing will become a dominant consumption item in china (3)
 431   china needs to restructure its industries and the consumption pattern in
 china should be readjusted in the 1990s.
 432   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG148.MSG Words: 304 S43162 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB288 hke041634-- u.s. delays pullout of last drydock from subic base
 433   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- the u.s. navy said today that it has
 postponed the towing of the last of its three floating drydocks from subic
 naval base.
 434   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG149.MSG Words: 206 S43163 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 VSDO15 hke-- academicians to meet in beijing
 435   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the chinese academy of sciences (cas) will
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 convene its sixth general assembly next week, which is expected to draw
 some 500 top scientists to offer scientific advice and proposals to the
 government.
 436  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG150.MSG Words: 229 S43164 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE021 hke -- 8 bidders meet ioc deadline
 437  lausanne, april 16 (xinhua) -- eight cities have met the deadline by
 wednesday to set up an eight-way bidding campaign for the right to host
 the 2000 olympics.
 438  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG151.MSG Words: 122 S43165 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB020 mee041602hke -- egypt shocked by isreali official's statement on
 439  peace treaty
 440  cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- egyptian foreign minister amr moussa today
 criticized an israeli official's statement on the peace pact signed
 between the two countries, the official middle east news agency (mena)
 reported.
 441  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG152.MSG Words: 258 S43166 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB299 hke041636 - cpi must be independent: general secretary
 442  hyderabad, south india, april 16 (xinhua) -- the general secretary of the
 communist party of india (cpi), indrajit gupta, said today that his party
 is drawing lessons from the collapse of the soviet union.
 443  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG175.MSG Words: 226 S43167 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB024
 444  more vietnamese migrants return to vietnam
 445  hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- a group of 120 vietnamese migrants today
 returned to vietnam under a voluntary repatriation program of the united
 nations high commissioner for refugees.
 446  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG176.MSG Words: 114 S43168 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB301 hke041643-- foreign exchange rates in hong kong
 447  hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- closing foreign exchange rates in hong
 kong today (thursday):
 448   foreign exchange in h.k. dollars
 449   thursday wednesday
 450  u.s. dollar 7.735 7.731
 451  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG177.MSG Words: 111 S43169 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD034 hke -- chinese premier meets bulgarian vice-premier
 452  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- chinese premier ii peng met with visiting
 bulgarian vice-premier and minister of education and science nikolay
 vassilev and his party here today.
 453  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG178.MSG Words: 208
 454  0W1604203592TAKE16
 455  S43170 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB303 hke041635-- thai lover house starts first
 working session
 456  bangkok, april 16 (xinhua) -- thailand's house of representatives started
 its first working session here today.
 457  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG179.MSG Words: 242 S43171 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 8AB305 hke041637-- saarc urged for common action to ensure financial
 458   support from global environmental fund
 459  dhaka, april 14 (xinhua) -- countries of the south asian association for
 regional cooperation (saarc) have been urged for common action to ensure
 scientific, technical and financial support from the global environmental
 fund, a press release said today.
 460  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG180.MSG Words: 317 S43172 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB306 afg041605hke -- over 40 people feared killed in air crash
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 461   in nairobi
 462   nairobi, april 16 (xinhua) -- more than 40 people were feared to have been
 killed this morning when a military aircraft crashed in a housing estate
 not far from an air base in the kenyan capital of nairobi.
 463   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG181.MSG Words: 165 S43173 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 SPE022 hke -- 108-countries to compete in 30th chess olympiad
 464   manila, april 16 (xinhua) -- a record 108 countries have registered in the
 30th chess olympiad to be held from June 7 to 25 in the philippines.
 465   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG182.MSG Words: 107 S43174 ql eeeee  aa WSB026
 466   film proprieter shot to death
 467   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- a film proprieter in bong kong was
 reported to be shot to death this morning as he returned to his office.
 468   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG183.MSG Words: 133 S43175 ql eeeee  aa WSB027
 469   china property show opens in hong kong
 470   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- china property show, the first of its kind
 ever held in hong kong, opened here today, attracting more than 10,000
 local visitors.
 471   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG184.MSG Words: 213 S43176 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD036 hke -- u.n. secretary general meets azerbaijan, Japanese officials
 472   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- boutros boutros ghali, secretary-general of
 the united nations, met on separate occasions with guseinaga musa
 sadykhov, foreign minister of azerbaijan, and koji kakizawa, parliamentary
 vice-minister for foreign affairs, here today.
 473   Filet D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG185.MSG Words: 89 S43177 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD021 hke-- border troops reduction talks held in beijing
 474   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the sixth round of talks on the reduction of
 military forces on the border and the strengthening of mutual trust in the
 military field was held here from march 21 to april 16 between the Chinese
 delegation led by ambassador Wang ganghua and the delegation representing
 the russian federation and others led by ambassador g.v. kireev.
 475   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG186.MSG Words: 171 S43178 ql eeeee  aa IWE028
 476   major news items^in leading french papers
 477   paris, april 16 (xinhua) -- the following are major news items in leading
 french papers today:
 478   le monde:
 479   -- air and military embargo: sanctions against libya in force.  the u.n.
 security council refuses to set a new deadline for tripoli. Cairo keeps
 gaddhafi at a distance. tunisia fears an
 480   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG187.MSG Words: 202 S43179 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB328 hke041638-- indian prime minister defends economic reforms
 481   new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- indian prime minister p v narasimha rao
 today stressed india's need for running a secular democracy and defended
 the on-going economic reforms initiated since he took power last summer.
 482   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG188.MSG Words: 391
 483   OW1604204092TAKE17
 484   S43180 ql eeeee hkaee  aa WSB007 hke-- china becomes coffee exporter
 485   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china's kunming yunbao granule coffee food
 co. ltd. this year will export 1,200 tons of small-bean coffee products to
 Japan, italy, hong kong and taiwan.
 486   File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG189.MSG Words: 232 S43181 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE030 hke -- uk: battle for labor leadership hots up
 487   london, april 16 (xinhua) -- britain's opposition labor party began its
 leadership contest in earnest today with a third challenger announcing his
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 bid for the top job.
 488   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG194.MSG Words: 401 S43182 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO17 hke-- hydrogeology team wins award
 489   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the beijing hydrogeology team received a
 large bonus yesterday for its excellent performance over the past three
 decades.
 490   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG197.MSG Words: 114 S43183 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE032 hke -- irish police arrest Sinn fein vice-president
 491   london, april 16 (xinhua) -- martin mcguinness, vice-president of sinn
 fein, the political wing of the irish republican army (ira), has been
 arrested by irish police, according to reports from dublin on thursday.
 492   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG199.MSG Words: 136 S43184 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB332 hke041639-- bangladesh eager to see mutually acceptable solution
 493   to libyan problem
 494   dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- bangladesh is eager to see a mutually
 acceptable solution to the libyan problem while adhering to the united
 nations security council's resolution.
 495   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG200.MSG Words: 182 S43185 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IABO10 hke -- yang shangkun visits pyongyang children's palace
 496   pyongyang, april 16 (xinhua) -- chinese president yang shangkun was warmly
 embraced today by more than two thousand children when he visited the
 mangyongdae school children's palace in pyongyang.
 497   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG204.MSG Words: 166 S43186 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB334 hke041641-- sit-in held in india protesting u.n. sanction against
 498   libya
 499   new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- a sit-in demonstration took place here at
 the boat club today, protesting against the recent u.n. sanctions against
 libya.
 500   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG205.MSG Words: 95 S43187 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB020 hke -- tibet to promote tourism
 501   lhasa, april 16 (xinhua) -- a high ranking tibetan official said recently
 that tibet will further develop tibet's tourism industry.
 502   File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG206.MSG Words: 171 S43188 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD029 hke-- ambassador: yeltsin's asia visit in preparation
 503   beijing, april 15 (xinhua) -- preparations are under way for the visit of
 russian federation president yeltsin to a number of asian countries, said
 i.a. rogachev, head of the russian delegation, at the on-going united
 nations forum here today.
 504   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG207.MSG Words: 334 S43189 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO15 hke-- more experts and scholars to enjoy government subsidies
 505   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- in 1992, a greater number of chinese experts
 and scholars will enjoy special subsidies granted by the state council for
 outstanding contributions to the nation.
 506   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG208.MSG Words: 172 S43190 q1 eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD026 hke -- china's economy moves to a fast development period
 507   beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- china has entered a period of rapid economic
 development characterized by a marked increase in production, booming
 construction and brisk market.
 508   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG209.MSG Words: 372
 509   0W1604204192TAKE18
 510   S43191 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB336 hke041644-- malaysian prime minister to
 visit vietnam on sunday
 511   kuala lumpur, april 16 (xinhua) -- prime minister mahathir mohamad will
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 visit vietnam from april 19-24, malaysia's foreign ministry announced
 today.
 512  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG210.MSG Words: 201 S43192 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB022 mee041604hie -- iran's radicals bid for more votes in run-off
 513  tehran, april 16 (xinhua) -- iran's radicals have appealed to voters for a
 massive turnout in a bid to win more votes in the majlis (parliarment)
 runoff elections scheduled for may 8.
 514  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG211.MSG Words: 225 S43193 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO19 hke-- chinese calligrapher gains prestige
 515  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- yang yongsheng, a famous chinese
 calligrapher from the beijing institute of chinese and foreign culture and
 calligraphy, has gained a reputation both at home and abroad for his
 calligraphy work entitled "painting of dragon and phoenix."
 516  the artistic work, which was written with a chinese writing brush,
 features the characters for the "dragon" and the "phoenix."
 517  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG212.MSG Words: 203 S43194 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO11 hke -- new type of security door developed in beijing
 518  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the beijing municipal building materials
 company has developed a new kind of security door which is soundproof and
 heatproof, besides being secure against intrusion.
 519  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG213.MSG Words: 150 S43195 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB023 mee041603hke -- egypt recognizes three former yugoslav republics
 520  cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- egypt has recognized the former yugoslav
 republics of croatia, slovenia and bosnia-hersegovina, foreign minister
 amr moussa announced today.
 521  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG214.MSG Words: 79 S43196 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSBO16 hke-- beijing co-operates with yunnan, guangxi
 522  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the beijing municipal government has sent a
 delegation to southwestern china's yunnan province and guangxi zhuang
 autonomous region to discuss co-operation in trade and tourism.
 523  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG215.MSG Words: 186 S43197 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB025 hke-- contest on hong kong basic law held
 524  shenzhen, april 16 (xinhua) -- a contest on knowledge about the basic law
 of the hong kong special administrative zone of the people's republic of
 china will start tomorrow in both the mainland and hong kong.
 525  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG216.MSG Words: 167 S43198 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB342 afg041606hke -- kenya begins to feel pinch of donor funds
 526   freeze
 527  nairobi, april 16 (xinhua) -- at least four donor countries and two
 international financial institutions have cut their loan pledges to kenya
 or suspended financial assistance for some public sector projects
 altogether in the country due to its failure to implement donor-aided
 projects in the current financial year ending june 30.
 528  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG221.MSG Words: 169 S43199 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB344 afg041607hke -- taylor admits signing geneva accord +under
 529   pressure+
 530  nairobi, april 16 (xinhua) -- liberia's main rebel leader charles taylor
 has admitted that he signed an agreement in geneva last week, but said he
 did so under pressure and in fear of his life, according to reports from
 the liberian capital of monrovia today.
 531  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG223.MSG Words: 269 S43200 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB347 hke041640-- nz's bio-tech economy on way to next century: minister
 532  wellington, april 16 (xinhua) -- new zealand's bio-tech economy is on the
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 way forward into the next century, with value-added processing industries
 securing the viability of primary production.
 533   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG226.MSG Words: 286
 534   OW1604204292TAKE19
 535   S43201 ql eeeee hkaee  aa WSB023 hke-- shantou encourages enterprises to
 build branches abroad
 536   shantou, april 16 (xinhua) -- shantou, a special economic zone in
 southeastern china, will encourage some enterprises to run businesses
 abroad in a bid to utilize the overseas resources and markets.
 537   File: D:PAXINHUA BTBUPAMSG227.MSG Words: 273 S43202 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD027 hke-- escap members call for closer regional cooperation (1)
 538   beijing, april 16 (xinhua)-- escap members called for closer cooperation
 in the development of their economies today, the third day of the 48th
 session of the united nations economic and social commission for asia and
 the pacific (escap).
 539   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG228.MSG Words: 348 S43203 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE020 hke -- russian federation changes name
 540   moscow, april 16 (xinhua) -- the sixth congress of russian people's
 deputies decided today to change their republic's name to "russia,"
 itar-tass reported.
 541   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG229.MSG Words: 137 S43204 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB024 mee041606hke -- gunmen attack police vehicle, wounding three in
 542   istanbul
 543   istanbul, april 16 (xinhua) -- several unidentified gunmen today attacked
 a police minibus, wounding two policemen and a civilian watchman in a
 downtown district of istanbul, a police spokesman said.
 544   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG231.MSG Words: 131 S43205 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSH003 hke-- escap members call for closer regional cooperation (2)
 545   bertrand de guilhem de lataillade, ambassador, directorate, united nations
 and international organizations, ministry of foreign affairs of france,
 expressed his country's strong support for enhancing regional cooperation
 in the region.
 546   france worked towards a speedy conclusion of the uruguay round of
 multilateral negotiations, which would be beneficial to the developing
 countries, he said.
 547   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG232.MSG Words: 237 S43206 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IWE031 hke -- libya expels six italian diplomats
 548   rome, april 16 (xinhua) -- libya today asked six italian diplomats to
 leave for home in retaliation for italy's expulsion of an equal number of
 libyan diplomats on Wednesday, the ansa news agency reported today.
 549   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG233.MSG Words: 263 S43207 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB361 hke041645-- car bomb alert issued in colombo
 550   colombo, april 16 (xinhua) -- the joint operations command has sent out a
 bomb alert following information that two rebel vehicles with powerful
 bombs have sneaked into colombo, informed sources said here today.
 551   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG234.MSG Words: 294 S43208 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB025 mee041605hke -- four rebels, one police officer killed in clash
 552   in southeastern turkey
 553   istanbul, april 16 (xinhua) -- four kurdish rebels and one police officer
 were killed in a clash in southeastern turkey, the reqional governor's
 office said today.
 554   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG235.MSG Words: 155 S43209 ql eeeee  aa IWE034
 555   paris foreign exchange rates
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 556
 paris, april 16 (xinhua) -- the following are closing foreign exchange
 rates and gold price on paris market today:
 557
 100 deutsche marks 338.1700 french francs
 558
 1 u.s. dollar 5.6125 french francs
 559
 1 pound sterling 9.8535 french francs
 560
 100 Japanese yen 4.2078 french francs
 561
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG236.MSG Words: 75 S43210 ql eeeee hkaee
 aa
 IAEO13 hke -- xinhua international news summary at 14:00 gmt april 16
 562
 brussels -- the former soviet republic of georgia was formally accepted as
 a member of the north atlantic cooperation council (nacc), nato sources
 said on thursday.
 563
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG237.MSG Words: 171
 564
 0W1604204392TAKE20
 565
 S43211 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB364 hke041648-- afghan president not in
 india: s
 okesm
 n
 p
 a
 566
 new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- afghan president najibullah is not in
 india and his whereabouts is not known to the indian government in the
 wake of the escalation of violence in afghanistan, a spokesman said here
 t
 d
 o
 ay.
 567
 File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG238.MSG Words: 187 S43212 ql eeeee hkaee
 WSB029 hke-- hunan to sell products in shenzhen
 aa
 568
 shenzhen, april 16 (xinhua) -- an exhibition fair of the local products of
 central china's hunan province will open on april 18 at the shenzhen
 exhibition center.
 569
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG244.MSG Words: 139 S43213 ql eeeee hkaee
 WSBO10 hke-- township drinks cater to tourists
 aa
 570
 beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the beverage and food products of the
 enterprises of tongshan county, Jiangsu province, have covered the beijing
 tourist market with their rich nutrition, convenience and high quality.
 571
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG245.MSG Words: 244 S43214 ql eeeee  aa IWE035
 572
 key frankfurt markets fixed rates
 573
 bonn, april 16 (xinhua) -- the following are the major market medium rates
 in frankfurt today:
 574
 1 deutsche mark 0.6027 u.s. dollar
 575
 1 u.s. dollar 0.5691 sterling
 576
 5.611 french francs
 577
 133.429 Japanese yen
 578
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG246.MSG Words: 122 S43215 q1 eeeee hkaee
 IAE014 hke -- chinese peace-keepers arrive in phnom penh
 aa
 579
 phnom penh, april (xinhua) -- an advance group of chinese soldiers arrived
 in phnom penh, capital of cambodia, today to join the united nations
 peace-keeping effort.
 580
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG247.MSG Words: 121 S43216 ql eeeee hkaee
 WSB030 hke-- contract for developing pudong signed in shanghai
 aa
 581
 shanghai, april 16 (xinhua) -- china and tailand signed a contract here
 today on co-developing an area of some 40 hectares in pudong, an economic
 zone in shanghai.
 582
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG248.MSG Words: 360 S43217 ql eeeee  aa WSB033
 583
 i
 '
 t
 bli
 hi
 i
 fi
 a
 s
 op pu
 r express
 as
 s
 ng, a
 rms cooperate
 584
 hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- asia's leading trade publishing and air
 express companies signed an agreement wednesday to provide worldwide
 door-to-door courier delivery for its seven flagship trade magazines.
 585
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG249.MSG Words: 247 S43218 q1 eeeee hkaee .aa
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 PAB028 mee041607hke -- iran urges afghan mujahideen groups to act in
 unison
 586   tehran, april 16 (xinhua) -- iran's foreign ministry urged all the afghan
 mujahideen groups to +act in unison to save the country+ ina communique
 issued this morning.
 587   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG250.MSG Words: 460 S43219 ql eeeee .aa WSB034
 588   soft drinks price down in hong kong
 589   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- prices of soft drinks in hong kong have
 been reduced following removal of the duty on soft drinks a month ago.
 590   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG251.MSG Words: 137 S43220 ql eeeee  aa IWE033
 591   britain's unemployment expands least in two years
 592   london, april 16 (xinhua) -- britain's unemployment expanded by 7,400 in
 march at the lowest monthly rate in nearly two years, according to
 government figures released today.
 593   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG252.MSG Words: 170 S43221 ql eeeee  aa WSB035
 594   hong kong takes orders from britain on sanctions against libya
 595   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- hong kong has taken two orders from the
 united kingdom concerning implementation of un sanctions against libya.
 596   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG253.MSG Words: 327
 597   0W1604204792TAKE21
 598   S43222 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB376 hke041650-- singapore to offer training
 facilities to 17
 599   developing countries
 600   singapore, april 17 (xinhua) -- the singapore government agreed to offer
 training facilities to 17 countries under the united nations development
 program (undp)'s framework for technical cooperation among developing
 countries (tcdc).
 601   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG254.MSG Words: 258 S43223 ql eeeee  aa WSB036
 602   hk needs to get airport railway in 1997
 603   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- hong kong must have an airport railway in
 1997 to relieve congestion in the nathan road corridor in kowloon and to
 provide a fast and efficient rail link to the planned new airport, the
 secretary for transport michael leung said here today.
 604   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG255.MSG Words: 367 S43224 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB029 mee041608hke -- yemeni foreign minister leaves for china
 605   sanaa, april 16 (xinhua) -- yemeni foreign minister abdul karim al iriyani
 left here today for beijing, china on an official visit.
 606   File: D:PAXINHUABTHUPAMSG256.MSG Words: 135 S43225 ql eeeee  aa WSB037
 607   share prices in h_ong kong rise sharply
 608   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- share prices at the hong kong stock
 exchange today rose sharply with the hang seng index, key indicator of
 local blue chips, rising 96 points to close at 5082
 609   today's turnover was 3,172 million h.k. dollars (407 million u.s.
 dollars).
 610   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG257.MSG Words: 182 S43226 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSB038
 611   star tv to broadcast concert on aids awareness
 612   hong kong, april 16 (xinhua) -- bong kong-based star tv (satellite
 television asian region ltd.)  has announced that its mtv, music
 television, will exclusively show the freddie mercury tribut: concert for
 aids awareness throughout asia, live from wembley stadium in london on
 april 21.
 613   File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG259.MSG Words: 272 S43227 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
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 WSB032 hke-- chinese military observers fly to cambodia
 614  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- the advance troops of an engineering
 contingent of the chinese people's liberation army with 30 officers and
 soldiers flew to phnom penh today.
 615  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG260.MSG Words: 195 S43228 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB379 hke041652-- australian rural sector sees downturn in fiscal 1990-91
 616  canberra, april 16 (xinhua) -- the australian bureau of statistics (abs)
 has painted a dim picture for the country's agricultural industries,
 indicating a large downturn in the rural sector during the 1990-91 fiscal
 year.
 617  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG261.MSG Words: 317 S43229 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 VSD037 hke- "waterlocked" countries call for growth and reform
 618  at escap session
 619  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- island countries in the pacific sub-region
 today called for reform of certain domestic policies toward a competitive
 world market, as well as more regional co-operation to revive their
 stagnant economy.
 620  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG262.MSG Words: 448 S43230 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB383 hke041653-- current policy to speed up bangladesh development:
 621  khaleda zia
 622  dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- bangladesh prime minister begum khaleda zia
 today expressed her confidence that the pragmatic industrial policy
 pursued by her government would accelerate the pace of industrialization
 in the country.
 623  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG263.MSG Words: 285 S43231 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 WSD038 hke-- asian nations concerned with slow pace of uruguay round
 624  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- representatives of several asian countries,
 which are in the process of structural reform and opening up their
 economies to the rest of the world, today expressed concern over the slow
 pace of the uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations.
 625   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG264.MSG Words: 429
 626  0W1604204992TAKE2'2
 627  S43232 ql eeeee hkaee  aa IUE022 hke -- russia, azerbaijan sign agreement
 on caspian sea fleet
 628  moscow, april 16 (xinhua) -- russia and azerbaijan today signed an
 agreement on the division of the caspian sea fleet, itar-tass reported.
 629   File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG265.MSG Words: 220 S43233 ql eeeee  aa WSD041
 630   chinese congress chairman visits exhibition on
 631  medium, small-sized enterprises
 632  beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- wan li, chairman of the standing committee
 of the national people's congress, tonight toured a fair on the
 achievements of china's medium and small-sized enterprises, which is being
 held here especially for the 48th escap session.
 633   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG266.MSG Words; 171 S43234 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB030 mee041609hke -- jordan remains silent over u.n. sanctions
 634  against libya
 635  amman, april 16 (xinhua) -- jordan has remained silent over mandatory u.n.
 sanctions against libya which went into effect wednesday, but government
 officials said jordan has no choice but to observe u.n. resolutions.
 636   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG267.MSG Words: 406 S43235 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB025 eaed041601hke -- germany supports greece on skopje recognition
 637  athens, april 16 (xinhua) -- german foreign minister hans dietrich
 genscher said today that his country fully respected and backed greece's
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 "vital interests" on the issue of recognition of skopje.
 638
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG268.MSG Words: 252 S43236 ql eeeee
 aa IWE038
 639
 major news
 items in leading u.s. newspapers
 640
 washington,
 leading u.s.
 april 16 (xinhua) -- the following were major news items in
 newspapers today:
 641
 the washington post:
 642
 -- bush dinner raises funds and eyebrows
 643
 the michigan fund-raiser looked just like any other fancy gala president
 bush has thrown to raise campaign money, but when his
 644
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG269.MSG Words: 387 S43237 qi eeeee hkaee
 aa
 NAB026 eaed041602hke -- u.s. trade deficit down sharply in february
 645
 washington, april 16 (xinhua) -- record exports pushed down the u.s.
 merchandise trade deficit by 43 percent in february to 3.38 billion
 dollars, the lowest level in nine years, the government reported today.
 646
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG270.MSG Words: 254 S43238 qu eeeee hkaee
 aa
 HAB392 hke041654-- relations with china, india of vital importance to
 647
 nepal: koirala
 648
 kathmandu, april 16 (xinhua) -- nepalese prime minister girija prasad
 koirala said that the fundamental tenets of nepal's foreign policy will
 remain constant.
 649
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG271.MSG Words: 247 S43239 ql eeeee hkaee
 aa
 IWE037 hke -- irish pm hails ec abortion breakthrough
 650
 london, april 16 (xinhua) -- irish prime minister albert reynolds today
 said the european community (ec)'s agreement to allow ireland to alter the
 special protocol on abortion is "a major breakthrough," according to
 reports from dublin.
 651
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG272.MSG Words: 260 S43240 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB393 hke041655 - pakistan prime minister urges mujahideen leaders to
 652
 take united stand
 653
 islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- pakistan prime minister nawaz sharif urged
 here today the afghan mujahideen leaders to take united stand on the
 present situation in afghanistan.
 654
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG273.MSG Words: 227 S43241 ql eeeee hkaee
 IUE024 hke -- najibullah arrested
 aa
 655
 beijing, april 16 (xinhua) -- afghan president mohammad najibullah was
 arrested today after failing to escape from the country, according to
 reports reaching here.
 656
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG274.MSG Words: 80 S43242 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB041 mee041611hke -- libya orders diplomats to leave
 657
 cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- libya today began to order diplomtf countries
 that implemented u.n.  sanctions against tripoli to leave the country,
 according to reports reaching here.
 658
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG275.MSG Words: 306
 659
 0W1604210392TAKE23
 660
 S43243 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB397 hke041657-- afghan president steps down
 661
 new delhi, april 16 (xinhua) -- the afghan president najibullah today
 stepped down and handed over power to a coalition of afghan generals even
 as the un representative, benon sevan engaged in hectic efforts in kabul
 to work out a peaceful transfer of power, press trust of india (pti)
 reported this evening quoting news from islamabad.
 662
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG276.MSG Words; 233 S43244 ql eeeee hkaee
 aa
 NAB030 eaed04l6O3hke -- corporations listed as bush's fund-raising donors
 663
 washington, april 16 (xinhua) -- five corporations were listed as major
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 donors for president bush's fund-raising dinner in michigan tuesday
 despite the law banning corporate contributions to any candidate in the
 presidential campaigns, the washington post said today.
 664   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG277.MSG Words: 278 S43245 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB042 mee041610hke -- gunmen attack police vehicle, wounding three
 665   Istanbul, april 16 (xinhua) -- several unidentified gunmen today attacked
 a police minibus, wounding two policemen and a civilian in a downtown
 district of Istanbul, a police spokesman said.
 666   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG278.MSG Words: 123 S43246 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE023 hke -- colombian peace talks expected to resume tuesday
 667   mexico city, april 16 (xinhua) -- peace talks between the colombian
 government and guerrillas might resume next tuesday, according to a press
 report here today.
 668   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG279.MSG Words: 249 S43247 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB398 hke041656-- bangladesh ruling party hopes to develop relations
 669   with cpc: bnp secretary general
 670   dhaka, april 16 (xinhua) -- the ruling bangladesh nationalist party (bnp)
 hopes to develop relations with the chinese communist party, secretary
 general of bnp abdus salam talukder said here today.
 671   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG280.MSG Words: 331 S43248 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE024 hke -- brazil expels libyan diplomats
 672   brasilia, april 16 (xinhua) -- the brazilian government has decided to
 expel two libyan diplomats from the country once u.n.  security council
 resolution 748 sanctioning libya becomes effective
 673   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG281.MSG Words: 203 S43249 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB045 mee041612hke -- Iraq not to give up rights to self-defense:
 674   minister
 675   baghdad, april 16 (xinhua) -- a senior Iraqi official said today his
 country has all rights to self-defense, implying that baghdad would not
 remove its anti-aircraft missiles from the kurdish areas of northern Iraq,
 as demanded by the west.
 676   File: D:PAXINHUA_BTHUPAMSG282.MSG Words: 259 S43250 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE025 Ohke -- renewed confidence boosts mexican stock market
 677   mexico city, april 16 (xinhua) -- prices at the mexican stock market
 soared Wednesday, confirming analysts' theories that the market's
 nightmarish hours are over, according to a press report here today.
 678   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG283.MSG Words: 334 S43251 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB046 mee041613hke -- Israel recognizes croatia, slovenia
 679   Jerusalem, april 16 (xinhua) -- Israel announced today it has recognized
 croatia and slovenia, the two former yugoslav republics which declared
 independence last June.
 680   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG284.MSG Words: 152 S43252 qu eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB407 hke041658-- afghan president resigns: radio kabul
 681   Islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- afghan president najibullah resigned and
 fled away from kabul, according to radio kabul.
 682   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG285.MSG Words: 69 S43253 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB033 eaed041604hke -- ukrainian premier on external relations
 683   rome, april 16 (xinhua)-- ukrainian prime minister vitold fokin said here
 today that he was optimistic about sorting out the crisis with russia over
 the black sea fleet.
 684   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG286.MSG Words: 277
 685   OW1604210492TAKE24
 686   S43254 qu eeeee hkaee  aa HAB410 hke041659-- afghan diplomat confirms
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 najibullah's resignation
 687   islamabad, april 16 (xinhua) -- afghan charge d'affairs qudratullah ahmedi
 in pakistan tonight confirmed the resignation of president najibullah.
 688   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG287.MSG Words: 106 S43255 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 IUE028 hke -- russian parliament approves state name change
 689   moscow, april 16 (xinhua) -- the russian parliament today approved the new
 name "russia" of the republic to replace "the russian federation," tass
 news agency reported.
 690   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG288.MSG Words: 122 S43256 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB413 afg041608hke -- ethiopian rival factions agree to ceasefire
 691   addis ababa, april 16 (xinhua) -- two rival factions within the ethiopian
 transitional government have agreed to an immediate ceasefire after a
 series of clashes in the south and east of the country in past few weeks,
 ethiopia radio said today.
 692   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG289.MSG Words: 190 S43257 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB414 afg041609hke -- 51 people killed in kenya's worst aircrash
 693   nairobi, april 16 (xinhua) -- a total of 51 people were killed in what was
 called +the worst aircrash in kenya+ this morning in the eastern suburb of
 the capital city of nairobi.
 694   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG290.MSG Words: 180 S43258 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 HAB416 afg041610hke -- anc commends winnie mandela's decision to quit
 695   anc post
 696   harare, april 16 (xinhua) -- the african national congress (anc) has
 praised winnie mandela's decision to quit her post as head of anc social
 welfare department, describing the act as a +courageous initiative+ in the
 best interest of the organization.
 697   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG291.MSG Words: 190 S43259 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB036 eaed041605hke -- u.n. allows evacuation flights for foreign
 698   nationals in libya
 699   united nations, april 16 (xinhua) -- the united nations security council
 committee on libya said today that it will allow flights in and out of the
 country if they are to evacuate foreign nationals from there.
 700   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG292.MSG Words: 493 S43260 q1 eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB051 mee041615hke -- Israel establishes two new settlements in
 701   occupied west bank
 702   Jerusalem, april 16 (xinhua) -- israel has established two new settlements
 in the occupied west bank in a move that +poses a real threat to any
 possibility of peace with the palestinians,+ israel's largest peace group
 said today.
 703   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG293.MSG Words: 254 S43261 qi eeeee hkaee  aa
 INE026 hke -- peruvian diplomat defends "auto coup" as transition to
 704   real democracy
 705   mexico city, april 16 (xinhua) -- peruvian ambassador to mexico alberto
 cazorla talleri has claimed that president alberto fujimori is not going
 to dissolve the democratic process in his country despite international
 condemnation for restricting peru's legislative body and law.
 706   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG294.MSG Words: 419 S43262 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB052 mee041614hke -- arafat stresses palestinian diaspora participation
 707   in multilateral talks
 708   cairo, april 16 (xinhua) -- palestinian president yasser arafat stressed
 here today palestinians outside the occupied lands should take part in the
 forthcoming multilateral middle east peace talks.
 709   File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG295.MSG Words: 362 S43263 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
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 PAB053 mee041616hke -- khamenei expresses confidence in results of
 710  majlis poll
 711  tehran, april 16 (xinhua) -- iranian supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei
 today expressed confidence in the results of the fourth majlis elections.
 712  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG296.MSG Words: 260 S43264 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 NAB038 eaed041606hhke -- u.n. chief insists on political solution to
 713  afghan issue
 714  united nations, april 16 (xinhua) -- u.n. secretary-general boutros-ghali
 expressed his belief today that political solution remains the best among
 all the options to resolve the afghan conflict.
 715  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG298.MSG Words: 295
 716  OW1604210692TAKE25
 717  S43265 ql eeeee hkaee  aa NAB039 eaed041607hke -- london markets closing
 rates
 718  london, april 16 (xinhua) -- following are the major market closing rates
 in london today:
 719  close april 15 currencies one sterling 1.7480 u.s. dollars 1.7552
 720  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG299.MSG Words: 115 S43266 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB054 mee041617hke -- lebanon says it opposes air ban on libya
 721  beirut, april 16 (xinhua) -- lebanese foreign minister farez boueiz said
 today that his country does not agree with the air ban on libya included
 in the u.n. sanctions which vent into effect wednesday.
 722  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG300.MSG Words: 288 S43267 ql eeeee hkaee  aa
 PAB058 mee041618hke -- four rebels, one police officer killed in clash
 723   in southeastern turkey
 724  istanbul, april 16 (xinhua) -- four kurdish rebels and one police officer
 were killed in a clash in southeastern turkey, the regional governor's
 office said today.
 725  File: D:PAXINHUA BTHUPAMSG301.MSG Words: 154 (Endall) $ 16/2108z apr
 726  0W1604210792TAKE26

