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 SUBJ TAKEALL-- press service log: xinhua english 22 Apr
 Full Text Superzone of Message
 1    mee042114 nile basin states meet to build unified electric grid
 2    cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- the river nile basin countries
 3    agreed today to build an egyptian-proposed unified electric grid, taking
 advantage of river nile's abundant water resources, to transfer and
 exchange electricity within the african continent.
 4    File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG232.MSG Words: 580 afg042106 -- oil reserves
 increases by over 700 million barrels
 5    lagos, april 21 (xinhua) -- the shell petroleum company
 6    operating in nigeria has discovered additional oil reserves of 722 million
 barrels at gbaran, south-eastern nigeria.
 7    File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG233.MSG Words: 133 mee042114 nile basin states
 meet to build unified electric grid
 8    cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- the river nile basin countries
 9    agreed today to build an egyptian-proposed unified electric grid, taking
 advantage of river nile's abundant water resources, to transfer and
 exchange electricity within the african continent.
 10   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG234.MSG Words: 580 mee042115 rafsanjani calls for
 international trade balance
 11   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iranian president hashemi rafsanjani
 12   today called for rectifying the current unjust trade imbalance prevailing
 in the world to benefit the impoverished countries.
 13   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG235.MSG Words: 241 mee042116 epidemics may spread
 among iraqi refugees: minister
 14   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iran's health minister reza
 15   malekzadeh today warned that contagious diseases will reach epidemic
 proportions among iraqi refugees in iran unless urgent measures are taken
 with the aid of the international community.
 16   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG236.MSG Words: 155 mee042116 epidemics may spread
 among iraqi refugees: minister
 17   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iran's health minister reza
 18   malekzadeh today warned that contagious diseases will reach epidemic
 proportions among iraqi refugees in iran unless urgent measures are taken
 with the aid of the international community.
 10   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG237.MSG Words: 156 mee042117 baker meets with
 saudi counterpart on mideast peace
 20   cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- u.S. Secretary of state james
 21   baker met tonight with saudi foreign minister prince saud al-faisal on
 mideast peace, according to a report from riyadh.
 22   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG238.MSG Words: 192 mee042119 plo central council
 meets to discuss mideast peace
 23   tunis, april 21 (xinhua) -- the central council of the
 24   palestine liberation organization (plo) started its first post-gulf war
 meeting here today for debates on issues from unity and finance to the
 mideast peace process.
 25   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG239.MSG Words: 298 mee042118 1.5 tons of
 Approve for Release
 ~  0l~
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 narcotics seized, 3 traffickers killed in
 26   iran
 27   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iranian anti-drug enforcement officers have
 killed three drug traffickers in clashes and seized at least 1.5 tons of
 narcotics and a number of weapons in the past two weeks.
 28   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG240.MSG Words: 126 mee042120 Iraqi troops retreat
 as U.S. Marines move in
 29   ankara, april 21 (xinhua) -- Iraqi troops pulled back from
 30   the northern town of zakho today as u.S. Marines moved in for fetting up a
 camp for kurdish refugees, according to reports reaching here.
 31   File: D:PAXINHUAASUNPAMSG241.MSG Words: 241
 32   exchange quotations
 33   beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the state administration of
 34   exchange control this morning published the renminbi exchange rates
 against convertible foreign currencies: exchange rates (in rmb yuan)
 currency per buying selling australia dol 100 407.63 409.67 austria sch
 100 43.23 43.44 belgium fr.  10,000 1,480.34 1,487.76 canada dol 100
 455.60 457.98 denmark kr 100 79.63 80.03 deutsche mk 100 304.25 305.78
 france fr 100 90.26 90.71 italy lira 10,000 41.20 41.41 japan yen 100,000
 3,828.24 3,847.43 dutch fl 100 270.03 271.39 norway kr 100 78.33 78.72
 singapore dol 100 297.23 298.72 sweden kr 100 85.66 86.09 swiss fr 100
 361.80 363.62 u.K.  Pound 100 909.27 913.83 usa dol 100 528.19 530.83
 35   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO1.MSG Words: 170
 36   cold wave hits cezchoslovakia
 37   prague, april 21 (xinhua) -- czechoslovakia has seen the
 38   coldest spring in the recent years with the mercury falling to minus eight
 degrees centigrade.
 39   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO2.MSG Words: 120 mee042114 nile basin states
 meet to build unified electric grid
 40   cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- the river nile basin countries
 41   agreed today to build an egyptian-proposed unified electric grid, taking
 .advantage of river nile's abundant water resources, to transfer and
 exchange electricity within the african continent.
 42   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO3.MSG Words: 579 afg042106 -- oil reserves
 increases by over 700 million barrels
 43   lagos, april 21 (xinhua) -- the shell petroleum company
 44   operating in nigeria has discovered additional oil reserves of 722 million
 barrels at gbaran, south-eastern nigeria.
 45   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO4.MSG Words: 133
 46   0W2204193191TAKE1
 47   mee042114 nile basin states meet to build unified electric grid
 48   cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- the river nile basin countries
 49   agreed today to build an egyptian-proposed unified electric grid, taking
 advantage of river nile's abundant water resources, to transfer and
 exchange electricity within the african continent.
 50   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO5.MSG Words: 580 mee042115 rafsanjani calls for
 international trade balance
 51   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- Iranian president hashemi rafsanjani
 52   today called for rectifying the current unjust trade imbalance prevailing
 in the world to benefit the impoverished countries.
 53   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO6.MSG Words: 241 mee042116 epidemics may spread
 among iraqi refugees: minister
 54   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iran's health minister reza
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 55   malekzadeh today warned that, contagious diseases will reach epidemic
 proportions among iraqi refugees in iran unless urgent measures are taken
 with the aid of the international community.
 56   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO7.MSG Words: 155 mee042116 epidemics may spread
 among Iraqi refugees: minister
 57   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iran's health minister reza
 58   malekzadeh today warned that contagious diseases will reach epidemic
 proportions among iraqi refugees in iran unless urgent measures are taken
 with the aid of the international community.
 59   File; D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG008.MSG Words: 156 mee042117 baker meets with
 saudi counterpart on mideast peace
 60   cairo, april 21 (xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of state James
 61   baker met tonight with saudi foreign minister prince saud al-faisal on
 mideast peace, according to a report from riyadh.
 62   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGOO9.MSG Words: 192 mee042119 plo central council
 meets to discuss mideast peace
 63   tunis, april 21 (xinhua) -- the central council of the
 64   palestine liberation organization (plo) started its first post-gulf war
 meeting here today for debates on issues from unity and finance to the
 mideast peace process.
 65   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO1O.MSG Words: 298 mee042118 1.5 tons of
 narcotics seized, 3 traffickers killed in
 66   iran
 67   tehran, april 21 (xinhua) -- iranian anti-drug enforcement officers have
 killed three drug traffickers in clashes and seized at least 1.5 tons of
 narcotics and a number of weapons in the past two weeks.
 68   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO11.MSG Words: 126 mee042120 iraqi troops retreat
 as u.S. Marines move in                                                    ----
 69                      ankara, april 21 (xinhua) -- iraqi troops pulled back from
 70   the northern town of zakho today as u.S. Marines moved in for fetting up a
 camp for kurdish refugees, according to reports reaching here.
 71   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO12.MSG Words: 241
 72   exchange quotations
 73   beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the state administration of
 74   exchange control this morning published the renminbi exchange rates
 against convertible foreign currencies: exchange rates (in rmb yuan)
 currency per buying selling australia dol 100 407.63 409.67 austria sch
 100 43.23 43.44 belgium fr.  10,000 1,480.34 1,487.76 canada dol 100
 455.60 457.98 denmark kr 100 79.63 80.03 deutsche mk 100 304.25 305.78
 france fr 100 90.26 90.71 italy lira 10,000 41.20 41.41 Japan yen 100,000
 3,828.24 3,847.43 dutch fl 100 270.03 271.39 norway kr 100 78.33 78.72
 singapore dol 100 297.23 298.72 sweden kr 100 85.66 86.09 swiss fr 100
 361.80 363.62 u.K.  Pound 100 909.27 913.83 usa dol 100 528.19 530.83
 75   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO13.MSG Words: 170
 76   cold wave hits cezchoslovakia
 77   prague, april 21 (xinhua) -- czechoslovakia has seen the
 78   coldest spring in the recent years with the mercury falling to minus eight
 degrees centigrade.
 79   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO14.MSG Words: 120
 80   parliamentary election ends in iceland
 81   stockholm, april 21 (xinhua) -- the election of the icelandic
 82   parliament concluded today with a fairely big victory for the opposition
 independence party, accoding to reports reaching here.
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 83   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO15.MSG Words: 168
 84   parliamentary election ends in Iceland
 85   Stockholm, april 21 (xinhua) -- the election of the icelandic
 86   parliament concluded today with a fairely big victory for the opposition
 independence party, accoding to reports reaching here.
 87   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO16.MSG Words: 168
 88   honors split at austrian international badminton meet
 89   vienna, spril 21 (xinhua) -- none of the participating teams
 90   demonstrated a supremacy as the austrian international badminton
 tournament closed in pressbaum, austria, on sunday.
 91   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO17.MSG Words: 182
 92   honors split at austrian international badminton meet
 93   vienna, spril 21 (xinhua) -- none of the participating teams
 94   demonstrated a supremacy as the austrian international badminton
 tournament closed in pressbaum, austria, on sunday.
 95   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO18.MSG Words: 182
 96   0W2204193491TAKE2
 97   kohl's party crushed in state election
 98   bonn, april 21 (xinhua) -- the social democrats (spd) defeated
 99   the ruling christian democrats (cdu) by gaining 44.8 percent of the votes
 in state election in rhineland-pfalz on sunday, provisional results
 showed.
 100   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO19.MSG Words: 201
 101   final results of benson and hedges golf tourney
 102   london, april 21 (xinhua) -- following are the final results of
 103   the benson and hedges international golf tournament on sunday (british
 unless stated): 286 bernhard langer, germany, 73 68 75 70 288 vijay singh,
 fiji, 74 75 69 70 289 Jose rivero, spain, 72 73 67 77--Philip walton,
 ireland, 70 69 77 73 290 craig parry, australia, 75 74 70 71 gordon brand
 Jnr, 72 74 69 75 mark roe, 74 72 73 71 steven richardson, 73 75 73 69 295
 costantino rocca, italy, 75 74 73 73 296 david feherty, 77 73 74 72 glen
 day, u.S., 75 76 71 74 barry lane, 76 73 72 75 peter senior, australia, 75
 76 73 72 joakim haeggman, sweden, 76 75 78 67 297 christy o'connor jnr,
 ireland, 71 76 77 73 paul curry, 73 77 70 77 Jose maria olazabal, spain,
 72 77 71 77 298 mark mcnulty, zimbabve, 75 72 80 71 greg turner, new
 zealand, 79 73 71 75 david williams, 75 78 75 70 eduardo romero,
 argentine, 72 74 79 73 sandy lyle, 74 82 70 72 andrew sherborne, 75 74 75
 74 299 Wayne riley, australia, 77 79 70 73 peter tersavainen, u.S, 74 76
 78 71 mike mclean, 75 80 73 71 eamonn darcy, ireland, 74 73 75 77 300
 rodger davis, australia, 72 76 79 73
 104   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG020.MSG Words: 350
 105   langer wins benson and hedges golf tourney
 106   london, april 21 (xinhua) -- bernhard langer maintained his
 107   winning record of a european tour event since 1979 with a superb display
 to finish two shots clear to win the benson and hedges international golf
 tournament on sunday.
 108   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG021.MSG Words: 247
 109   kohl's party crushed in state election
 110   bonn, april 21 (xinhua) -- the social democrats (spd) defeated
 111   the ruling christian democrats (cdu) by gaining 44.8 percent of the votes
 in state election in rhineland-pfalz on sunday, provisional results
 showed.
 112   File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO22.MSG Words: 201
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 113   lesser-known tolstikov makes surprise in london marathon
 114  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- surprise package iakov tolstikov
 115  ran home in two hours nine minutes 17 seconds to become the first soviet
 winner of the london marathon on sunday.
 116  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO23.MSG Words: 312
 117  jansher reaches finals of british open squash
 118  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- world number one jansher khan of
 119  pakistan reached the men's final with a 9-10, 9-1, 9-6, 9-2 victory over
 world no.3 chris dittmar of australia at the british open squash
 tournament here on sunday.
 120  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO24.MSG Words: 266
 121   final results of benson and hedges golf tourney
 122  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- following are the final results of
 123  the benson and hedges international golf tournament on sunday (british
 unlesc rkca 286 bernhard langer, germany, 73 68 75 70 288 vijay singh,
 fiji, 74 75 69 70 289 Jose rivero, spain, 72 73 67 77 philip walton,
 ireland, 70 69 77 73 290 craig parry, australia, 75 74 70 71 gordon brand
 jnr, 72 74 69 75 mark roe, 74 72 73 71 steven richardsn, 73 75 73 69 295
 costantino rocca, italy, 75 74 73 73 296 david feherty, 77 73 74 72 glen
 day, u.S., 75 76 71 74 barry gane, 76 73 72 75 peter senior, australia, 75
 76 73 72 joakim haeggman, sweden, 76 75 78 67 297 christy o'connmr jnr,
 ireland, 71 76 77 73 paul curry, 73 77 70 77 Jose maria olazabal, spain,
 72 77 71 77 298 mark mcnulty, zimbabwe, 75 72 80 71 greg turner, new
 zealand, 79 73 71 75 david williams, 75 78 75 70 eduardo romero,
 argentina, 72 74 79 73 sandy lyle, 74 82 70 72 andrew sherborne, 75 74 75
 74 299 Wayne riley, australia, 77 79 70 73 peter tersavainen, u.S, 74 76
 78 71 mike mclean, 75 80 73 71 eamonn darcy, ireland, 74 73 75 77 300
 rodger davis, australia, 72 76 79 73
 124  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO25.MSG Words: 349
 125  albania takes measures to deal with continuing exodus
 126  tirana, april 21 (xinhua) -- the albanian government has taken
 127  measures to restore peace at the albanian-greek border and simplify
 procedures for travelling abroad, the official news agency ata reported
 today.
 128  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO26.MSG Words: 299
 129  neonazis provoke violence on hitler's birthday
 130  bonn, april 21 (xinhua) -- german neonazis and the rightist
 131  skinheads clashed with police over the weekend in sachsen-anhalt,
 niedersachsen and berlin, where they marked adolf hitler's 102nd birthday
 on april 20.
 132  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO27.MSG Words: 95
 133  major news items in leading Japanese newspapers
 134  tokyo, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 135  leading Japanese newspapers today: -- Japan's 19 incumbent mayors lost
 their reelection in 85 mayoral election held on Sunday nationwide. (asahi)
 -- a lawyer was elected as Japan's first woman city mayor in the second
 and final round of unified local election on sunday.
 136  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO28.MSG Words: 159
 137  0W2204193691TAKE3
 138  sheffield wednesday wins english league cup
 139  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- sheffield wednesday of the second
 140  division beat mighty manchester united 1-0 at Wembley sunday to win the
 english league cup soccer final for the team's first major trophy in 56
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 years.
 141  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO29.MSG Words: 382
 142  davis escapes early exit at world snooker championship
 143  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- steve davis, the six times winner,
 144  pulled off a great escape to beat ken doherty 10-8 in his first round
 match at the world professional snooker championship in sheffield on
 sunday.
 145  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG030.MSG Words: 430 hk042201 -- australian
 maritime saftty authority on missing ship
 146  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 140,000-ton bulk ore ship,
 147  the mineral diamond, missing since last wednesday, is likely to have sunk
 in the indian ocean, the australian maritime safety authority said at the
 weekend.
 148  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG031.MSG Words: 313 hk042202 -- australian
 minister to visit png
 149  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- australiacivinister for
 150  resources alan griffiths will pay a visit this week to papua new guinea
 (png) to strengthen cooperation with the south pacific island nation.
 151  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO32.MSG Words: 254 hk042207 -- 14th
 asean-australia forum opens is cacbejjana
 152  a canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 14th association of
 153  southeast asian nations (asean) - australia forum opened here
 154  today.
 155  In his opening address at the forum: australian acting minister for
 foreign affairs and trade neal blewett said that one of the goals for
 australia in the 1990s isito become a "vigorous participant in the
 dynamism of our region." The forum was told in a statement today that
 phase one of the australia-asean economic cooperation program (aaecp)-
 established in 1974 to strengthen intra-asean and asean-australia
 relations through economic cooperation has been successfully completed.
 156  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO33.MSG Words: 336 hk042204 -- small states to
 meet in maldives to discuss security
 157  colombo, april 22 (xinhua) -- a number of small states from
 158  all regions of the world will meet in the maldives early next month to
 discuss the security of the small states, according to reports reaching
 here today.
 159  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO34.MSG Words: 259
 160  jahangir heads tmh8,,8,& 10th british open title
 161  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- kahangir khan of pakistan, seeking
 162  his 10th consecutive title of the british open squash championships,
 coasted into the final with a 9-5, 9-2, 9-7 win over world no.5 rodney
 martin of australia here sunday.
 163  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO35.MSG Words: 210
 164  sofia, april 21 (xinhua) -- following are the winners of the
 165  10th internaitonal men's weightlifting tournament which closed in
 166  varna, bulgaria, on sunday:
 167  52 kgs: yuan jianfeng, china: 235 kgs (snatch 102.5, jerk 132.5) 56 kgs:
 ivan ivanov, bulgaria, 270 (115, 155) 60 kgs: nikola peshalov, bulgaria,
 285 (127.5, 157.5) 67.5 kgs: ioto iotov, bulgaria, 330 (147.5, 182.5) 75
 kgs: iordan iordanov, bulgaria, 340 (150, 190) 82.5 kgs: sunai bulut,
 turkey, 345 (152.5, 192.5) 90 kgs: ivan tchakarov, bulgaria, 375 (167.5,
 207.5) 100 kgs: igor dandik, israel, 355 (157.5, 197.5) 110 kgs: iuri
 dandik, israel, 362.5 (172.5, 190) over 110 kgs: arslan erdintch, turkey,
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 168  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO36.MSG Words: 137
 169  host gymansts dominate romanian international tourney
 170  bucharest, april 21 (xinhua) -- china's lin huaishan prevented
 171  a clean sweep by the host romanians with his triumph in the men's pommel
 horse event at the 34th internaitonal gymanstics tournament in plolesti on
 sunday.
 172  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO37.MSG Words: 294
 173  jaite of argentina wins nice open tennis tourney
 174  paris, april 21 (xinhua) -- martin jaite of argectina came back
 175  from the brink of defeat to beat goran prpic of yugoslavia 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
 in the final of the nice open tennis championship in nice, france, on
 sunday.  I jaite played an error-ridden game when he lost the first set
 and trailed 3-1 in the second.
 176  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO38.MSG Words: 199
 177  cadalora wins 250cc motorcycling world championship
 178  washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- Italy's luca cadalora won the
 179  250cc race of the motorcycling world championship in laguna seca,
 california on sunday, according to an agence france-presse report.
 180  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO39.MSG Words: 181
 181  seles beats fernandez in houston tennis final
 182  washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- world no.1 monica seles of
 183  yugoslavia won the virginia slims of houston tennis tournament with a
 straight-set victory over mary Joe fernandez of the united states in the
 final in houston, texas, on sunday.
 184  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG040.MSG Words: 116
 185  Italian wins liege-bastogne-liege cycling race
 186  brussels, april 21 (xinhua) -- moreno argentin of Italy von his
 187  fourth liege-Bastogne-liege world cup cycling race title when he edged
 three other riders in a sprint finish on Sunday:
 188  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG041.MSG Words: 262
 189  collins gives hint on northern Ireland sovereignty
 190  london, april 21, (xinhua) -- the republic of Ireland's
 191  constitutional claim to northern Ireland could be up for negotiation when
 talks on the province's future start on april 30.
 192  File: D;PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO42.MSG Words: 169
 193  OW2204193891TAKE4
 194  book sales to farmers stressed
 195  ibeijicg: april 22 (xinhua) -- china's publication and
 196  distribution agencies are being urged to increase book sales in the
 country's rural areas where 80 percent of the population live.
 197  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO43.MSG Words: 178
 198  beijing newspaper highlights
 199  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- highlights of today's major
 200  beijing-based newspapers: "people's daily" the leading national paper
 reported that senior party leader li ruihuan has stressed the importance
 of summing up work experience while making an inspection tour of east
 china's jiacguuivrovicce from april 12 to 20.
 201  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO44.MSG Words: 193
 202  private cars spark debate
 203  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china should not pursue
 204  immediately the popularization of private cars considering the country's
 current situation, a signed article in "economic daily" stressed.
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 205  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO45.MSG Words: 415
 206  city planning makes progress
 207  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- most of the 467 chinese cities
 208  and 11,873 towns in china have drawn up overall city and townmvplwnning
 programs, today's "guangming daily' reported.
 209  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO46.MSG Words: 104
 210  former mongolian ruling party leader dies
 211  ulan bator, april 22 (xinhua) -- former mongolian leader
 212  umjagin tsedenbal died in the soviet union on april 21, it was learned
 here today.
 213  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO47.MSG Words: 107
 214  beekeeping, a sweet occupation (1)
 215  hefei, april 22 (xinhua) -- where there are flowers, they will
 216  be there.
 217  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO48.MSG Words: 337 hk042211 -- contraband gold
 worth 700,000 u.S. Dollars seized in
 218  nepal
 219  kathmandu, april 22 (xinhua) -- customs officials at the tribhuvan
 international airport here have seized 23,566,000 rupees (700,000 u.S.
 Dollars) vorthpmqmntraband gold, radio nepal reported today.
 220  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO49.MSG Words: 110
 221  Japanese minesweepers ready for gulf mission
 222  tokyo, april 22 (xinhua) -- preparations for the dispatch of a
 223  flotilla of Japanese minesweepers to the gulf drew nearer to completion,
 kyodo news service quoted defense sources as saying today.
 224  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG050.MSG Words: 240 hk042206 -- 9.6 kilo of heroin
 seized in bangkok
 225  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- four foreigners were arrested
 226  and charged with attempting to smuggle 9.6 kiloiof meroin in two separate
 incidents at bangkok international airport over the weekend, local press
 reported today.
 227  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG051.MSG Words: 146
 228  beekeeping, a sweet occupation (2)
 229  zhan recalled one adventure in which he encountered wet weather
 230  for days on end. He said that before the weather had improved, he had used
 up all of his money to buy sugar to feed his bees. However, thanks to a
 kind landlady who gave him 300 yuan, he was able to keep his bees well fed
 until the weather subsided.
 231  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO52.MSG Words: 409 hk042205 -- bangkok to ban
 smoking in parks soon
 232  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- the authorities of thailand's
 233  capital of bangkok are working on a code to ban smoking in public parks
 and other public places, a senior official of bangkok metropolitan
 administration (bma) said on sunday.
 234  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO53.MSG Words: 151
 235  mulroney announces sweeping cabinet shake-up
 236  ottawa, april 21 (xinhua) -- canadian prime minister brian
 237  mulroney of today announced a major cabinet shuffle to deal with the
 country's constitutional crisis and its declining economic
 competitiveness.
 238  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO54.MSG Words: 531 hk042211 -- 3 killed by mortar
 shells land on poipet, cambodia
 239  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- three cambodian traders, two of
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 240  them women, were killed and another one wounded when five mortar shells
 landed on a market in poipet, western cambodia, near the thai border, on
 sunday.
 241  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO55.MSG Words: 186 hk042209 -- ufo appears in new
 zealand
 242  wellington, april 22 (xinhua) -- an unknmzrying object
 243  (ufo) is said to have appeared for almost ten minutes last night in
 christchurch, the biggest city in new zealand's south island.
 244  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO56.MSG Words: 206
 245  zhejiang to recapture growth
 246  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- east china's zhejiang province is
 247  strivicgito develop its basic facilities and to improve the quality of
 products as a way to recapture its booming economic growth during the
 1990s, "china daily" reported today.
 248  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO57.MSG Words: 319 hk042212 -- thai rice exports
 up slightly
 249  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- thai rice exports during the
 250  first quarter this year increased slightly compared with the corresponding
 period of last year, according to a report of thailand's board of trade
 rice committee.
 251  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG058.MSG Words: 159
 252  0W2204194091TAKE5
 253  Jews massacre, uprising marked in germany
 254  berlin, april 21 (xinhua) -- hundreds of people held a rally
 255  here today marking thep48th anniversary of Jews' uprising in warsaw and
 the nazi massacre of Jews.
 256  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO59.MSG Words: 124
 257  u.S. Motorcycle grand prix results
 258  Washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- results sunday in the
 259  u.S. Grand prix motorcyle race in montery, california (name, country, make
 of motorcylce and laps completed): 500 cc (35 laps); 1, Wayne rainey,
 united states, yamaha, 35 laps.
 260  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG060.MSG Words: 272
 261  colombian rider wins tour of aragon cycling race
 262  mabrid, april 22 (xinhua) -- edgar corredor of colombia kept up
 263  his eight-second clearance over giuseppe petitio of italy through the
 final stage sunday to win the 28th tour of aragon cycling race in
 zaragoza, spain.
 264  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG061.MSG Words: 233
 265  poland gets poor economic report for first quarter
 266  Warsaw, april 22 (xinhua) -- poland recorded a poor economic
 267  performance in the first three months of this year as its industrial
 production continued to slide down and finance and foreign trade showed
 deficits.
 268  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO62.MSG Words: 301
 269  young sets season's best in men's 400 meters hurdles
 270  washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- kevin young of the united
 271  states ran the fastest time in men's 400 meters hurdles at an
 international track and field meeting in walnuo: california, on sunday.
 272  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO63.MSG Words: 344 hk042208 -- philippine paper
 on final u.S. Bases package
 273  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- the philippines will give in to
 274  the u.S. Demand for a ten-year stay at clark air base and subic naval
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 base, a philippine official close to executive secretary oscar orbos was
 quoted by a local newspaper report today as disclosing.
 275
 File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO64.MSG Words: 121
 276
 xinhua international news summary at 06:00 gmt april 22
 277
 cairo -- u.S. Secretary of state fames baker met sunday night
 278
 with saudi foreign minister prince sand al-faisal on mideast peace,
 according to a report from riyadh.
 279
 File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO65.MSG Words: 164
 280
 china cup gymnastics tournament to open in beijing
 281
 beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- world champion li jing and world
 282
 cup runner-up li yan will spearhead a strong chinese team for the fourth
 china cup international gymnastics tournament starting here friday.
 283
 File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO66.MSG Words: 222
 284
 results of rotterdam marathon
 285
 brussels, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the official
 286
 results of the rotterdam marathon on sunday in rotterdam,
 the netherlands:
 men: 1. Rob de castella, australia, two hours nine minutes 42 seconds 2.
 Dionicio ceron, mexico, 2:10.02 3. Tesfaye dadi, ethiopia, 2:10.06 4.
 Maurilio castillio, mexico, 2:10.47 5. Belayneh densimo, ethiopia, 2:11.34
 6. Tomeo sueyoshi, japan, 2:11.54 7. Katsumi kitajima, japan, 2:12.11 8.
 Bert van vlaanderen, netherlands, 2:12.48 9. Tonnie dirks, netherlands,
 2:13.10 10. Gianlugi currali, Italy, 2:13.36 women: 1. Joke kleiweg,
 netherlands, 2:34.18 2. Addis gezahgene, ethiopia, 2:35.04 3. Aura buia:
 romania, 2:38.52 4. Anne van schuppen, netherlands, 2:41.01 5. Catherine
 poidevin, france, 2:43.57 6. Marlie marutiak, netherlands, 2:44.55 7.
 Petra van limpt, nztherlands, 2:45.20 8. A. Horkman, finland, 2:45.43 9.
 Philomena vrancken, netherlands, 2:48.08 10. Mieke hombergen, netherlands,
 2:49.57 enditem 22/04/91 0707gmt
 287  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO67.MSG Words: 172 hk042213 -- India
 288  pm confirms talks with sikh militants
 289  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- indian prime minister chandra shekhar on
 sunday confirmed that he had held talks with sikh militants in the
 troubled indian state of punjab.
 290  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO68.MSG Words: 341
 291  major news items in leading indian newspapers
 292  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news items
 293  in leading indian newspapers today: -- the hindustan times: talks with
 punjab militants prospects of a breakthrough in the punjab imbroglio
 brightened on sunday with the dramatic information that a group of top
 level sikh militant leaders, based in pakistan, have arrived for talks
 with prime minister chandra shekhar and his emissaries.
 294  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO69.MSG Words: 194
 295  major ness items in leading pakistani english newspapers
 296  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news items
 297  in leading pakistani english newspapers today: -- the pakistan times: a
 force of armed iraqi policemen have moved into the town of zaku in
 northern iraq close to the site of the camp being set up by the
 americansifor kurdish refugees.
 298  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG070.MSG Words: 202.
 299  major news items in leading philippine newspapers
 300  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 301  leading philippine newspapers today: -- manila bulletin: at least 60
 people were killed and scores injured when the kabul regime fired a scud
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 missile at rebel-held eastern afghanistan, resistance sources said sunday.
 302  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG071.MSG Words: 273
 303  0W2204194791TAKE6
 304  lao vice president to visit china
 305  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- phoune sipraseuth, vice-president
 306  of the council of ministers and foreign minister of the lao people's
 democratic republic, will come to china on april 24 on a visit at the
 invitation of chinese state councilor and foreign minister qian qichen,
 announced a chinese foreign ministry spokesman today.
 307  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO72.MSG Words: 97 pk042201 -- australian maritime
 saftty authority on missing ship
 308  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 140,000-ton bulk ore ship,
 309  the mineral diamond, missing since last wednesday, is likely to have sunk
 in the indian ocean, the australian maritime safety authority said at the
 weekend.
 310  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO73.MSG Words: 311
 311  what's on in beijing (april 22)
 312  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the american xrama "mutiny" with
 313  the play script by herman vouk will be performed by the beijing people's
 art theater at the capital theater tomorrow through april 26.
 314  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO74.MSG Words: 212 hk042202 -- australian
 minister to visit png
 315  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- australian minister for
 316  resources alan griffiths will pay a visit this week to papua new guinea
 (png) to strengthen cooperation iuvuth pacific island nation.
 317  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO75.MSG Words: 254 hk042207 -- 14th
 asean-australia forum opens in canberra
 318  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 14th association of
 319  southeast asian nations (asean) - australia forum opened here today.
 320  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO76.MSG Words: 340
 321  brazilian team wins south american club basketball title
 322  brasilia, april 21 (xinhua) -- ravelli of brazil defeated
 323  atenas of argentina 94-72 to win the 29th south american men's club
 basketball championship at franca, brazil, on sunday.
 324  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO77.MSG Words: 98 hk042204 -- small states to
 meet in maldives to discuss security
 325  colombo, april 22 (xinhua) -- a number of small states from
 326  all regions of the world will meet in the maldives early next month to
 discuss the security of the small states, according to reports reaching
 here today.
 327  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG078.MSG Words: 262
 328  pole wins first hannover marathon title
 329  bonn, april 22 (xinhua) -- marek adamski of poland took the
 330  inaugural hannover marathon race in two hours 15 minutes and four seconds
 in hannover, germany, on sunday.
 331  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO79.MSG Words: 183
 332  jahangir heads to winning 10th british open title
 333  london, april 21 (xinhua) -- jahangir khan of pakistan, seeking
 334  his 10th consecutive title of the british open squash championships,
 coasted into the final with a 9-5, 9-2, 9-7 win over world no.5 rodney
 martin of australia here sunday.
 335  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG080.MSG Words: 213
 336  winners at varna international weightlifting tourney
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 337  sofia, april 21 (xinhua) -- following are the winners of the
 338  10th internaitonal men's weightlifting tournament which closed in varna,
 Bulgaria, on sunday: 52 kgs: yuan jianfeng, china, 235 kgs (snatch 102.5,
 jerk 132.5) 56 kgs: ivan ivanov, bulgaria, 270 (115, 155) 60 kgs: nikola
 peshalov, bulgaria, 285 (127.5, 157.5) 67.5 kgs: ioto iotov, bulgaria, 330
 (147.5, 182.5) 75 kgs: iordan iordanov, bulgaria, 340 (150, 190) 82.5 kgs:
 sunai bulut, turkey, 345 (152.5, 192.5) 90 kgs: ivan tchakarov, bulgaria,
 375 (167.5, 207.5) 100 kgs: igor dandik, israel, 355 (157.5, 197.5) 110
 kgs: iuri dandik, israel, 362.5 (172.5, 190) over 110 kgs: arslan
 erdintch, turkey, 377.5 (165, 212.5) enditem 22/04/91 0742gmt
 339  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG081.MSG Words: 138
 340  host gymansts dominate romanian international tourney
 341  bucharest, april 21 (xinhua) -- china's lin huaishan prevented
 342  a clean sweep by the host romanians with his triumph in the men's pommel
 horse event at the 34th internaitonal gymanstics tournament in plolesti on
 sunday.
 343  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO82.MSG Words: 295
 344  jaite of argentina wins nice open tennis tourney
 345  paris, april 21 (xinhua) -- martin jaite of argentine came back
 346  from the brink of defeat to beat goran prpic of yugoslavia 3-6, 7-6, 6-3
 in the final of the nice open tennis championship in nice, france, on
 sunday.
 347  File: D:PAXINBUAAMONPAMSGO83.MSG Words: 199 hk042214 -- new alliance among
 afghan mujahideen forces proposed
 348  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- a new alliance of afghan
 349  mujahideen (muslim holy-war fighters) forces is being planned following
 serious differences among the present mujahideen alliance over the recent
 gulf crisis, local press reported today.
 350  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO84.MSG Words: 252 hk042210 -- 3 killed by mortar
 shells land on poipet, cambodia
 351  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- three cambodian traders, two of
 352  them women, were killed and another one wounded when five mortar shells
 landed on a market in poipet, western cambodia, near the thai border, on
 sunday.
 353  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO85.MSG Words: 187 mee042201 two infiltrators
 killed in northern Israel
 354  cairo, april 22 (xinhua) -- two heavily armed arab
 355  guerrillas were shot dead after they infiltrated into northern israel from
 lebanon, reports from Jerusalem said today.
 356  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO86.MSG Words: 196
 357  OW2204194991TAKE7
 358  cadalora wins 250cc motorcycling world championship
 359  Washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- italy's luca cadalora won the
 360  250cc race of the motorcycling world championship in laguna seca,
 california on sunday, according to an agence france-presse report.
 361  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO87.MSG Words: 181
 362  seles beats fernandez in houston tennis final
 363  Washington, april 21 (xinhua) -- world no.1 monica seles of
 364  yugoslavia won the virginia slims of houston tennis tournament with a
 straight-set victory over mary Joe fernandez of the united states in the
 final in houston, texas, on sunday.
 365  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO88.MSG Words: 116
 366  italian wins liege-bastogne-liege cycling race
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 367  brussels, april 21 (xinhua) -- moreno argentin of Italy won his
 368  fourth liege-bastogne-liege world cup cycling race title when he'edged
 three other riders in a sprint finish on sunday.
 369  File: D:PAXINBUAAMONPAMSGO89.MSG Words: 258
 370  collins gives hint on northern Ireland sovereignty
 371  london, april 21, (xinhua) -- the republic of ireland's
 372  constitutional claim to northern ireland could be up for negotiation when
 talan the province's future start on april 30.
 373  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG090.MSG Words: 168 ssswttc001
 374  world table tennis rankings to be computerized
 375  chiba, japan, april 22 (xinhua) -- world table tennis bookmakers as well
 as competition organizers will soon have more accurate pre-tournament
 player ratings prepared by ever consistent computers.
 376  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG091.MSG Words: 418
 377  book sales to farmers stressed
 378  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china's publication and
 379  distribution agencies are being urged to increase book sales in the
 country's rural areas where 80 percent of the population live.
 380  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO92.MSG Words: 178
 381  beijing newspaper highlights
 382  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- highlights of today's major
 383  beijing-based newspapers: "people's daily" the leading national paper
 reported that senior party leader li ruihuan has stressed the importance
 of summing up work experience while making an inspection tour of east
 china's Jiangsu province from april 12 to 20.
 384  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO93.MSG Words: 195 hk042215 -- bangladesh
 national party protests arrest of party
 385  acting chief
 386  dhaka, april 22 (xichua) -- the bangladesh jatiya (national) party, the
 former ruling party of the country, has protested the arrest of its acting
 chairman mizanur rahman chowdhury, according to local media today.
 387  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO94.MSG Words: 311
 388  private cars spark debate
 389  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china should not pursue
 390  immediately the popularization of private cars considering the country's
 current situation, a signed article in "economic daily" stressed.
 391  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO95.MSG Words: 415
 392  city planning makes progress
 393  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- most of the 467 chinese cities
 394  and 11,873 towns in china have drawn up overall city and town planning
 programs, today's "guangming daily' reported.
 395  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO96.MSG Words: 108
 396  former mongolian ruling party leader dies
 397  ulan bator, april 22 (xinhua) -- former mongolian leader
 398  umjagin tsedenbal died in the soviet union on april 21, it was learned
 here today.
 399  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO97.MSG Words: 107
 400  beekeeping, a sweet occupation (1)
 401  hefei, april 22 (xinhua) -- where there are flowers, they will
 402  be there.
 403  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO98.MSG Words: 337 hk042216 -- thai foreign
 minister meets vietnamese vice fm
 404  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- thai foreign minister arsa
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 405  sarasin met visiting vietnamese vice foreign minister le mai here today
 and discussed with him the political settlement of the cambodian issue,
 according to thai foreign ministry spokesman sakthip krairiksh.
 406  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSGO99.MSG Words: 155 hk042217 -- india obtains
 1991-92 aid from u.S.
 407  New delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- india has obtained from the
 408  united states 99.9 million u.S. Dollars in aid for fiscal year 1991-92,
 local press reported today.
 409  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG100.MSG Words: 162 hk042218 -- former bangladesh
 vice-president elected jatiya party
 410  parliamentary group leader
 411  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- former bangladesh vice-president moudud ahmed
 has been unanimously elected acting leader of the former ruling jatiya
 (national) party parliamentary group.
 412  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG101.MSG Words: 270 hk042219 -- gulf environment
 pollution affects climate in pakistan
 413  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- pakistan's summer season this
 414  year is much cooler than in previous years with vinterish weather caused
 by frequent rains during the past days.
 415  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG102.MSG Words: 206 hk042220 -- 17th session of
 who advisory committee opens in myanmar
 416  yangon, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 17th session of the world
 417  health organization (who) south east asia advisory committee on health
 research opened here on sunday by pe thein, myanmar minister for health
 and for education.
 418  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG103.MSG Words: 180 hk042222 -- thailand sets per
 capita income at 3,000 u.S. Dollars
 419  by 1996
 420  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- thailand has set its per capita income
 target at 75,000 baht (about 3,000 u.S. Dollars) by 1996.
 421  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG104.MSG Words: 160
 422  0W2204195191TAKE8
 423  hk042221 -- half of nepal's ancient artifacts stolen: reports
 424  kathmandu, april 22 (xinhua) -- half of nepal's highly valued
 425  ancient and medieval wooden, stone and metal masterpiece arts have been
 stolen, the count y's leading english daily "the rising nepal" reported
 today quoting a german lawyer.
 426  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG105.MSG Words: 273 afg042201 -- black mayor
 assassinated in weekwend
 427  violence in south africa
 428  nairobi, april 22 (xinhua) -- a black mayor in Johannesburg's largest
 black township soveto was shot to death late on friday in an ambush on his
 car by unknown gunmen, according to reports from south africa.
 429  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG106.MSG Words: 251
 430   chinese vice-premier meets bolivian delegation
 431  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- vice-premier vu xueqian met a
 432  delegation from the chamber of deputies of bolivia here today.
 433  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG107.MSG Words: 76 mee042202 uae sends first
 shipment of relief aid to iraqi
 434  refugees in iran
 435  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the united arab emirates (uae) today sent
 the first shipment of relief aid to iraqi kurdish refugees in iran to help
 alleviate their sufferings, a government official said.
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 436  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG108.MSG Words: 186 hk042223 -- 47 killed in bus
 accident west of dhaka
 437  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- at least 47 passengers were killed
 438  when a dhaka-bound passenger bus fell into a ditch after breaking the
 railing of a bridge on dhaka-aricha highway, bangladesh, this morning,
 reports reaching here said.
 439  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG109.MSG Words: 115 afg042202 -- re-elected
 liberian interim president pledges
 440  continued peace efforts
 441  accra, april 22 (xinhua) -- re-elected liberian interim president amos
 sawyer has pledged to continue to work for peace and hold free and fair
 elections later this year, the ghanaian official newspaper "people's daily
 graphic" reported today.
 442  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG110.MSG Words: 280 afg042203 -- over 2,600
 poachers arrested in tanzania
 443  dar es salaam, april 22 (xinhua) -- more than 2,600 poachers
 444  have been arrested in tanzania in a 21-month-old nationwide anti-poaching
 operation, the "daily news" reported today.
 445  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG111.MSG Words: 136 mee042203 deadline set for
 kuwaitis to return home
 446  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- about 57,000 kuwaitis
 447  currently living in the united arab emirates (uae) are required to start
 returning home as of 11 and by June 12 all of them will have to enter
 kuwait, an official at the kuwaiti consulate in the uae said today.
 448  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG112.MSG Words: 300 hk042203 -- below normal
 monsoon expected in India this year
 449  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- apprehending a below-normal
 450  monsoon this year, the agriculture ministry of the indian central .....______  ____
 government is drawing up contingency plans to minimize the adverse impact
 of aberrations in rainfall on farm production, local press reported today.
 451  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG113.MSG Words: 188 ssswttc002
 452  ittf men's seedings for chiba worlds
 453  chiba, Japan, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the international table
 tennis federation seedings for the men's singles event to be held at the
 41st worlds: 1. Jan-ove valdner, sweden 2. Michael appelgren, sweden 3.
 Andrzej grubba, poland 4. Ma avenge, china 5. Jorgen persson, sweden 6. Yoo
 nam-kyu, south korea 7. Li gun sang, dpr korea 8. Jean-philippe gatien,
 france 9. Erik lindh, sweden 10. Chen zhibin, china 11. Jorg rosskopf,
 germany 12. Kim song hui, dpr korea 13. Yu shentong, china 14. Jean-michel
 saive, belgium 15. Kim taek soo, south korea 16. Zoran primorac,
 yugoslavia 17. Wei qingguang, china 18. Kiyoshi saito, Japan 19. Andrei
 mazunov, soviet union 20. Chen xinhua, england 21. Ilija lupulesku,
 /67&9')-;8- 22. Xie chaojie, china 23. Dmitrij mazunov, soviet union 24.
 Carl preen, england 25. Georg-zsolt bohm, germany 26. Wang tao, china 27.
 Wang yansheng, norway 28. Paul haldan, netherlacds 29. Ding yi, austria
 30. Steffen fitzner, germany 31. Leszek kucharski, poland 32. Vu wen-chia,
 chinese taipei enditem 04220853
 454  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG114.MSG Words: 219 worlds chiba, japan, april 22
 (xinhua) -- following are the international t
 455  able tennis federation seedings for the women's singles event to be held
 at
 456  41st worlds: 1. Qiao hong, china 2. Deng yaping, china 3.  Li bun hui, dpr
 korea 4. Hyun Jung-hwa, south korea 5. Chen zihe, china 6.  Gao jun, china
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 7. Chai po wa, bong kong 8. Csilla batorfi, hungary 9.  Chan tan lui, Kong
 kong 10. Ding yaping, china 11. Daniela guergueltcheva, bulgaria 12.
 Gabriella wirth, hungary 13. Yu sun bok, dpr korea 14. Li jun, chi na 15.
 Hu xiaoxin, china 16. Geng lijuan, canada 17. Mika hoshino, japa n 18.
 Wang xiaoming, france 19. Mirjam hooman, netherlands 20.  Liu wei, china
 21. Marie hrachova, czechoslovakia 22. Hong cha-ok, south korea 23. Tu
 yong, switzerland 24. Otilia badescu, romania 25. Bettine vriesekoo p,
 netherlands 26. Olga nemes, germany 27. Hong soon-hwa, south korea 2 8.
 Valentina popova, soviet union 29. Alena safarova, czechoslovakia 30. E
 dit urban, hungary 31. Ying ronghui, china 32. Jasna fazlic, yugoslaviaen
 ditem 04220853 22/04/91 1008gmt
 457  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG115.MSG Words: 191
 458  OV2204195491TAKE9
 459  ssswttc003
 460  ittf women's seedings for chiba worlds
 461  chiba, japan, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the international table
 tennis federation seedings for the women's singles event to be held at the
 41st worlds: 1. Qiao hong, china 2. Deng yaping, china 3. Li bun hui, dpr
 korea 4. Hyun Jung-hwa, south korea 5. Chen zihe, china 6. Gao jun, china
 7. Chai po wa, hong kong 8. Csilla batorfi, hungary 9. Chan tan lui, hong
 kong 10. Ding yaping, china 11. Daniela guergueltcheva, bulgaria 12.
 Gabriella Wirth, hungary 13. Yu sun bok, dpr korea 14. Li jun, china 15.
 Hu xiaoxin, china 16. Geng lijuan, canada 17. Mika hoshino, Japan 18. Wang
 xiaoming, france 19. Mirjam hooman, netherlands 20. Liu wei, china 21.
 Marie hrachova, czechoslovakia 22. Hong cha-ok, south korea 23. Tu yong,
 switzerland 24. Otilia badescu, romania 25. Bettine vriesekoop,
 netherlands 26. Olga nemes, germany 27. Hong soon-hwa, south korea 28.
 Valentina popova, soviet union 29. Alena safarova, czechoslovakia 30._Edix.________._.
 urban, hungary 31. Ying ronghui, china 32. Jasna fazlic, yugoslavia
 enditem 04220859 22/04/91 1010gmt
 462  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG116.MSG Words: 221
 463  sino-jordanian economic joint committee meets in beijing
 464  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the second meeting of the
 465  sino-Jordanian economic, trade and technological cooperation joint
 committee opened here today.
 466  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG117.MSG Words: 138
 467  major headlines of leading british newspapers
 468  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news headlines
 469  of leading british newspapers on monday.
 470  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG118.MSG Words: 248
 471  dollar up, stock down in tokyo
 472  tokyo, april 22 (xinhua) -- the u.S. Dollar finished higher
 473  against the yen on the tokyo foreign exchange today, closing at 138.70
 yen, up 0.80 yen from last friday's finish of 137.90 yen.
 474  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG119.MSG Words: 123 hk042216 -- thai foreign
 minister meets vietnamese vice fm
 475  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- thai foreign minister arsa
 476  sarasin met visiting vietnamese vice foreign minister le mai here today
 and discussed with him the political settlement of the cambodian issue,
 according to thai foreign ministry spokesman sakthip krairiksh.
 477  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG120.MSG Words: 155 mee042204 lebanese arrested
 with large amount of heroin
 478  nicosia, april 22 (xinhua) -- a lebanese ca
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 479  rying 1,080 grams of heroin was arrested today by the cyprus anti-
 narcotics squad, customs officials said.
 480  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG12I.MSG Words: 135 hk042217 -- india obtains
 1991-92 aid from u.S.
 481  New delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- india has obtained from the
 482  united states 99.9 million u.S. Dollars in aid for fiscal year 1991-92,
 local press reported today.
 483  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG122.MSG Words: 162 hk042218 -- former bangladesh
 vice-president elected jatiya party
 484  parliamentary group leader
 485  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- former bangladesh vice-president moudud ahmed
 has been unanimously elected acting leader of the former ruling jatiya
 (national) party parliamentary group.
 486  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG123.MSG Words: 270
 487  weather forecast for major foreign cities
 488  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for nine major
 489  foreign cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on april 23
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.M. Today:
 tokyo: min. 13 degrees c., max. 20 degrees c., clear to overcast.
 490  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG124.MSG Words: 163
 491  weather forecast for major chinese cities
 492  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for 12 major
 493  chinese cities for the next 24 hours fromp20:00 today to 20:00 on april 23
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.M. Today:
 beijing: min. 12 degrees c., max. 19 degrees c., cloudy to showers, calm
 to gentle breeze.
 494  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG125.MSG Words: 243 hk042219 -- gulf environment
 pollution affects climate in pakistan                             __-_-
 495                        islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- pakistan's summer season this
 496  year is much cooler than in previous years with winterish weather caused
 by frequent rains during the past days.
 497  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG126.MSG Words: 206 hk042220 -- 17th session of
 who advisory committee opens in myanmar
 498  yangon, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 17th session of the world
 499  health organization (who) south east asia advisory committee on health
 research opened here on sunday by pe thein, myanmar minister for health
 and for education.
 500  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG127.MSG Words: 180
 501  OW2204195691TAKE10
 502  hk042222 -- thailand sets per capita income at 3,000 u.S. Dollars
 503  by 1996
 504  bangkok, april 22 (xinhua) -- thailand has set its per capita income
 target at 75,000 baht (about 3,000 u.S. Dollars) by 1996.
 505  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG128.MSG Words: 159 hk042221 -- half of nepal's
 ancient artifacts stolen: reports
 506  kathmandu, april 22 (xinhua) -- half of nepal's highly valued
 507  ancient and medieval wooden, stone and metal masterpiece arts have been
 stolen, the country's leading english daily "the rising nepal" reported
 today quoting a german lawyer.
 508  File:, D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG129.MSG Words: 270 afg042201 -- black mayor
 assassinated in weekwend
 509  violence in south africa
 510  nairobi, april 22 (xinhua) -- a black mayo in Johannesburg's largest black
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 township soweto was shot to death late on friday in an ambush on his car
 by unknown gunmen, according to reports from south africa.
 511  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG130.MSG Words: 251
 512  major news headlines in leading soviet newspapers
 513  moscow, april 22 (xinhua) -- the following are major news
 514  headlines un leading soviet newspapers today: pravda: -- get to know
 lenin's world an editorial marking 121st borthday of lenin stressed the
 need to study lenin's thoughts, get to know his world and inherit his
 legacy.
 515  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG131.MSG Words: 157
 516  chinese vice-premier meets bolivian delegation
 517  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- vice-premier vu xueqian met a
 518  delegation from the chamber of deputies of bolivia pere today.
 519  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG132.MSG Words: 76 mee042202 uae sends first
 shipment of relief aid to Iraqi
 520  refugees in Iran
 521  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the united arab emirates (uae) today sent
 the first shipment of relief aid to Iraqi kurdish refugees in Iran to help
 alleviate their sufferings, a government official said.
 522  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG133.MSG Words: 186 hk042223 -- 47 killed in bus
 accident vest of dhaka
 523  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- at least 47 passengers were killed
 524  when a dhaka-bound passenger bus fell into a ditch after breaking the
 railing of a bridge on dhaka-aricha highway, bangladesh, this morning,
 reports reaching here said.
 525  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG134.MSG Words: 115
 526  xinjiang financial income increased
 527  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the xinjiang uygur autonomous
 528  region's financial income increased from 165 million yuan in 1981 to 2.1
 billion yuan in 1990.
 529  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG135.MSG Words: 208
 530  mafor stories in leading french newspapers
 531  paris, april 22 (xinhua) -- major stories in leading french
 532  newspapers on monday.
 533  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG136.MSG Words: 86 afg042202 -- re-elected
 liberian interim president pledges
 534  continued peace efforts
 535  accra, april 22 (xinhua) -- re-elected liberian interim president amos
 sawyer has pledged to ctntinue to work for peace and hold free and fair
 elections later this year, the ghanaian official newspaper "people's daily
 graphic" reported today.
 536  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG137.MSG Words: 278
 537  regulations on the issuing of the state treasury bonds
 538  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china will issue 10 billion
 539  yuan-worth of state treasury bonds this year, according to the regulations
 released today on the issuing of treasury bonds in 1991.
 540  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG138.MSG Words: 127 afg042203 -- over 2,600
 poachers arrested in tanzania
 541  dar es salaam, april 22 (xinhua) -- more than 2,600 poachers
 542  have been arrested in tanzania in a 21-month-old nationwide anti-poaching
 operation, the "daily news" reported today.
 543  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG139.MSG Words: 136 mee042203 deadline set for
 kuwaitis to return home
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 544  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- about 57,000 kuwaitis
 545  currently living in the united arab emirates (uae) are required to start
 returning home as of 11 and by June 12 all of them will have to enter
 kuwait, an official at the kuvaiti consulate in the uae said today.
 546  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG140.MSG Words: 298
 547  american entrepreneur hails successful joint venture in
 548  sganghai
 549  shanghai, april 22 (xinhua) -- the american side ofpthe xerox-shanghai
 corporation ltd. Has expressed its great satisfaction with the joint
 venture's performance during the past three years.
 550  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG141.MSG Words: 152
 551   chinese congress leader meetu ipu president
 552  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china will draw on the
 553  legislative experience of other countries as a reference point for
 strengthening democracy and the legal system, china's top legislator wan
 li said here today.
 554  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG142.MSG Words: 205
 555  OW2204195991TAKEll
 556  hk042203 -- below normal monsoon expected in India this year
 557  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- apprehending a below-normal
 558  monsoon this year, the agriculture ministry of the Indian central
 government is drawing up contingency plans to minimize the adverse impact
 of aberrations in rainfall on farm production, local press reported today.
 559  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG143.MSG Words: 188 ssswttc002
 560  ittf men's seedings for chiba worlds
 561  chiba, japan, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the international table
 tennis federation seedings for the men's singles event to be held at the
 41st worlds: 1. Jan-ove valdner, sweden 2. Michael appelgren, sweden-3-   ---
 Andrzej grubba, poland 4. Ma avenge, china 5. Jorgen persson, sweden 6. Yoo
 nam-kyu, south korea 7. Li gun sang, dpr korea 8. Jean-philippe gatien,
 france 9. Erik lindh, sweden 10. Chen zhibin, china 11. Jorg rosskopf,
 germany 12. Kim song hui, dpr korea 13. Yu shentong, china 14. Jean-michel
 saive, belgium 15. Kim taek soo, south korea 16. Zoran primorac,
 yugoslavia 17. Wei qingguang, china 18. Kiyoshi saito, japan 19. Andrei
 mazunov, soviet union 20. Chen xinhua, england 21. Ilija lupulesku,
 yugoslavia 22. Xie chaojie, china 23. Dmitrij mazunov, soviet union 24.
 Carl preen: england 25. Georg-zsolt bohm, germany 26. Wang tao, china 27.
 Wang yansheng, norway 28. Paul haldan, netherlands 29. Ding yi, austria
 30. Steffen fitzner, germany 31. Leszek kucharski, poland 32. Wu wen-chia,
 chinese taipei enditem 04220853
 562  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG144.MSG Words: 219 worlds chiba, japan, april 22
 (xinhua) -- following are the international t
 563  able tennis federation seedings for the women's singles event to be held
 at
 564  41st worlds: 1. Oiao hong, china 2. Deng yaping, china 3.  Li bun hui, dpr
 korea 4. Hyun Jung-hwa, south korea 5. Chen zihe, china 6.  Gao Jun, china
 7. Chai po wa, hong kong B. Csilla batorfi, hungary 9.  Chan tan lui, hong
 kong 10. Ding yaping, china 11. Daniela guergueltcheva, bulgaria 12.
 Gabriella wirth, hungary 13. Yu sun bok, dpr-korea 14. Li Jun, chi na 15.
 Hu xiaoxin, china 16. Geng lijuan, canada 17. Mika hoshino, japa n 18.
 Wang xiaoming, france 19. Mirjam hooman, netherlands 20.  Liu wei, china
 21. Marie hrachova, czechoslovakia 22. Hong cha-ok, south korea 23. Tu
 yong, switzerland 24. Otilia badescu, romania 25. Bettine vriesekoo p,
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 netherlands 26. Olga nemes, germany 27. Hong soon-hwa, south korea 2 8.
 Valentina popova, soviet union 29. Alena safarova, czechoslovakia 30. E
 dit urban, hungary 31. Xing ronghui, china 32. Jasna fazlic, yugoslaviaen
 ditem 04220853 22/04/91 1111gmt
 565  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG145.MSG Words: 191 sssvttc003
 566  ittf women's seedings for chiba worlds
 567  chiba, japan, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the international table
 tennis federation seedings for the women's singles event to be held at the
 41st worlds: 1. Qiao hong, china 2. Deng yaping, china 3. Li bun hui, dpr
 korea 4. Hyun Jung-hwa, south korea 5. Chen zihe, china 6. Gao jun, china
 7. Chai po wa, hong kong 8. Csilla batorfi, hungary 9. Chan tan lui, hong
 kong 10. Ding yaping, china 11. Daniela guergueltcheva, Bulgaria 12.
 Gabriella Wirth, hungary 13. Yu sun bok, dpr korea 14. Li jun, china 15.
 Hu xiaoxin, china 16. Geng lijuan, canada 17. Mika hoshino, japan 18. Wang
 xiaoming, france 19. Mirjam hooman, netherlands 20. Liu Wei, china 21.
 Marie hrachova, czechoslovakia 22. Hong cha-ok, south korea 23. Tu yong,
 switzerland 24. Otilia,badescu, romania 25. Bettine vriesekoop,
 netherlands 26. Olga nemes, germany 27. Hong soon-hwa, south korea 28.
 Valentina popova, soviet union 29. Alena safarova, czechoslovakia 30. Edit
 urban, hungary 31. Ying ronghui, china 32. Jasna fazlic, yugoslavia
 enditem 04220859 22/04/91 1113gmt
 568  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG146.MSG Words: 221
 569  sino-jordanian economic joint committee meets in beijing
 570  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the second meeting of the
 571  sino-jordanian economic, trade and technological cooperation joint
 committee opened here today.
 572  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG147.MSG Words: 139
 573  OW2204200191TAKE12
 --------- -._---- ---
 574                       major headlines of leading british newspapers
 575  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are major news headlines
 576  of leading british newspapers on monday.
 577  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG148.MSG Words: 248 hk042231 -- foreign exchange
 rates in hong kong
 578  hong kong, april 22 (xinhua) -- closing foreign exchange rates in
 579  hong kong today (monday): foreign exchange in hxmk. Dollars monday
 saturday u.S. Dollar 7.793 7.791 canada dollar 6.73 6.75 britain pound
 13.25 13.34 australia dollar 5.98 5.98 japan yen 0.05618 0.05628 w.
 Germany mark 4.455 4.486 switzerland franc 5.285 5.306 france franc 1.323
 1.331 italy lira 0.00605 0.00607 hong kong gold price today declined by
 six hong kong dollars to 3,312 h.K. Dollars a tael, equivalent to 356.43
 u.S. Dollars a troy ounce.  Enditem 04221115 22/04/91 1119gmt
 580  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG149.MSG Words: 119
 581  dollar up, stock down in tokyo
 582  tokyo, april 22 (xinhua) -- the u.S. Dollar finished higher
 583  against the yen on the tokyo foreign exchange today, closing at 138.70
 yen, up 0.80 yen from last friday's finish of 137.90 yen.
 584  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG150.MSG Words: 123 mee042204 lebanese arrested
 with large amount of heroin
 585  nicosia, april 22 (xinhua) -- a lebanese carrying 1,080
 586  grams of heroin was arrested today by the cyprus anti- nwcotics squad,
 customs officials said.
 587  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG151.MSG Words: 134
 588  weather forecast for major foreign cities
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 589  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for nine major
 590  foreign cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on april 23
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.M. Today:
 tokyo: min. 13 degrees c., max. 20 degrees c., clear to overcast.
 591  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG152.MSG Words: 163
 592  ethylene industry flourishing in china
 593  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) --china produced 1.58 million tons
 594  of ethylene in 1990, a 13.3 percent increase over the previous year,
 according to the latest issue of the english language weekly "beijing
 review".
 595  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG153.MSG Words: 253
 596  ecuadorian women delegation visits china
 597  bijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- vice-president of the all-china
 598  women's federation (acwf) huang qizao, on behalf of chen muhua,
 vice-chairwoman of the standing committee of the national people's
 congress and acvf president, met a ecuadorian women delegation here
 tonight.
 599  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG154.MSG Words: 103
 600  weather forecast for major chinese cities
 601  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for 12 major
 602  chinese cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on april 23
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 5:00 p.M. Today:
 beijing: min. 12 degrees c., max. 19 degrees c., cloudy to showers, calm
 to gentle breeze.
 603  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG155.MSG Words: 244
 604  hong kong governor to visit australia, new zealand
 605  hong kong, april 22 (xinhua) -- hong kong governor david
 606  Wilson will pay a visit to australia and new zealand-between may--9 and--18----------------------
 as a guest of the governments of the two countries.
 607  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG156.MSG Words: 100
 608  major news headlines in leading soviet newspapers
 609  moscow, april 22 (xinhua) -- the following are major news
 610  headlines in leading soviet newspapers today: pravda: -- get to know
 lenin's world an editorial marking 121st borthday of lenin stressed the
 need to study lenin's thoughts, get to know his world and inherit his
 legacy.
 611  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG157.MSG Words: 157
 612  xinjiang financial income increased
 613  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- the xinjiang uygur autonomous
 614  region's financial income increased from 165 million yuan in 1981 to 2.1
 billion yuan in 1990.
 615  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG158.MSG Words: 208
 616  mafor stories in leading french newspapers
 617  parts, april 22 (xinhua) -- major stories in leading french
 618  newspapers on monday.
 619  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG159.MSG Words: 86
 620  regulations on the issuing of the state treasury bonds
 621  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china will issue 10 billion
 622  yuan-worth of state treasury bonds this year, according to the regulations
 released today on the issuing of treasury bonds in 1991.
 623  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG160.MSG Words: 127
 624  american entrepreneur hails successful joint venture in
 625  shanghai
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 626  shanghai, april 22 (xinhua) -- the american side of the xerox-shanghai
 corporation ltd. Has expressed its great satisfaction with the joint
 venture's performance during the past three years.
 627  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG161.MSG Words: 153
 628  OV2204200391TAKE13
 629  chinese congress leader meets ipu president
 630  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china will draw on the
 631  legislative experience of other countries as a reference point for
 strengthening democracy and the legal system, china's top legislator wan
 li said here today.
 632  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG162.MSG Words: 206 hk042231 -- foreign exchange
 rates in hong kong
 633  hong kong, april 22 (xinhua) -- closing foreign exchange rates in
 634  hong kong today (monday): foreign exchange in h.K. Dollars monday saturday
 u.S. Dollar 7.793 7.791 canada dollar 6.73 6.75 britain pound 13.25 13.34
 australia dollar 5.98 5.98 japan yen 0.05618 0.05628 w. Germany mark 4.455
 4.486 switzerland franc 5.285 5.306 france franc 1.323 1.331 Italy lira
 0.00605 0.00607 hong kong gold price today declined by six hong kong
 dollars to 3,312 h.K. Dollars a tael, equivalent to 356.43 u.S. Dollars a
 troy ounce.  Enditem 04221115 22/04/91 1145gmt
 635  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG163.MSG Words: 119
 636  ethylene industry flourishing in china
 637  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) --china produced 1.58 million tons
 638  of ethylene in 1990, a 13.3 percent increase over the previous year,
 according to the latest issue of the english language weekly "beijing
 review".
 639  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG164.MSG Words: 252
 640   ecuadorian women delegation visits china            -
 641  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- vice-president of the all-china
 642  women's federation (acvf) huang qizao, on behalf of Chen muhua,
 vice-chairwoman of the standing committee of the national people's
 congress and acwf president, met a ecuadorian women delegation here
 tonight.
 643  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG165.MSG Words: 103
 644   India prepares for asian boxing championships
 645  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the Indian amateur boxing
 646  federation (iabf) has included 15 juniogavvllap to prepare the Indian team
 for the asian boxing championships to be held in manila, the philippines,
 in July.
 647  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG166.MSG?Words: 124
 648   hong kong governor to visit australia, new zealand
 649  hong kong, april 22 (xinhua) -- hong kong governor david
 650  Wilson will pay a visit to australia and new zealand between may 9 and 18
 as a guest of the governments of the two countries.
 651  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG167.MSG Words: 100
 652   India prepares for asian boxing championships
 653  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) --the Indian amateur boxing
 654  federation (iabf) has included 15 juniors in its camp to prepare the
 Indian team for the asian boxing championships to be held in manila, the
 philippines, in July.
 655  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG168.MSG Words: 126 hk042228 -- Indian doctors
 claim breakthrough in tracing drug
 656  concentration in blood
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 657  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- two indian researchers claim to have made
 a significant breakthrough in medicine with their discovery of a new
 method to measure the concentration of any injected drug in human blood
 without having to analyse a blood sample.
 658  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG169.MSG Words: 269 hk042226 -- indian, philippine
 presidents to discuss bilateral ties
 659  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- Indian president shri ramasvami
 660  venkataraman will discuss with philippine president corazon aquino
 bilateral relations and regional issues during his coming visit here, a
 high-ranking philippine official said today.
 661  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG170.MSG Words: 210 hk042228 -- Indian doctors
 claim breakthrough in tracing drug
 662  concentration in blood
 663  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- two indian researchers claim to have made
 a significant breakthrough in medicine with their discovery of a new
 method to measure the concentration of any injected drug in human blood
 without having to analyse a blood sample.
 664  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG171.MSG Words: 269 hk042226 -- indian, philippine
 presidents to discuss bilateral ties
 665  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- indian president shri ramasvami
 666  venkataraman will discuss with philippine president corazon aquino
 bilateral relations and regional issues during his coming visit here, a
 high-ranking philippine official said today.
 667  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG172.MSG Words: 210 hk042232 -- indian railway
 company plans to take up
 668  saarc projects
 669  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the indian railways construction company
 (ircon) is planning to take up in a big way railway construction projects
 in south asian association for regional cooperation (saarc) countries,
 particularly bangladesh and nepal, local press reported today.
 670  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG173.MSG Words: 254
 671  cppcc delegation leaves for syria
 672  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- a delegation from the national
 673  committee of the chinese people's political consuloative conference
 (cppcc) led by its vice-chairman gu mu left here today on a week-long
 goodwill visit to Syria at the invitation of mohammed zouhair masharagah,
 syrian vice-president and vice-chairman of the national progressive front.
 Enditem 22/04/91 1218gmt
 674  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG174.MSG Words: 71
 675  OW2204200491TAKE14
 676  hk042235 -- indian pm chandra shekhar files nomination
 677  in ballia
 678  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- indian prime minister chandra shekhar
 today filed his nomination in ballia of the northern state of uttar
 pradesh for next month's lok sabha (lower house of parliamentOz3:589,'.
 679  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG175.MSG Words: 288 hk042232 -- indian railway
 company plans to take up
 680  saarc projects
 681  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the indian railways construction company
 (ircon) is planning to take up in a big way railway construction projects
 in south asian association for regional cooperation (saarc) countries,
 particularly bangladesh and nepal, local press reported today.
 682  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG176.MSG Words: 256
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 683  cppcc delegation leaves for syria
 684  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- a delegation from the national
 685  committee of the chinese people's political consultative conference
 (cppcc) led by its vice-chairman gu mu left here today on a week-long
 goodwill visit to syria at the invitation of mohammed zouhair masharaqah,
 syrian vice-president and vice-chairman of the national progressive front.
 Enditem 22/04/91 1225gmt
 686  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG177.MSG Words: 71 mee042205 baker talks with king
 fahd on mideast peace
 687  cairo, april 22 (xinhua) -- u.S. Secretary of state james
 688  baker today conferred with saudi king fahd on what role the oil-rich
 kingdom should play in resolving the arab-israeli conflict, reports
 reaching here said.
 689  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG178.MSG Words: 379 hk042230 -- pakistan announces
 incentives to boost
 690  industrialization
 691  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- the pakistan government today announced a
 package of incentives to give a boost to the country's industrialization
 process.
 692  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG179.MSG Words: 207 hk042241 -- former west
 australian premier to answer allegations
 693  before royal commission
 694  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- brian burke, former vest australian state
 premier and now australian ambassador to ireland and the vatican, has
 flown back to perth to answer allegations before a royal commission about
 his fund-raising activities during his time as premier.
 695  File: D:PAXINHUAAHONPAMSG180.HSG Words: 247 hk042227 -- bangladesh pm for
 controlling crime with iron hands
 696  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- bangladesh prime minister khaleda
 697  zia today asked the police force to control crime with iron hands and to
 discharge their duties without fear and favor.
 698  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG181.MSG Words: 413 hk042240 -- australian trade
 mission to visit mexico to cement
 699  commercial ties
 700  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the visit of an australian trade delegation
 to mexico from april 30 to may 4 reflects a growing commitment by both
 countries to strengthening bilateral, especially commercial ties, a senior
 cabinet minister said here today.
 701  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG182.MSG Words: 322 hk042237 -- pakistan takes
 measures to increase export
 702  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- pakistani prime minister navaz
 703  sharif has approved a number of measures to increase export, commercial
 minister malick naeec said here today.
 704  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG183.MSG Words: 274 hk042245 -- two more aqds
 deaths reported in philippinesow
 705  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- two more filipino men succumbed
 706  to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids), bringing to 29 the
 death toll in the country since 1984 when the first aids case was
 detected, the department of health (doh) said today.
 707  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG184.MSG Words: 150 hk042242 -- philippine
 president on extension of u.S. Military
 708  presence
 709  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- philippine president corazon aquino today
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 stressed that her government will not allow the presence of u.S. Military
 forces in the country beyond this september unless a new bases treaty is
 drawn up with the united states.
 710  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG185.MSG Words: 213 hk042246 -- australia provides
 more aid to kurdish refugees
 711  canberra, april 22 (xinhua) -- australia is to contribute a
 712  further 1.5 million australian dollars (1.16 million u.S.  Dollars) in
 emergency aid to kurdish refugees, minister for trade and overseas
 development neal blevett announced here today.
 713  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG186.MSG Words: 249 hk042248 -- five power defense
 arrangements to hold war game
 714  singapore, april 22 (xinhua) -- singapore, malaysia,
 715  australia, new zealand and britain will be holding a four-day air defense
 exercise in singapore and malaysia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
 the five power defense arrangements (fpda).
 716  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG187.MSG Words: 182 hk042244 -- philippines, U.S.
 May resume bases talks next week
 717  manila, april 22 (xinhua) -- the technical committees of the
 718  philippine-american cooperation talks (pact) will meet on thursday (april
 25) to set the tone for the sixth and final round of talks on the future
 of U.S. Military bases here, a u.S. Embassy official said here today.
 719  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG188.MSG Words: 330
 720  OW2204200691TAKE15
 721  hk042247 -- bangladesh expresses grave concern at Indian border
 722  force killing
 723  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- a foreign office spokesman today expressed
 grave concern of the government at the "reckless and wanton" acts of
 Indian border security forces (bsf) In a bangladesh border area recently.
 724  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG189.MSG Words: 280
 725  cuban artists give premiere in beijing
 726  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- twelve visiting artists from cuba
 727  gave their premiere here this evening.
 728  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG190.MSG Words: 67
 729  chinese t.U. Leader holds talks with african t.U.
 730  Delegation
 731  beijing, aprili)(xinhua) -- ni zhifu, vice-chairman of the standing
 committee of the national people's congress and president of the all-china
 federation of trade unions, met and held talks here today with a
 delegation from the organization of african trade union unity led by its
 general secretary hassana sunmonu and deputy general secretary demba diop.
 732  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG191.MSG Words: 604 hk042252 -- Indonesian bank
 issues ncds in singapore market
 733  singapore, april 22 (xinhua) -- the bank niaga of Indonesia
 734  issued the negotiable certificates of deposit (ncds) worth of 37 million
 u.S. Dollars in singapore finance market today.
 735  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG192.MSG Words: 159 hk042250 -- bjp leader advani
 files nomination in new delhi
 736  new delhi, april 22 (xinhua) -- the bharatiya Janata party
 737  (bjp or Indian people's party) leader l.K. Advani today filed his
 nomination papers for the new delhi lok sabha (lower house of parliament)
 seat.
 738  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG193.MSG Words: 225
 739  japan to send minesweepers to gulf as first overseas force
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 740  tokyo, april 22 (xinhua) -- the Japanese government and the
 741  ruling liberal democratic party (ldp) today agreed in principal to send
 maritime self-defence force (msdf) minesweepers to the gulf -- the
 nation's first military deployment abroad since world war ii, kyodo
 reported.
 742  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG194.MSG Words: 288 afg042204 -- namibian
 president starts visit to sadcc countries
 743  Windhoek, april 22 (xinhua) -- namibian president sam nujoma
 744  left here this morning on an eight-day state visit to tanzania, zimbabwe
 and lesotho.
 745  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG195.MSG Words: 68 mee042206 syrian president
 meets with egyptian presidential
 746  adviser
 747  damascus, april 22 (xinhua) -- syrian president hafez al-assad met today
 with osama al-baz, first under-secretary of the egyptian foreign ministry
 and director of the presidential office for political affairs.
 748  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG196.MSG Words: 240
 749  session of fujian provincial people's congress opens
 750  fuzhou, april 22 (xinhua) -- the fourth session of seventh
 751  fujian provincial people's congress opened here today.
 752  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG197.MSG Words: 127 afg042205 -- south africa,
 maxiascar to exchange
 753  representative offices
 754  gaborone, april 22 (xinhua) -- madagascar and south africa have agreed to
 open representative offices in each other's countries, "the star"
 newspaper of south africa reported today.
 755  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG198.MSG Words: 141
 756   china, ussr co-publish chinese new year pictures
 757  beijing, aqril 22 (xinhua) -- a soviet collection of chinese
 758  new year picture treasures was shown at the soviet embassy here this
 afternoon.
 759  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG199.MSG Words: 99
 760   fujian sees new development in capital construction
 761  fuzhou, april 22 (xinhua) -- south china's fujian province has
 762  achieved admirable success in the fields of energy, transportation and
 post and telecommunications, according to acting governor jia qinglin.
 763  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG200.MSG Words: 241
 764   yang shangkun meets fijian president
 765  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- chinese president yang shangkun
 766  met this evening with the president of the republic of fiji penaia
 kanatabatu ganilau and his party at the great hall of the people in
 beijing.
 767  File: DaPAXINHUAAMONPAMSG201.MSG Words: 458 afg042206 -- mass protest to
 greet mrs. Thatcher's private
 768  visit to south africa
 769  gaborone, april 22 (xinhua) -- the african national congress (anc) and the
 pan africanist congress (pac) are planning to organize mass demonstrations
 against former british prime minister margaret thatcher during her private
 visit to south africa next month.
 770  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG202.MSG Words: 187 mee042207 velayati begins tour
 of three european countries
 771  tehran, april 22 (xinhua) -- iranian foreign minister ali
 772  akbar velayati left here for copenhagen today to begin a tour of three
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 773 File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG203.MSG Words: 131
 774 soviet parliament begins debate on anti-crisis program
 775 moscow, april 22 (xinhua) -- the soviet parliament today opened
 776 a debate on a program presented by the cabinet to curb the country's
 serious economic crisis.
 777 File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG204.MSG Words: 153
 778 OW2204201091TAKE16
 779 latest golf rankings
 780 london, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the latest men's
 781 golf rankings for the week ending april 21: 1. Ian woosnam, britain, 20.28
 (points average) 2. Jose-maria olazabal, spain, 19.00 3. Nick faldo,
 britain, 17.56 4. Greg norman, australia, 15.67 5. Payne stewart, U.S.,
 11.45 6. Paul azinger, U.S., 11.44 7. Bernhard langer, germany, 10.07 8.
 Curtis strange, U.S., 9.74 9. Mark mcnulty, zimbabwe, 9.65 10. Lanny
 wadkins, U.S., 9.37 enditem 22/04/91 1440gmt
 782  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG205.MSG Words: 98
 783  xinhua international news summary at 13:00 gmt april 22
 784  new delhi -- indian prime minister chandra shekhar on sunday
 785  confirmed that he had held talks with sikh militants in the troubled
 Indian state of punjab.
 786  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG206.MSG Words: 305 mee042211 american nine-point
 initiative on middle east peace
 787  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- Jordanian political sources
 788  were quoted as saying today that the united states has submitted to Jordan
 a nine-point plan to achieve peace in the middle east.
 789  File: D:PAXINBUAAMONPAMSG207.MSG Words: 418 mee042208 uae president to
 start gulf tour
 790  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- president sheikh zayed bin
 791  sultan al nahyan of the united arab emirates will visit saudi arabia
 tuesday, starting a tour of the gulf cooperation council (gcc) member
 states.
 792  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG208.MSG Words: 189 mee042209 poland, bahrain
 establish diplomatic ties
 793  abu dhabi, april 22 (xinhua) -- bahrain today established
 794  diplomatic relations with poland, according to reports reaching here.
 795  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG209.MSG Words: 78 hk042225 -- pakistan to take up
 kashmir issue at U.N., says
 796  minister
 797  islamabad, april 22 (xinhua) -- pakistan federal minister for kashmir
 affairs sardar mahtab ahmad khan said today that the kashmir issue would
 be part of the pakistan agenda at the U.N.  General assembly this year.
 798  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG21O.MSG Words: 269 afg042207 -- south african
 white voters divided on political
 799  reforms
 800  gaborone, april 22 (xinhua) -- south african white voters are sharply
 divided on the changes being introduced by the pretoria government,
 according to a recent survey conducted by market and opinion surveys in
 south africa.
 801  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG211.MSG Words: 167
 802  south african rival cricket bodies to form single team
 803  gaborone, botswana, april 22 (xinhua) -- south africa's rival
 804  cricket bodies will merge on June 29 to form a single, non-racial
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 governing authority, paving the way for a return to international
 competition, "the star" newspaper of south africa reported today.
 805  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG212.MSG Words: 158
 806  china registers overall economic recovery
 807  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- china registered a steady
 808  increase in industrial production and its domestic market started to
 flourish in the first three months of this year, a spokesman for the state
 statistical bureau announced today.
 809  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG213.MSG Words: 515 hk042255 -- 10 vacant seats of
 bangladesh parliament to be elected
 810  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- by-elections to ten seats of
 811  bangladesh's fifth parliament, vacated by mps who won more than one seat
 in the february 27 parliamentary election, will be held on June 11, the
 election commission announced here today.
 812  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG214.MSG Words: 130
 813   cholera epidemic threatens soutm america
 814  ilima, april 22 (xinhua) -- latin-american doctors and officials
 815  are warning the outbreak of cholera occurring in peru is the worst
 epidemic this century, and threatens the whole of south america.
 816  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG215.MSG Words: 443 mee042210 amal movement denies
 handing over weapons to government
 817  (by feng zheru and ding naiying)
 818  beirut, april 2&//8,#7-) -- the lebanese shiite moslem militia "amal
 movement" has denied that it will start handing over weapmns to the
 government as of today.
 819  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG216.MSG Words: 464
 820  key paris market fixed rates
 821  paris, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are the major medium
 822  closing rates in paris stock market today: 100 deutsche mark 336.8900
 french francs 1 u.S. Dollar 5.9155 french francs 1 pound sterling 10.0875
 french francs 100 Japanese yen 4.2590 french francs gold price 1 kilogram
 66950 french francs enditem 22/04/91 1517gmt
 823  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG217.MSG Words: 68 afg042208 -- south african
 hereditary chiefs urged to accelerate
 824  dismantlement of apartheid
 825  gaborone, april 22 (xinhua) -- hereditary chiefs in south africa have been
 urged to accelerate the dismantlement of apartheid in their country, the
 "star" newspaper of south africa said today.
 826  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG218.MSG Words: 222
 827  0W2204201291TAKE17
 828  mosquito saliva to be used against heart attacks
 829  rio de Janeiro, april 22 (xinhua) -- brazilian researchers
 830  have discovered that the saliva of a mosquito that transmits dengue fever
 could be used to prevent heart attacks.
 831  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG234.MSG Words: 180 eaed042203 -- first british
 commandos arrive in northern iraq
 832  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- the first detachment of britain's
 833  royal marines has arrived in northern Iraq to help build camps for
 kurdishs refugees and provide security in the refugee zones, british
 television reported today.
 834  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG235.MSG Words: 213 hk042258 -- 51 killed, 89
 injured in road accident in bangladesh
 835  dhaka, april 22 (xinhua) -- fifty-one persons were killed and
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 836  89 injured when a packed passenger bus crashed into a ditch while crossing
 a bridge in manikganj district, west of dhaka today, communication
 minister oli ahmed informed the parliament.
 837  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG236.MSG Words: 282 hk042259 -- major security
 plan to go into operation in east sri
 838  lanka
 839  colombo, april 22 (xinhua) -- a major security plan involving both police
 and village youth to thwart rebel forays into unprotected villages will go
 into operation this week in eastern sri lanka, according to police sources
 today.
 840  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG237.MSG Words: 239
 841   paris conference co-heads and u.N. Chief urge cease-fire
 842  in combodia
 843  paris, april 22 (xinhua) -- the co-chairmen of the paris conference and
 the u.N. Chief issued a joint statement here today calling for a temporary
 cease-fire in cambodia to create a favorable climate for the upcoming
 jarkata meeting.
 844  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG238.MSG Words: 332 mee042213 bahrainis warnedpof
 washed-up war objects on coast
 845  cairo,)april 22 (xinhua) -- the coast guard directorate in
 846  bahrain today urged people to be alert for strange objects washed ashore,
 a report from the bahraini capital of mamma said.
 847  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG239.MSG Words: 181 afg042209 -- rwandan rebels
 likely to ask nigeria to
 848  mediate in rvandan conflict
 849  lagos, april 22 (xinhua) -- rwandan rebels have indicated that they would
 like to see nigeria as a mediator in the six- month-old civil war in
 rvanda, "the guardian" of nigeria said today.
 850  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG240.MSG Words: 219 mee042214 iraq may find it
 hard to resume oil exports: report
 851  nicosia, april 22 (xinhua) -- iraq may find it hard to
 852  resume oil exports because of gulf war damages and political conflicts
 triggered by its invasion and occupation of kuwait, the middle east
 economic survey (mees) reported today.
 853  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG241.MSG Words: 484 eaed042204 -- prince charles
 and diana leave for brazil
 854  visit
 855  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- prince charles, the heir to the british
 throne, and his wife, princess diana, left london today on an official
 visit tobrazil.
 856  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG242.MSG Words: 59 eaed042205 -- white house chief
 of staff accused of misusing
 857  military jets
 858  washhington, april 22 (xinhua) -- closely following u.S.  Media's exposure
 of white house chief of staff john sununu's misuse of military jets for
 personal and political travel, congressional democrats are demanding a
 full and public investigation.
 859  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG243.MSG Words: 354 eaed042206 -- london markets
 closing rates
 860  london, april 22 (xinhua)-- following are the major market
 861  closing rates in london today: close april 19-Currencies one sterling
 1.6930 u.S. Dollars 1.7250 one u.S. Dollar 1.7660 german marks 1.7335
 139.30 Japanese yen 138.15 1.4795 swiss francs 1.4680 5.9460 french francs
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 5.8410 7.8323 hong kong dollars 7.8493 gold: (per ounce) 356.75 u.S.
 Dollars 356.50 north sea brent (June) 19.10 u.S. Dollars 19.57 key interet
 rates (percent): u.S. (prime rates) 9.50 germany (discount rate) 6.50
 Japan (discount rate) 5.25 britain (base lending rates) 12.00 source:
 (bbc) enditem 04221644 22/04/91 1754gmt
 862  File; D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG244.MSG Words: 112
 863  ousted mongolian party leader to be buried in ulan bator
 864  ulan bator, april 22 (xinhua) -- mongolian president
 865  punsalmaagiyn ochirbat today authorized the formation of a government
 committee for the funeral of former ruling party leader umjagin tsedenbal.
 866  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG245.MSG Words: 183
 867  andean economy ministers to meet in may
 868  caracas, april 22 (xinhua) -- the andean countries' economy
 869  ministers and central bank presidents will meet here on may 2-3 to draft
 measures to coordinate their economic and monetary policies.
 870  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG246.MSG Words: 144
 871  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (1)
 872  beijing, april 22 (xinhua) -- an article in today's people's
 873  daily expounds on the process which resulted in the agreement between the
 central people's government and the local government of tibet on measures
 for the peaceful liberalization of tibet signed on may 23, 1951 -- the
 17-article agreement.
 874  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG247.MSG Words: 479
 875  OW2204201691TAKE19
 876  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (2)
 877  the local government of tibet, which was instigated and
 878  supported by the imperialists, failed to send negotiators to beijing in
 time. On the one hand, this move was a vain attempt -on their part to-
 --stall---------for a change in the situation, while on the other hand allowing them time
 to deploy troops to qamdo prefecture in a bid to prevent the movement of
 the pla, in addition to relying on the natural barrier created by the
 jinsha river.
 879  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG248.MSG Words: 405
 880  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (3)
 881  the dalai lama taking charge of the government affairs changed
 882  the balance of power between patriotic tibetans in the upper strata of
 tibetan society and local separatists. It also changed the unpatriotic
 position and attitude of the local government of tibet once headed by
 dagzhag.
 883  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG249.MSG Words; 510
 884  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (4)
 885  once the representatives of the local government of tibet
 886  arrived in beijing, the central people's government immediately appointed
 li weihan, zhang jingwu, zhang guohua and sun zhiyuan as delegates with
 full powers of the central people's government, with li weihan as the
 chief delegate. The negotiations commenced on april 29 and were conducted
 in a friendly atmosphere throughout.
 887  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG250.MSG Words: 468
 888  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (5)
 889  a short time later, in september 1951, after the tibetan
 890  delegates had returned to Lhasa, the local government of tibet called a
 meeting which was attended by both monks and lay officials. During the
 meeting, ngapoi ngavang jigme reported on the contents of the agreement
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 and the process which resulted in its signing. In addition he explained
 the correctness of the agreement and the sincerity of the central people's
 government, while at the same time refuting rumors aimed at sabotaging the
 agreement.
 891  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG251.MSG Words: 523
 892  dalai lama and 17-article agreement (6)
 893  in february 1957 the dalai lama returned to lhasa, and the
 894  separatists' plot to keep him in india was defeated.
 895  File; D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG252.MSG Words: 483
 896  latin american news briefs
 897  mexico city, april 22 (xinhua) -- following are latin american
 898  news briefs today: lima -- peruvian president alberto fujimori declared a
 state of emergency in the national mining sector to prepare for the crisis
 in the industry expected with the abrupt fall in prices and orders
 starting July 1, as well as the reduction of taxes by 5 percent on exports
 of copper and some minerals.
 899  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG253.MSG Words: 349 afg042210 -- maternal
 mortality rate increases in ghana
 900  accra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the maternal mortality rate in
 901  ghana has increased to 7.9 per 1,000 live births from 5.1 per 1,000 in
 1970 due to inadequate medicare in the country, the ghana news agency said
 today.
 902  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG254.MSG Words: 200 afg042211 -- nujoma starts
 visit to tanzania
 903  dar es salaam, april 22 (xinhua) -- namibian president sam
 904  nujoma arrived here today for a three-day state visit to tanzania.
 905  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG255.MSG Words: 128
 906  cuba: bush initiative aims to control regional trade
 907  havana, april 22 (xinhua) -- cuban vice-president carlos
 908  rafael rodriguez said the objective of u.S. President george bush's
 initiative for the americas is to control the regional trade.
 909  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG256.MSG Words: 233 eaed042207 -- hurd says
 britain opposes ec military idea
 910  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- british foreign secretary douglas
 911  hurd today reaffirmed britain's opposition to the european community (ec)
 turning into a defensive alliance.
 912  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG257.MSG Words: 266 eaed042208 -- britain to get
 two billion pounds for gulf war
 913  london, april 22 (xinhua) -- the british government said today
 914  that it has recevied or been pledged nearly two billion pounds (about 3.4
 billion u.S. Dollars) by foreign countries towards the cost of the gulf
 war.
 915  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG258.MSG Words: 129
 916  gap between rich, poor widens in brazil
 917  rio de Janeiro, april 22 (xinhua) -- brazil's one percent
 918  wealthiest families earned 217 times more than the 10 percent poorest
 sectors of the population in 1988.
 919  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG259.MSG Words: 213 eaed042209 -- u.N. Appeals for
 voluntary ceasefire in cambodia
 920  united nations, april 22 (xinhua) -- u.N. Secretary general perez
 921  de cuellar and france and indonesia in the capacity of co- chairmen of the
 paris conference on cambodia today strongly appealed to all parties to the
 conflict in cambodia for a voluntary ceasefire beginning from may 1.
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 922  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG260.MSG Words: 448 mee042215 egyptian minister
 meets with chinese minister of civil
 923  affairs
 924  cairo, april 22 (xinhua) -- visiting chinese minister of civil affairs cui
 naifu met here today with egyptian minister of insurance and social
 affairs amal osman.
 925  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG261.MSG Words: 143
 926  OW2204201991TAKE20
 927  eaed042210 -- u.N. Chief appoints commission head for
 928  iraq's weapon destruction
 929  united nations, april 22 (xinhua) -- u.N. Secretary-general Javier perez
 de cuellar has appointed roif ekeus as the executive chairman of the
 special commission to ensure the destruction of iraq's chemical,
 biological and certain other weapons.
 930  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG262.MSG Words: 342 afg042212 -- ethiopian
 national assembly discuss domestic
 931  situation
 932  addis ababa, april 22 (xinhua) -- ethiopian national assembly (shengo)
 started an extraordinary session here today to discuss the critical
 situation facing the country and ways to save the country from the brink
 of collapse.
 933  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG263.MSG Words: 302 afg042213 -- 10th nam
 ministerial meeting to be held in
 934  accra early september
 935  accra, april 22 (xinhua) -- the 10th ministerial meeting of the
 non-aligned movement (nam) is scheduled to be held in accra from September
 2 to 9 this year, said an information ministry press release issued here
 today.
 936  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG264.MSG Words: 140 mee042216 cyprus denies
 denktash's proposals
 937  nicosia, april 22 (xinhua) -- the cyprus government has
 938  denied that turkish cypriot leader rauf denktash raised several proposals
 for reunifying the divided island state, the semi- official cyprus news
 agency (cna) reported today.
 939  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG265.MSG Words: 212 afg042214 -- african regional
 atomic meeting opens in ghana
 940  accra, april 22 (xinhua) -- a two-week african regional
 941  atomis meeting opened here today to discuss the co-operation of the
 international atomic energy agency (iuea) with africa, identify essential
 project management skills and review evalua- tion skills.
 942  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG266.MSG Words: 190 mee042217 baker meets with
 kuwaiti amir, visits oil fire site
 943  cairo, april 22 (xinhua) -- u.S. Secretary of state fames
 944  baker today met with kuwait's amir sheikh jaber al-ahmed al-sabah and
 later visited the site of burning oil wells, reports reaching here said.
 945  File: D:PAXINHUAAMONPAMSG267.MSG Words: 236 afg042215 -- anc to call for
 resignation of president de
 946  klerk's government
 947  harare, april 22 (xinhua) -- the african national congress (anc) would
 call for the resignation of president f. W. De klerk and his cabinet,
 suspension of the present constitution and creation of an interim
 government during the transition process, a senior pac official said
 today.
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