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3. THE FAR EAST
5 Aug 89
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Afghan rebel group offers talks with government statement by the leadership of the Jamiat-e Enqelabi-e Mardom-e Afghanistan (Revolutionary Society of the Afghan People), offering to open talks with the government provided its representative's security was guaranteed, was broadcast by Kabul radio on 3rd August. The radio went on to state that the offer had been accepted by the government.*
A 700-member group belonging to the Harakat-e Eslami of Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi (one of the Pakistan-based seven party alliance) joined the national reconciliation process in Ghowr Province on 3rd August, Kabul radio reported.*
Operations to halt rocket attacks on Kabul Since 1st August 380 air sorties, supported by artillery and rocket forces, have been carried out on the Paghman valley and other areas about 20 km to the east and south-east of Kabul in order to halt "extremist” rocket attacks on the city, Bakhtar reported on the 4th. To prevent further attacks it is planned to expand Kabul's security belt.
AFP on 4th August reported that "at least" three rockets had hit Kabul.
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enrolment postponed until October "Peking's 328 universities and colleges will cut enrolments by 1,148 students this summer" with science and engineering places accounting for "over 50%" of the reduction, Xinhua reported on 4th August. Because of the "readjustment of the admissions schedule" this year's enrolments would be postponed for 24 days and most new students would enter their colleges "in early October", the agency added.
Chinese Communist Party's policy on intellectuals "has not changed". An article in the 4th August 'Renmin Ribao' stated that while "some people have doubted and wavered about the party's policy on intellectuals”, the policy "has not changed and will not change". Those who "really oppose the party and the people constitute a tiny minority" and were "the scum of the intellectuals", the article added.*
China's Academic Degrees Committee dismisses Fang Lizhi The dissident astrophysicist, Fang Lizhi, was dismissed from China's Academic Degrees Committee's "astronomy appraisal group" because he was "under the arrest warrant of the public security organ" and his “arrest has been approved by the procuratorate organ", Xinhua reported on 4th August.
Jiang Zemin's former assistant transferred to Peking Zeng Qinghong, currently deputy secretary of the Shanghai party committee, in charge of ideological work, is to be appointed deputy director of the General Office of the CCP Central Committee by Jiang Zemin, the Hongkong-based mainland-funded paper 'Wen Wei Po' reported on 4th August.
Peking exhibition on "quelling of counter- revolutionary rebellion" An exhibition on the "quelling
of the counter-revolutionary rebellion" at the Military
Museum in Peking has attracted “nearly 10,000 visitors a day" since it opened on 31st July, Xinhua reported on 4th August. The exhibition features “military materials, including helmets, shields and guns, stolen and damaged by thugs during the rebellion" and "Molotov cocktails, loudspeakers, clubs and broken bricks, US and Hongkong dollars contributed to the rioters by overseas individuals and organisations, as well as overseas newspapers and magazines carrying articles supporting the turmoil", the agency
further reported. Representatives from Wuhan, Harbin, Hangzhou, Tianjin and elsewhere had asked to "video-tape the exhibits for local propaganda”, the report added.
Chinese Vice-Premier says China “determined” to pay its foreign debts While meeting an Asian Development Bank offical in Peking on 4th August, Chinese Vice-Premier Yao Yilin said that China was “determined to pay its foreign debts dutifully", Xinhua reported.
Burma to reopen middle schools and teacher training institutes An announcement by the Burmese Ministry of Education on 3rd August that middle schools in basic education, high schools and middle schools under the ministry will reopen on 14th August was broadcast by Rangoon radio. A similar announcement, broadcast on the same day, said that teacher training institutes and correspondence courses for the training of primary school teachers will reopen on 21st August.
Indian-Sri Lankan talks end Talks on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force from Sri Lanka and the simultaneous devolution of powers to the Tamils in the North- East Province ended in New Delhi on 4th August, PTI reported. The Sri Lankan High Commission, in a statement issued before it left for Colombo, said the talks were held in “a cordial and friendly atmosphere".
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