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This is an unclassified Central Intelligence Agency press service log dated 7 December 1993. It lists Xinhua English wire items from 6 and 7 December 1993, each with a headline and lead sentence, covering world politics, economics, sports and Chinese domestic news. One Beijing item, headlined "ufos galore across taiwan straits", reports that experts from mainland China and Taiwan said nearly 6,000 UFO sightings had been reported across the Taiwan Straits and that some defied rational explanation.
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new york, december 6 (xinhua) -- a team of scientists has developed the smallest, fastest silicon device that operates at room temperature and uses far less energy than today's chips. 21 File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG156.MSG Words: 468 S43011 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa WSB001 hke-china: exchange quotations beijing, december 7 (xinhua) -- the chinese state administration of exchange control adjusted and published the renminbi exchange rates against the convertible currencies today. there are many changes in the rates. 23 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG001.MSG Words: 164 S43012 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa SPE003 hke -- bangladesh to send 43 athletes for south asian games dhaka, december 6 (xinhua) -- bangladesh will field 43 athletes to compete in the sixth south asian federation (saf) games starting here on december 20, officials said today. 26 0W0712200593TAKE1 25 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG002.MSG Words: 172 26 0W0712200593TAKE1 27 S43013 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa SPE002 hke -- asian women's soccer results kuala lumpur, december 6 (xinhua) -- following are the preliminary results of the asian women's soccer championship played in kuching, capital of the east malaysian sarawak state on monday: 29 japan bt philippines 15-0 30 chinese taipei bt hong kong 5-0 enditem 31 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG003.MSG Words: 66 S43014 q1 eeeee hkaee .aa INE002 hke -- medellin cartel disappears in colombia 32 santa fe de bogota, december 6 (xinhua) -- the medellin cartel has disappeared since its head pablo escobar was killed last thursday, colombian president cesar gaviria said today. 33 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG004.MSG Words: 185 S43015 q1 eeeee hkaee .aa INE001 hke -- 17 million colombians to vote in 1994 elections 34 bogota, december 6 (xinhua) -- seventeen million potential voters will cast ballots in the 1994 elections, about two million more than the previous elections, a colombian official announced here today. 35 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG005.MSG Words: 134 S43016 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa SPE010 hke -- results at world cup speedskating (1) 36 stockholm, december 6 (xinhua) -- following are monday's results from a world cup speedskating meet at the viking ship hall in hamar, norway: 37 women's 5,000 meters: 38 1. gunda neimann, germany, 7 minutes 13.29 seconds (world record, old record: 7:14.13, by yvonne van gennip of the 39 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG006.MSG Words: 180 S43017 q1 eeeee hkaee hkdwe aa SPE005 hke -- results at world cup speedskating (2-last) 40 men's 1,000 meters: 41 1. dan jansen, united states, 1:13.01 42 2. sergei klevchenya, russia, 1:13.17 3. 3. yoon-man kim, south korea, 1:13.32 44 4. sylvain bouchard, canada, 1:13.51 5. igor zhelezovsky, belarus, 1:13.69 6. liu hongbo, china, 1:13.71 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG007.MSG Words: 254 S43018 q1 eeeee hkaee .aa INE005 hke -- caldera leads presidential election in venezuela caracas, december 6 (xinhua) -- national convergence candidate rafael caldera is leading in the venezuelan presidential election, receiving 28 percent of the votes counted, according to the first official bulletin
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.