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This Clinton Presidential Library release holds NSC cables in a folder filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and dated February 1995 to May 1996. The withdrawal sheet shows three cables were withheld, among them "UFO Sighted" and "Paranormal Phenomena". The released cables include a US Embassy Baku media roundup and an FBIS summary of Peruvian television that mentions a UFO congress in Curitiba. An FBIS translation of Cuban radio reports a landed oval object near Torriente, Matanzas, and three objects seen over Sancti Spiritus in October 1995.
“Weekly World News”1 page
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AND ALLOWS TO TAKE A MORE INDEPENDENT POSITION. "MIP" EDITOR-IN-CHIEF IS FIRIDUN CALILOV, SUPPORTER OF THE AZERBAIJANI POPULAR FRONT AND MINISTER OF EDUCATION IN THE APF GOVERNMENT, NOW A PROMINENT FIGURE IN THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE PARTY. PARTY MEMBERSHIP IS NECESSARY TO BE A "MIP" NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEE. 10. THE FIRST ISSUE OF "MAARIFCI" (ENLIGHTENER) (CIRCULATION 5,000) WAS PUBLISHED JAN 28. THE PRIVATE WEEKLY HAS AMONG ITS AIMS "TURNING ENLIGHTENMENT INTO AN ETHICAL, SPIRITUAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL PHENOMENON." CONGRATULATORY LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, MINISTER OF CULTURE, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC ENLIGHTENMENT PARTY AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TEACHERS' UNION POINTED THE CLOSENESS OF THE PAPER'S AIMS TO THEIR OWN. 11. THE FIRST ISSUE OF "VESTNIK" (NEWSLETTER) OF AZERBAIJAN'S RUSSIAN COMMUNITY (CIRCULATION 6,600) WAS PUBLISHED JAN 27. THE WEEKLY WAS INTRODUCED AS A "SOURCE OF INFORMATION NOT ONLY FOR (ETHNIC) RUSSIANS BUT ALSO ABOUT (ETHNIC) RUSSIANS IN AZERBAIJAN." IT ALSO IS TO TELL READERS IN CIS ABOUT AZERBAIJAN AS WELL AS "PUBLISH ARTICLES ON HISTORIC ISSUES, PROPAGATE A HEALTHY WAY OF LIFE", HAVE A WOMEN'S CORNER, STORIES ABOUT UFO'S AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY, CARRY HOROSCOPES, ETC. THE PAPER IS UNCLAS SECTION 03 OF 05 BAKU 000451 USIA USIA FOR EEN:SIGMUND/JACOBS/KENNEY, B/VOA, B/VOA/M, B/TVPA, B/N:BELL, I/GEEN, D/G, R/MR, R/RUC STATE FOR EUR/ISCA, S/NIS, EUR/PPA, PA, DRL WHITE HOUSE PASS NSC FOR FORSYTHE USVIENNA FOR USDEL OSCE EMBASSY VIENNA FOR RPO BONN FOR NPSU MUNICH FOR B/NM; PLEASE PASS RFE/RL E.O. 12356: N/A TAGS: PROP, PHUM, SCUL, AJ SUBJECT: BAKU MEDIA TIDBITS FUNDED BY AZERBAIJAN'S RUSSIAN COMMUNITY AND THE "AZERBAIJAN-RUSSIA" SOCIETY. THE PAPER MAY ALSO BE PUBLISHED LATER IN THE AZERI LANGUAGE. 12. THE FIRST ISSUE OF "GUNEY AZERBAYCAN" (SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN), A MONTHLY LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, WAS PUBLISHED ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, WHICH IS THE DAY OF AZERBAIJANI SOLIDARITY AROUND THE WORLD. THE MAGAZINE SAID IT SEES ITS AIM AS ESTABLISHING CLOSER CULTURAL TIES BETWEEN ETHNIC AZERIS AROUND THE WORLD; IT WILL ALSO BE DISTRIBUTED IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. SINCE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ETHNIC AZERIS IN NORTHERN IRAN -- HENCE THE MAGAZINE'S NAME -- ITS PUBLISHERS (WHO INCLUDE A FORMER AZERBAIJANI AMBASSADOR TO IRAN) HOPE THAT "GUNEY AZERBAYCAN" WILL BE SOLD THERE. HOWEVER, THE MAGAZINE WAS
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Official release, from the nara 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. 35 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.