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This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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INFORMATION IS OFTEN INACCURATE, SAID THE SCHOLAR. END NOTE] FUJIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONCERTS IN THE PARK 6. BY THE PARK IN QUANZHOU CITY CENTER, AMATEUR MUSICAL TROUPES PLAY TRADITIONAL FUJIAN (MINNAN INYUE -- MININ) MUSIC TO LARGE CROWDS. THE CHINESE DIALECT AND THE MUSICAL STYLE, WHICH SCHOLARS SAY IS DESCENDED FROM THE COURT STYLE OF THE SONG DYNASTY OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, ARE THE SAME AS IN TAIWAN JUST 100 MILES AWAY. ONE MUSICAL TROUPE PLAYED UNDER A BANNER DONATED BY CHEN SHUIBIAN ON HIS 1989 VISIT TO QUANZHOU FIVE YEARS BEFORE CHEN BECAME THE MAYOR OF TAIPEI. THE LANGUAGE, THE MUSIC, THE EVER-PRESENT TEA SHOPS AND PERHAPS EVEN THE ORDERLINESS OF THE CITY COMPARED WITH BEIJING AND SOME OTHER CITIES IN NORTHERN CHINA GAVE ESTOFF THE IMPRESSION THAT QUANZHOU IS IN A REGION WITH A QUITE DISTINCT CULTURE OF ITS OWN. ONE QUANZHOU MAN TOLD ESTOFF, "YOU SEE OUR MUSIC HAS A MUCH MORE REFINED STYLE THAN THE CLASSICAL CHINESE MUSIC IN THE BEIJING STYLE". CORRUPTION AND CORRUPTION FIGHTING IN FAMILY PLANNING 7. ONE QUANZHOU RESIDENT TOLD ESTOFF THAT CORRUPTION IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN QUANZHOU AS IN MANY OTHER CHINESE CITIES. ESTOFF WAS TOLD THAT NOT JUST STRICT FAMILY PLANNING RULES BUT THEIR UNEVEN APPLICATION, AS WELL, CAUSES RESENTMENT IN MANY RURAL DISTRICTS OUTSIDE OF UNCLAS SECTION 03 OF 09 BEIJING 000475 WHITE HOUSE FOR OSTP/DBEHRING AND OVP DEPT FOR EAP/CM AND PRM/POP/MARGARET POLLACK DEPT PASS USAID/POPULATION/BARBARA CRANE USDOC PASS CENSUS USDA FAS FOR CMP, ARS, AND ERS STATE PASS USTR FOR CASSIDY AND POPOVICH E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV, SOCI, ECON, EAGR, PGOV, NTDB, UNFPA, CH SUBJECT: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE QUANZHOU. THE RICH AND WELL-CONNECTED ARE ABLE TO EVADE RULES AND HAVE AN ADDITIONAL CHILD BY JUST PAYING A FINE. THE SPREAD OF CORRUPTION IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO SOCIETY, SAID THE RESIDENT. EVEN OFFICIAL POSITIONS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD SOMETIMES, HE SAID. A FAMILY PLANNING NOTICE POSTED ON A QUANZHOU STREET TRANSLATED AT THE END OF THIS REPORT DETAILS LOCAL POLICY ON MARRIAGE AGE, PERMISSION TO HAVE A CHILD, AND RULES AGAINST SEX- SELECTIVE ABORTION. 8. ANOTHER QUANZHOU RESIDENT TOLD ESTOFF THAT NEXT YEAR WHEN HIS SON REACHES AGE TWELVE, HE WILL FINALLY HAVE PAID OFF THE FAMILY PLANNING FINE IN FULL. QUANZHOU COUPLES WHO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL CHILD IN VIOLATION OF THE
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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. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.