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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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RULES PAY A FINE OF BETWEEN TWO AND THREE TIMES THE COUPLE'S COMBINED ANNUAL INCOME. ## A CAMPAIGN AGAINST SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONS 9. THE OCTOBER 3 WANBAO REPORTS ON A CAMPAIGN BY THE LOCAL FAMILY PLANNING AUTHORITIES TO STOP SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION USING ULTRASOUND IN NANAN CITY. THE CAMPAIGN INCLUDED EDUCATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND A PUBLIC EDUCATION USING RADIO, TELEVISION AND POSTED NOTICES. NEW PROCEDURES WERE IMPLEMENTED. ULTRASOUND B PROCEDURES MUST BE CONDUCTED BY TWO OR MORE PEOPLE. PEOPLE WHO CONDUCT ULTRASOUND EXAMINATIONS MUST SIGN AN AGREEMENT ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THEY WILL BE FIRED AND PROSECUTED IF ILLEGAL FETAL SEX DETERMINATION IS DISCOVERED. A WOMAN WHO HAD ILLEGAL ABORTIONS ON THE BASIS OF A SEX DETERMINATION LOSE THEIR FAMILY PLANNING CERTIFICATE (PERMISSION TO HAVE A CHILD) AND MUST PAY A LARGE FINE. ## COMMENT: SEX SELECTIVE ABORTION AND SEX RATIO SKEWING 10. SKEWED SEX RATIOS, NOTES CHINESE DEMOGRAPHER MA YINGTONG [STC: 7456 3467 6639] IN THE SEPTEMBER 1998 ISSUE OF POPULATION AND ECONOMICS [RENKOU YU JINGJI] APPEARED FIRST IN THE CITIES AND DEVELOPED AREA WHERE PEOPLE HAD ACCESS TO ULTRASOUND MACHINES. ONLY AFTER THE MACHINES HAD SPREAD TO RURAL CHINA DID RURAL CHINESE SEX RATIOS BCOME HIGHER THAN IN THE MORE DEVELOPED AREAS. FETAL SEX DETERMINATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEX-SELECTIE ABORTION HAS BEEN BANNED MANY TIMES IN CHINA SNCE THE 1980S. MA ESTIMATES THAT IN 1989, WHEN TE SEX RATIO AT BIRTH WAS 113, IF A NORMAL SEX RAIO IS 107:100 (THIS MA CONSIDERS TO BE THE HIGH END OF THENORMAL RANGE), THEN "AT LEAST 14.28 PERENT OF ALL MOTHERS HAD THE SEX OF THEIR FETUS DEERMINED AND SO 6.9 PERCENT OF THE FEMALE FETUSESWERE ABORTED". IF MA'S ANALYSIS IS CORRECT, THE OMINALLY ILLEGAL PRACTICE OF SEX SELECTIVE ABORTIONIS VERY WIDESPREAD. IF, AS SOME OTHER REPUTABLE HINESE DEMOGRAPHERS ARGUE, SEX SELECTIVE ABORTIO CAUSES ONLY HALF THE SEX SKEWING, THEN MA'S ESTIMATES WOULD BE HALVED BUT STILL REMAIN SIGNIFICANT. SEX SELECTIVE ABORTION HAS BEEN BANNED BY THE CHINESE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MANY TIMES, YET LIKE MANY OTHER GOVERNMENT ORDERS, THE BANS ARE OFTEN QUICKLY FORGOTTEN OR IGNORED. ## A PARTY ORDER AND CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE FAKING OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS 11. A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE IN THE OCTOBER 7 QUANZHOU WANBAO CALLED ON PEOPLE TO CALL A HOTLINE CREATED BY THE QUANZHOU CITY GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT THE FALSIFICATION OF STATISTICS. THE HOTLINE IS PART OF QUANZHOU CITY'S EFFORT TO IMPLEMENT THE RECENT ORDER "NOTICE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE OFFICE AND THE STATE COUNCIL
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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.