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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (12785)	6/24/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Corruption is definitely a big problem in China now, but there were very few bet. 1950 and 1966. And why? Because there were one after another political campaign against gov. officials' corruption during that period. So very few officials could get away with the corruption. Corruption has only become a problem after 1978, the beginning of the "open-door" policy. Since China has never been a society ruled by law, and since the door has been wide-open, and a lot of "flies" (mainly produced by the capitalist society<g>) come in, and there is little established laws to fight against these corruption. And even if now a lot of laws have been written, the gov. has no enough money to enforce them. Law takes tremendous amount of money to be enforced. just look at the US, you know what I mean. And the gov. now is trying to do its best. George you made a good point about things cannot change in a flash, especially in a populous country like China. If what happened in Russia had happened in China, there would be millions of Chinese starved to death. Maybe that is just what the West wants!!

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (12785)	6/24/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Nato and UN clash as KLA terror campaign goes on By Philip Smucker in Pec NATO and the United Nations traded blame yesterday as Albanian rebels continued a campaign of terror aimed at ousting Serbs from their homes in western Kosovo. Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas encircled the 14th century Serbian Orthodox patriarchy in Pec where several hundred terrified Serb refugees have taken refuge recently. One KLA official, calling himself a military policeman, threatened to shoot our driver after we offered a ride to an ageing Serb woman wishing to visit her son. Fresh graves and burning houses lined the roads leading into Pec, a city already devastated by Serbian police and paramilitary units who had wantonly destroyed Albanian homes and offices. On the eastern side of town two dead Serbs lay in an overturned lorry that appeared to have been looted. Serb neighbours said they had been shot dead while trying to flee the city. Ageing Serbs from Djakovica and Pec said they had been forced to leave their homes by armed KLA guerrillas in uniform. They said that 12 Serbs in the Pec area had been killed since Italian troops arrived 10 days ago. Serb residents in Djakovica said nine of their Serb neighbours had been kidnapped and Serbs in Pec provided a list of 20 people they said had been kidnapped since Nato troops arrived. A senior Italian Nato official lashed out at UN officials who, a day earlier, criticised a Nato policy to try to escort several hundred Serb refugees back to their homes in the area. The UN officials contend that the time is not right to try to re-establish a multi-ethnic city. As Western leaders, including President Clinton, have tried to discourage a flood of ethnic Albanian refugees from returning to their homes, Nato, fearing an ethnically pure Kosovo, has made a point of trying to get as many Serbs as possible back to their homes. The Italian official accused the UN of moving too slowly to provide humanitarian aid and to police the area as mandated by the Kosovo peace plan. He said: "There should have been a major UN intervention from the beginning and we could have avoided some of these problems." He admitted that the KLA had been "intolerant" towards Serbs in the area but said the rebels were good at avoiding Nato patrols and arms searches in a continuing game of cat and mouse. Inside the high walls of the ancient patriarchy on the western edge of Pec, Serb families used short-wave radio to try to organise their exodus. Several elderly Serb men displayed bruises and cuts they said were inflicted by KLA soldiers. Cedo Stosic, a refugee from the nearby village of Belo Polje, said he had helped put three of his relatives in a single grave before fleeing. Ben Fenton in Washington writes: US Marines shot dead a gunman near the village of Zegra, south of Gnjilane, yesterday and wounded two after their Nato checkpoint came under fire. It was not known whether the attackers were Kosovar Albanians or Serbs. No Marines were injured. telegraph.co.uk