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HINA-INOIA: GANDHI'S VISIT APPEARS SUCCESSFUL

3. LEBANON: PlO ANO AMAL MILITIA REACH TRUCE AFGHANISTAN: UN TO REDUCE PRESENCE IN KABUL S. IN BRIEF

HINA-INDIA: GANDHI'S VISIT APPEARS SUCCESSFUL

INDIANit MINISTER GANDHI'S VISIT TO CHINA APPEARS TO HAVE PRODUCED MOVEMENT TOWARD RESOLUTION 0' THE LONGSTANDING BORDER . ISPUTE AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR IMPROVED RELATIONS, lj fa J

OINT COMMUNIQUE RELEASEO YESTEROAV, THE TOO SIDES ARNOUMCEO ESTABLISHMENTORKING GROUP ON THE BOUNDARY QUESTION AMD THE FORMATION OF JOINT COMMITTEES ON ECONOMIC RELATIONS ANO TRADE AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THE TEXT ALSO TOOK MOTE OF INDIA'S RECOGNITION OF CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY OVER TIBET AND STRESSED THAT IMPHOVEO RELATIONS HEEO HOT WAITORDER SETTLEMENT. CHINESE

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PREMIER LI PENG ACCEPTEOISIT NEWNO DATE HAS BEEN

FORMATIONORfJER WORKING CROUP AND UPBEAT PRESS COVERAGE OF THE VISIT INDICATE BOTH SIDES ARE PLEASED WITH THE dYsCUSSIONS. ALTHOUGH THERE Ii NO INFORMATION ON THE SPECIFICS OF THE BORDER TALKS, .WE WWKING_CM

KEGOtTaTiSnS. WH,CH HAVE NOT PROGRESSEDROUNDS OF WORKING-LEVEL TALKS SINCE t 3

THE APPARENT AGREEMENT to* RESOLVI?*THE BOUNOARY DISPUTE IH FURTHER MEETINGS WILL HELP GANDHI SILENCE DOMESTIC CRITICS WHO WILL CLAIM THAT HIS VISIT RESULTED ONLY IH SYMBOLIC AGREEMENTS AND THAT HE ED TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THE KEY ISSUE. BEIJING IS ALMOST

certainly pleased by new delhi's publk acknowledgment of china's

Sovereignty over tibet, particularly- after international press

COVERAGE OF CHINESE POLICJ SHOOTINGS OF TIBETAN DEMONSTRATORS EARLIER THIS MONTH,

EBANON: PLO-AHAL MILITIA* REACH TRUCE

THEAL MILITIA IS MENOING RELATIONS WITH MIO-ARAFAT PLO FORCES IH SOUTHERN LEBANON WHILE IT PREPARES FOR AROUND Of BATTLES WITH HIZBALLAH IN WEST BEIRUT ANO THE CAPITAL'S SOUTHERI; SUBURBS,

SYRIAN SUPPO HOPES THAT THE PALESTI

L PROBABLV RECOCNIZES IT CANNOT COUNT ONHIZBALLAH. THE MODERATE SHIA MILITIA NORELATIONS WITH FATAHASTWHO HAVE BACKED H" "ALLAH THE ACCORO ALSO FACILITATES AMAL "EMBERS' BEIRUT AHO THE SOUTH THROUGH FATAH'SSIDON STRONGHOLD. PIO FORCES APPEAR TO BE TILT NO TOWARD AM At IN ANT ICIIzBALLAH AND SYRIA FOLLOWING LASTNATIONAL.COUNCIL MEETING AHO THE PLO DIALOGUE

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