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Editorial News of Thursday, 28 January 1999

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The Daily Graphic & Ghanaian Times.

The two dailies report on the meeting between President Rawlings and the visiting Chinese Veep at he Castle Osu, and the conviction of one Owusu Sekyere for contempt.

"Let's solve disputes without force" is the story on the front page of the Daily Graphic. The story says the visiting Chinese Vice-President has stressed the need for international conflicts to be resolved without the use of force or the threat of it.

Globalisation requires that all countries big, small, poor or rich are given the same opportunity to partake in international affairs without fear or intimidation, the paper reports Mr Hu, who is on a three-day official visit as saying.

Other stories on the front-page of the paper include a proposed national school fees committee which is to be set up very soon to regulate the fixing of fees and other charges by public senior secondary schools and the conviction of one Owusu Sekyere by a Sunyani Court for contempt.

The court ruled that by acting as a chief, Odeneho Owusu Sekyere violated an order by the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs restraining him from doing so.

The back-page of the Graphic carried two sports stories headlined; "Starlets off for Meridian Cup" and "Hearts win Super Cup. Beat Asante Kotoko 2-1".

The Times on it back-page carried a story under the headline " Energy Road Map for Ghana ready". According to the story, a report on "an Energy Roadmap for Ghana: From crisis to the Fuel for Economic Freedom", will be presented to the Ghana government next month.

The United States members of the Bi-national Interagency Task Force, collaboration between Ghana and US on the former's energy crisis last year, compiled it.

The task force was formed last year in response to Vice President Prof. Attah Mills' visit to the US and Bill Clinton's pledge to assist Ghana in addressing her energy crisis.