The contacts, conducted mainly through Sunni Arab tribal and religious leaders, were limited to factions which could be coaxed away from violence and into mainstream politics, the official added.
Direct contacts, conducted through the Chinese embassy in Warsaw, were broken off after the 1970 U.S.-ARVN attacks on Cambodia, but Nixon and Kissinger remained hopeful.
Most of the informal contacts conducted between the two since the 1990's have been conducted through two semi-private organizations, the Straits Exchange Foundation of Taiwan and a similar entity on the Chinese side.
The intervention of the first arm of the study consists of regular telephone contacts, conducted by specially trained nurses.
The follow-up consists of three contacts, conducted approximately one, three and eight weeks after discharge in both control and intervention patients.
This is in contrast to the study of child household contacts conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, where there was a greater concordance between positive ELISpot results and high TST reactions (14).
In addition, participants were expected to engage in at least two structured contacts conducted by outreach workers in street hang-outs, focusing on providing support to participants for achieving personal risk reduction goals.
This incident management system oversaw training of 2,300 health care staff, creation of an ETU in 14 days, and identification of >800 contacts; conducted 19,000 home visits of these contacts to monitor symptoms and temperatures; and screened >150,000 persons at airports.
Additonally, a seroprevalence survey of close contacts and assessment of level of contact was conducted.
