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Subject: News (includes soccer towards the end)...
Date: 15 Nov 1992 22:59:04 -0600
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11/15/82 Sunday

    ANKARA - Iran, Syria and Turkey voiced clear disapproval of the
self-declared Kurdish government in northern Iraq and vowed to prevent Iraq's
disintegration.
    Foreign ministers of Iraq's three neighbours said after a meeting in Ankara
that they attached the utmost importance to Iraq's territorial integrity and
political unity.
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    ISTANBUL - Turkish security forces killed 19 Kurdish rebels during a
gunbattle, Anatolian news agency said.


AZERBAIJAN...

   MOSCOW (AP) -- Two days of heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani
forces in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has left dozens of people
dead, news agencies reported Saturday.
   Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry accused Armenia of attacking the Mardakert
district of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday night, the ITAR-Tass news agency
reported. Officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said Azerbaijan sparked the fighting,
the agency said.
   More than 1,500 people have been killed since 1988 in fighting between the
two former Soviet republics over the enclave, which is in Muslim Azerbaijan but
is populated mainly by Christian Armenians.
   The Interfax news agency quoted the pro-independence Karabakh News Agency as
saying Azerbaijani forces retreated after the fighting, leaving 34 bodies on the

field. It said two Armenian fighters also were killed.
   Azerbaijan said 30 Armenians were killed but that it lost a tank and two
armored personnel carriers.
   Neither claim could be independently verified.
   Elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, fighting also raged Friday in the
Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. The Tajik security ministry said rebels
attacked a suburb of the capital, Dushanbe, killing four people.
   Tajikistan, which borders China and Afghanistan, descended into civil war in
September when a coalition of democratic and Islamic groups forced ex-Communist
President Rakhmon Nabiyev to resign.
   The fighting has been fueled by gun-smuggling from Afghanistan. Border guard
officers warned Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Saturday that they would go
on strike unless their units were reinforced, ITAR-Tass reported.


CHECHEN...
11/14/92 CHECHEN REBEL LEADER SEES RUSSIAN INVASION THREAT

    By Oliver Wates
    MOSCOW, Nov 15, Reuter - A rebel leader in southern Russia declared martial
law in part of the Chechen autonomous republic to counter an alleged threat of
Russian invasion.
    Itar-Tass news agency said Dzhokhar Dudayev, leading his region's year-old
bid for independence, signed a decree putting a new defence council in charge of

western Chechnya.
    But Russian Defence Minister Pavel Grachev repeated a denial that the
Kremlin's troops, sent in two weeks ago to suppress an outbreak of ethnic
violence in the northern Caucasus region, had any intention of attacking
Chechnya.
    "No such plans have been drawn up, are being drawn up or will be drawn up,"
he said in a television interview. "Let the Chechen people and their leaders
live in peace."
    Local news media reported sporadic fighting in another war-torn region of
the former Soviet Union, the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan.
    Tajik radio announced the formation of a new People's Democratic Army of
Tajikistan, made up of all armed units in and around the capital, Dushanbe.
    Local journalists said supporters of ousted ex-communist president Rakhmon
Nabiyev had surrounded Dushanbe with an economic blockade.
    Tajik radio's announcement, monitored by the British Broadcasting
Corporation, demanded the lifting of the blockade and blamed communist and
reactionary forces for half a year of civil war.
    "Today or tomorrow the flames of this war will enter the territories of
neighbouring republics and will even drag Russia into it," the radio said.
    Nabiyev was ousted in September by a coalition of Islamic radicals and
democrats, which in turn announced its resignation last week. The Tajik
parliament was due to meet in the northern town of Khojand, a Nabiyev
stronghold, on Monday.
    Tass said Russian border troops, who still man Tajikistan's sensitive
frontier with Afghanistan, threatened to abandon their posts unless they were
given more protection,
    Russian officers urged Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Friday to consider

pulling them out, saying their men came under fire from both sides when trying
to prevent arms smuggling across the border.
    "Carrying out their duty in these extreme conditions, border guards have no
social and legal security, live in difficult conditions and see no prospect for
the future," the appeal said.
    Ethnic Tajiks live both sides of the border. The border troops are separate
from regular Russian army forces which are trying to keep the peace in
Tajikistan.
    The government of another former Soviet republic, Georgia, protested to
Russia over an incident off the Black Sea port of Poti, Interfax news agency
said.
    It quoted the Georgian navy's deputy commander, Guram Pirveli, as saying a
Russian navy ship with 20 sailors on board opened fire on Georgian ships
blockading Poti on Friday and entered the port. There was no mention of
casualties.
    Tensions between Russia and Georgia, have been heightened by violence in
Abkhazia, a separatist region of Georgia. The Abkhazian health ministry said
hospitals reported 429 deaths and 1,620 injuries in fighting in the past three
months.
    But the agency quoted military experts as saying the real casualty toll was
at least twice as high as many victims were buried without being taken to
hospitals.


   KARLOVAC, Croatia (AP) -- Prisoners released from a Serb-run detention camp
in Bosnia, thin and wan from months of confinement, on Sunday praised the Red
Cross and the camp commander for making sure they survived.
   More than 700 prisoners, mostly men over 55 years old, were released from the

Manjaca camp on Saturday and bused to safety in the Croatian town of Karlovac
southwest of the republic's capital, Zagreb.
   They joined about 1,000 former camp inmates released on Oct. 1 and still
waiting for resettlement in third counties.
   The men waited for food coupons late Sunday, exhausted by their ordeal.
   But in contrast to tales of beatings, torture and murder from other camps,
these detainees said they were not abused.
   "We can only thank the camp's commander, retired Yugoslav army Col. Bozidar
Popovic, who did not allow anybody to slaughter us," said Sead Hadzikotnic, a
42-year-old locksmith from Doboj, a town 37 miles east of Manjaca.
   He was swept from his home by Serb soldiers in early June and had been at
Manjaca ever since.
   "In the beginning we were literally starving," said Muhamed. The 53-year-old
man did not want to give his family name to protect relatives remaining in
Manjaca.
   He said the prisoners were given only a half piece of bread and a square of
salami a day until the International Committtee of the Red Cross began bringing
in food daily late in the summer.
   "I'm still weak, I can't stand for a long time," he said, his bones showing
though his sallow skin. "Only God and the ICRC existed for us."
   He said his village of Gornja Sanica, near Kljuc in western Bosnia, had been
of its non-Serbian population back in June.
   Others also spoke of the internationally condemned practice of "ethnic
cleansing."
   All sides have been accused of the practice, but most of the blame has fallen

on Serbs who have captured about 70 percent of the republic in fighting that
began last spring. At least 14,000 people have been killed and more than a
million driven from their homes.
   The three warring sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina committed themselves in August
to release all camp prisoners by Oct. 31.
   But the Red Cross spokeswoman in Zagreb, Margolaine Martin, said that less
than 3,000 people had been freed. Another 3,000 or so remain in Manjaca alone,
said Alexandra Morelli, the field coordinator for the U.N. High Commissioner for

Refugees in Karlovac.
   "We estimate that there are still between 10,000-12,0000 people detained,"
said Stephane Jaquemet, a Red Cross official in Karlovac.
   Croatia says it is overloaded with the hundreds of thousands of refugees from

its own war last year and from the fighting in Bosnia this year.



[ 1994 SOCCER WORLD CUP ELIMINATIONS ]

    France 2 - Finland 1

    PARIS, Nov 14 - France beat Finland 2-1 (halftime 2-0) in a World
Cup European group six soccer qualifier on Saturday.
    Scorers:
    France - Jean-Pierre Papin (17th minute), Eric Cantona (31st)
    Finland - Petri Jarvinen (54th)

    Romania 1 - Czechoslovakia 1

    BUCHAREST, Nov 14 - Romania and Czechoslovakia drew 1-1 (halftime
0-0) in a World Cup, European group four soccer qualifier on Saturday.
    Scorers:
    Romania - Ilie Dumitrescu (48th minute)
    Czechoslovakia - Vaclav Nemecek (79th, penalty))

    Mexico 2- Honduras 0

    MEXICO CITY, Nov 15 - Mexico beat Honduras 2-0 (halftime 1-0) in a
CONCACAF second-round Group A World Cup qualifying match on Sunday.
    Scorers: de la Torre (13th), Uribe (62nd)
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