From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline News About Iran, July 30th, Part I.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:54:17 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES
 16. IRANIAN SPIRITUAL LEADER EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR MUSLIMS IN
     BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA

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 17. IRANIAN MISSES THE BUS, IRISHMAN ANGERED
 18. IRISH AND IRANIAN BOXERS FACE SUSPENSION
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 19. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 20. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH GROUP IN LEBANON TURNS OVER HEADQUARTERS TO GOV'T

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=START=   XMT: 05:36 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 06:00 Thu Jul 30 

IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION 

KABUL/NEW DELHI (JULY 29) DPA - Afghanistan has concluded agreements with Iran
on wide-ranging cooperation, Radio Kabul reported early Wednesday. 

It said the two sides would immediately set up commissions for jointly fighting
drug abuse, rebuilding the education system, ensuring an orderly return of
refugees and rebuilding the health and communications sectors. 

An Iranian delegation left Kabul late Tuesday after signing accords on
economic, cultural and scientific cooperation. 

Radio Kabul said the two countries would start by organizing regular customs
controls along their joint border. Afghan mail destined for other countries
would be distributed through Iran starting immediately, and Iran would train
Afghani posts and telecommunications personnel. 



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  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES

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=START=   XMT: 07:39 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 08:00 Thu Jul 30 

AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN 

KABUL (JULY 29) DPA - Kabul telvision has removed women from on-air jobs as
newsreaders following complaints by the hardline former Mujahedin which now
rules the country, the German Press Agency dpa learned Tuesday. 

''Some of the hardline Jehadi Forces (former Mujahedin) were asking for women
to be banned form television, so we felt it better to comply rather than start
fighting and have people killed,'' said Maulavi Wala Jan Wasiq, first deputy
minister of information and culture. He said the decision was made by the
Leadership Council. 

The departure of female anchors from news broadcasts is only the latest change
to take place in broadcasting since the former Mujahedin took power in Kabul in
late April. 

At first music was not allowed on televison. Women continued to appear on
camera, but wearing headscarves (chadar). Then this week they vanished from
television altogether, although women are still reading the news on radio. 

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Maulavi Wasiq said, ''We are repecting women's rights according to Islamic Law.
For those women working on television, we will pay their salaries and keep them
on our staff.'' 

The issue of women in front of the television camera figured in the
negotiations for power last spring. One of the conditions for support for
Burhanuddin Rabbani by hardline leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was removal of women
newsreaders from television. That was backed by another hardliner, Unis Khalis
of Hizb-I-Islami. 

A moderate leader of the former Mujahedin, Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani, said the
decision to take women off the air had been made by individuals, and that the
Leadership Council had taken no disicion yet. 

He said women have the right to work, noting that women hold jobs as teachers
and doctors. 



=END= 

     PROFILE NEWS

  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES

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=START=   XMT: 17:43 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 06:00 Thu Jul 30 

OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK 

BARCELONA, Spain (JULY 29) UPI - Now here's one for the Guiness Book of
Records. 

Panamanian journalist Marco Antonio Gandasequi has covered more Olympic Games
than any other scribe. 

''Mr. Olympic'', as he's known in his country, covered his first Olympics 60
years ago at the 1932 Los Angeles Games. 

At the age of 84 he has not yet tired of covering this event that is a true
marathon of freneticism for any member of the media. 

In all he has worked at 14 Summer Olympics and four Winter Games, Barcelona
being No. 15. 

He has also been tagged ''Mr. Pin'' because of all the pins he has collected. 

But not all his pins are swaps. Some he has earned. During the terrorist-hit
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Games in Munich in 1972 he received the ''Olympic Pin and in 1984, with three
other journalists, he received a medal, all recognition for his services in the
field of Olympic news coverage. 

As far back as 1968 in Mexico he received a diploma for being one of the most
veteran Olympic reporters. 

The sprightly Panamanian has, however, missed one Games. That was Seoul in
1988. He fell ill on a stopover in Japan and had to return home. 

Gandasequi writes a daily column in La Estrella newspaper in Panama, where he
was head of the sports section and joint owner of the Cadena Panamena de
Radiofusion. He worked for the United Nations for 21 years. 

Canadian sailor Hank Lammens won and then lost his Finn class yachting race
Tuesday when he was disqualified for not having a lifeboat on board. 

Lammens finished fourth in the first heat, and placed first in the second heat 
when he was dropped in the standings for the infraction. 

''I'll just have to work harder to charge up the standings,'' Lammers
said.''There'll be no rest on the last day.'' 

Charles Barkley, perhaps the only amateur heavyweight at the Olympics who can
outfight Cuban Felix Savon, watched the boxing matches Tuesday night with Dream
Team teammates Magic Johnson and Patrick Ewing. 

The basketball stars did not hang around to see Savon's knockout of Poland's
Krzysztof Rojek that ended the session, however. They watched about 10 bouts,
then met the U.S. boxers in the dressing room. 

Unlike heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, who watched the afternoon
session unbothered, the basketball players attracted a big crowd at their
seats. After they left, one star-struck youngester picked up a discarded potato
chip wrapper from where the Dream Team players were sitting and put it in his
pocket. 

Li Ning of China, winner of six gymnastics medals in the 1984 Olympics, has
perhaps a tougher job in Barcelona. 

Li is one of the judges for the men's competition, attempting to discern
mistakes by the world's best gymnasts unnoticeable to the untrained eye. 

''Gymnastics has changed a lot since my day,'' said Li, who judged the vault
Wednesday after working at the high bar in Monday's compulsories. ''Many new
movements have been developed.'' 

Li won three gold medals, two silvers and one bronze in the 1984 Los Angeles
Games and competed four years later in Seoul, though he did not medal. He
turned to judging after his retirement, and has been working at the
international level for two years. 

''It is hard work being a judge,'' he said. ''It requires great concentration.
The standard of competition is very high and the gymnasts' levels are very
close. We are carrying a lot of responsibility.'' 

Bosnia-Hercegovina, Liberia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan raised their flags
Wednesday morning in the Placa de Ceremonies of the Olympic Village. 

Twenty-three people represented the delegation from Bosnia- Hercegovina at the
ceremony, which was described as ''very moving.'' 



=END= 

     PROFILE NEWS

  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES

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=START=   XMT: 17:43 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 06:00 Thu Jul 30 

OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK 

BARCELONA, Spain (JULY 29) UPI - Now here's one for the Guiness Book of
Records. 

Panamanian journalist Marco Antonio Gandasequi has covered more Olympic Games
than any other scribe. 

''Mr. Olympic'', as he's known in his country, covered his first Olympics 60
years ago at the 1932 Los Angeles Games. 

At the age of 84 he has not yet tired of covering this event that is a true
marathon of freneticism for any member of the media. 

In all he has worked at 14 Summer Olympics and four Winter Games, Barcelona
being No. 15. 

He has also been tagged ''Mr. Pin'' because of all the pins he has collected. 

But not all his pins are swaps. Some he has earned. During the terrorist-hit
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Games in Munich in 1972 he received the ''Olympic Pin and in 1984, with three
other journalists, he received a medal, all recognition for his services in the
field of Olympic news coverage. 

As far back as 1968 in Mexico he received a diploma for being one of the most
veteran Olympic reporters. 

The sprightly Panamanian has, however, missed one Games. That was Seoul in
1988. He fell ill on a stopover in Japan and had to return home. 

Gandasequi writes a daily column in La Estrella newspaper in Panama, where he
was head of the sports section and joint owner of the Cadena Panamena de
Radiofusion. He worked for the United Nations for 21 years. 

Canadian sailor Hank Lammens won and then lost his Finn class yachting race
Tuesday when he was disqualified for not having a lifeboat on board. 

Lammens finished fourth in the first heat, and placed first in the second heat 
when he was dropped in the standings for the infraction. 

''I'll just have to work harder to charge up the standings,'' Lammers
said.''There'll be no rest on the last day.'' 

Charles Barkley, perhaps the only amateur heavyweight at the Olympics who can
outfight Cuban Felix Savon, watched the boxing matches Tuesday night with Dream
Team teammates Magic Johnson and Patrick Ewing. 

The basketball stars did not hang around to see Savon's knockout of Poland's
Krzysztof Rojek that ended the session, however. They watched about 10 bouts,
then met the U.S. boxers in the dressing room. 

Unlike heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, who watched the afternoon
session unbothered, the basketball players attracted a big crowd at their
seats. After they left, one star-struck youngester picked up a discarded potato
chip wrapper from where the Dream Team players were sitting and put it in his
pocket. 

Li Ning of China, winner of six gymnastics medals in the 1984 Olympics, has
perhaps a tougher job in Barcelona. 

Li is one of the judges for the men's competition, attempting to discern
mistakes by the world's best gymnasts unnoticeable to the untrained eye. 

''Gymnastics has changed a lot since my day,'' said Li, who judged the vault
Wednesday after working at the high bar in Monday's compulsories. ''Many new
movements have been developed.'' 

Li won three gold medals, two silvers and one bronze in the 1984 Los Angeles
Games and competed four years later in Seoul, though he did not medal. He
turned to judging after his retirement, and has been working at the
international level for two years. 

''It is hard work being a judge,'' he said. ''It requires great concentration.
The standard of competition is very high and the gymnasts' levels are very
close. We are carrying a lot of responsibility.'' 

Bosnia-Hercegovina, Liberia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan raised their flags
Wednesday morning in the Placa de Ceremonies of the Olympic Village. 

Twenty-three people represented the delegation from Bosnia- Hercegovina at the
ceremony, which was described as ''very moving.'' 



=END= 

     PROFILE NEWS

  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES

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=START=   XMT: 18:33 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 07:00 Thu Jul 30 

OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK 

BARCELONA, Spain (JULY 29) UPI - Now here's one for the Guiness Book of
Records. 

Panamanian journalist Marco Antonio Gandasequi has covered more Olympic Games
than any other scribe. 

''Mr. Olympic'', as he's known in his country, covered his first Olympics 60
years ago at the 1932 Los Angeles Games. 

At the age of 84 he has not yet tired of covering this event that is a true
marathon of freneticism for any member of the media. 

In all he has worked at 14 Summer Olympics and four Winter Games, Barcelona
being No. 15. 

He has also been tagged ''Mr. Pin'' because of all the pins he has collected. 

But not all his pins are swaps. Some he has earned. During the terrorist-hit
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Games in Munich in 1972 he received the ''Olympic Pin and in 1984, with three
other journalists, he received a medal, all recognition for his services in the
field of Olympic news coverage. 

As far back as 1968 in Mexico he received a diploma for being one of the most
veteran Olympic reporters. 

The sprightly Panamanian has, however, missed one Games. That was Seoul in
1988. He fell ill on a stopover in Japan and had to return home. 

Gandasequi writes a daily column in La Estrella newspaper in Panama, where he
was head of the sports section and joint owner of the Cadena Panamena de
Radiofusion. He worked for the United Nations for 21 years. 

Canadian sailor Hank Lammens won and then lost his Finn class yachting race
Tuesday when he was disqualified for not having a lifeboat on board. 

Lammens finished fourth in the first heat, and placed first in the second heat 
when he was dropped in the standings for the infraction. 

''I'll just have to work harder to charge up the standings,'' Lammers
said.''There'll be no rest on the last day.'' 

Charles Barkley, perhaps the only amateur heavyweight at the Olympics who can
outfight Cuban Felix Savon, watched the boxing matches Tuesday night with Dream
Team teammates Magic Johnson and Patrick Ewing. 

The basketball stars did not hang around to see Savon's knockout of Poland's
Krzysztof Rojek that ended the session, however. They watched about 10 bouts,
then met the U.S. boxers in the dressing room. 

Unlike heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, who watched the afternoon
session unbothered, the basketball players attracted a big crowd at their
seats. After they left, one star-struck youngester picked up a discarded potato
chip wrapper from where the Dream Team players were sitting and put it in his
pocket. 

Li Ning of China, winner of six gymnastics medals in the 1984 Olympics, has
perhaps a tougher job in Barcelona. 

Li is one of the judges for the men's competition, attempting to discern
mistakes by the world's best gymnasts unnoticeable to the untrained eye. 

''Gymnastics has changed a lot since my day,'' said Li, who judged the vault
Wednesday after working at the high bar in Monday's compulsories. ''Many new
movements have been developed.'' 

Li won three gold medals, two silvers and one bronze in the 1984 Los Angeles
Games and competed four years later in Seoul, though he did not medal. He
turned to judging after his retirement, and has been working at the
international level for two years. 

''It is hard work being a judge,'' he said. ''It requires great concentration.
The standard of competition is very high and the gymnasts' levels are very
close. We are carrying a lot of responsibility.'' 

Bosnia-Hercegovina, Liberia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan raised their flags
Wednesday morning in the Placa de Ceremonies of the Olympic Village. 

Twenty-three people represented the delegation from Bosnia- Hercegovina at the
ceremony, which was described as ''very moving.'' 

If you can't take the heat, move out of the Olympic Village into an
air-conditioned room. That's what American tennis star Pete Sampras has done. 

Rather than tough it out like teammate and doubles partner Jim Courier prefers
to do, Sampras likes the luxury accomodations of a hotel. 

''Maybe they're right and tennis players are pampered,'' said Sampras after
sweeping past Australia's Wally Masur Wednesday in a first round match at the
tennis competition at the XXV Summer Olympic Games. 

Sampras was excited to at being a member of the USA team despite the obstacle 

''As soon as I was asked for the team, it's something I immediately said 'yes'
to, even though it's on clay, in Barcelona, and not the best preparation for
the U.S. Open. 

''I still felt it's the best thing for tennis and my life and as a person.'' 

However, once Sampras took a look at his room, he decided to book elsewhere. 

''Once I got there and saw the size of the bed and how hot it was, it was
something that I felt I was really going to have a hard time staying there. I
came here to play tennis. I think my rest is too important. I need my sleep and
can't seem to sleep there. It's too hot.'' 

U.S. men's coach Tom Gorman understands Sampras doesn't want to be drained
before he goes on court. However, while many players have talked about the hot 
steamy conditions, Gorman doesn't believe it's unbearable. 

''It's warm,'' said the former touring pro. ''Washington, D.C., Indianapolis,
and Cincinnati, that's hot. They've had to stop play there at times because of
the conditions.'' 



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  1. IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN CONCLUDE AGREEMENTS ON WIDE-RANGING COOPERATION
  2. AFGHANISTAN TV BANS WOMEN FROM NEWSCASTS IN A BOW TO MUJAHEDIN
  3. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  4. OLYMPICS NOTEBOOK
  5. RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE
  6. EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL
     TRADE
  7. INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS
  8. U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S.
  9. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 10. SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT
 11. U.S. APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS PRES. BUSH'S POLICY ON RETURNING HAITIAN
     REFUGEES
 12. U.S. FEDERAL COURT OPENS DOOR TO RELEASE IRA TERRORIST JOSEPH SMYTH ON
     BAIL
 13. IRAN, ITALY AGREE TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
 14. IRAN AND SUDAN REPORTEDLY ARRANGE OIL FOR MEAT DEAL
 15. REPORT SAYS IRAN'S DISCOVERY OF OFFSHORE GAS FIELD IN GULF BOOSTS GAS
     RESERVES

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=START=   XMT: 15:07 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 15:00 Sat Aug 01 

RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW INITIATIVE TO END NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISPUTE 

MOSCOW, (July 27) IPS - Russia is making a renewed attempt to end hostilities
between Armenia and Azerbaijan now fighting for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh
region. 

The Russian government has again proposed a ceasefire and withdrawal of forces 
with a settlement on the future of the disputed territory to be worked out
after fighting ceases. 

The move seeks to avert intensified fighting and break the deadlock between the
two sides who are due to participate in talks in Rome held under the auspices
of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). A date is to be
set for the talks. 

It also comes after negotiators on all sides have recognized that attempts to
decide on Nagorno-Karabakh's status will indefinitely stall any agreement as
efforts now focus on ensuring a ceasefire under international supervision. 

The Russian Itar-Tass news agency today reported that Vladimir Kazimirov,
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Moscow's chief negotiator for the Minsk CSCE conference on Karabakh, last week
submitted the new proposals to Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan in
Yerevan. 

The latest initiative envisages an end to the bloodiest ethnic fighting in the
former Soviet Union and withdrawal of forces five kms from the area of combat. 

This follows an earlier decision by CSCE leaders at this month's Helsinki
summit to deploy some 100 unarmed peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, but only
after a ceasefire took hold. 

Though both sides welcomed the step, fighting has continued, with recent
reports of Azerbaijani jets bombing villages in the disputed area and Armenian
forces claiming to down one aircraft.  In a skeptical assessment of peace
prospects, the influential Russian "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" last week stated that
the two sides were actually on the verge of "decisive battles." 

During four years of bloody fighting, more than 2,000 people have died in the
mountainous province of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic enclave of roughly 200,000
Armenian Christians surrounded by Muslim-majority Azerbaijanis. 

The conflict escalated this summer when Armenian forces opened a land corridor
to Nagorno-Karabakh and drove away Azerbaijanis from several cities in the
region. 

This month, Azerbaijani troops launched a counter-offensive and have reportedly
bombed villages in the disputed zone. 

According to "Nezavisimaya Gazeta," Russian President Boris Yeltsin and
Ter-Petrosyan have concluded a secret deal transferring a mechanized division
of the former Soviet army stationed in Yerevan, to Armenia. 

"Even if only part of the heavy arms of the Yerevan division appears on the
battlefield in Karabakh, the correlation of forces is bound to be altered
significantly," the newspaper said. 

Ter-Petrosyan reportedly told Kazimirov that the Minsk conference should
concentrate on developing a ceasefire mechanism and setting up "international
controls" in Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Itar-Tass quoted the Armenian President's Press Secretary Ruben Shugaryan today
as saying, "in contrast to previous overtures, the proposals by the Russian
foreign ministry highlight a desire and an attempt to develop a ceasefire
mechanism and achieve a political settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh." 

Shugaryan expressed renewed interest in the CSCE Minsk conference which he said
would initiate the "first stage of the Karabakh settlement." 

Several earlier attempts by Iran and Turkey to end the fighting have failed. A
United Nations observer mission also visited the region last month and in a
confidential report its envoy Francesc Vendrell cast doubts over the CSCE role
as negotiator and peacekeeper. 

Armenia has repeatedly asked for U.N. peacekeeping troops but the world body
cannot go ahead without Azerbaijani consent. 

When foreign and defense ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) met earlier this month in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, they decided to
set-up their own peacekeeping force for deployment in troubled areas of the
ex-Soviet Union. 

But Azerbaijan reacted negatively to the move and insisted that all efforts to
end hostilities should be directed by the CSCE. 



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EUROPEAN BANKS ENCOURAGE EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS TO CONTINUE INTER-REGIONAL TRADE 

BONN, GERMANY (JULY 29) IPS - If the former Soviet republics are to avoid
massive dislocations in economic activity they have little option but to
continue to trade with each other. That's the verdict of nine European banks,
which make the assessment in a recently released report. 

Acknowledging that the new grouping of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
are eager to alter the existing trade pattern and step up the exchange of goods
with western countries, the banks say this is not feasible in the short-term
because they could not compete on the world market. 

Given the high degree of specialization and monopoly power that are a legacy of
the centrally planned system in the former Soviet Union, it is imperative that
the CIS states trade with each other, the European banks stress, supporting the
view expressed by the Munich summit of the G-7 major industrial nations between
July 6-8. 

There remains "a considerable degree of economic inter-dependence" between the
republics even though "nationalism has created strong centrifugal forces,"
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notes the report. 

The report was produced by Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Banque Bruxelles
Lambert, Banque Internationale a Luxembourg, Banque Nationale de Paris,
Barclays Bank, Hypo-bank, Dresdner Bank, Z-Laender Bank Austria and Banque de
la Societe Financiere Europeene. 

It covers Georgia and eight member states of the CIS -- Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Kirgzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Belorussia, Russia and Ukraine -- also members of the CIS -- are to be taken up
in separate reports. 

The agricultural, manufacturing and construction sectors are the CIS's main
employers. By contrast, the service sector accounts for a relatively small
share of the total economic activity. Such "distortions" will have to be
removed as the CIS states adopt the market system, the report states. 

It also points to great differences in development and resources among the
former Soviet Republics. There is also a disparity in the quality of human and
productive capital. 

Armenia, for example, has relatively poor agriculture and mountainous terrain.
But it does have substantial mineral deposits including gold, copper, zinc and
bauxite. 

With foreign investment these mines could be developed although the medium-term
economic prospects do not appear particularly bright given the limited and
poorly developed economic base, the report notes. 

Azerbaijan's mineral base seems to have more immediate possibilities.
"Independence should boost oil development and will enable Azeri's to exercise
greater control over the sector and to retain oil revenues for development
purposes," the European banks say. 

Georgia too, has major mineral deposits like coal, manganese, lead, iron ore
and some oil. But as part of the former Soviet Union it served as a major
agricultural producer, exporting mainly to the northern former constituent
republics in return for much-needed supplies of manufactured goods. 

Georgia's further development will depend on its ability to attract foreign
investment and introduce more liberal reforms, the report states. 

Foreign investment is also needed for development of kazakhstan, which is rich
in coal, bauxite, tungsten, iron ore, nickel, chromium, vanadium, titanium,
copper, lead, zinc, gold silver, petroleum and natural gas. 

Kirgistan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all have mainly
agricultural economies and could also do with a foreign investment boost, the
report says, which also pinpointed the need for economic reforms. 

But, the report adds, even with economic reforms and foreign investment the
former Soviet republics will not develop at the same pace. 

"The suspension of central coordination of economic activities will lead to a
much greater divergence in economic performance and living standards between
member states than has been evident in the past." 

It is against this backdrop that the development assistance Committee of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (COECD) is expected to
grant Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgistan and Turkmenistan "developing country"
status later this year. 

They would then be eligible for financial and technical assistance on the same
soft terms as offered to third world countries. 

"Concessional financial assistance and grants for technical cooperation will
not suffice by themselves as the experiences gathered in third world aid amply
prove," says Holger Baum, chair of "Germanwatch", an independent
non-governmental organization. 

The prevailing conditions in the former Soviet republics must be taken into
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INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON 13 OF 28 FOREIGN JOURNALISTS 

JAKARTA (JULY 29) DPA - The Indonesian government has lifted the ban on 13 of
the 28 foreign journalists who have been barred from entering the country, the
director general of immigration, Roni Sikap Sinuraya, announced Wednesday. 

The blacklisted journalists whom Roni refused to identify were from Australia,
England, the United States, Japan and Hong Kong. He said the ban on an
Australian, Lindsay Edmund Murdoch, who writes for The Age has not been lifted.

He said the requests to ban certain journalists and to lift the prohibition
came jointly from the State Intelligence Agency (Bakin) and the armed forces. 

Bakin demanded that the reporters be banned describing them as a danger to the
nation's security due to ''their biased and insinuative reporting against
Indonesia'', Roni said. 

Lindsay, the Age correspondent based in Singapore, was barred from entering the
country last year because of his negative reports about a secessionist movement
in the northernmost Sumatra region of Aceh and other issues, according to
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officials. 

Late last year there were about 17,000 people on the blacklist, both
Indonesians prohibited from travelling abroad and foreigners prevented from
entering the country. 

Meanwhile, about 2,000 foreign journalists have reportedly registered at the
Information Ministry to cover the tenth summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in
Jakarta in September. 



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U.S. TO ALLOW MORE THAN 2,000 IRAQI REFUGEES TO RESETTLE IN U.S. 

WASHINGTON (JULY 29) DPA - The U.S. government will allow more than 2,000 Iraqi
refugees in Saudi Arabian camps to resettle in the United States, a spokesman
for the State Department said Wednesday. 

Ninety-five Iraqis were granted political asylum in March and June, while a
further thousand people were given entry visas for the U.S. in July and are
expected to arrive in September. 

Next year, a further thousand refugees will join them. 

Some 27,000 Iraqis, of an original 20,000 Shiites and 10,000 prisoners of war,
remain in Saudi camps. 

Hopes that most of the Iraqis would be allowed to return to Iraq have not
materialised, a spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High
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=START=   XMT: 13:45 Wed Jul 29  EXP: 14:00 Thu Jul 30 

DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES 

(JULY 29) FNS - SUBJECT: Hearing on proposed refugee admissions for fiscal 1993


        LOCATION: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building 
                  -- July 30 


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SEXUAL HARASSMENT NOT GROUNDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM, RULES FEDERAL COURT 

FLINT, MI (JULY 29) UPI - Sexual harassment is not grounds for political asylum
in the United States, a federal appeals court has ruled. 

The case involves Elzbieta Klawitter, a Polish woman who is currently living in
Flint and working as a piano teacher. 

Klawitter said she was interrogated and threatened by the Polish secret police
in 1986 after returning from a visit to the United States. She said a colonel
threatened to destroy her career as a musician after she rebuffed his sexual
advances. 

In 1988, Klawitter sought asylum in the United States, citing the alleged
sexual harassment. But the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
rejected her bid to remain in the United States, upholding an earlier decision
by the Board of Immigration Appeals. 

According to the court, candidates for political asylum must prove that they
were persecuted or fear persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,
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group membership or political belief. The court called Klawitter's situation
''unfortunate,'' but said it doesn't meet the criteria for asylum as defined by
U.S. law. 

Klawitter does not feel she could safely return to Poland despite changes in
the government there and is planning steps designed to forestall deportation
and eventually secure permanent resident status, according to an attorney
involved in the case. 



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