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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (RALPH JOSEPH)
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Subject: Mitsotakis takes foreign affairs portfolio
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, politics
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 8:00:15 PDT
Location: greece
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	ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took
over the job of foreign affairs minister Tuesday a day after asking
Antonis Samaras to resign the post.
	The change was a result of policy differences between the premier and
his chief diplomat, sources said.
	At a swearing-in ceremony, Mitsotakis said ``the change had to be
made,'' but provided no details.
	Government spokesman Byron Polydoras told reporters later that
Greece's foreign policy ``will not change.''
	Political sources said Mitsotakis' differences with his foreign
minister simmered for days before the premier finally announced Monday
that he would ask Samaras to resign, and temporarily take over the
portfolio himself.
	The differences centered on a dispute with the neighboring republic
of Macedonia, which is seeking recognition from the European Community
after declaring itself independent from Yugoslavia.
	As a member of the EC, Greece has vetoed recognition, demanding that
the republic stop using the name ``Macedonia.'' A Greek province of the
same name lies close to the Yugoslav border.
	Greek officials and scholars say the name ``Macedonia'' is Hellenic
and goes back at least 3,000 years, to the period prior to Alexander the
Great.
	Samaras argued that if the breakaway Yugoslav republic were allowed
to keep the name, which it had prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia, it
may at a later date lay claim to the Greek province.
	Greek officials and the media refer to the state as the ``Republic of
Skopje,'' after the name of its capital. The officials say the republic
is Slavic, not Hellenic, and thus has no right to the name ``Macedonia.''
	Last week Mitsotakis was reportedly ready to compromise on the issue
so long as the republic fulfilled the EC's conditions for recognition,
including a commitment to drop all territorial claims on its neighbors.
Samaras, however, refused to compromise.
	Monday, after a meeting with the leaders of Greece's four main
opposition parties, Mitsotakis took a public stance identical to that of
his foreign minister, but simultaneously announced that he would ask
Samaras to resign.
	``The government cannot have two (foreign) policies,'' the prime
minister said. The government spokesman said Mitsotakis would attend all
EC meetings on the recogniton issue in his capacity as Greece's foreign
minister.
	The prime minister will ask Parliament for a vote of confidence
Wednesday, officials said.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.usa,clari.news.election,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Bush will visit Detroit area next week
Keywords: usa federal, government, election, politics
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:39:59 GMT
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Location: michigan
ACategory: washington
Slugword: bush-detroit
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	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bush will visit the Detroit area next
week to tour a machine plant, address business leaders and attend a
campaign fundraiser, the White announced Thursday.
	Deputy press secretary Gary Foster said Bush would use the
appearances Tuesday to once again promote his election-year crusade to
reform government and shakeup the Democratic-controlled Congress.
	Bush -- pushing for congressional-term limitations, a balanced budget
amendment and an reduction in federal regulations -- will tour the
Gidding & Lewis Corp. in Fraser, Mich., where he will address workers
and members of area chambers of commerces.
	On Tuesday night, the president will attend a Bush-Quayle campaign
fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dearborn, Mich.
	Cost of the trip will be divided between taxpayers and the Bush-
Quayle campaign, but under new White House rules the campaign will
pickup a larger share.
	Meanwhile, Marilyn Quayle, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, is
coming to Detroit on Friday to attend a conference on breast cancer at
Hutzel Hospital. She also plans appearances in Livonia, Mount Clemens
and Birmingham.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
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Subject: Bush says health care unlikely this year
Keywords: usa federal, government, politics, health
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 15:47:43 PDT
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	_ WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bush Friday said it was unlikely a
health care package can be passed this year in view of the political
campaign.
	Bush also acknowledged at a nationally televised news conference that
the health care package he unveiled with great fanfare earlier this year
was not entirely fleshed out, with the financing of the proposals not
addressed.
	The president was pressured into producing a health plan, based on
tax credits, to meet the problem of 36 million persons in the country
who do not have health insurance. And the dilemma of those persons who
dare not change jobs for fear of losing health benefits.
	He told a reporter ``if you're asking me do I believe a health care
program, given the political nature of this year, can get through this
year, I'd have to agree with many of the Democratic leaders that it's
unlikely.''
	Bush suggested that some $20 billion could be saved if Congress
passed new legislation limiting liability in malpractice cases.
	He insisted he is on the ``right track'' in dealing with the problem,
adding, ``We've got a good health insurance proposal. We are putting the
finishing touches to it. And if I had reason to believe it would sail
through this contentious Congress, I'd like to see it done.''
	He said that he strongly opposes two plans under consideration on
Capitol Hill -- one which proposes nationalized health insurance and the
other so-called ``pay or play'' which calls on employees to provide
health insurance or pay taxes into a government fund to finance those
benefits.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
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Subject: Weber joins list of congressmen bowing out
Keywords: politics
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:45:47 GMT
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ACategory: usa
Slugword: weber
Priority: regular
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	_ ST. PAUL, MinN. (UPI) -- Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., among those caught
up in the House banking scandal, Thursday joined the growing list of
congressmen choosing to retire rather than face angry voters in a re-
election bid.
	Weber had been regarded as a rising star in the Republican Party
until early this year when he had to disclose he had written 125 bad
checks for more than $40,000.
	He also was stung by a recent letter to the editor written by the
wife of a Republican National Committee member accusing him of causing
her husband to lose the party's nomination for governor in 1990 and
calling for his defeat this year -- even if by a Democrat.
	Weber issued a statement saying he could win a seventh term, but did
not want to go through what he said would be a ``vicious'' campaign.
	``In the last few weeks, I've taken a hard look at my personal goals,
the values I believe in and live by, and my life as a father and a
husband. What I have discovered is that I'm simply not ready to put
myself and my family through what is sure to be a vicious, negative and
highly personal campaign,'' he said.
	``I don't want to face an entire campaign that focuces on nothing
more than personal attacks, with no attention to the critical issues
facing the country.''
	Weber, first elected in 1980, joins 46 House Democrats and
Republicans who are retiring due to the banking scandal, reapportionment
or burn-out. Another five House members were defeated in primaries.
Seven senators are retiring and an eighth was a primary casualty.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (ROBERT SHEPARD)
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Subject: House votes to hire professional administrator
Keywords: usa federal, government, politics
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 17:44:28 PDT
ACategory: washington
Slugword: house
Priority: major
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	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The House, in an effort to rehabilitate itself in
the wake of recent scandals that have beseiged the chamber, agreed
Thursday to hire a professional administrator.
	The Democratic-sponsored proposal was overwhelmingly opposed by
Republicans who said more extensive reforms are needed in the way the
House is run.
	The measure approved on a 269-81 vote creates two new staff
positions, an administrator and an inspector general, to be appointed by
the House speaker, the Democratic leader and the Republican leader.
	The plan was developed by the Democratic leadership in the wake of
the House bank, post office and restaurant scandals. The move is part of
a leadership decision to end poltical patronage in which House employees
have been hired on the basis of their connections with House members.
	The new House administrator will take over responsibility for most
non-legislative operations in the House, including the finance office,
the personnel office, in-house mail, House restaurants, and other
support services. The new post takes over many duties now handled by the
House clerk, sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper.
	The inspector general would be authorized to regularly audit the
various operations.
	House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said the plan is intended to
ensure that operations ``are carried on with propriety, with absolute
integrity, with businesslike efficiency ... without partisan results.''
	``It is very far-reaching. It goes beyond anything that has ever been
done in the history of the House,'' Foley said.
	Officials responsible for supervising the House bank and the post
office recently resigned following criticism about lax management that
led to scandals involving bad checks at the bank and theft and drug
sales at the post office.
	Rep. Joseph Moakley, D-Mass., called the plan ``a major step forward.
''
	``The flawed policies and perks that have been part of this
institution for over a century are being phased out -- and that's a good
thing,'' he said during debate on the measure.
	Most Republicans refused to support the plan. Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-
N.Y., described it as ``an attempt to give the majority cover from the
scandals that have been laid at their doorstep.''
	Democrats had earlier negotiated with the Republicans in an attempt
to win their support for the plan, but the two sides were unable to
agree. Republicans demanded reforms in legislative procedures, in
addition to the administrative changes.
	Democrats said the Republicans were trying to use the occasion to
overcome their minority status in the House.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (RALPH JOSEPH)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.issues.civil_rights,clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
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Subject: Iran announces release from jail of eight political prisoners
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, civil rights,
	social issues, political parties, politics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 10:02:26 PDT
Location: iran
ACategory: international
Slugword: iran-amnesty
Priority: regular
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	ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Iranian authorities announced Monday that they
have released from prison eight members of a banned political party led
by former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, the official Islamic Republic
News Agency said.
	The prisoners, arrested last year for allegedly circulating a letter
criticizing the government, were released along with 100 others
amnestied by Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei April 1 to mark the
13th anniversary of the Islamic Republic.
	An IRNA report monitored in Athens said the eight prisoners, who were
members of Bazargan's Iran Freedom Movement, were released on a proposal
by judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi.
	There was no explanation of why Iran waited almost two weeks before
announcing their release.
	IRNA identified the freed political prisoners as Abdolali Bazargan,
Mohammed Tavassoli, Ali Ardalan, Reza Movshhed, Habib Davaran, Akbar
Zarrinehbaf, Abolfazl Mir-Shahshahani and Hashem Sabbaghian.
	IRNA quoted the Islamic revolutionary public prosecutor as saying the
eight were sentenced last year to prison terms ranging from six months
to three years ``for signing an open insulting letter to President Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani,'' and for other reasons.
	He said they had participated ``in gatherings against internal and
external security of the country'' and collaborated ``with domestic and
foreign enemies of the Islamic revolution.''
	The official said they were also found guilty of ``playing an
effective role in fabrications to mar confidence of the people in the
Islamic Republic and having links with foreign radios active against the
revolution.''
	Bazargan headed a provisional government in Iran for almost nine
months after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini toppled the Shah in a
revolution in 1979, but resigned after radicals seized the U.S. embassy
in Tehran in November that year.
	The former premier, who was later physically assaulted in the
Parliament by hard-line cleric Hojatoleslam Sadeq Khalkhali, has since
boycotted parliamentary elections, but continues to criticize the
government in privately circulated statements.
	The announcement of the release of eight members of his party came as
the slow process of vote-counting continued in several constituencies in
Iran on the third day after elections to the 270-seat Majlis, or
Parliament.
	There was no immediate indication that the release was linked to the
elections, in which hard-line clerics and their supporters are reported
to have fared badly.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
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Subject: Exit polls: voters unhappy, undecided, uninvolved
Keywords: politics
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 18:42:59 PDT
ACategory: washington
Slugword: politics-exitpolls
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	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Neither Bill Clinton nor Jerry Brown, rivals for
the Democratic presidential nomination, generated much enthusiasm among
voters, exit polls showed Tuesady. Republicans, too, are longing for a
different candidate.
	Where they could, as in Kansas, strong minorites of voters where
choosing ``none-of-the-above,'' signalling dissatisfaction not only with
frontrunner Clinton and President Bush, but also with the alternative
and insurgent candidacies of Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Patrick
Buchanan.
	Both the Clinton and Brown campaigns, battling for New York's 244
delegates to the Democratic National Convention, were overshadowed by
voter distrust and the specter of Paul Tsongas, who suspended his
campaign after the Wisconsin and Illinois primaries.
	Despite Clinton's showing in the New York primary, more than one-
third of the Democratic voters leaving polling places said they were
concernend about the Arkansas governor's honesty.
	In New York, non-candidate Jesse Jackson appeared to be a significant
factor after Brown said he would like Jackson as his vice presidential
runningmate.
	That gave Brown a big boost among black voters -- he won 43 percent of
the black vote -- but hurt him badly among Jewish voters, who made up
more than a third of the voters. Clinton won 50 percent of the Jewish
vote while Paul Tsongas, who had suspended his campaign, picked up 35
percent and Brown won just 11 percent.
	Another critical New York voting group -- white Catholics -- were
almost evenly divided among the three Democratic candidates.
	Exit polls in New York showed that 66 percent of those surveyed
wanted other candidates than those running and some 60 percent in two
other primary states -- Wisconsin and Kansas -- said they wanted other
candidates to choose from.
	In Kansas, where Clinton was getting half of the vote, ``none-of-the-
above'' was battling Tsongas and Brown for second.
	And ``none-of-the-above'' was running close to Buchanan, sending a
message to easy winner Bush.
	Bush, facing no opposition in New York, and only the shadow candidacy
of Buchanan in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Minnesota, however, was also a
less-than-enthusiastic choice among voters.
	More than half -- 52 percent -- of the voters in the Kansas GOP primary
said they wanted a candidate other than Bush. In Wisconsin and
Minnesota, more than a third -- almost 40 percent in Wisconsin -- said
they wanted other choices.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (ROOSEVELT JEAN-FRANCOIS)
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Subject: Haitian lawmakers call for ratification of Washington accord
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, political parties,
	politics
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 17:49:32 PDT
Location: haiti
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Slugword: haiti-aristide
Priority: regular
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	PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI) -- Haitian lawmakers demanded Monday that
National Assembly President Dejean Beliz convene a meeting ``as soon as
possible'' to enable them to ratify the Washington accord, local radio
reports said.
	The high command of the Haitian armed forces must ``take
responsibility to the people and ensure maximum security the day of the
National Assembly meeting,'' said a petition read out on air.
	``This petition of 50 form 80 parliamentarians proves a large
majority are in favor of the negotiated settlement reached in
Washington,'' said senator Rony Mondestin.
	``The people, both at home and abroad are with us and we will win,''
said Mondestin, a close adviser to Rene Theodore.
	The agreement signed in Washington in February hoped to set up a
compromise government headed by socialist Theodore which would work for
the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, the country's first
democratically-elected president since 1949, was overthrown last
September in a military coup.
	The Washington plan requires the ratification of parliament but so
far senators have had no opportunity to vote on the agreement signed
between Aristide and the heads of Haiti's two legislative powers under
the auspices of the Organization of American States.
	On March 28 11 supreme court judges, surrounded by gunmen sympathetic
to coup leader Joseph Nerette, rejected the agreement as
unconstitutional.
	Violence and unrest flared in other parts of the country Monday as
demonstrators voiced their opposition to the coup's leaders.
	In Cite Soleil, one of the poorest slums in the capital, youths
stopped traffic and burned tyres, independent Radio Tropic FM reported.
Two men were arrested in the protests. Another demonstration in
Carrefour-Feuilles was halted by police, the radio station said.
	Monday's unrest comes three days after students at the main state-run
university halted classes to call for the return of 38-year-old Roman
Catholic priest Aristide.
	Most of the capital has been in darkness for three days because of
fuel shortages brought on by a U.S.-led economic embargo of the
Caribbean nation. Already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere,
thousands of Haitians have lost their jobs because of the embargo.
	The national electricity company has run out of fuel and prices of
many basic goods have jumped considerably.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
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Subject: Doctors advise Clinton to continue resting voice
Keywords: politics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 14:57:33 PDT
ACategory: usa
Slugword: clinton
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 232; Id: z5669; Sel: xxnp.; Adate: 4-13-555ped
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	LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) -- Doctors refused Monday to clear Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton for a return to the campaign
trail, saying his chronically hoarse throat needed at least one more day
of silence.
	Clinton, sidelined since Thursday to rest strained vocal cords,
visited a doctor Monday in hopes of being cleared for a return to
campaigning, but was advised to cancel an appearance at the Wharton
School, the business college at the University of Pennsylvania, and
street campaigning in advance of the April 28th Pennsylvania primary.
	A spokesman for the campaign said the Arkansas governor planned to
resume campaigning Wednesday, but no schedule was announced.
	Last week, throat experts warned Clinton he risked permanent damage
to this vocal cords if he failed to take a rest from non-stop
campaigning. His voice problems were aggravated by upper respiratory
allergies that routinely hit him in the spring.
	Despite being sidelined, Clinton picked up endorsements over the
weekend from House Speaker Tom Foley D-Wash., Majority Leader Richard
Gephardt D-Mo., and Sen. Jay Rockefeller D-W.Va., who considered running
for president himself last year.
	According to his campaign office, Clinton has captured 1,359
delegates, 60 percent of the 2,145 needed to win the nomination.
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