From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline News About Iran, July 28th, 1991.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:07:24 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES

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  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES

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  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 16:03 Sun Jul 26  EXP: 16:00 Wed Jul 29 

SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL 

KABUL (JULY 26) DPA - Unknown gunmen Sunday shot and killed a senior Afghan
foreign ministry official after having tried to abduct him, reliable sources
told the German Press Agency dpa. 

Abdul Ahad Woleri, 45, was killed by four shots after refusing to get into the
car of his would-be kidnappers, the sources said. 

Woleri, a Pashtoon, had been governor of several Afghan provinces, Afghan
charge d'affaires in Bangladesh and ambassador in former East Germany between
1979 and early this year. 

He became head of the southeast department at the foreign ministry after Moslem
fundamentalist rebels toppled the communist government in Kabul and took power
in April. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 08:25 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 08:00 Wed Jul 29 

IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL 

KABUL (JULY 27) DPA - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Allahudin Borudjerdi said
Monday he had invited acting Afghan President Bahanuddin Rabani to Teheran to
discuss the details on trade and economic cooperation between the two
countries. 

In his talks with Rabani and other officials he had also discussed Afganistan's
need for fuel, Borudjerdi, who arrived in Kabul Sunday, said. 

Borudjerdi's was in Kabul on the first official visit between the two countries
since the Mujahedin takeover in April. 

He noted that Iran, which hosted over a million Afghani refugees who fled the
country's civil war, had close ties with Afghanistan and was ready to help the
new Islamic government in Kabul. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 13:41 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 02:00 Tue Jul 28 

JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES 

BARCELONA, Spain (JULY 27) UPI - A victory by the United States over Japan in
Sunday's opening round of Olympic volleyball competition was reversed Monday
after the the International Volleyball Federation accepted a protest filed by
the Japanese. 

The Japanese team claimed U.S. player Bob Samuelson should have been ejected
from the match after receiving his second yellow card for yelling at the
referees. An ejection would have given Japan a penalty point and the four-set
upset victory. 

After an eight-hour review, the IVF concurred that Samuelson should have been
given a red card, which means automatic ejection, after receiving a second
yellow card. The second yellow card had been noted in the official scorer's
book and the second referee, Brazil's Laert de Souza, made it a point to tell
the other referee, Ramis Samedov of Azerbaijan, about the rule. However,
Samedov disregarded the information and let play continue. 

The incident came in the fourth set, one the Americans eventually won, 17-16,
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to even the match. The United States then won the fifth set. But if the penalty
point had been awarded, the Americans would have lost the fourth set, 15-13. 

As a result of the IVF's decision Japan was declared the winner of the match,
8-15, 15-11, 15-10, 15-13. 

Bill Baird, president of the United States Volleyball Federation, said the
Americans will abide by the decision. 

Samuelson said he was not aware he had been given a second yellow card. 

''It is something that I will have to deal with,'' said the 25-year- old from
Marina Del Rey, Calif. ''There is nothing that we can do about the decision
except play hard the remainder of the Olympics.'' 

Scott Fortune, the U.S. team captain, voiced his disapproval of the procedure. 

''The team as a whole is extremely disappointed,'' said Fortune. ''To battle
for three hours and come out victorious, only to let people off the court
decide the outcome is disheartening. 

''I feel like someone has come into my home, stolen my property and violated
me.'' 

The United States entered the Olympic competition as co-favorite with Cuba for
the gold medal. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 17:59 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 18:00 Tue Jul 28 

UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW RULES 

By JIM ANDERSON 

WASHINGTON (JULY 27) DPA - The U.S. government is back in the lottery business
again this summer, with the prizes once again being 40,000 immigration visas. 

But this year the rules are changed so that luck will be more important than
energy or cleverness. 

Last year, the rule was that the first 40,000 applications to be received at a
northern Virginia post office after midnight on a specific date would get the
visas. 

There was no limit on the number of applications by each applicant permitted
last year - one successful man sent in 10,000, personally increasing the U.S.
Post Office revenues by 2,900 dollars. 

Since an application that arrived before the deadline last year was
disqualified, and one that arrived too late wouldn't be in the first 40,000
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received, the applicants had to be both clever and methodical, as well as
lucky. 

The most successful applicants covered dozens of post offices and letter-boxes
after first sending some trial letters to try to gauge how long a letter took
to arrive in northern Virginia. 

This year, the rules are simpler. All applications received between 12:01 a.m.
on Wednesday July 29 and midnight on Friday August 28 will be given a number.
After the deadline, a computer will randomly pick 50,000 numbers. 

The extra 10,000 applications are being chosen because some applicants may
change their minds about the visa or may be caught filing more than one
application, for which they will be disqualified. 

Of the 40,000 visas available, 20,000 will again be reserved for residents of
the Republic of Ireland or people who were born in northern Ireland. 

That was a concession to Senator Edward Kennedy, who argued that the Irish had
been unfairly excluded in the past and reserving half the visas for them for
two years would be a way of compensating for past injustices. 

Meanwhile, the State Department has been doing an analysis of last year's
winning applicants in the visa lottery and these were some of the findings: 

- Of the 20,000 Irish, most were young, single males living illegally in
Boston, New York or San Francisco. The usual reason for applying was greater
economic opportunity. Even the U.S. unemployment rate of 7.8 per cent looks
good compared to the current rate of 22 percent in Ireland. 

- Of the 12,060 Poles who were successful, most came from the economically
depressed northeast of Poland, and about 40 per cent of the successful Polish
applicants plan to settle in Chicago. 

- Japan unexpectedly was the country ranking third in the number of successful
visa applications. Many of the Japanese applicants were already employed as
resident aliens in the United States and 70 per cent of them were students. 

- Of the 3,054 successful applications last year from Britain, the State
Department survey seemed to support British fears of a continuing transatlantic
brain drain. There were two distinct groups. One was made up of well-educated
and well-paid entrepreneurs or technocrats who were moving from one well-paid
job with a British company to a similar position with an American company. The
other group was made up of young British males who were unemployed and had
given up hope of getting ahead in Britain. 

- Of the Danes, the typical applicant was an educated, white collar
professional already living in Los Angeles or New York. Those who were
questioned said they wanted to change citizenship because there were too few
skilled jobs for them in Denmark and the Danish tax rates were too high. 

- There was a strong streak of entrepreneurs among the 2,947 Indonesians who
were successful applicants. Most were students, but there was a large group who
said they were starting their own businesses, or have entered into a business
partnership with a U.S. citizen. 

Next year, there will be one more final lottery. The State Department hasn't
figured out the rules yet, but officials said they are trying to design a
system to create more diversity, including applications from more than the 34
countries which were eligible this year. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 06:53 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 07:00 Tue Jul 28 

TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS 

TAIPEI, TAIWAN (JULY 27) UPI - Premier Hao Pei-tsun Monday called on police to
hasten repatriation of unregistered foreign laborers, but he promised greater
leniency towards white-collar professionals seeking to work legally in Taiwan,
the Central news agency said. 

Hao, following a briefing by Cabinet officials on the social and economic
impact of new labor laws, ordered police to send home illegal foreign workers
''as fast as possible,'' and he called on the government to begin subsidizing
repatriations, the agency said. 

The premier said Taiwan's ongoing crackdown against an estimated 30, 000
unregistered foreign workers would continue, pledging ''no more legal holidays
and no bargaining,'' the report said. 

Last month, an official amnesty offering illegal aliens voluntary repatriation
in exchange for a chance to return to Taiwan later and work legally attracted
less than 15 percent of the island's illegal work force. 

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Other comments made by the premier, however, indicate that Taiwan's hard line
towards foreign labor is confined to blue-collar workers from developing
countries and does not target white-collar professionals. 

Hao said his administration ''will examine strictly applications for importing
foreign manual laborers and adopt a policy of leniency for employment of
foreign managers, lawyers, accountants, and engineers,'' according to the news
agency report. 

Taiwan's legislature in May approved labor regulations governing foreign
workers on the island, but in recent weeks business leaders have widely
criticized the laws as overly restrictive on foreign white-collar professionals
and detrimental to economic reforms underway on the island. 



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  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 10:14 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 10:00 Tue Jul 28 

SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER 

ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA (JULY 27) UPI - Some 340 refugees uprooted by the war in
Bosnia-Hercegovina spent a third day Monday waiting at the Croatia- Slovenia
border for permission to travel to the Netherlands. 

Slovenian, Austrian and German authorities said they would not allow the group
to transit their territories until they received official confirmation from the
Dutch government that the refugees would be accomodated in the Netherlands. 

The approximately 340 refugees, mostly Muslim Slavs, said they were expelled
from their homes by Serbian forces fighting to carve a self- declared state out
of Bosnia-Hercegovina. 

The refugees have been living since Saturday aboard buses in a parking lot on
the Croatian side of the Croatia-Slovenia frontier at Obrezje, using a nearby
field for a bathroom. 

''Either we will die here or they will let us go,'' said Izet Aganovic, a
representative of Merhamet, the Muslim Slav humanitarian organization that
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arranged for the refugees' transportation to the Netherlands. 

''We don't want any food, any help. We just want to pass through to Holland,''
said 15-year-old Sheila Akagic, traveling with her mother and 10-year-old
brother. 

Since the fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina started four moths ago, more than 1.2
million people have fled their homes. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 12:29 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 12:00 Tue Jul 28 

THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP 

PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA (JULY 27) UPI - Thirteen Iranian Kurds, including two
infants, and a Danish SAS airliner were stranded Monday at Prague's Ruzyne
airport in a diplomatic tug of war over asylum rights between Czechoslovakia
and Denmark. 

The Kurds, who traveled without documents from Istanbul to Copenhagen, were
refused entry Friday by Danish authorities and sent back with a 10-member
Danish police escort to Prague, where their Turkish airliner had made a
refueling stop en route to Copenhagen. 

Czechoslovak authorities then grounded the SAS airliner that brought them back
to Prague because its pilot refused to bring the Kurds back to Denmark, and SAS
retaliated by canceling all flights between Prague and Copenhagen. 

The Danes insist diplomatic conventions mean they can refuse the asylum-seekers
and ship them back to the first country in which they had contact with
authorities. 

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But the Czechoslovaks, amid intensive negotiations between the two countries'
foreign ministries, maintain the Kurds have no reason to be in Czechoslovakia. 

''The plane only flew via Prague and none of the 13 people asked for asylum in
Czechoslovakia,'' Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry spokesman Zdenek Zigmund said
in a telephone interview with United Press International. 

Czechoslovak authorities tried to send the Kurds back to Copenhagen aboard the
next SAS flight on Saturday, but the plane's captain refused to let them board
and the 13 Kurds were left housed at the airport, Zigmund said. 

Danish Ambassador Per Poulsen-Hansen said he lodged a formal complaint with the
Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry over the grounding of the aircraft. 

The Czechoslovaks say they want an amicable solution, but insist the airline
should take the Kurds out of Czechoslovakia. 

''It's not a political affair,'' Zigmund said. 

''The airline, SAS, is responsible because they are responsible for their
passengers and their travel documents,'' he said. ''The company must take care
of the passengers. That is why the plane cannot leave now, because the Iranians
cannot check in.'' 

To further complicate matters, Zigmund said that even though the Kurds are
staying at the Prague airport, they technically are not in Czechoslovakia. 

''Legally they have not entered Czechoslovakia,'' he said. ''They are
temporarily accomodated in the airport, but legally they are not in
Czechoslovakia.'' 



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  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 14:26 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 14:00 Tue Jul 28 

ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT 

BRINDISI, ITALY (JULY 27) UPI - An Albanian fishing boat with 30 illegal
refugees and 16 crew members aboard failed Monday in an attempt to land the
refugees in southern Italy, port authorities said. 

The ship, identified as the motor fishing boat Niko Gjiri, was intercepted by a
Brindisi launch at dawn Monday as it entered Italian waters following a radio
warning from officials in the Albanian port of Durres. 

The port authority launch escorted the fishing boat to Brindisi. But as Italian
police and immigration officials started to board the boat to inspect its
passengers, the crew slipped its moorings and sailed back to sea with two
Italian police still aboard. 

It was chased by launches and a pilot boat with police aboard who fired several
pistol shots in the air to halt it. The Italian naval frigate Maestrale, on
regular patrol duty in the southern Adriatic, stood by while the operation took
place, port officials said. 

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The Niko Gjiri was escorted back to Brindisi port, where 15 of the 16 crew
members were arrested on charges of violating Italian immigration laws
introduced in February 1990 to cope with a flood of refugees from outside the
European Community. 

Port authorities made arrangements to send the would-be immigrants back to
Albania. 

Italy has adopted a firm policy of shipping Albanians who do not have regular
visas back to Albania immediately in order to prevent a recurrence of the 1991
exodus when some 40,000 Albanians crossed the Adriatic in a bid to enter Italy.



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  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
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  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
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=START=   XMT: 14:18 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 14:00 Tue Jul 28 

U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES 

GENEVA (JULY 27) UPI - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
asked Kenya Monday to allow 287 stranded Somali ''boat people'' ashore from the
ship that brought them to the port of Mombasa. 

The refugees, mostly women and children, were fleeing the civil war in their
country and many require medical attention, including two mothers who have
given birth since the freighter ''Sanaa I'' arrived off Mombasa last Wednesday 
the UNHCR said. 

Kenyan officials have refused to let the ship dock. 

A UNHCR spokesperson quoted the captain of the ship as saying he had taken the
refugees aboard as a humanitarian gesture without charging them any money. 

Kenya already has 330,000 refugees from neighboring countries, mostly from
Somalia, in camps supervised by UNHCR. An estimated 1,000 new refugees arrive
every day the agency said. 

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In June, 150 of an estimated 3,400 Somali refugees died aboard a freighter
which wandered the sea between Somalia and Yemen before finally being grounded
off Aden. 



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  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
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=START=   XMT: 23:03 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 23:00 Thu Jul 30 

FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG 

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (JULY 27) UPI - Immigration officials grounded former first
ladyImelda Marcos Tuesday, minutes before she was scheduled to fly off to Hong
Kong on her first trip out of the Philippines since she returned from exile
last year. 

Airport authorities said they refused to allow Marcos onto her Cathay Pacific
flight because she did not have a written departure order from Immigration
Commissioner Zafrerio Respecio. 

About an hour later, Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon ordered the immigration
officers to let the widow of ousted President Ferdinand Marcos onto the plane,
but the flight already had left. 

''The damage has been done,'' Marcos said at the airport. ''Our appointments in
Hong Kong had already been scheduled. You must remember we are already delayed
for over a week.'' 

Tuesday's incident was the latest in what has become a tug of war between the
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Philippine authorities Marcos' lawyers over her planned trip to Hong Kong. 

She secured court permission July 17 to travel to Hong Kong for meetings she
claimed could speed an out-of-court settlement of her dozens of civil charges
linked to alleged corruption during her husband's 20-year rule. 

But judges blocked the trip three days later because of opposition from
government prosecutors and a security bond that Marcos had failed to pay. 

Drilon said Tuesday the Justice Department felt there was no longer any legal
obstacle preventing Marcos from traveling to Hong Kong. 

Manila agreed to negotiate a settlement with the Marcos family on their alleged
ill-gotten billions because it feared it could end up with nothing if it
continued to pursue the cases in court. 

Marcos faces 36 civil charges. She also faces 51 criminal charges, which the
government said would not be included in any settlement offer. A six-year
effort under former president Corazon Aquino failed to recover money allegedly
looted under the Marcos government. 

The family was chased into exile during a 1986 revolt that swept Aquino to
power. Mr. Marcos died in exile in 1989. His widow and children returned to the
Philippines late last year. 



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  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
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=START=   XMT: 18:41 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 19:00 Thu Jul 30 

HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS 

MIAMI, FL (JULY 27) UPI - For 233 Haitian refugees with AIDS, caught in a maze
of conflicting policies and court delays, their temporary home at the U.S. Navy
base in Cuba has become a cruel limbo, refugee advocates say. 

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has held the Haitians at a
refugee camp on the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay since they fled their homeland
and were interdicted at sea by the Coast Guard, some as long ago as October. 

''There's no place called limbo that I know of,'' said INS spokesman Duke
Austin. ''They're in a center, receiving medical care and being looked after.
They're in that center until a determinaton on their disposition has been
made.'' 

Refugee advocates acknowledge the Haitians are probably receiving better food
and medical care than they would at home. But they insist the Haitians are
being held in a cruel limbo. 

Of the 293 Haitians remaining at the camp, 233 have tested positive for the
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virus that causes AIDS and the rest are their spouses and dependent children. 

The INS determined that they probably have grounds to pursue political asylum
claims in the United States. But they cannot come to the United States because
of a law barring immigrants with AIDS and other infectious diseases. 

The service cannot send them back to Haiti without further review of their
asylum claims. And the agency cannot proceed with those reviews until the
courts decide whether the Haitians have the right to consult attorneys, Austin
said. 

''The government's position is that they do not have the right to access to
attorneys,'' Austin said. 

U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr., ruling in a New York City lawsuit
filed by refugee advocates, said they do have that right and ordered that
lawyers be allowed to meet with them at Guantanamo. 

The government appealed, and the Supreme Court stayed Johnson's ruling pending
review by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal in New York. 

There the matter stands. 

''The process cannot move forward because it's tied up in the courts, '' Austin
said. ''We were resolving their cases as fast as we could. We didn't file a
suit to deter this process. The rights groups did. The government didn't ask
for this delay.'' 

U.S. law does not require that the Haitians be brought to the United States to
pursue their claims; it only says they cannot be sent back to Haiti.
Conceivably, they could be sent to a third country, if the U.S. State
Department could find a country willing to accept poor refugees with AIDS. 

Since the September coup in Haiti, the Coast Guard has intercepted more than
37,000 U.S.-bound Haitian refugees. 

About two-thirds were deemed economic refugees and returned to Haiti. The rest
were brought to the United States to pursue asylum claims, in the custody of
sponsors. 

By presidential order, those intercepted at sea since May 24 were returned
directly to Haiti and urged to pursue political asylum through the U.S. embassy
at Port-au-Prince. 



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  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 16:40 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 17:00 Thu Jul 30 

GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP 

DORTMUND, GERMANY (JULY 27) DPA - Shareholders in the German
steel-and-engineering company Hoesch accepted Monday a takeover by Krupp AG
that creates a new industrial giant with annual sales worth 25 billion marks
(16.9 billion dollars). 

Discussion in the western city of Dortmund lasted nearly 11 hours before the
merger was approved by 99.73 per cent of the capital represented at the
meeting. Small shareholders complained they were forced to sell out too
cheaply. 

Krupp, whose shareholders approved the merger June 12, already controls about
62 per cent of Hoesch. Minority shareholders are to receive 13 Krupp shares for
every 10 of Hoesch, plus six marks cash per share. 

The state of Iran, which owns one quarter of Krupp, will have a 25-per-cent
stake in the new enterprise, to be known as Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, while
Germany's Krupp Foundation will hold the 54-per-cent main stake. Small
shareholders and a bank have the rest. 
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Steel output from the merged operation is expected to total eight million tons
annually, bringing it level with the top German steel producer, Thyssen.
Workers have opposed the takeover, fearing major redundancies as duplication is
eliminated. 



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  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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=START=   XMT: 10:39 Mon Jul 27  EXP: 11:00 Tue Jul 28 

PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY 

BAALBECK, LEBANON (JULY 27) UPI - The pro-Iranian Hezbollah began Monday to
evacuate its main base in eastern Lebanon in preparation for handing it over to
the Lebanese army, security sources said. 

The move was in line with a government plan to regain control of all public
institutions that have been used as bases for the various militias during 16
years of civil war. 

Witnesses said Hezbollah trucks loaded with ammunition and weapons as well as
military vehicles including tanks were seen leaving the Sheikh Abdallah
barracks, the main Hezbollah base, near the ancient city of Baalbeck, 52 miles
east of Beirut. 

Hezbollah seized the barracks from the Lebanese army in 1983. The base was
later used as the military headquarters of some 1,500 Iranian Revolutionary
Guards who provided training and political guidance for the Hezbollahis. 

An army communique released late Sunday said the army troops would take control
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of the barracks within hours. It said the eviction of militias from government
institutions was part of a week-long plan to take over all public property. 

The plan started last Thursday and will continue until next Thursday with the
takeover of the Hezbollah base. 

Security sources said contacts were under way between Syria and Iran to
convince Hezbollah leave the barracks peacefully. 

The sources said the fundamentalist group would need more than 10 days to
withdraw all its military equipments from the barracks. 

A number of Westerners held hostage for many years in Lebanon were believed to
have been detained at the Sheikh Abdallah barracks. 

The army has so far evicted the Christian hard-line Lebanese Forces militia
from its headquarters in Beirut's district of Karantina and Shiite and Sunni
fundamentalists from bases in northern and southern Lebanon. 

The Progressive Socialist Party of Druze leader Walid Jumblat also handed over
the presidential summer resort of Beit Al Dine in the Shouf mountains. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. SENIOR AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN IN KABUL
  2. IRANIAN ENVOY HAS TALKS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN KABUL
  3. JAPAN WINS VOLLEYBALL APPEAL FILED AGAINST UNITED STATES
  4. UPDATE: ANALYSIS: U.S. TO RUN IMMIGRATION LOTTERY ONCE AGAIN, WITH NEW
     RULES
  5. TAIWAN GOVERNMENT TO CRACK DOWN ON UNREGISTERED FOREIGN LABORERS
  6. SOME 340 BOSNIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT CROATIA-SLOVENIA BORDER
  7. THIRTEEN IRANIAN KURDS STRANDED AT PRAGUE AIRPORT IN DIPLOMATIC FLAP
  8. ALBANIAN ILLEGAL REFUGEES FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER ITALY BY BOAT
  9. U.N. ASKS KENYA TO ACCEPT 287 STRANDED SOMALI REFUGEES
 10. FILIPINO OFFICIALS STOP IMELDA MARCOS FROM TRAVELING TO HONG KONG
 11. HAITIANS WITH AIDS AWAIT COURT RULING AMID POLITICS AND DELAYS
 12. GERMAN STEEL COMPANY HOESCH APPROVES MERGER WITH KRUPP
 13. PRO-IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH TO HAND OVER MAIN BASE TO LEBANESE ARMY
 14. IRAN HALTS PAKISTAN TRAIN SAID TO BE CARRYING ANTI-ISLAMIC SLOGANS
 15. PROSECUTORS BUILD CASE AGAINST EX-CIA OFFICIAL CLAIR GEORGE IN IRAN-CONTRA

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