From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline news about Iran, Oct. 8th, 1992.
Originator: sehari@vincent2.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:55:37 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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=START=   XMT: 12:07 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 12:00 Thu Oct 08 

AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES 

MOSCOW (OCT. 7) DPA - Azerbaijan will leave the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS), the Caucasus republic's National Council ruled on Wednedsday with
43 to 1 votes, the Azerbaijani news agency Turan reported. 

President Abulfaz Elchibey told parliament that Azerbaijan would not sever all
ties with the CIS. Azerbaijan would remain in the CIS as an observer or an
associate member, he said. 

A treaty on bilateral cooperation would be signed with Russian President Boris
Yeltsin on October 12, Elchibey said further. A similar agreement would follow
with Ukraine in the near future. 

The Azerbaijani leader said he did not reject the CIS primarily because it had
bleak propects. 

He criticised the Commonwealth of Independent States for representing a chance
to survive for ''post-communist regimes'' in Central Asia, noting that as a
result, these republics were the most enthusiastic members of the CIS. 
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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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Matched keyword: AZERBAIJAN...

=START=   XMT: 09:49 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 10:00 Sat Oct 10 

BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL 

SHEMAKHA (OCT. 7) ITAR-TASS - REPRESENTITIVES FROM THE "BRITISH PETROLEUM" FIRM
ARRIVED IN AZERBAIJAN WEDNESDAY TO JOIN AZERI GEOLOGISTS IN EXPLORING THE
COUNTRY'S MUD VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF CRUDE OIL. THE SCIENTISTS LAUNCHED A
WEEK-LONG EXPEDITION IN SHEMAKHA. 

"BRITISH PETROLEUM'S INTEREST IN MUD VOLCANOS IS NOT ACCIDENTAL," SAID
GEOLOGIST RADIG RAKHMANOV, DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGY LABORATORY AT AZERBAIJAN'S
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. "THE FOREIGN INVESTIGATORS ARE INTERESTED IN STUDYING THE
GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THIS NATURAL PHENONMENON." 

AZERBAIJAN, ACCORDING TO RAKHMANOV, HAS MORE THAN 200 MUD VOLCANOS THROUGHOUT
THE REPUBLIC, ON LAND AND ON THE CASPIAN SEA, WHICH ARE NATURAL WELLS IN THE
EARTH'S CRUST. 

THE JOINT EXPEDITION WILL FOCUS ON THE VOLCANOS OF THE SHEMAKHA-GOBUSTRANSKY
ZONE FOR A WEEK, AFTER WHICH THEY WILL EXAMINE THE MATERIALS JUST COLLECTED
FROM THE ERUPTION OF THE VOLCANO "BAKHAR." RESEARCHERS ARE MOST INTERESTED IN
THE GEOCHEMICAL DATA, HE ADDED. 
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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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Matched keyword: AZERBAIJAN...

=START=   XMT: 15:36 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 16:00 Thu Oct 08 

TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE 

ISTANBUL, (OCT. 7) IPS - With Turkey taking the lead in opening up Central Asia
and the Caucasus to Western businessmen, Turkish businessmen have written off
Azerbaijan as long as recently elected President Abulfez Elchibey remains in
power. 

Elchibey's failure to create a basic legal environment for foreign businessmen,
and, the Turkish businessmen charge, his government's inability to even grasp
the fundamentals of a market economy are turning off foreign investment. 

Turkish businessmen say they have thus switched their focus to other former
Soviet republics in Central Asia, primarily Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 

Disappointment over Azerbaijan's unwillingness to open up its economy follows
months of lobbying by Turkish businessmen during which Elchibey is said to have
pledged that he would take the necessary steps of market reform. 

It coincides with a growing sense among Azeri businessmen that the business
climate in their country has deteriorated sharply since Elchibey came to power
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last spring. 

Azeri businessman Namek Askarov has moved offices in Baku for the fourth time
recently because every time he invests in a building, he claims it is
requisitioned by the government. 

"The government declares privatisation but in practice does nothing. Their goal
is to maintain power and control. They'll do anything for that. If I compare
business conditions now and under the previous government it has gotten worse
now," Askarov says sitting in his makeshift office in a private apartment. 

Bulent Semiler, executive director of Impexbank and one of Turkey's most
prominent businessmen, says that despite the ongoing war against Armenia for
the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Turkish investors were willing to take
the risk -- once the buisiness climate is right. 

"The unsettled situation in Azerbaijan would not deter us. Banks, oil
companies, consumer product companies, they would all go into Azerbaijan, but
you have to have the right environment. Elchibey has lost his chance, he's in
total chaos," says Semiler. 

His comments came after failed attempts to establish a bank in Azerbaijan and
after intensive talks with Elchibey during a week-long visit to Baku during
which he stayed at the president's guest house. 

Semiler said the for Azerbaijan to reestablish its credibility in the eyes of
foreign investors, it would have to recruit western-trained Azerbaijanis living
abroad or experts from international organisations like the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) or the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

Turkish banker Aktan Serdar compares Elchibey to Emiliano Zapata, the
turn-of-the century Mexican revolutionary. "The new Azeri leaders are no
different. They don't know how to run a state and they don't how to pass a law,
" he says. 

Serdar recalls an attempt to finance the export through Turkey of Azerbaijani
copper. "They wouldn't allow the export of copper because that was depriving
them of their national wealth. They suggested we re-export Russian copper
through Azerbaijan. We told them that they could earn badly-needed money. They
don't understand it, they're childish," he says. 

Another prominent Turkish businessman recalls inviting an Azeri minister to his
house in the U.S. In a shopping mall, the minister saw a Turkish shop and
expressed satisfaction that the Turkish government had opened a shop in the U.
S. Told that the shop was privately owned, as was the whole mall, the minister
reportedly exclaimed: "What? This is not run by the American government?" 

Unlike other former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan has yet to pass laws on
privatisation, trade and real estate. As a result letters of credit by Azeri
banks are not accepted internationally and all trade occurs on a cash basis. 

"I've given up hope with this government. You visit Kazakhstan or Uzebekistan
and they show you factories. You visit Azerbaijan and they show you museums.
Azerbaijan does not have a single graduate in business administration," says
Semiler throwing his arms up into the air. 

Semiler knows what he is talking about when he insists that Azerbaijan bring in
Azeris from abraod or international experts. 

At age 30 he was brought in 1984 to Turkey by then Prime Minister Turgut Ozal,
to help restructure the Turkish banking system. A Turkish Cypriot by birth, a
special Cabinet meeting had to grant him Turkish citizenship. 

"We knew nobody when I arrived in Turkey. We had no political affiliations and
no business connections, we didn't know the laws. I went for a week to a Club
Med on the coast to study the law and came back and said, these laws are
ridiculous. The Azeris have to do something similar. Local Azeris are either
scientists or artists. You can't run a country like that," he says. 

Says a Western diplomat: "This place (Azerbaijan) is warped. The question is
whether that's how Azeris are, or whether they have been skewed by the Soviet
system." 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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=START=   XMT: 06:49 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 07:00 Thu Oct 08 

KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES 

NAIROBI (OCT. 7) XINHUA - KENYA IS NOW HOSTING 408,000 REFUGEES FROM THE
NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES, AN OFFICIAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR
REFUGEES (UNHCR) SAID HERE ON TUESDAY. 

PANOS MOUMTZIS, THE UNHCR'S PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, SAID THAT MORE THAN
300,000 REFUGEES CURRENTLY IN THE COUNTRY ARE SOMALIS AND THE REST ARE
ETHIOPIANS AND SUDANESE, THE "DAILY NATION" REPORTED. 

THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER QUOTED MOUMTZIS AS SAYING THAT THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES
CROSSING INTO KENYA DAILY HAD INCREASED FROM 150 TO 690 BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 24
AND 30. 

MOUMTZIS PRAISED KENYA'S CONTRIBUTION TO REFUGEES, SAYING THE UNHCR IS VERY
HAPPY THAT THE LIVING AND HEALTH CONDITIONS IN ALL REFUGEE CAMPS IN KENYA HAVE
IMPROVED AND THAT EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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=START=   XMT: 15:28 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 15:00 Thu Oct 08 

YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE 

BELGRADE, (OCT. 7) IPS - Vebi Mini, a short, hawk-nosed former Yugoslavian
wrestling champion, surveyed the remains of what used to be Belgrade's first
all night cafe. 

He began it five years ago, before a new shopping complex, complete with a
McDonalds, forced his and six other businesses away from this busy, tree-line
boulevard. 

Five of the businesses, all owned by Serbs, were relocated by the government
last spring. Mini, and the sweet shop owner next door, both Albanian, are still
waiting to be moved. 

For a week Mini stayed in business by supplying government-sent removal men
with hamburgers and grills. But last month the cafe, with its mirrors and gold
trim 20,000 mark remodeling job, was finally forced to close. 

Mini says he has stopped badgering government officials about finding him a new
site and has decided to move back to his village in Macedonia. 
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"It (ethnic discrimination) hurts me as a man, not as a national problem," he
said. "I had the best business, I paid the biggest taxes. 'Give me a site near
McDonalds', I said. I'll be their competition." 

Ministry of Information official Ivan Georgovic says the council is trying to
find space for all of the shops. But, he says, "they cannot all move at once.
It does not depend on the will of municipality." 

Some twenty years ago, Belgrade's Albanian population used to number some
40,000 -- up to 100,000 according to unofficial estimates. Now, according to
federal statistics, it has shrunk to some 5,000. 

While the exodus took place slowly over two decades, it sharply increased after
riots broke out in the once autonomous, largely Albanian, region of Kosovo. 

Fabri Muliju, a Belgrade-based correspondent for Kosovo's largest newspaper,
said many Albanians kept a low profile in the city, a situation made easier by
the fact that many are manual workers and live in basement flats or other low
rent housing. 

Nevertheless, he says, tension has risen between the two groups. "After 1981 we
were under much more pressure," he said. "There were threats, killings, fights.

"Many Albanians, even those with homes and good living standards left. They did
not feel safe here." 

Privately Serbs often accuse Albanians of wanting a "little Albania" in the
middle of Belgrade. And there are allegations that Albanians are involved in
smuggling and other criminal activities. 

Even if such accusations are true, say Albanian community leaders, they are no
justification for general persecution. 

Husnija Bitic, a lawyer of Albanian origin, began receiving threatening letters
in 1985. His office has been broken in to twice and the name plate on his door
has been repeatedly vandalised. 

"People would ring me up and say 'you are a guest here, you should not do
certain things',"said Bitic, who is acting as legal council for a group of 19
political detainees in Kosovo. "At first I was scared, but now I find it
interesting and collect threats. I have over 500 pages full so far." 

Yugoslavia's new Deputy Human Rights Minister Laslo Joza admits there are
problems. "There is a general problem of xenophobia here," he said, adding that
the government intended to promote the adoption of laws to safeguard minority
rights. However, he said, a minority group's only power is political. 

"At the moment," said Joza, "the (Yugoslav) constitution is something like a
building with open windows when its raining." 

Indeed, many Albanians who remain in Belgrade say they no longer feel as
welcome as they once did. 

Sitting in a smart Belgrade cafe, Elvane Hadzi Dauti, drums her well-manicured
finger nails on the table. The daughter of a former high government official,
Dauti says she never used to think about being of Albanian origin. 

Now, when she takes the train to visit her parents in Kosovo, her fellow
Serbian passengers often demand to know why she has not left her comfortable
Belgrade apartment and moved there, "to be with her own people." 

Barovic Nikola, a Belgrade lawyer who specialises in human rights' cases, says
laws are being used to discourage the emigration of any ethnic group at odds
with the majority. 

"In that sense these republics are more like gangsters than states," he said.
"What they are doing by force in Bosnia, they are doing here by administration.
It is more complicated but it is working very well." 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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=START=   XMT: 16:12 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 16:00 Thu Oct 08 

WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES 

NEW YORK (OCT. 7) UPI - Foreign Exchange interbank buyer rates and foreign
currency equivalents, provided by Bloomberg Financial Markets and other
sources. Retail transactions provide fewer units of foreign currency per
dollar. 


                        U.S.$           currency 
                       Equivalent      per U.S.$ 
                      Wed     Tue     Wed     Tue 
 Argntn peso        1.0101  1.0101  0.9900  0.9900 
 Australia dlr       .7200   .7215  1.3889  1.3860 
 Austria schill      .0987   .0998 10.1350 10.0234 
 Belgium franc-c     .0337   .0340   29.66   29.40 
 Brazil cruzado    .000156 .000158 6409.00 6341.00 
 Britain pound      1.7110  1.7095   .5845   .5850 
 Britain 1-mo       1.7022  1.7002   .5875   .5882 
 Britain 3-mo       1.6863  1.6844   .5930   .5937 
 Britain 6-mo       1.6662  1.6643   .6002   .6009 
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 Canada dollar       .8026   .8017  1.2459  1.2473 
 Canada 1-mo         .7992   .7982  1.2512  1.2528 
 Canada 3-mo         .7932   .7919  1.2607  1.2628 
 Canada 6-mo         .7844   .7832  1.2749  1.2768 
 Chile peso-f      .002753 .002750  363.27  363.61 
 China yuan          .1801   .1801  5.5536  5.5536 
 Colombia peso     .001696 .001696  589.50  589.50 
 Denmark krne        .1792   .1807  5.5800  5.5336 
 Ecudr sucre-z     .000614 .000614 1628.00 1628.00 
 Egypt pound         .3002   .3002  3.3310  3.3310 
 Finlnd mrkka        .1179   .2203  4.5900  4.5397 
 France franc        .2033   .2066  4.9185  4.8405 
 France 1-mo         .2014   .2045  4.9645  4.8905 
 France 3-mo         .1985   .2012  5.0385  4.9705 
 France 6-mo         .1954   .1978  5.1185  5.0555 
 Greece drach      .005332 .005389  187.54  185.58 
 Hollnd guildr       .6129   .6225  1.6315  1.6065 
 HongKong dlr        .1294   .1294  7.7305  7.7250 
 India rupee         .0353   .0352   28.34   28.41 
 Indo'sa rupia     .000492 .000491 2034.01 2037.00 
 Iran rial           .0142   .0142   70.30   70.30 
 Iraq dinar         2.6504  2.6504  0.3773  0.3773 
 Ireland punt       1.8369  1.8380  0.5444  0.5441 
 Israel shekel       .4097   .4097  2.4410  2.4410 
 Italy lira        .000759 .000758 1318.00 1319.00 
 Japan yen         .008299 .008354  120.50  119.70 
 Japan 1-mo        .008291 .008347  120.61  119.81 
 Japan 3-mo        .008285 .008339  120.70  119.92 
 Japan 6-mo        .008277 .008329  120.81  120.06 
 Jordan dinar       1.5163  1.5163  0.6595  0.6595 
 Kuwait dinar       3.4153  3.4153  0.2928  0.2928 
 Lebanon pnd       .000406 .000406 2465.00 2465.00 
 Mexico peso-z     .000321 .000321 3112.50 3113.00 
 N.Zealand dlr       .5437   .5431  1.8392  1.8413 
 Norway krne         .1695   .1708  5.9000  5.8550 
 Pakistn rupee       .0400   .0400   25.00   25.00 
 Peru (new sol)      .7246   .7246  1.3800  1.3800 
 P'pnes peso-z       .0403   .0407   24.80   24.55 
 Portugl escud     .007843 .007898  127.50  126.62 
 Saudi riyal         .2665   .2669  3.7520  3.7462 
 Singapore dlr       .6277   .6292  1.5930  1.5892 
 S.Africa rand       .3527   .3534  2.8350  2.8297 
 S.Korea won       .001276 .001274  784.00  785.05 
 Spain peseta      .009639 .009812  103.75  101.92 
 Sweden krona        .1835   .1850  5.4500  5.4063 
 Switzrl franc       .7859   .8022  1.2725  1.2465 
 Switzrl 1-mo        .7836   .7997  1.2761  1.2504 
 Swirzrl 3-mo        .7793   .7952  1.2832  1.2575 
 Switzrl 6-mo        .7736   .7891  1.2926  1.2672 
 Taiwan dollar       .0396   .0397   25.23   25.21 
 Turkey lira       .000138 .000139 7241.00 7175.00 
 UAE dirham          .2720   .2720  3.6770  3.6770 
 Urug'y peso-z     .000299 .000299 3340.00 3340.00 
 Venez bolivr-z      .0144   .0144   69.50   69.50 
 Germany mark        .6899   .7008  1.4495  1.4270 
 Germany 1-mo        .6864   .6971  1.4569  1.4346 
 Germany 3-mo        .6800   .6907  1.4706  1.4478 
 Germany 6-mo        .6721   .6822  1.4879  1.4658 
 Yugosl dinar      .003158 .003158  316.62  316.62 


 c-Commercial; f-Financial; z-Floating; x-N. Y. Money Market. 
 Interbank Buyers Rates 
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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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=START=   XMT: 09:43 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 10:00 Sat Oct 10 

FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING 

DUSHANBE (OCT. 7) ITAR-TASS - ALTHOUGH THERE IS A CRITICAL SOCIO-POLITICAL
SITUATION IN TAJIKISTAN, THE CROP OF CEREALS HAS BEEN HARVESTED ALMOST
COMPLETELY. THE NATIONAL STATISTICAL SERVICE REPORTED THAT BY WEDNESDAY THE
HARVEST HAS BEEN TAKEN IN FROM OVER 90 PERCENT OF THE AREAS UNDER CROPS. ABOUT
200 THOUSAND TONS OF GRAIN HAVE BEEN SHELLED. 

TWO HARVESTS OF GRAIN A YEAR ARE TAKEN FROM IRRIGATED LANDS BY FARMS IN THE
SOUTH OF TAJIKISTAN IN THE VAKHSH VALLEY. THUS ALMOST 100 CENTNERS OF GRAIN IS
GROWN ON ONE HECTARE OF IRRIGATED LANDS. IN TAJIKISTAN, GRAIN IS MOSTLY GROWN
ON UNIRRIGATED LANDS. THIS YEAR GRAIN WAS PLANTED TO OVER 230 THOUSAND
HECTARES, A SOMEWHAT LARGER AREA THAN LAST YEAR. 



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  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
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=START=   XMT: 08:04 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 08:00 Thu Oct 08 

COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL 

DUSHANBE (OCT. 7) ITAR-TASS - "THE FLAME OF FRATRICIDAL WAR IS SPREADING IN
TAJIKISTAN. PEOPLE ARE KILLED, TOWNS AND VILLAGES TURN TO RUIN, ECONOMIC
FACILITIES ARE BEING DESTROYED. MARAUDING, PLUNDER, VIOLENCE, BLACKMAIL AND
LAWLESSNESS HAVE BECOME WIDESPREAD. IN THESE TRAGIC DAYS, NOBODY HAS A RIGHT TO
KEEP APART. THE DESTINY OF THE MOTHERLAND IS AT STAKE". 

THIS IS SAID IN AN ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE TAJIK COMMUNIST PARTY
CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO THE TAJIK PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT, TO THE WORKING
PEOPLE, PARTIES, PUBLIC MOVEMENTS AND ARMED UNITS. 

THE ADDRESS EMPHASISES THE NEED TO FORM A TAJIK SECURITY COUNCIL THAT WOULD
RALLY THE MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES TO WORK OUT EMERGENCY MEASURES TO
STABILISE THE SITUATION. 

IT IS PROPOSED TO FORM A ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF ALL
THE PARTIES CONCERNED TO FORM A PLAN OF OVERCOMING THE POLITICAL CRISIS. THE
ATTEMPTS OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE TAJIK PARLIAMENT AND OF THE REPUBLIC'S
GOVERNMENT TO OVERCOME THE CRISIS PROVED FUTILE. LAWS AND DECREES ARE BEING
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IGNORED. POINTLESS BLOODSHED CONTINUES, THE ADDRESS SAYS. 



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  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
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RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN TADZHIKISTAN 

MOSCOW (OCT. 7) ITAR-TASS - RUSSIAN DEPUTY DEFENCE MINISTER COLONEL-GENERAL
VLADIMIR TOPOROV TOLD ITAR-TASS TODAY THAT THE PRESENCE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS IN
TAJIKISTAN WAS NECESSARY "NOT BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE WAR BUT BECAUSE RUSSIA
CAN HARDLY PROVIDE EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR THE UPKEEP OF 300,000 RUSSIANS WHO
LIVE IN TAJIKISTAN, IF THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN A SITUATION OF "HOMELESS
FUGITIVES. THEY HAVE HOUSING, JOBS AND PROPERTY ACCUMULATED THROUGH THE YEARS
OF LIVING THERE". 

"THE RUSSIAN MILITARY MUST GUARANTEE THE SAFETY OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS AND TAKE
THEM UNDER THEIR PROTECTION. REGRETTABLY, RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE FIND
THEMSELVES IN A SITUATION OF HOSTAGES IN ALL INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS ON THE
TERRITORY OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, AND THEIR FATES CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT TO
US, GENERAL TOPOROV SAID. 



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  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
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  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
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=START=   XMT: 14:54 Wed Oct 07  EXP: 15:00 Thu Oct 08 

FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER 

ANKARA (OCT. 7) DPA - Fighting between rival Kurdish militiamen Wednesday
spread to the full length of the border region between Turkey and Iraq, Turkish
state television reported. 

Turkey meanwhile beefed up to more than 100,000 men its troops massed along the
border to prevent the fighting from spilling over into its territory. 

In Selahaddin in northern Iraq, Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said Iraqi
Kurdish peshmergas (militiamen) had launched a fresh offensive to drive out
rebels of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) from the autonomous Kurdish zone in
northern Iraq. 

Barzani said some 40 Turkish Kurds had been killed and five PKK camps had been
captured in the past few days of fighting. 

There were no independent accounts of the casualty toll. 

Turkish television said some 16,000 peshmergas and 8,000 PKK rebels were
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involved in the clashes which erupted Monday. 

The PKK has been fighting an eight-year-old guerrilla war against Ankara to
establish an independent Kurdistan in southern Turkey. 

Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel in an interview with the Turkish
newspaper Milliyet warned that Ankara would impose ''martial law'' if necessary
as part of its struggle against the PKK. 

The Turkish chief of general staff indicated that the air force was ready to
intervene in the fighting if the peshmergas asked for help, the semi-official
Anadolu news agency reported. 

However, he denied claims that Turkish military forces had sided with the Iraqi
Kurdish fighters and intervened in the clashes. 

The Marxist PKK is trying to win independence for Turkey's Kurdish-populated
areas and is outlawed inside Turkey. 

Iraqi Kurds have been warning the PKK for weeks to either stop launching
guerrilla attacks on Turkey from Iraqi territory or to get out. 

PKK fighters ignored an ultimatum demanding that the PKK pull back from
positions inside Iraq close to the border with Turkey. It expired late Monday. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AZERBAIJAN TO LEAVE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  2. BRITISH AND AZERBAIJANIS SEARCH VOLCANOS FOR NEW SOURCES OF OIL
  3. TURKISH BUSINESSMEN TURNED OFF BY AZERBAIJAN'S INVESTMENT CLIMATE
  4. KENYA IS NOW HOSTING OVER 400,000 SOMALI REFUGEES
  5. YUGOSLAVIA'S ALBANIAN POPULATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE TO LEAVE
  6. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
  7. FARMERS IN TADZHIKISTAN COMPLETE GRAIN HARVESTING
  8. COMMUNISTS IN TADZHIKISTAN CALL FOR FORMATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL
  9. RUSSIAN MINISTER SAYS TROOPS ARE NEEDED TO PROTECT RUSSIANS IN
     TADZHIKISTAN
 10. FIGHTING BETWEEN RIVAL KURDS REPORTEDLY WIDENS ALONG IRAQI-TURKISH BORDER

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