From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline News About Iran, Aug. 12 Part 1
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:35:12 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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=START=   XMT: 08:14 Mon Aug 10  EXP: 08:00 Thu Aug 13 

PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT 

ISLAMABAD (AUG. 10) DPA - Pakistan Monday signed a 500 million dollars loan to
Tajikistan for completing a hydro-electric power project in the central Asian
republic. 

Officials said 10 per cent of the loan will be supplied in the form of
commodities and the rest in yearly installments of 100 million dollars. 

It will be repaid by exporting 1,000 megawatts of electricity produced by the
3,600-megawatt capacity plant to Pakistan. 

A 30-year agreement was signed separately for that purpose. The power lines
will have to pass through Afghanistan where political instability is a cause of
concern to its neighbours. 

Pakistani Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz said before signing the loan agreement
with his Tajik counterpart Ismail Daultov that the buyback would repay the loan
in three years. 

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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=START=   XMT: 05:39 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 06:00 Wed Aug 12 

KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AUG. 11) DPA - Rockets and artillery shells again started
raining on the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday after a deceptively calm morning,
the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency reported. 

Fierce ground battles were raging between government forces and the fighters of
Hizbe Islami of the radical leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the Hoodkhel area 
about ten kilometres east of Kabul, the mujahedin-run agency said. 

Hizbe Islami was trying to advance on Kabul after Monday's bombardment of
Kabul, said a staff member of Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masood of the rival
Jamiat Islami group. 

Air force jets were seen heading for Logar, south of Kabul, where Hizbe Islami
has strong bases. 

Hekmatyar's fighters were joined by the mujahedin of the other Hizbe Islami
faction commanded by Jalaluddin Haqqani in battling with Masood forces in
Kabul's Chehalsutoon district, according to the agency. 
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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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=START=   XMT: 16:01 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 16:00 Fri Aug 14 

DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN KABUL 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AUG. 11) DPA - As rival Afghan mujahedin groups continued
rocketing each other in Kabul Tuesday, Pakistan and the United Nations urged
them to stop fighting and start talking. 

Pakistan also announced that acting Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani has
postponed his state-visit to Pakistan scheduled to begin Wednesday. 

Tuesday's fighting was heavy but less intense than the previous day when more
than 1,000 people were killed or wounded, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency
reported. 

Teheran Radio said the French and Indian embassies suffered extensive damage in
the fighting. 

U.N. Secretary General Butros Ghali confirmed in a statement in New York that
two Afghan workers of a U.N. relief agency died during the fighting and
stressed that relief operations needed peace. 

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An Afghan government statement broadcast by Radio Kabul accused dissident Hizbe
Islami (HI) leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar of launching "savage" attacks against
the city in the midst of negotiations on settling differences. 

It asked HI fighters to dissociate themselves from "the un-Islamic activities"
of their "merciless and selfish" leader. 

HI retorted in a statement issued in Peshawar that it was dragged into the
fighting "after the Geelam Jam militia and the armed remnants of the ousted
communist regime" aligned with Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masood heavily
pounded its headquarters in Charasyab area south of Kabul. 

It said HI "vehemently opposes and condemns" the attacks on Kabul and laid down
five conditions for bringing peace to the capital. 

HI demanded that "all armed units of the communist regime" be disbanded and
that Kabul be handed to a joint force of the mujahedin groups to be controlled
by the interior ministry. 

Hekmatyar had tried to take Kabul with the help of the internal security forces
of the ministry in April when the communist regime collapsed but was
outmanoeuvred by the allied forces of Masood and the militia which had brought
about the collapse by deserting the regime. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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Matched keyword: AFGHANISTAN...

=START=   XMT: 15:56 Mon Aug 10  EXP: 16:00 Thu Aug 13 

KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS 

(AUG. 7) MENN - Kabul city airport, the target of attacks by Hekmatyar's
forces, resumed normal activities today with the return of relative calm to the
city. According to reports received from Kabul, several planes flew from the
airport today. 

Three planes were damaged in shelling on 2 August. The reports add that Kabul
city is calm today, the shops are open, and people are walking about as usual
in the streets. This calm seems to follow the cease-fire which was declared on
2 August by Shah Ahmad Mas'ud, defense minister of Afghanistan's interim
government, to end the fighting between the warring parties. 

From Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran First Program Network in Persian 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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Matched keyword: AFGHANISTAN...

=START=   XMT: 17:00 Sun Aug 09  EXP: 17:00 Wed Aug 12 

ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AUG. 9) UPI - Rockets pounded the Afghan capital Kabul for
a fifth consecutive day Sunday, killing 11 people as the fighting between rival
factions continued, Radio Kabul reported. 

The radio broadcast monitored in Islamabad blamed the latest attack on the
hard-line Hizbe Islami mujahideen group, whose members are resisting the
interim government's attempts to disarm them. 

The report said the rockets killed 11 people Sunday and added fierce fighting
was underway in the fifth district of Kabul. Fighting over the past week
between the Hizbe rebels and the former communist Gleemjam militia has left
more than 100 people dead. 

While the Hizbe Islami is part the ruling alliance of President Burhanuddin
Rabbani, the group has been fighting the interim government ever since the
administration took power from communist President Najibullah in April. 

Hizbe claims that Rabbani has cultivated the loyalty of the formerly communist
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Gleemjam militia, which switched sides after the collapse of the Najibullah
government. 

Hizbe leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has asked Rabbani to evict the Gleemjam from
Kabul, replacing it with a joint force of mujahideen. 

Rabbani has so far been reluctant to do so as the Gleemjam helped him force
Hekmatyar's forces from Kabul soon after Najibullah's ouster. 

Kabul also has witnessed fierce fighting between rival Shiite and Sunni
mujahideen groups over the past few weeks. The fighting has caused thousands of
refugees to flee to rural areas of Afghanistan or to neighboring Pakistan. 

Despite the fighting, hundreds of thousands of refugees have returned home to
Afghanistan from Iran or Pakistan. An estimated 5 million refugees fled
Afghanistan during the civil war that began in 1979. 

Soviet troops invaded the country in 1979 to prop up a communist
administration, but quickly became entrenched in guerrilla warfare against the
Muslim rebels. The Soviets withdrew in 1989, but Najibullah's forces managed to
hang on until this year, when Najibullah tried to flee the country in the face
of rebel advances on Kabul. 

Afterward, various rebel groups forged an agreement to share power in a
coalition government, but the rivalry and bloodshed have continued. 



=END= 

     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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Matched keyword: AZERBAIJAN...

=START=   XMT: 08:56 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 09:00 Wed Aug 12 

TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS 

ANKARA (AUG. 11) DPA - Turkey and Azerbaijan Tuesday signed a protocol on
cooperation between the two foreign ministries and an agreement on consular
relations. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin said Turkey was helping Azerbaijan to set
up its foreign service. 

Citizens of both countries were no longer required to go to the Russian Embassy
in Ankara to settle formalities, Azerbeijani Foreign Minister Tevfik Kasimov
said. 

An Azerbaijani consulate-general would be opened in Istanbul and a Turkish
consulate-general in the autonomous Azeri republic of Nakhichevan, he said. The
two countries were also expected to sign agreements on Turkish assistance in
training Azerbaijani economic experts. 

Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey is planning to visit Turkey to sign
another 16 agreements on political, economic and cultural relations between the
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two countries, the two ministers said. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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Matched keyword: AZERBAIJAN...

=START=   XMT: 16:30 Sun Aug 09  EXP: 16:00 Wed Aug 12 

ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST OFFENSIVE 

YEREVAN (AUG. 9) ITAR-TASS - ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT WAS SHOT DOWN OVER
NAGORNO-KARABAKH ON FRIDAY EVENING DURING THE ATTEMPTED AZERI OFFENSIVE ON
MAGAVUZ AND MOKHRATAG SETTLEMENTS OF THE MARDAKERT DISTRICT, THE HEADQUARTER OF
THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH SELF-DEFENCE FORCES INFORMED ARMENPRESS. 

IN ADDITION TO THE AIR FORCE, OVER THIRTY TANKS AND OTHER MODERN ARMOURED
VEHICLES TOOK PART IN THE CAPTURE OF THESE SETTLEMENTS. ARMENIAN UNITS
SUCCESSFULLY BEAT BACK THE ENEMY'S ATTACK, INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES IN MEN AND
MATERIAL. 

SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE AZERI SIDE FROM THE AGDAM AREA SUBJECTED TO MASSIVE
ARTILLERY FIRE MARTUNI DISTRICT CENTRE AND BERDASHEN AND NORSHEN SETTLEMENTS
WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF NAGORNMO-KARABAKH. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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Matched keyword: AZERBAIJAN...

=START=   XMT: 15:51 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 16:00 Wed Aug 12 

ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS 

BAKU (AUG. 11) ITAR - MASS SHELLING OF BORDER SETTLEMENTS OF FIVE AZERBAIJAN'S
DISTRICTS AND THE NACHICHEVAN AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC FROM THE TERRITORY OF ARMENIA
WERE REPORTED ON MONDAY NIGHT AND THROUGHOUT TUESDAY MORNING. 

EIGHT PEOPLE WERE KILLED, SEVERAL WOUNDED AND HOUSES WERE DESTROYED,
AZERBAIJAN'S DEFENCE MINISTRY INFORMATION CENTRE REPORTED ON TUESDAY. 

AZERBAIJAN'S UNITS REBUFFED THE ATTACK OF ARMENIAN FORMATIONS ON THE DEFENCE
POSITIONS OF THE AZERI ARMY IN THE AKSTAFINSKY REGION NEAR THE STATE BORDER. 

ARMENIA HAS SUSTAINED HEAVY LOSSES IN MANPOWER AND AMMUNITION. 

IN THE KEDABEKSK BORDER AREA, UNITS OF AZERBAIJAN'S ARMY OCCUPIED STRATEGIC
POINTS SITUATED ON AZERBAIJAN'S TERRITORY WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED BY THE
ARMENIAN ARMY, THE INFORMATION CENTRE REPORTED. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. PAKISTAN LOANS $500 MILLION TO TADZHIKISTAN POWER PROJECT
  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
 15. RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL

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=START=   XMT: 20:55 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 21:00 Fri Aug 14 

EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 

DRESDEN, GERMANY (AUG. 12) DPA - Things suddenly start moving at dead of night
along the German-Polish border as Eastern Europeans - mainly Romanians and
Bulgarians, but also people without any citizenship - make daring attempts to
cross the Neisse River and get to Germany. 

Far to the south, in the Bohemian region of Czechoslovakia, groups of people
without visas for Germany are likewise headed for anywhere in the European
Community. 

For a number of the refugees, twilight adventure ends in German border police
stations, where they are photographed and fingerprinted. 

They are then charged with illegal entry before being booted out. Even so, the
majority of them will try again to get over the border. 

Border police registered some 12,600 illegal entries on Germany's borders with
Poland and Czechoslovakia in the first six months of this year alone. 

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The total for the whole of last year was 16,319 illegal entries, while
inofficial figures are estimated at around five times that. 

"On some days," says a border police spokesman, "we have to hold up to 80
people in the small rooms of our offices." He says that some of the would-be
immigrants have already made countless attempts to reach German soil. 

Such "refugees fleeing poverty" need not fear punishment. When they are handed
back over to the Polish and Czechoslovak authorities, they are just set free. 

Foreign gangs make large amounts of money helping refugees get to western
Europe, making use of their customers' feeling of hopelessness in economically
run-down eastern Europe. 

Self-appointed refugee "helpers" can make up to 1,000 dollars a time for
providing someone with a way out. Czech "travel agents" offer "one-way trips"
to the border for some 135 dollars . 

Additionally, a number of Germans in the border region, which is itself
suffering unemployment, have discovered that they too can make a little cash on
the side by stepping in with their cars to help the new arrivals further on
their way. 

The whole situation is helped by the fact that the German border police eastern
section is short of personnel. 

The interior ministry in the eastern state of Saxony says around 1,500 jobs are
unfilled, with the gap merely being filled by western German colleagues on a
temporary basis. 

Whilst the ministry says that the personnel problem has been improving slightly
over the past year, gangs smuggling the refugees in have been refining their
methods and have become ever more ingenious. 

Officials at the train station in the border town of Bad Schandau have had to
go as far as checking out the hollow spaces beneath train carriage roofs as
well as any tiny niche which could possibly hide a stowaway making a desperate
attempt to escape to the promised land of Germany. 



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  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
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  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
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=START=   XMT: 12:24 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 12:00 Wed Aug 12 

DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES 

(AUG. 11) FNS - SUBJECT: Hearing on and mark up of private immigration bills 


        LOCATION: 2226 Rayburn House Office Building 
                  -- August 12 


         CONTACT: 202-225-5727 



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     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
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UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY RATES 

TEHRAN (AUG. 10) XINHUA - IRANIAN VICE PRESIDENT MASSOUD ROUGHANI-ZANJANI HAS
DENIED THAT IRAN WOULD SOON UNIFY THE EXISTING EXCHANGE RATES OF HARD
CURRENCIES. 

THE VICE PRESIDENT, WHO ALSO HEADS THE PLAN AND BUDGET ORGANIZATION, TOLD LOCAL
PRESS SUNDAY THAT "THE HARD CURRENCY RATES AT NOT GOING TO BE UNIFIED SOON AND
THE CURRENT RATES WILL CONTINUE." 

IRAN CARRENTLY  HAS THREE RATES FOR HARD CURRENCIES, THE OFFICIAL RATE (70
RIALS FOR THE  U.S. DOLLAR), COMPETITIVE RATE (600 RIALS FOR THE DOLLAR) AND
FLOATING RATE (ABOUT 1,435 RIALS FOR THE DOLLAR). 

EARLIER, CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR MOHAMMAD HUSSEIN ADELI SAID THE BY THE  END OF
JULY THE PRESENT HARD CURRENCY RATES WOULD BE ELIMINATED AND ONE SINGLE RATE BE
INTRODUCED. 

AELI'S STATEMENT PROMPTED SHARP PRICEHIKES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. SOME PRODUCERS
ARE REPORTEDLY HOARDING FOR GREATER PROFITS WHEN THE HARD CURRENCY RATES ARE
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UNIFIED. 

THE VICE PRESIDENT ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD TAKE MEASURCS TO
INCREASE OVERALL PRODUCTION, CHECK INFLATION AND REDUCE  PRICES OF CONSUMER
GOODS. 

ACCORDING TO D DECISIM BY THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR ECONOMY, MANUFACTURERS OF
INDUSTRIAL GOODS WHO  USE HARD CURRENCIES AT THE COMPETITIVE RATE SHOULD ATTACH
PRICE TAGS TO THEIR PRODUCTS, AND SELLERS ARE ASKED TO ISSUE INVOICES TO
BUYERS. 

A BILL CONCERNINO CONSUMERS' INTERESTS  IS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE CABINET FOR
APPROVAL. THE BILL ENVISAGES FINES FOR THOSE WHO OVER-CHARGE CONSUMERS, THE
VICE PRESIDENT ADDED. 

ROUGHANI-ZANJANI SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO INTENTION TO INTERFERE IN THE
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONSUMER GOODS BY CONTROLLING THEIR PRICES. 

"WE SUPPORTED PRODUCERS OF CONSUMER GOODS THROUGH ALLOCATION OF HARD CURRENCIES
AND FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT FACILITIES TO KEEP THE WHEELS OF PRODUCTION AND
INDUSTRIAL UNITS IN MOTION," HE SAID. 



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     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
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=START=   XMT: 15:50 Mon Aug 10  EXP: 16:00 Thu Aug 13 

IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN 

(Aug.7) MENN - With the establishment of the organization for the development
of Kennan, the free trade-industry zone of Sirjan in Kerman Province will begin
its activities next year. Announcing this fact to reporters, the
governor-general of Kerman said, "With the establishment of this special
region, the affiliated service and commercial facilities to be established
nearby; the use of the region's extensive potential; with attractions such as
the creation of rapid mechanisms for clearing cargo; a rapid international
communication center for commercial information; and facilities for banking,
insurance, and transport services, Sirjan will be transformed within five years
into one of Iran's largest commercial centers and a complement to similar areas
in the south of the Persian Gulf (as heard). 

He added, "Iranian and foreign organizations now have the necessary amount of
time to establish a presence in the Sirjan trade zone, which will be
transformed into a cargo depot and a center for international commercial
services." 

The director of Kerman's development organization, for his part, explained the
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special features of the Sirjan free trade- industrial zone, saying, "In view of
the short distance to Bandare 'Abbas, Sirjan will initially be used as an
important support center and a base for storing eargo and raw material. Then,
it will be transformed into an important trade and commercial focal point in
the region." He concluded by adding that on the basis of coordination with the
Foreign Ministry, foreign nationals will be able to arrive and depart from the
Sirjan trade-industry zone without visas and in the form of transit. 

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  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
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=START=   XMT: 15:43 Mon Aug 10  EXP: 16:00 Thu Aug 13 

IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN 

(Aug. 7) MENN - The Oil Ministry has launched four major plans code-named
Val-Fajr to increase production and make better use of petroleum and its
derivatives in oil rich regions in southern Iran, an Oil Ministry official told
IRNA Monday. 

''Upon a proposal of the Oil Ministry, a plan was initiated in 1990 to boost
Iran's oil output to four million BPD (barrels per day). This is while the
initial targets were three million BPD by 1994 and 3.6 million BPD by 1999,''
Mohammad Aqa'i, manager of southern regions department at the ministry said. 

The official said that with the approval of the necessary budgets by the Majles
(Islamic Consultative Assembly), the Oil Ministry began to implement the four
plans. 

The first plan, he said, was to increase drilling operations including the
drilling of new wells and repair and maintenance of the existing ones. 

As a result, he added, the number of drilling rigs rose from eight in 1990, the
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start of the first 5-year development plan, to 42 in 1992 and is expected to
increase to 60 by next March. 

He said the second plan was to raise production ceiling by establishing new
exploitation facilities. ''Some 870 projects are being implemented to increase
the number of oil fields to 47 as predicted by the first development plan.'' 

Aqa'i cited gas injection into oil wells as the third project now being
implemented by the Oil Ministry. Some 6.3 billion cubic feet of gas is to go
into those oil rich regions that need gas injection by the end of the plan, he
said. 

According to the official, the fourth plan is processing of natural gas to
produce liquified gas and to implement other gas projects. 

By 1995, some 120,000 barrels of liquified gas are to be delivered to the
petrochemical complex at the Imam Khomeyni port city in southeru Iran. 

Thanks to the Val-Fajr project, Iran's oil production capacity has risen to 3.4
million BPD from 2.4 million after the end of the imposed war, he said. 

Asked as to why Iran found it difficult to produce as much oil as it used to do
before, i.e. 4.5 to 5.5 million BPD, he replied: ''We used to get such an
amount of crude oil from six oil fields with 300 oil wells. This was while the
fields were still young with huge reserves and therefore extracting crude from
them was much easier then than now. 

''Moreover, pipeline networks had been designed for those six oil fields while
there are now 47 fields with 600 wells. Exploring new oil zones has become more
difficult than before and needs deep wells to be drilled and vast network of
pipelines to be set up,'' Aqa'i concluded. 

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  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
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=START=   XMT: 15:57 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 16:00 Wed Aug 12 

KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL 

ALMA-ATA (AUG. 11) ITAR - PRESIDENT OF KAZAKHSTAN NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV RECEIVED
AN IRANIAN DELEGATION HEADED BY MINISTER OF OIL GHOLAM REZA AGA-ZADEH HERE ON
TUESDAY. 

THE MINISTER EXPRESSED IRAN'S DESIRE TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE COOPERATION WITH
KAZAKHSTAN IN VARIOUS FIELDS OF ECONOMY, ESPECIALLY IN THE FUEL AND POWER
ENGINEERING COMPLEX. HE SAID HIS COUNTRY WAS READY TO TRANSPORT THROUGH THE
CASPIAN SEA THE OIL EXRACTED IN THE REPUBLIC ON FAVOURABLE TERMS FOR
KAZAKHSTAN, BUILD A MAJOR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TO PRODUCE LUBRICANTS AND INTERNAL
OIL PIPE-LINE FROM THE WESTERN REGION TO THE CENTRAL REGION OF KAZAKHSTAN, AS
WELL AS RECONSTRUCT KAZAKH OIL-PROCESSING ENTERPRISES. 

THE KAZAKH PRESIDENT THANKED THE LEADERSHIP OF IRAN FOR ITS READINESS TO HELP
KAZAKHSTAN, STRESSING THE TWO COUNTRIES' RELATIONS WILL DEVELOP ACCORDING TO
THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC EXPEDIENCY AND MUTUAL ADVANTAGE. 



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  2. KABUL COMES UNDER RENEWED FIRE AFTER CALM MORNING IN AFGHANISTAN
  3. DISSIDENT LEADER HEKMATYAR LAYS DOWN CONDITIONS FOR ENDING FIGHTING IN
     KABUL
  4. KABUL CITY AIRPORT RESUMES OPERATIONS AFTER SHELLING ATTACKS
  5. ELEVEN REPORTED KILLED IN ROCKET ATTACKS ON KABUL AS RIVAL FACTIONS BATTLE
  6. TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT RELATIONS
  7. ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH DURING LATEST
     OFFENSIVE
  8. ARMENIA SHELLS AZERBAIJAN'S SETTLEMENTS
  9. EASTERN EUROPEANS TRY TO ILLEGALLY CROSS E.C. BORDERS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
 10. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
 11. UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT RUGHANI-ZANJANI SAYS IRAN WILL NOT UNIFY CURRENCY
     RATES
 12. IRAN ESTABLISHES FREE-TRADE ZONE IN SIRJAN
 13. IRANIAN OIL MINISTRY LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION/DRILLING EXPANSION PLAN
 14. KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV MEETS IRANIAN MINISTER OF OIL
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=START=   XMT: 13:41 Tue Aug 11  EXP: 14:00 Wed Aug 12 

RETIRED CIA OFFICIAL GEORGE CAVE TESTIFIES AT CLAIR GEORGE TRIAL 

WASHINGTON (AUG. 11) UPI - A retired CIA official testified Tuesday at the
Clair George trial that he participated in a series of meetings with George in
1986 that focused on significant details of the Iranian arms- for-hostages
deal. 

The testimony by prosecution witness George Cave was damaging to the defense
since George told Congress in late 1986 that he was unaware of certain
essentials of the Iranian deal, particularly the role of the private middleman 
Richard V. Secord. 

In another development, the Justice Department filed a motion to prevent
current CIA Director Robert Gates from testifying as a defense witness in the
trial. 

Gates had been subpoenaed by defense attorney Richard Hibey to testify later
this week. 

The Justice Department argued that Hibey ''has failed to identify the
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particular areas of testimony he seeks, or how any such information is material
and favorable to his defense.'' The Justice Department went on to complain that
''the subpoena simply amounts to interference with the work of an executive
branch agency at its highest level without legitimate cause.'' 

Judge Royce C. Lamberth was expected to hear arguments in the motion Tuesday
afternoon. 

George, who headed the CIA's overseas spy operations in the mid- 1980s, is
charged with lying to Congress and other investigators concerning his knowledge
about the arms transaction, which became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. 

Cave, who still works for the CIA as a consultant, was asked if he told George
at that time about Secord's role in opening up a new negotiating channel with
the Iranians. ''I'm sure that I did,'' Cave replied. 

Cave said that in May 1986 he participated in three meetings that were also
attended by George. The meetings reviewed progress in the on- going Iranian
arms talks. Cave specifically remembered one session in which he reviewed a
memo referring to arms shipments to be handled by ''Dick.'' Cave told the court
that the reference was Secord. 

At one of the meetings, Cave quoted George as expressing concern about Secord's
involvement because of Secord's questionable reputation. 



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