From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Headline News About Iran, Aug. 15th, 1992.
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:30:53 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu

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follows, might or might not be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.  Then again, it might be.  Here, I do not claim either.
I just would like to share with you, the articles that has been collected
on the news wires.

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Thank you, for your informed readings.

                    With highest regards,
                         Babak   Sehari.
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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 15:56 Wed Aug 12  EXP: 16:00 Sat Aug 15 

AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AUG. 12) DPA - Government planes bombed positions of two
mujahedin groups east and south of the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday evening,
the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency reported. 

Centres of the Hizbe Islami led by Yunus Khalis and the Ittehad Islami of Abdul
Rasool Sayaf located at Butay Khak and Mulla Omar, 20 and 35 kilometres
respectively east of Kabul, and at Rishkhor area in the south were reportedly
bombed. 

Yunus Khalis, who quit the squabbling Kabul government early this month and
shifted to Peshawar, said he had not yet received the losses caused by the
bombings. 

But he warned acting Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani of retaliation in
case of another attack. 

Shell-shocked citizens of the city had ventured into the streets in the
afternoon to survey the havoc caused by three days of rocketing of the city
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which had continued till morning, according to AIP. 

Precise figures about the casualties and damage caused were difficult to get in
the situation, the agency's correspondent reported from the city. 

But an estimated 500 people were believed to have died and 1,100 injured
besides hundreds of houses destroyed. AIP said water, electricity and
telephones systems have been badly disrupted. The city has been without power
for about 24 hours. 

In Islamabad, a foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment on the status of
the Afghan government since acting Prime Minister Abdul Saboor Farid, a nominee
of Hekmatyar, left Kabul just before the fighting started and is currently in
Iran. 

"We continue to recognise the government now in power," he said. 

A Hizbe Islami source in Peshawar told dpa that the group was still very much a
part of the government as Farid was on an official visit abroad. 

Hizbe Islami forces continued attacking Dostum militia's positions on Maranjan
Hill and Bala Hisar area on the eastern side of Kabul, the source said. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 15:06 Wed Aug 12  EXP: 15:00 Sat Aug 15 

REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN TERMS 

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AUG. 12) DPA - Dissident Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
offered Wednesday a ceasefire in Kabul provided a date was set for "eviction of
all militia forces" from Afghanistan's beleaguered capital. 

It was one of the five conditions for a truce that Hekmatyar repeated to his
Afghan News Agency (ANA) in an interview given to welcome Pakistan's appeal to
all Afghan parties to stop fighting. 

Hekmatyar said his Hizbe Islami group launched attacks on Kabul to avenge the
destruction of his personal quarters in Charasyab area south of Kabul by the
militia aligned with Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masood last weekend and to
preempt further attacks on Hizbe Islami positions. 

Meanwhile, reports received in Peshawar said rocketing of Kabul resumed late
Wednesday, shattering signs that the worst fighting that the capital has seen
in 14 years of civil war was subsiding. 

Some of the rockets, said to be originating from the western side dominated by
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Ittehad Islami group of Abdul Rab Rasool Sayaf, landed on the radio and
television compounds. 

A Defence Ministry source claimed the city had been cleared of rebels and the
battle was being fought mainly in the outskirts now. 

Fundamentalist leader Yunus Khalis announced in Peshawar that the positions of
his faction of Hizbe Islami in the east and south of Kabul were bombed by
government planes. 

Khalis, who quit the squabbling Kabul government early this month and shifted
to Peshawar, warned of retaliation if the bombing continued, according to the
Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). 

AIP said the bombing of Khalis centres at Butay Khak and Mulla Omar, 20 and 35
kilometres east of Kabul respectively, might have been aimed at destorying the
big arsenals located there. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 06:06 Fri Aug 14  EXP: 06:00 Sat Aug 15 

UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN 

GENEVA (AUG. 14) DPA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) said Friday it will withdraw four of its international workers from the
Afghan capital Kabul by Saturday. 

The first of the officials had left a ''city standing in flames'' on Thursday
because working conditions had become impossible, a UNHCR spokeswoman said. 

The UNHCR officials had spent 20 days in cellars and could not move about
freely. They will resume their activities in other parts of Afghanistan, she
said. 

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 20:38 Wed Aug 12  EXP: 21:00 Sat Aug 15 

RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL SHELLING 

MOSCOW  (AUG. 12) ITAR - RUSSIA DEMANDED AN URGENT CONVOCATION OF THE U.N.
SECURITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN KABUL AND RESORT TO ALL
POSSIBLE MEASURES TO ENSURE AT LEAST A TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE IN THE AFGHAN
CAPITAL AND EVACUATE EMPLOYEES OF FOREIGN EMBASIES FROM THERE, ACCORDING TO A
STATEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUED ON WEDNESDAY. 

"THE SITUATION IN KABUL SHARPLY AGGRAVATED ON AUGUST 12, LARGE-SCALE MILITARY
ACTIVITIES BETWEEN GROUPS OF MUJAHEDDIN RESUMED. THE AFGHAN CAPITAL IS UNDER
HEAVY ARTILLERY SHELLING. THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY WAS FIRED AT, AS A RESULT ONE OF
THE EMPLOYEES WAS KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED", THE STATEMENT READS. 

THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY UNDERTAKES URGENT STEPS WITH THE AIM OF CEASING
MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN KABUL AND PROVIDE FOR THE EVACUATION OF THE EMPLOYEES OF
THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY AND OTHER FOREIGN MISSIONS. CORRESPONDING APPEALS WERE SENT
TO THE LEADERSHIPS OF SEVERAL STATES, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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Matched keyword: IRAN...

=START=   XMT: 13:50 Fri Aug 14  EXP: 14:00 Sat Aug 15 

BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE TEHERAN 

LONDON (AUG. 14) DPA - An Iranian diplomat, Ali Rajabi, has been ordered to
leave Britain in a tit-for-tat move after a British envoy was told to leave
Teheran, reports said Friday. 

Geoffrey Brammer, a diplomat at Britain's embassy in Teheran, was arrested by
Iranian security officials on June 17. He was later ordered to leave country
after it was alleged he was a spy. 

The Foreign Office said Friday that in response to this incident Iran's charge
d'affaires was told on August 4 that diplomat Ali Rajabi had to leave London
within three weeks. 

The Foreign Office said: ''There was no reason to request him (Brammer) to
leave. At the time, we retained the right to ask one of their diplomats to be
withdrawn. On August 4 we did just that.'' 

Diplomatic relations between Britain and Iran were broken off in 1989 for 18
months after the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death order
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against writer Salman Rushdie, whose novel ''Satanic Verses'' was judged to be
insulting to Islam. 

Diplomatic relations were restored in September 1990. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 10:07 Fri Aug 14  EXP: 10:00 Sat Aug 15 

SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN 

KISHINEV (AUG. 14) ITAR-TASS- MOLDOVA WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE IRAN-AZERBAIJAN-UKRAINE GAS PIPELINE TO RECEIVE GAS FROM IRAN, KISHINEV'S
LOGOS-PRESS WEEKLY REPORTS, REFERRING TO THE REPUBLICAN MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN
ECONOMIC RELATIONS. 

AN UNDERSTANDING ON THIS ISSUE WAS REACHED DURING A VISIT TO KISHINEV BY A
DELEGATION LED BY ABDUL RASSOUL MAHAGHER HEGHEYAZI, IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO
ROMANIA AND MOLDOVA. 

THE SIDES ALSO AGREED ON THE PURCHASE OF IRANIAN OIL DURING THE TALKS,
LOGOS-PRESS ADDS. SETTLEMENTS WILL BE MADE IN HARD CURRENCY OR ON A BARTER
BASIS. IT IS PLANNED THAT ITS FIRST DELIVERIES WILL BE MADE BY THE END OF THE
CURRENT YEAR. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 07:51 Thu Aug 13  EXP: 08:00 Sun Aug 16 

ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER 

HERZLIA, ISRAEL (AUG. 13) BUSINESS WIRE - SCITEX CORPORATION LTD., (NASDAQ/NMS
Symbol: SCIXF) announced Thursday an unaudited net profit of $30.0 million, or
$0.75 per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 1992, a 22% increase compared
with the unaudited net profit of $24.6 million, or $0.66 per share, in the
second quarter of 1991. 

For the six months ended June 30, 1992, the Company's unaudited net profits
totalled $54.7 million, or $1.42 per share, a 16% increase compared with $47.1
million, or $1.27 per share, in the same period last year. 

The Board of Directors declared an interim cash dividend of 12 cents per share
for the second quarter.  The record date for the dividend will be August 27,
1992 and it will be paid on September 6, 1992, net of taxes to be withheld at
source. 

Revenues for the second quarter totalled $134 million, a 27% increase over the
second quarter of 1991.  For the first six months of the year revenues totalled
$252 million, an increase of 24% over the comparable period last year. 
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Revenues in America grew 32% in the quarter and reached $60 million, while
revenues in Europe rose -27% to reach $57 million.  Revenues in all other areas
increased 14% to $17 million, reflecting strong sales to the Pacific Rim
countries. 

Operating income in the quarter grew 16% from last year and totalled $35.6
million. 

The $209 million private placement of 4.75 million new shares to International
Paper was concluded on May 20 and its impact is reflected accordingly in the
financial statements.  The acquisition of Leaf Systems, Inc.  for $35 million
(plus additional contingent payments in the future) was completed on July 15
and as a result the financial statements for June 30 do not include any impact
from such transaction. 

During the quarter the Company started to ship all the new products introduced
earlier this year.  Among others, these included the two new large format
imagesetters, the Dolev 400 and Dolev 800, as well as the Smart 720 scanner. 

Following the acquisition of the Telepress product line from RICOH Corporation
during the second quarter, the Company closed significant newspaper orders with
The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post as well as Hurriyet in Turkey. 

SCITEX CORPORATION LTD.  is a world leader in color electronic prepress systems
for the graphic design, printing and publishing markets.  The Company has an
extensive range of products that includes creative layout and design systems,
image digitizing scanners, color workstations for page assembly and retouching,
digital proofers, imagesetters and communication devices.  Regional
subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Japan are responsible for marketing,
sales and customer support. 

SCITEX, the SCITEX logotype, Dolev 400, Dolev 800 and Smart 720 are trademarks
of SCITEX CORPORATION LTD., which may be registered in some jurisdictions. 

CONTACT: Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc. 
   Laura Wilker, 212-838-3777 
               by 
   Scitex Corp. Ltd., Herzlia 
   Giora Bitan, 972-52-529-307 

KEYWORD: NEW YORK 

INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS EARNINGS  Z 

REPEATS: New York 212-575-8822 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-330-5311 or 
 800-225-2030; SF 415-986-4422 or 800-227-0845; LA 213-380-8383 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 15:46 Wed Aug 12  EXP: 16:00 Sat Aug 15 

YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA 

ANKARA (AUG. 12) DPA - In talks with officials in Ankara Wednesday, the prime
minister of rump Yugoslavia, Milan Panic, advised Turkey not to intervene
militarily in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

Turkey could play an effective role in achieving peace as a negotiator in line
with its "historic influence in the Balkans", Panic said in Ankara following 90
minutes of talks with Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel. 

Demirel stressed Panic's "good intentions" and said he was pleased at Panic's
pledge to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the suffering in that region. 

Panic, who arrived in Ankara with Foreign Minister Milivoje Maksic and a
delegation of international journalists, said he was praying "not to have to
see Turkish soldiers in Yugoslavia". 

Panic stressed that rump Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and Montenegro,
had no territorial claims on former Yugoslav republics and also sought to
recognise Bosnia-Herzegovina "following a few necessary corrections". 
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He could also guarantee that Sarajevo airport would be opened for the arrival
of international aid shipments, Panic said. 

Panic stressed that his country would do everything to make sure that the
tragedy of Bosnia-Herzegovina did not repeat itself in the autonomous region of
Kosovo, where Albanians comprise the majority. 

Demirel called this "a most important promise". 

Panic stressed that the Yugoslav army would be able to get Serbian irregulars
who he said had gotten out of hand under control. 

Demirel said that Turkey had a special interest in developments in the Balkans
for historical reasons and thus sought peace in the region. 

Asked whether Turkey would withdraw proposals given to the U.N. Security
Council last week detailing possible international military intervention in
Bosnia, Demirel said the goal of these plans was to secure peace and said they
were thus still valid. 

It was unclear whether Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin would seek direct
talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic irrespective of thge outcome of
talks with Panic. 

Anakary government sources had earlier Wednesday said Cetin was due to travel
to Belgrade in the next few days. 

Whether Cetin would fly to Vienna, London, Paris, Washington and New York to
discuss possible international intervention in Bosnia with key foreign leaders
also remained uncertain. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
  6. SOVIET MOLDOVA TO BUY OIL AND GAS IN IRAN
  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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=START=   XMT: 10:33 Fri Aug 14  EXP: 10:00 Sat Aug 15 

KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY 

ANKARA, TURKEY (AUG. 14) UPI - Kurdish separatist guerrillas killed three
soldiers in an ambush in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province in the latest
of a series of attacks that began eight years ago, the semi- official Anatolian
News Agency said Friday. 

The attack came as Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin told the English- language
Turkish Daily News that the separatist Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, has
evidently changed its tactics and may be moving its operations further north
from the Iraq-Turkey border. 

The attack on the three soldiers occurred late Thursday as they were on patrol.
The Anatolian News Agency said PKK gunmen ambushed and shot them dead at
Hakantepe, a village near Hakkari, 625 miles southeast of Ankara. 

The PKK, a Marxist-Leninist group seeking to set up an independent state for
Turkey's estimated 10 million Kurds, began attacking members of the security
forces in southeastern provinces on Aug. 15, 1984. 

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Authorities in the area have stepped up security measures to prepare for the
Aug. 15 anniversary of the start of the rebellion, following reports that the
rebels recently distributed leaflets asking people to switch sides and join
them. 

Sezgin said the rebels have suffered big losses in recent clashes with the
security forces, and had lost a lot of support among the Kurdish people because
of their violent methods. 

He told the Turkish Daily News that the PKK was again attempting to ''spread
fear among the people'' by killing civilians ''like they did in 1984.'' 

Over the past one year, the PKK concentrated more on attacking military and
police outposts in the border areas, and then heading back to their bases in
northern Iraq. 

But attacks on civilians have continued, and a feud between the PKK and the
Islamic fundamentalist group Hezbollah is reported to have escalated in recent
months. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. AFGHANI AIR FORCE BOMBS MUJAHEDIN STRONGHOLDS AROUND OUTSKIRTS OF KABUL
  2. REBEL AFGHAN LEADER HEKMATYAR READY TO CEASEFIRE IN KABUL, BUT ON OWN
     TERMS
  3. UNHCR TO WITHDRAW OFFICIALS FROM AFGHAN CAPITAL AS CONDITIONS WORSEN
  4. RUSSIA CALLS FOR U.N. MEETING AS RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO HURT IN KABUL
     SHELLING
  5. BRITAIN EXPELS IRANIAN DIPLOMAT AFTER BRITISH ENVOY IS TOLD TO LEAVE
     TEHERAN
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  7. ISRAEL'S SCITEX CORP. POSTS NET PROFITS OF $30 MILLION IN SECOND QUARTER
  8. YUGOSLAV PREMIER MILAN PANIC CALLS ON TURKEY NOT TO INTERVENE IN BOSNIA
  9. KURDISH SEPARATIST GUERRILLAS KILL THREE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY

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