From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Headline News About Iran, July 23 1992.
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:37:27 GMT

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 17:04 Tue Jul 21  EXP: 17:00 Fri Jul 24 

U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (JULY 21) UPI - The United Nations confirmed Tuesday that
one of its diplomats, a U.S. national, committed suicide over the weekend at
the hotel where she was staying. 

Catherine Koza, 26, worked for the World Food Program in Kabul and was
transfered to Islamabad earlier this month, a U.N. spokesman said. 

She had worked in Islamabad before and came to the region from Geneva,
Switzerland, where she was attached to the U.N. humanitarian and economic
assistance program for Afghanistan. 

Although Koza died Sunday, local police did not discover her body until Monday 
the U.N. spokesman said. 

Police said Koza hanged herself with a bed sheet. Officials of the U. S.
Embassy in Islamabad said they had contacted Koza's parents in the United
States and were arranging to send her body home. 

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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 08:29 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 08:00 Thu Jul 23 

RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS 

MOSCOW (JULY 22) UPI - Russia began establishing border posts Wednesday along
its frontiers with the three Baltic republics while announcing plans to erect
border crossings with a fourth republic, Azerbaijan. 

Meanwhile, the Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan asked for help manning
border stations along its common boundary with Afghanistan, according to the
Khovar news agency in Dushanbe, the Tadzhik capital. 

There have been more than 100 recent attempted illegal crossings on the
Afghanistan-Tadzhikistan border - mostly in an attempt to smuggle arms and
ammunition left over from the Afghan civil war. There have been shootouts,
arrests and confiscation of arms. 

But Khovar reported that in addition to weapons, ''a huge quantity of jihad'' -
for Islamic holy war - instruction manuals also have been found on border
violators by frontier guards. 

The Commonwealth of Independent States joint forces command has been largely
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responsible for protecting former Soviet borders for the 11 C.I. S. members. 

''But border security units have only half the necessary strength,'' Lt. Gen.
Anatoli Martovitski told Khovar. ''The local youth only unwillingly fulfill the
draft conditions of the border security forces, and some of them desert their
units soon after joining them.'' 

Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced the deployment Tuesday of 20 mobile
Russian guard units to Russia's border crossings with the Baltic states. 

Russia borders Estonia and Latvia. The Russia enclave of Kaliningrad, cut off
from the rest of the country, borders Lithuania. 

Establishment of the Russian border posts were a response to decisions by the
other countries setting up their own border checkpoints in the case of the
Baltics and, in the case of Azerbaijan, its decision to abstain from signing a
recent customs accord approved by other C.I.S. members, according to the
independent Interfax news agency. 

Lt. Gen. Konstantin Pleshko, commander of Russia's Northwestern Frontier
District, told the Russian state news agency Itar-Tass, ''We do not pursue the
aim of erecting a wall before the people but our duty is to place a reliable
barrier across the way of unlawful transportation of Russian wealth across the
borders.'' 

After initially setting stiff visa fees for those crossing its border from
Russia beginning July 1, Estonia backed down and lowered the fees this week. 

Russia was to establish border posts to the south at the Azerbaijan frontier
later, Interfax said. 

The three former Soviet Baltic republics are not C.I.S. members, and
Azerbaijan's new president has indicated that the country may not ratify its
membership. 

Other C.I.S. borders are generally open though customs posts may be established
at some locations. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 12:38 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 13:00 Thu Jul 23 

RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS 

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (JULY 22) UPI - Russia is not prepared to link the recovery
of its prisoners of war with the Afghan demand for war reparations, Mikhail
Karpov, a spokesman for the Russian embassy said Wednesday. 

He was commenting on the statements of some Afghan rebel groups that said they
would only release the Soviet soldiers captured during the war if the
Commonwealth of Independent States paid war reparations. 

''The two issues can never be linked. Recovery of the prisoners of the former
Soviet Union is a humanitarian issue and it should not be linked with politics
'' said krapov. 

Krapov said 301 soldiers of the former Soviet army had disappeared during the
14-year war in afghanistan, which began with the Soviet occupation of Kabul in
1979. 

Most of them are believed to have been captured by different mujahideen groups
fighting against the Soviets and their afghan communist allies. The Hizbe
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Islami party of Gulbadin Hekmatyar claims to have the largest number of Soviet
prisoners. 

So far the mujahideen have released 35 POWs. 

''Pakistan helped us in securing the release of 19 of these 35 prisoners
including Alexander Rutskoi, now vice president of the Russian federation,''
said Krapov. 

Rutskoi was a colonel in the army when when captured. 

Krapov claimed there were no mujahideen prisoners ''on the soil of the any
republic of the former Soviet Union.'' 

The mujahideen claim that the former Soviet republics were still holding
thousands of their prisoners, including the brothers of the first mujahideen
president of Afghanistan, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 07:45 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 08:00 Thu Jul 23 

AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH 

MOSCOW (JULY 22) UPI - An Azerbaijani attack plane was shot down by an Armenian
missile over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Russian and Armenian
reports said Wednesday. 

The SU-25 aircraft was allegedly strafing Armenian-inhabited areas of
Nagorno-Karabakh when it was shot down, according to the Russian Interfax and
Itar-Tass news agencies. 

The plane had just completed a bombing raid, according to the Armenian
Nagorno-Karabakh self-defense staff. 

A growing number of air raids have launched the undeclared war between
Armenians and Azerbaijanis into yet another phase. 

The fight over Nagorno-Karabakh in its early stages was marked by long-distance
shelling between opposing forces, sometimes based in neighboring towns.
Recently, land battles involving tanks, heavy artillery and troop battalions
have escalated the war. Now air raids are becoming more frequent. 
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The bomber was the second Azerbaijani aircraft shot down this week, Interfax
and Itar-Tass reported, citing the downing of a military aircraft accused of
firing at an Armenian village. 

Scores of people have reportedly died in fighting this month, bringing the
death toll to an estimated 2,000 in the protracted conflict. 

Nagorno-Karabakh is within Azerbaijan but its Armenian population has declared
its independence, triggering a fight from Azerbaijan and help from Armenia. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 22:19 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 22:00 Thu Jul 23 

HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD 

MEXICO CITY (JULY 23) DPA - Only five people survived when a sailboat packed
with 91 Haitian refugees sank off the coast of Haiti Sunday, reports said
Wednesday. 

Rescuers have recovered 20 bodies from the sea so far, the reports said.
Originally all aboard had been feared dead. 

The boat was built to accommodate only ten people. Most of those aboard were
women and children who were said to have paid 250 dollars each in the hope of
reaching the United States. 

Meanwhile a four-member delegation of the Organisation of American States
arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to prepare a visit by OAS
Secretary General Joao Baena Soares. 

The OAS has been trying unsuccessfully to find a negotiated settlement in Haiti
after the coup d'etat in which the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
was ousted September 30, 1991. 
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Thousands of people have fled the island since the coup. dpa ba ma 230034 Jul
92 



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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 13:09 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 13:00 Thu Jul 23 

DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES 

(JULY 22) FNS - SUBJECT: Mark up of HR 5555, to provide for increased
preinspection 
                  at foreign airports, to make permanent the visa waiver 
                  pilot program, and to provide for expedited airport 
                  immigration processing 


        LOCATION: 2237 Rayburn House Office Building 
                  -- July 23 


         CONTACT: 202-225-5727 



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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 20:27 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 20:00 Thu Jul 23 

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN 

(JULY 22) COMTEX - 
 THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WILL MEET TOMORROW, TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR
STRIKES AGAINST TARGETS IN IRAQ. THE MEETING FOLLOWS DAYS OF ESCLATING TENSION
OVER IRAQ'S REFUSAL TO ALLOW U-N INSPECTORS ACCESS TO ITS AGRICULTURE MINISTRY
BUILDING. WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN MARLIN FITZWATER SAID TODAY ALL OPTIONS ARE
UNDER REVIEW, INCLUDING MILITARY ACTION AGAINST BAGHDAD. 


 PENTAGON SOURCES SAY A SECOND U-S E-C-130 COMMAND PLANE HAS BEEN DISPATCHED TO
THE PERSIAN GULF. AND ALL SHORE LEAVE HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CREW MEMBERS OF
THE U-S-S SARATOGA. PENTAGON SOURCES SAY 12-POSSIBLE TARGETS HAVE BEEN
TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED, IF AIR STRIKES ARE ORDERED BY PRESIDENT BUSH. 





SOURCE:  ZAPNEWS 
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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 08:11 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 08:00 Thu Jul 23 

HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN 

TEL AVIV (JULY 22) DPA - A synthetic growth hormone treatment administered in
an Israeli hospital has caused children with growth retardation to grow by some
12 centimetres a month, the Hadashot daily reported Wednesday. 

The EGF 1 hormone was given to 15 children suffering from the Laron syndrome,
an affliction which affects many children in the Mideast and causes their
growth to halt at between 120-130 cm. 

Thousands of sufferers are believed to be living in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
and other Mideast countries as well as in Spain and South America, doctors at
the Beilinson hospital just outside Tel Aviv said. 

The children were aged between 7 and 15 when given the drug over the course of
a year and a success rate of 100 per cent was recorded, the paper quoted
doctors as saying. 



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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 05:19 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 05:00 Thu Jul 23 

BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON 

LONDON (JULY 22) UPI - Britain will expel an Iranian diplomat from London in
retaliation for Iran's expulsion of an official at the British Embassy in
Tehran, The Independent newspaper reported Wednesday. 

The Foreign Office would not confirm the report, but said such a retaliation
was ''an option.'' 

The move would mark a further setback in relations that, until last month, had
been improving on the strength of Iran's involvement in winning freedom for the
Western hostages held in Lebanon. 

Iran announced Tuesday that British Embassy Third Secretary Geoffrey Brammer
''has been asked to leave Iran within one month because of acts violating
diplomatic norms,'' the Iranian news agency IRNA said in a dispatch monitored
in Cairo. 

The Iranian report gave no reason for the expulsion, although it followed the
arrest of Brammer last month in Tehran on suspicion of spying after Brammer
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arranged to play a game of squash with an Iranian airline pilot. 

Britain on Monday strongly protested Brammer's detention to the Iranian
government. 

The Independent quoted a source in the British Foreign Office as saying an
Iranian diplomat will be ordered out of London as soon as Brammer leaves Iran. 

The Foreign Office spokesman acknowledged Wednesday such a move would not be
unexpected but declined to confirm the report. 

''This is an option that is open to us,'' the spokesman said. ''No decision has
been taken.'' 



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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 09:37 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 10:00 Thu Jul 23 

IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR 

ATHENS, GREECE (JULY 22) UPI - Iran and Iraq exchanged the bodies of soldiers
killed in the 1980-88 war between the two countries and agreed to further such
exchanges, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said Wednesday. 

The bodies of 50 Iranians were exchanged for those of 51 Iraqi troops at the
Khosravi border crossing, about 100 miles northeast of Baghdad, an IRNA
dispatch monitored in Athens said. 

The exchange took place almost four years after the end of the 1980- 88
Iran-Iraq war, in which about 1 million people were estimated to have been
killed or wounded. 

IRNA said special military ceremonies were held after the bodies of the
Iranians were handed over. The bodies were to be given to the families of the
troops for burial in their home towns, it said. 

Officials of the two sides held talks in Khosravi for arrangements to be made
so that further exchanges could take place. Thousands of troops killed on
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either side were buried in cemeteries close to the battlefields during the war.



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  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 16:05 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 16:00 Thu Jul 23 

WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES 

NEW YORK (JULY 22) 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       .7484   .7473  1.3362  1.3382 
 Austria schill      .0952   .0953   10.50   10.49 
 Belgium franc-c     .0326   .0327   30.71   30.62 
 Brazil cruzado    .000265 .000267 3772.00 3740.00 
 Britain pound      1.9065  1.9080   .5245   .5241 
 Britain 1-mo       1.8956  1.8967   .5275   .5272 
 Britain 3-mo       1.8737  1.8760   .5337   .5330 
 Britain 6-mo       1.8443  1.8459   .5422   .5417 
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 Canada dollar       .8408   .8393  1.1893  1.1915 
 Canada 1-mo         .8392   .8377  1.1916  1.1938 
 Canada 3-mo         .8367   .8351  1.1952  1.1975 
 Canada 6-mo         .8335   .8316  1.1997  1.2025 
 Chile peso-f      .002849 .002854  350.98  350.34 
 China yuan          .1828   .1828  5.4700  5.4700 
 Colombia peso     .001722 .001722  580.64  580.64 
 Denmark krne        .1744   .1746  5.7350  5.7280 
 Ecudr sucre-z     .000693 .000693 1443.00 1443.00 
 Egypt pound         .3002   .3002  3.3310  3.3310 
 Finlnd mrkka        .2448   .2452  4.0850  4.0775 
 France franc        .1993   .1988  5.0175  5.0295 
 France 1-mo         .1981   .1976  5.0475  5.0605 
 France 3-mo         .1958   .1954  5.1072  5.1178 
 France 6-mo         .1950   .1946  5.1282  5.1400 
 Greece drach      .005457 .005470  183.25  182.80 
 Hollnd guildr       .5965   .5958  1.6765  1.6783 
 HongKong dlr        .1292   .1293  7.7370  7.7345 
 India rupee         .0352   .0352   28.42   28.44 
 Indo'sa rupia     .000494 .000494 2025.11 2025.11 
 Iran rial           .0142   .0142   70.30   70.30 
 Iraq dinar         2.6546  2.6546  0.3767  0.3767 
 Ireland punt       1.7880  1.7925  0.5593  0.5579 
 Israel shekel       .4164   .4164  2.4017  2.4017 
 Italy lira        .000887 .000884 1128.00 1131.00 
 Japan yen         .007996 .007981  126.65  125.30 
 Japan 1-mo        .007889 .007973  126.76  125.43 
 Japan 3-mo        .007879 .007962  126.92  125.60 
 Japan 6-mo        .007876 .007957  126.96  125.68 
 Jordan dinar       1.4918  1.4818  0.6675  0.6675 
 Kuwait dinar       3.4423  3.4447  0.2905  0.2903 
 Lebanon pnd       .000533 .000533 1875.00 1875.00 
 Mexico peso-z     .000321 .000321 3117.00 3117.00 
 N.Zealand dlr       .5490   .5490  1.8215  1.8215 
 Norway krne         .1706   .1707  5.8625  5.8585 
 Pakistn rupee       .0397   .0399   25.18   25.05 
 Peru (new sol)     0.8403  0.8403  1.1900  1.1900 
 P'pnes peso-z       .0409   .0408   24.45   24.50 
 Portugl escud     .007855 .007862  127.30  127.20 
 Saudi riyal         .2665   .2665  3.7520  3.7520 
 Singapore dlr       .6190   .6196  1.6155  1.6140 
 S.Africa rand       .3621   .3613  2.7620  2.7675 
 S.Korea won       .001267 .001267  789.40  789.40 
 Spain peseta      .010482 .010477   95.40   95.45 
 Sweden krona        .1846   .1855  5.4175  5.3910 
 Switzrl franc       .7590   .7541  1.3175  1.3260 
 Switzrl 1-mo        .7554   .7505  1.3238  1.3325 
 Swirzrl 3-mo        .7385   .7439  1.3360  1.3443 
 Switzrl 6-mo        .7392   .7343  1.3528  1.3618 
 Taiwan dollar       .0408   .0409   24.53   24.46 
 Turkey lira       .000145 .000146 6913.00 6828.04 
 UAE dirham          .2723   .2723  3.6725  3.6725 
 Urug'y peso-z     .000312 .000312 3185.01 3185.01 
 Venez bolivr-z      .0151   .0153   66.09   65.45 
 Germany mark        .6729   .6718  1.4860  1.4885 
 Germany 1-mo        .6693   .6680  1.4940  1.4969 
 Germany 3-mo        .6622   .6612  1.5102  1.5125 
 Germany 6-mo        .6524   .6509  1.5328  1.5363 
 Yugosl dinar      .003158 .003158  316.62  316.62 


 c-Commercial; f-Financial; z-Floating; x-N. Y. Money Market. 
 Interbank Buyers Rates 
 Source: Bloomberg Financial Markets and other sources. 



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     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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=START=   XMT: 16:44 Wed Jul 22  EXP: 17:00 Thu Jul 23 

IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR 

CAIRO, EGYPT (JULY 22) UPI - Iran said Wednesday it will return to Kuwait six
Airbus planes flow to Tehran after being seized by Iraqi troops occupying the
emirate before the Persian Gulf War. 

A dispatch by the official Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Cairo,
quoted the Iranian Embassy in Kuwait as saying that Tehran was returning the
planes to Kuwait as a ''good neighborly gesture.'' 

Together with most of the Iraqi Air Force's fleet of jet fighters and bombers,
the six passenger airliners of Kuwiat Airways and other Kuwaiti aircraft were
flown to Tehran by Iraqi pilots in January 1991, shortly before the U.S.-led
coalition waged its air campaign against Iraq. 

By sending such a sizable fleet to his formerly enemy, president Saddam Hussein
of Iraq astonished observers, and even prompted some to misinterpret his
desperate move as a possible connivance by Tehran. 

Iran, which fought Iraq for eight years and was demanding considerable amounts
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of war reparations from Baghdad, seized the opportunity and kept the windfall
as a partial payment of the compensation it was claiming . 

But Kuwait never gave up claiming the aircraft and in the process Tehran tried
to wrest funds from the oil-rich emirate to return them. 

Kuwait Airways officials said on several occasions that the Iranians were
trying to gouge them on storage and maintenance charges before returning the
planes. 

The Iranian government, the officials added, will continue to negotiate with
Kuwait on the charges. 



=END= 

     PROFILE NEWS

  1. U.N. DIPLOMAT COMMITS SUICIDE IN PAKISTAN
  2. RUSSIA BEGINS ESTABLISHING BORDER POSTS ALONG BALTIC FRONTIERS
  3. RUSSIA NOT PREPARED TO LINK POW ISSUE WITH AFGHANISTAN DEMAND FOR
     REPARATIONS
  4. AZERBAIJANI ATTACK PLANE DOWNED OVER DISPUTED ENCLAVE IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
  5. HAITIAN REFUGEE SHIPWRECK LEAVES 86 REPORTEDLY DEAD
  6. DAYBOOK: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LAW, IMMIGRATION AND
     REFUGEES
  7. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE AIR STRIKES IN IRAN
  8. HORMONE THERAPY SAID EFFECTIVE FOR GROWTH-RETARDED CHILDREN
  9. BRITAIN TO REPORTEDLY EXPEL IRANIAN DIPLOMAT FROM LONDON
 10. IRAN, IRAQ EXCHANGE BODIES OF TROOPS KILLED DURING EIGHT-YEAR WAR
 11. WEDNESDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 12. IRAN TO RETURN TO SIX KUWAITI AIRBUS PLANES STOLEN BY IRAQ BEFORE GULF WAR

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