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    The following news is collected from various news
    sources. None of them are written by the TRH volunteers
    except those that has "TRH" after the date. Murat Erder
    and Murat Sonmez have translated the news items from
    a daily summary of Turkish papers we get here in
    California. Our radio broadcasts usually include all of
    the articles from Turkish papers and/or some of the
    articles that follow the Turkish papers section.

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 TURKEY IN THE FRENCH PRESS
     1/3/93,   SABAH--   An article in the French  daily  Le
Figaro  said Turkey would like to become a regional power in
Central Asia and Black Sea regions.  The power vacuum in the
region following the collapse of the Soviet Union caused new
players  and  organizations  to come forward,   the  article
mentioned.    The  article  also talks about the  Black  Sea
Economic Cooperation project initiated by Turkey.

TURKISH TROOPS ARRIVE IN SOMALIA
     1/4/93,  SABAH--  Turkish troops arrived in Somalia and
took over the control of the northern part of the  Mogadishu
airport.

TURKEY AND UNITED EUROPE START NEGOTIATIONS
     1/4/93, HURRIYET-- Following the official establishment
of a common market in Europe with 400  million people at the
beginning of the year,  Turkey and EC officials are starting
talks on free travel issues at the end of this month.

ANNUAL INFLATION AT 66%
     1/5/93,   MILLIYET--   The 1992  annual inflation  rate
reached 66%, exceeding the government's initial forecasts of
52%.   The rate would have reached 70% range had the planned
price increases in the government sector not been  postponed
to the new year.
    Opposition  parties criticized this tactic as artificial
curbing of the inflation rate.

INVESTIGATION PROPOSED FOR CHERNOBYL RESPONSE
     1/5/93,  GUNAYDIN--  Following extensive press coverage
of the then administration's decision not to inform and warn
people  of  the  high  radiation  in  Turkey  following  the
Chernobly  accident,  government officials stated that  they
would ask for a parliamentary investigation.
    "People  found  guilty will be punished",   the  cabinet
members  stated.   Current Turkish president Ozal's  cabinet
was ruling the country at the time the accident took place.

DEMIREL TO VISIT SYRIA
     1/5/93, SABAH-- Turkish prime minister Suleyman Demirel
will  visit Syria on January 19-20.   Topics to  be  covered
include  Iraq,  Bosnia-Herzegovina,  Middle  East,   Kurdish
terrorism,  border security and economic cooperation between
the two countries.

TURKEY TO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO USE IRAQI OIL
     1/6/93, HURRIYET-- Turkish government will ask the U.N.
for  permission  to  use the oil still stored in  the  Iraq-
Turkey pipeline to prevent damage to the facilities.
    The oil will be used to cover outstanding payments  from
Iraq  to Turkey,  and to pay for medical supplies and  other
humanitarian aid to Iraq.  The value of the oil still in the
pipeline is estimated to be $400 million.

OZAL TO VISIT SENEGAL
     1/6/93,   TURKIYE--  Turkish president Turgut Ozal will
visit Senegal on January 10 to attend the Islamic Conference
Organization's meeting.

LAWS FOR MORE LIBERAL TURKEY
     1/7/93,   CUMHURIYET--   Several  proposals  to  repeal
several  restrictions from the laws are being  discussed  in
the commissions,  including more freedom for the press.  The
proposals   also   include  giving  more  freedom  on   book
selections for state school libraries.

TURKISH AUTHOR ELECTED TO THE WORLD CULTURE ACADEMY
     1/6/93,   SABAH--  Yasar Kemal,  a   prominent  Turkish
author,  was elected to be one of the 42 founding members of
the World Culture Academy, initiated by the French president
Mitterand.   With Mr. Kemal's membership,  Turkey become one
of the 21 founding countries among more than 200 countries.
    The academy will hold its first meeting on January 29 to
complete the founding process.

TURKEY ATTACKS THE CYPRUS ISSUE
     1/6/93,   HURRIYET--  Turkish foreign  minister  Hikmet
Cetin said the Cyprus problem could only be resolved without
outside intervention.  Mr. Cetin said imposing a solution on
the parties by the UN would not be fruitful,  and none would
want a resolution as much as the Turkish government and  the
government of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

SOMALIA AID PARTICIPATION BEING EVALUATED
     1/6/93,   SABAH--   Turkish  officials  are  evaluating
whether  to  participate in the second phase  of  the  peace
making operation in Somalia.
    Officials  dismissed news about Turkey to take over  the
command for the operation as mere speculation.


GERMAN  KIDS LEARN ABOUT TOLERANCE TOWARDS FOREIGNERS AT  AN
EARLY
     BERLIN (JAN.  2)  -  The menace of the neo-Nazis brings
the  most distressed looks to their faces:  the group of  11
and  12-year olds sitting at their desks in a Berlin primary
school is obviously worried.
    They, like their parents,  have witnessed the horrifying
television footage of right-wing extremists on the rampage -
the same sort of material that has been beamed all over  the
world.
    Class  6B  at  Kurt  Schumacher School  in  the  densely
populated  area of Kreuzberg is like a mini-United  Nations,
with  Moslems,   Jews,   Christians and  others  all  thrown
together:   pupils from Turkey,  Vietnam,   Italy,   Poland,
Lebanon and Syria.
    In  the new environment of a unified Germany,  they  are
less  aware  of  world  problems  than  of  the   day-to-day
animosities as two cities, East and West Berlin, integrate -
a process which some say will take years.
    Pinar,  a  Turkish-Jewish girl who lives in the  western
part  of Berlin,  like her fellow-students,  blames the east
for the friction.
    "When the Wall first came down I didn't know anyone from
East Germany,"  she admits,  "but then I got mad,  because I
realised  over  there they hate foreigners and  were  coming
over to this side of town."
    Added Nina : "I don't like what we're seeing today,  all
fighting  and  hate against foreigners."  Ben had  his  say:
"They're all Nazis."
    Ysour,  who is from Syria,  had some advice for  Germans
who  hate  foreigners.  "When Germans travel on  holiday  to
other countries,  then they are foreign too, "  she reminded
them.
    Jutta Kellman, the school headmistress,  points out that
the  children are encouraged to learn about other races  and
customs.   She hopes they impart some of this  knowledge  to
their own parents when they go home at the end of the day.
    Every  Christmas,   parents are asked to bring  food  as
their contribution to an annual party for the  Christmas-New
Year holiday season.  "Before,  the German parents would not
even  make  an  attempt to taste the  Turkish  food,"   said
Kellman,    "but   today,   there  is  definitely   a   more
willingness."
    Not  every  school  in Berlin has such a  pot-pourri  of
students  from  such  a  wide range of  places.   In  nearby
Brandenburg state, a  recent survey of schoolchildren showed
that 35 percent did not like foreigners, and 20 percent were
ready to use violence against them.
    The  German  government has made it a priority  to  tell
post-war children about the evils done by the Nazis.
    Explained  one education official,  pointing to the mass
rallies  throughout  Germany during December in  support  of
foreigners:   "That is probably one reason why so many young
people  have  begun to go on the streets to  protest  what's
been going on in our country lately."

    U.S. AND RUSSIA URGE AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA TO END CONFLICT
    MOSCOW (JAN.  3)  -  The United States and Russia Sunday
urged  Azerbaijan  and Armenia to end the fighting over  the
enclave  of  Nagorny-Karabakh  and called  for  a  political
settlement, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
    The  appeal came in a joint statement issued during  the
summit  meeting  in Moscow of presidents  Boris  Yeltsin  of
Russia and George Bush of the United States.
    The  mainly  Armenian population in the enclave want  to
break away from Azerbaijan to join the republic of Armenia.
    The two leaders urged the parties to settle the  dispute
at a planned peace conference in the Belarus capital Minsk.

    MICROTERRA  SIGNS  LETTER  OF INTENT FOR  SALE  OF  BIO-
RECYCLING WOOD CHIPS
    BOCA RATON,  FL (JAN.  4)  -  Microterra Inc.  announced
Monday that the company had entered into a Letter of  Intent
with SINA Uluslararasi Limited of Istanbul,  Turkey, for the
export  sale  of  the bio-recycled wood  chips  produced  at
Microterra's bio-recycling facility in Tallulah, La.
    It  is expected that the final agreement will be  on  an
exclusive basis,  commencing in March,  and extend to future
Microterra  bio-recycling facilities.  The estimated  annual
value  for  the wood chips contract  is  approximately  $4.7
million.

    ARMENIAN MILITANTS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN SOUTHERN KARABAKH
IN AZERBAIJAN
    BAKU (JAN. 4) - AN ARMENIAN EXPEDITIONARY CORPS LAUNCHED
A   LARGE-SCALE  OFFENSIVE  IN  SOUTHERN  KARABAKH  IN   THE
DIRECTION OF THE FIZULI DISTRICT ON MONDAY,  THE INFORMATION
CENTRE OF THE AZERBAIJANI DEFENCE MINISTRY SAID.
    "AT THE FIRST STAGE OF THE OFFENSIVE, THE ENEMY CAPTURED
THE VILLAGE OF ASHAGY VEISALLI.  THE AZERBAIJANI ARMY SEIZED
THE  INITIATIVE  AND  STOPPED THE MOVEMENT OF  THE  ARMENIAN
UNITS.  AS A RESULT OF A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE,  THEY DROVE  THE
ARMENIANS OUT OF THE VILLAGE," THE CENTRE SAID.
    SEVERAL  BORDER  VILLAGES  IN  THE  TAUZ  AND   ZANGELAN
DISTRICTS  OF  AZERBAIJAN  CAME UNDER SHELLING  LAST  NIGHT.
DAMAGE WAS REPORTED.

    TURKEY  LAUNCHES  NEW  PROBE  INTO  CNERNOBYL   DISASTER
AFTERAFFECTS
    ANKARA,   TURKEY (JAN.  5)  -  Turkey has launched a new
probe  to  determine the extent to which  people  along  its
Black  Sea  coast  were affected by fallout  from  the  1986
Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials said Tuesday.
    The  move followed reports in several leading newspapers
of  a sharp rise since 1986  in the number of cancer victims
seeking  treatment in state-owned hospitals  along  Turkey's
Black Sea coast.
    Health  Minister Yildirm Aktuna began a tour Tuesday  of
what officials call ''the areas of first-degree risk''  from
Chernobyl   nuclear  fallout  along  the  Black  Sea  coast,
stretching  from the Georgian border to the southern tip  of
Bulgaria.
    Officials said Aktuna's trip was the first step in a new
study  being launched into the afteraffects in Turkey of the
Chernobyl  disaster,   and  the  minister  would  coordinate
investigations  being  made  in towns along  the  Black  Sea
coast.
    The accident,  the worst in nuclear history, occurred in
April  1986,   when  an explosion and fire in  one  of  four
reactors  at Chernobyl,  in what was then the Soviet  Union,
released   a   cloud  of  radioactive  material   into   the
atmosphere.
    Fallout  was  recorded  in parts of  the  Soviet  Union,
Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Western Europe.
    Turkey's   Black  Sea  coast  also  reportedly  received
fallout,  but the extent was not fully reported at the time,
and  the Turkish Union of Doctors now says the government of
then  Prime Minister Turgut Ozal played down the  risks  the
local people faced.
    Over the past year,  Turkish newspapers have reported  a
sharp  rise  in  the  number of cases of  cancer  and  other
disabilities  believed to have resulted from  the  Chernobyl
nuclear fallout in the country's Black Sea coastal region.
    The reports,  based on interviews with doctors in  state
hospitals  along the Black Sea coast,  said fallout  victims
included  pregnant  women who had  miscarriages,   stillborn
babies and seriously deformed babies, the incidence of which
has risen sharply since 1986.
    Doctors in the region claim they and their families were
affected  by the fallout,  and the Turkish Union of  Doctors
has  filed complaints in Turkish courts charging  government
officials  with ''failure to take necessary  precautions  to
protect public health.''
    Monday,   Aktuna said a previous study showed that  some
100,000   people in Turkey may have been affected by nuclear
fallout  after  Chernobyl,   but a more thorough  probe  was
needed to get the true picture.
    The  minister  said a comprehensive list of  victims  in
Turkey of the Chernobyl disaster was being drawn up, and his
ministry  would arrange for them to be treated at government
expense.
    In  addition  to  the  Turkish  Health  Ministry  probe,
officials   said  the  Council  of  Europe  would  make   an
independent study through the Joint Research Project for the
Prevention  of  Natural and Technical  Disasters  and  Their
Afteraffects.
    A third study, in two regions of Turkey, will be carried
out by the Turkish Physicians for the Prevention of  Nuclear
War, Health Ministry officials said.

    A RECORD 438,191 PEOPLE SEEK ASYLUM IN GERMANY IN 1992
    BONN (JAN. 5) - A record 438,191 people sought ayslum in
Germany  in  1992,  up 71.1  per cent on  the  year  before,
Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters said in Bonn Tuesday.
    The 1991 figure had been just over 256,000. Seiters said
mounting  pressures on people to leave the former East  Bloc
states  and  the  civil war in the  former  Yugoslavia  were
responsible for the increase.
    Germany  last  year  took in 60  per cent of  the  total
number of refugees coming to European Community states.
    Of  the  German total,  122,666  had  come  from  former
Yugoslav states,  Seiters said.  103,787  million came  from
Romania, 31,540 from Bulgaria and 28,327 from Turkey.
    Other main countries of origin were Vietnam, territories
of  the former Soviet Union,  Nigeria,  Zaire,  Algeria  and
Ghana.
    The registered number of refugees arriving in Germany in
December 1992 had dropped to 31,638 from 38,348 in November.
The  decline  represented  a regular fall  off  in  arrivals
during the winter months, Seiters said.
    The  minister  said long and overdue efforts to  tighten
the  liberal  German  asylum laws had to  come  to  fruition
during the current year in order to end abuses and to reduce
the influx significantly.

IDB, AZERBAIJAN PTT SIGN AGREEMENTS FOR PRIVATE LINE SERVICE
    ROCKVILLE,  MD (JAN. 6) -  IDB Communications Group Inc.
(NASDAQ:    IDBX),   a   leading  supplier  of   specialized
telecommunications services,  announced that the company was
issued  five-year Operating Agreements for the provision  of
switched  voice and private line services between Azerbaijan
and the United States by Aztelecom and Teleradio,  operating
entities of the Azerbaijan PTT.
    The Agreements,  signed Dec. 21, 1992,  call upon IDB to
install  a  7.2-meter  satellite earth station in  Baku  and
interconnect to Aztelecom's existing DMS100/200  switch.   A
minimum of 15 switched voice channels will be established as
a  first  step with IDB interconnecting traffic to  its  New
York switch facilities.   The earth station shall be located
at  the  new  telecommunications tower in  Baku  which  will
become  the Network Collection Point (NCP)  for private-line
customers in the Baku region.
    Connectivity between the NCP and customer locations will
be  provided  by digital microwave systems as well as  four-
wire   copper  facilities.    The  satellite  earth  station
constructed by IDB will address Statsionar 11  (11   Degrees
West)   for  direct reception in New York  at  IDB's  Staten
Island Teleport.
    In  addition,   for  applications beyond  the  reach  of
microwave  connectivity,   IDB shall provide customers  with
dedicated,   on-premise earth stations addressing Statsionar
11 or Statsionar 5, which would be received at IDB's gateway
earth station facility or complex in London.
    The overall agreement between IDB and the Azerbaijan PTT
was signed by Edward R. Cheramy,  president of IDB and Sirus
H. Abasbeyli, minister of communications.  At the same time,
a companion agreement for provision of private line services
was signed by Vagif Musayev,  general director of Teleradio,
the  Radio  and TV Association of the Azerbaijan  PTT;   and
another  companion agreement for provision of switched voice
services was signed by Rafik Aliyev,  director of Aztelecom.
Signing these agreements for IDB was Bill Wisniewski,   vice
president of Business Development.
    Cheramy  remarked,   "These  ground-breaking  agreements
offer  U.S.   oil and energy companies a one-stop  shop  for
telecommunications   solutions   from  the  oil  fields   of
Azerbaijan."
    IDB Communications operates a domestic and international
communications  network  which provides its  customers  with
radio  and television transmission services,   international
private  line  telephone,  facsimile and  data  connections,
mobile    satellite    communications    capabilities    and
international   public  switched  long  distance   telephone
services.

U.S. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK SUPPORTS VEHICLE SALES TO TURKEY
    WASHINGTON  (JAN.  6)  -  THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF  THE
UNITED STATES,  A FEDERAL AGENCY, SAID TODAY IT HAS APPROVED
A  GUARANTEE  TO SUPPORT THE 24  MILLION DOLLAR SALE  OF  74
PERSONNEL SECURITY VEHICLES TO TURKEY.
    THE  VEHICLES  WILL BE BUILT BY CADILLAC  GAGE  TEXTRON,
WARREN,   MICHIGAN AND WILL BE SOLD TO THE TURKISH  NATIONAL
POLICE IN ANKARA, TURKEY.
    THE  TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE,  WHICH IS ORGANIZED  UNDER
THE  TURKISH MINISTRY OF INTERIOR,  IS RESPONSIBLE  FOR  THE
ENFORCEMENT OF CRIMINAL LAW IN TURKEY.
    THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK WILL GUARANTEE 21 MILLION DOLLARS
INCLUDING EXPOSURE FEES TO CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, NEW YORK.
    THE  MISSION OF THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK IS TO  FACILITATE
THE EXPORT FINANCING OF U.S.  GOODS AND SERVICES BY MATCHING
THE EFFECT OF CREDIT SUBSIDIES FROM OTHER GOVERNMENTS AND BY
ABSORBING  REASONABLE  CREDIT  RISKS  THAT  ARE  BEYOND  THE
CURRENT REACH OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

CIS UNITY THREATENED BY NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL,  ECONOMIC
INDIFFERENCES
    MOSCOW  (JAN.  6)  -  The prospects for constructing  an
effective Commonwealth of Independent States from the debris
of  the  Soviet  Union have received a  setback  just  weeks
before a proposed summit in the Belarussian capital of Minsk
on Jan. 22.
    Now into its second year,  the unruly association of  11
former Soviet republics is threatened by nationalism as well
as  by wide-ranging political and economic differences  that
could perpetuate a policy of drift.
    Ukraine --  the least enthusiastic member of a club that
Azerbaijan and Georgia have not joined --  has again  voiced
reservations about a possible "return of empire."
    And  heads of five Central Asian republics are preparing
regional contingency plans in case the summit flops.
    At a meeting in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Jan.  4
to discuss plans for the Commonwealth,  Ukrainian  President
Leonid Kravchuk further dampened hopes for the adoption of a
Commonwealth charter at the Minsk meeting.
    He  reportedly  told the meeting that  the  Commonwealth
charter does not coincide with national interests and  could
take decades to put into final shape.
    According to a report by Interfax today,  Kravchuk  said
international  pressure was being exerted to get the charter
signed  because  of  fears of a repeat  of  the  Yugoslavian
crisis and an uncontrolled division of nuclear weapons.
    Meanwhile, at another meeting behind closed doors in the
Uzbek  capital of Tashkent on Jan.  4,  heads of Kazakhstan,
Kirghizstan,   Tajikistan,   Turkmenia  and  Uzbekistan  are
believed to have talked of the formation of a "United States
of Central Asia."
    This  was  the  fourth  meeting  of  the  mostly  Muslim
republics.   Some  people  are saying that it was  aimed  at
encouraging  the  rest of the Commonwealth to  define  their
positions  and to force a response from Moscow,  the capital
of the Russia republic.
    In a report on Jan. 4, Russian television said all these
leaders  support the Commonwealth but that "in the event  of
its collapse,  a  new association of Central Asia is already
being shaped." The five leaders, it was said, agreed to meet
again in April in the Turkmen capital of Ashkabad.
    On   the  same  day,   Belarussian  President  Stanislav
Shushkevich  announced his country's readiness to  attend  a
Commonwealth summit in Minsk on Jan. 22.
    The  Commonwealth leaders were to have met on Dec.   25,
but  the  meeting was called off a few days before,  when  a
government spokesman in Moscow said Russian President  Boris
Yeltsin and his Kazakh counterpart, Nazarbayev, were ill.
    The Commonwealth was formed on Dec.  8,  1990,  when the
leaders  of  Belarus,  Russia and Ukraine decided to  secede
from  the Soviet Union.  It has since been beset by problems
on  how close a federation it should be and how long  should
it last.
    Russian  Foreign  Minister Andrei Kozyrev has  said  the
Commonwealth  "would  not  be a mechanism  for  a  civilized
divorce  but an instrument for the further strengthening  of
joint action between states."
    Splitting  the  Soviet Union  and  fulfilling  political
ambitions  was comparatively easy,  but the leaders  of  the
republics have yet to come up with an acceptable formula for
dividing Soviet assets.
    Nuclear weapons, armed forces --  particularly the Black
Sea  fleet --  and the future of the ruble are  the  trouble
spots in this era of resurgent nationalism.
    The  Ukraine has recently been in the limelight,   along
with  Belarus  and  Kazakhstan,  for dragging  its  feet  on
ratifying the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. It also
stands  in  the way of the landmark nuclear  arms  reduction
pact signed on Jan. 3.
    The  second biggest and second most  powerful  republic,
the  Ukraine  has also been at the center of a dispute  with
Russia over repayment of an estimated $80 billion of foreign
debt inherited from the ex-Soviet Union.
    Russia  has  offered  a "zero sum"  option  to  all  the
Commonwealth  countries,   saying Russia would shoulder  the
entire  debt and work out a favorable repayment schedule  in
return  for  the other republics'  relinquishing all  common
Soviet assets.
    But  the Ukraine last week refused to go along with  the
proposal and has thrown the negotiations into disarray.  The
Commonwealth  is  also divided on basic  economic  policies,
with the Ukraine, Moldova and Armenia going ahead with plans
to introduce their own currencies,  disrupting Russia's plan
to stabilize the ruble.
    In  an  interview  with the Russian  newspaper  Izvestia
yesterday,  Kirghiz President Akayev reiterated the need for
an   economic   and   strategic  nucleus   between   Russia,
Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kirghizstan.
    Armenia, Moldova, Tajikistan,  Turkmenia and the Ukraine
should  decide  how close they want to maintain their  ties,
Akayev  added.   At  the root of the  Commonwealth  identity
crisis  is the powerful presence of Russia and  a  suspicion
that the imperial machine is still at work.
    Kravchuk reportedly said yesteday that Russia has always
seen  itself  as  a superpower and a leading  force  in  the
Commonwealth.   But,   he said,  "I'll spare no  efforts  in
opposing any attempt to return to an empire."

    TURKMENIA TO REDUCE GAS SUPPLIES TO AZERBAIJAN
    BAKU  (JAN.   8)  -  AS OF TODAY TURKMENIA  HAS  REDUCED
SUPPLIES  OF  GAS  TO  AZERBAIJAN.  NOW IT  WILL  SUPPLY  11
(INSTEAD  OF 14)  MILLION CUBIC METRES OF GAS TO  AZERBAIJAN
PER  DAY,   OUT  OF WHICH THREE  MILLION  CUBIC  METRES  ARE
INTENDED FOR GEORGIA.
    INFORMING AZERI GASMEN ABOUT IT,  THEIR COLLEAGUES  FROM
TURKMENIA  EXPLAINED  THE  REDUCTION  OF  GAS  SUPPLIES   BY
UZBEKISTAN'S   DECISION  TO  REDUCE  TRANSPORTATION  OF  GAS
THROUGH ITS TERRITORY.

    SEC'Y  OF STATE EAGLEBURGER SAYS U.S.  IS LOSING STATURE
WITH ISLAM
    WASHINGTON  (JAN.   8)  -  Secretary of  State  Lawrence
Eagleburger  said that the administration's inability to end
the  carnage  in  Yugoslavia has ''cost  us  in  the  Muslim
world'' and encouraged extremism.
    Eagleburger,  responding to audience questions following
a  speech  to  the Council on Foreign  Relations,   said  in
countries such as Iran and Turkey,  and in initiatives  such
as the Middle East peace talks, the administration's failure
to bring peace to Bosnia-Herzegovina has lowered its stature
among both radical and moderate Islamic nations.
    ''There  is no question that our inability to bring  the
Yugoslav  slaughter  to  an  end in Bosnia has  had  a  very
substantial impact on the attitudes of the Muslim world  and
has encouraged Muslim extremism,'' he said Thursday.
    ''It has cost us in the Muslim world.''
    Eagleburger    said,    disappointment   and    outright
belligerence  by  Muslim nations toward  the  United  States
grows as the crisis continues unabated.
    For example,  Eagleburger said Turkish Foreign  Minister
Giray  Safa  ''takes me to task''  on  the  administration's
''inability to deal with the problem'' every time they meet.
    Islamic  nations  have called on the United  Nations  to
lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Herzegovina so the  besieged
republic  can defend itself against Serbian  aggression,   a
move the administration has steadfastly opposed.
    Some  Islamic  countries,  such as Iran,  have  secretly
violated the arms embargo with weapons shipments to  Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
    But  Eagleburger said he hopes Muslims look at what  the
administration is doing in Somalia,  another Islamic nation,
and realize that they are not being abandoned by Washington.
    ''What we are trying to do in Somalia, I hope, will show
the Muslim world that is not the case,'' he said.
    Following his speech, in which Eagleburger summed up the
victories  and  defeats  of the  Bush  administration,   the
secretary  of state said the international community  should
attempt  to  bring  Iran  back into the  family  of  nations
through economic trade.
    ''I don't like to see us cutting off trade with Iran  if
it's  peaceful  trade,''  he said.  ''Being able  to  affect
Iranian  attitudes  is at least in part going to be done  by
being   able   to  develop  again  some  of   the   business
relationships.''
    Eagleburger  said,   however,   that   Iranian-sponsored
terrorism in Lebanon and elsewhere makes Tehran difficult if
not impossible to deal with.
    On   the  other  hand,   he  said,   Iran  will   become
increasingly isolated and dangerous unless the West attempts
to engage it in political and economic dialogue.
    ''I  can't argue with those who say you shouldn't  trade
with those who support terrorism,  and there is no  question
the  Iranians are clearly supporting terrorist activities in
Lebanon and in other places,'' Eagleburger said.
    ''We  should be careful not to isolate them  completely,
but we need to recognize at the same time that their conduct
often  makes it very difficult if not impossible to do  much
more.''

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