HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (SHKELQIM BEQARI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.election,clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.gov.officials,clari.news.economy,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Albania nominates new non-communist cabinet
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, election, politics,
	government officials, non-usa economies, economy
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 4:45:59 PDT
Location: albania, eastern europe
ACategory: international
Slugword: albania
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 391; Id: z2018; Sel: xxigf; Adate: 4-14-750aed
Codes: yigfrxx., yiperad., yigorxe., yiefrxx.

	TIRANA, Albania (UPI) -- The first non-communist Cabinet in 47 years
was announced in Albania Tuesday, but newly elected President Sali
Berisha predicted the country would need years to turn its economy
around.
	``The total transformation of Albania needs 15 to 20 years,'' Berisha
said as he appealed to western countries to receive 20,000 Albanian
workers each year. ``We need emigration.''
	The Cabinet appointment follows the resounding win by Berisha's
Democrats in the March 22 elections.
	The new 18-member Cabinet has 14 Democrats, two Independents, one
Republican and one member of the Social Democrats -- the former
Communists.
	The prime minister is relatively unknown 53-year-old architect
Alexander Meksi, who was charged last week by Berisha to form the new
government.
	Key portfolios were were given to Democrats Genc Ruli as minister of
finance and economy, Bashkim Kopliku as minister of public order and
Rexhep Uka as minister of agriculture and food. Kopliki and Uka were
also named as joint deputy chairmen of the Council of Ministers.
	Alfred Serreqi, another Democrat, was named minister of foreign
affairs.
	The only minister who served in the Cabinet which fell last December
is Ruli.
	The Republican Party's Fatos Bitincksa takes over as minister of
transport and communications. General secretary of the Council of
Ministers is Social Democrat Vullnet Ademi.
	But while Berisha was pessimistic about any quick change of fortunes
for Europe's poorest country, the new prime minister Meksi was more
optimistic.
	``Our main target is to put the economy back in motion,'' Meksi said
after the Cabinet was announced.
	``We will overcome the situation by restoring public order and doing
away with 80 percent of the salary,'' the prime minister said. Since the
Communist regime fell in December 1990 and state institutions were
suspended, employees have been receiving 80 percent of their former
salaries without having to work.
	The country is wracked with economic and social problems and many
Albanians now live below the poverty line.
	Prices have gone up 185 percent since December 1990, and according to
Albanian Bank director Myslim Mele inflation is running at 500 percent
for the first three months of 1992.
Xref: sparky clari.news.politics:598 biz.clarinet.sample:1254 clari.news.top:212
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.politics,clari.news.gov.officials,clari.news.politics.people,clari.tw.environment,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Carter says Clinton election would be good for Japan-U.S. relations
Keywords: politics, international, government officials, government,
	political personalities, environment
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 15:46:35 PDT
Location: japan
ACategory: international
Slugword: japan-carter
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 283; Id: z5982; Sel: xxnp.; Adate: 4-13-650ped
Codes: ynp.rxx., yigorjp., yiprrxx., yivxrxx.

	TOKYO (UPI) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday the election
of Democratic Party presidential candidate Bill Clinton would be a
positive development in Japanese-U.S. relations.
	``Clinton is very friendly toward Japan, and he will be a good
president for the U.S.-Japan relationship,'' Carter was quoted as
telling Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
	During a 45-minute meeting, Carter, the last Democratic to be elected
president, commented about the presidential race in response to
Miyazawa's inquiry about the current governor of Arkansas, a Foreign
Ministry official said.
	Carter is in Tokyo for an international meeting Wednesday through
Friday on financing of global environmental cleanup efforts.
	In Japanese political circles, Republican presidents are generally
viewed as preferable to Democrats because of their traditional pro-free
trade platform.
	However since U.S. President George Bush visted Tokyo in January,
relations between the two countries have made a rancorous turn. The non-
binding accord reached by Bush and Miyazawa under which Japanese
carmakers would double their procurement of U.S.-made auto parts and
boost imports of American cars has come under attack from both sides.
	Democrats have introduced protectionist legislation aimed at reducing
the lopsided U.S. trade deficit with Japan, and political leaders in
both countries have hurled insults in a barrage of Japan and U.S.-
bashing rhetoric.
	Carter, elected president in 1976, predicted Bush would assume a more
progressive stance on environmental protection as the November election
nears.
Xref: sparky clari.news.politics:501 biz.clarinet.sample:1126
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Message-id: <tsongasU2A71155pe@clarinet.com>
Subject: Tsongas reassessing campaign
Keywords: politics
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 20:56:33 PDT
ACategory: washington
Slugword: tsongas
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 266; Id: z0205; Sel: xxnp.; Adate: 4-7-1155ped
Codes: ynp.rxx.

	LOWELL, MASS (UPI) -- Paul Tsongas, who suspended his campaign three
weeks ago, said Tuesday he is looking at his options following his
surprising second place showing in the New York Democratic primary.
	But the former Massachusetts governor said he would have no word on
whether he would resume active campaigning until late in the week.
	``We will have no decision until Thursday or Friday,'' Tsongas told
reporters gathered outside his Lowell home.
	``The issue here is, we know how we did. It's how did Bill Clinton do
-- what's the analysis of that vote.''
	After losing twin primaries in Illinois and Michigan on March 17,
Tsongas put active campaigning on hold.
	On Tuesday, he insisted ``the issue is not money'' in deciding
whether or not to resume campaigning but rather to understand what the
New York vote meant.
	Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won the New York and Kansas primaries, but
the votes in both states indicated a lack of enthusiasm for the
Democratic frontrunner and for self-styled insurgent candidate, former
California Gov. Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown Jr.
	Tsongas, in his brief session with reporters, said supporters in New
York had urged him to wait until the New York vote can be analyzed more
deeply before deciding what to do with his campaign.
	``They urged me to let time pass,'' he said.``
	``You can look at the raw numbers,'' he said. But the question is, 
``what do these numbers mean and what positive role is there to play.''
	``The spoiler issue remains,'' he said. ``I'm not in the business to
be a spoiler.''
Xref: sparky clari.news.gov.international:253 clari.news.politics:548 clari.news.hot.east_europe:85 clari.news.hot.ussr:67 clari.news.gov.officials:22 biz.clarinet.sample:1198
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.usa,clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Message-id: <wirthU2A7740pe@clarinet.com>
Subject: Wirth not seeking re-election
Keywords: usa federal, government, politics
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 16:46:59 PDT
ACategory: washington
Slugword: wirth
Priority: regular
Format: regular
X-Supersedes: <wirthU2A7550pe@clarinet.com>
ANPA: Wc: 422; Id: z6646; Sel: xxngw; Adate: 4-7-740ped; Ver: ld
Codes: yngwrxx., ynp.rxx.
Note: (complete writethru -- wirth announces he is not running for re-
 election)

	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Democratic Sen. Timothy Wirth of Colorado, a
first-termer considered politically vulnerable to retain his post, has
decided not to seek re-election this fall, his office said Tuesday
night.
	``Today I am announcing my decision not to run again for the United
States Senate,'' Wirth said in a written statement read by an aide in
his Denver office.
	The aide said Wirth was ``deeply grateful for the thousands of
people'' who had supported in Congress.
	Prior to the announcement, reports that Wirth would not seek re-
election quickly spread on Capitol Hill. His telephone, by midafternoon,
carried the standard answering service that normally goes into effect
after 8 p.m.
	Wirth is the seventh senator to announce that he will not run this
year -- an unusually high number. In addition, Sen. Alan Dixon, D-Ill.,
was defeated for re-election in the Democratic primary.
	Wirth has been considered the most vulnerable, or one of the most
vulnerable, senators in the November elections. Polls showed him with
only a slim lead over state Sen. Terry Considine, the probable
Republican nominee.
	Wirth was running into serious problem with a letter, signed by a
number of other freshman senators, urging a series of reforms, including
the creation of a bank, similiar to the one that existed in the House.
The proposal was turned down by outgoing Senate Democratic leader Robert
Byrd and the current leader, Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine.
	The disclosure in recent months that numerous members of the House
were able to write checks on personal accounts that held insufficient
funds has led to one of the most serious congressional scandals in
decades.
	The House investigation goes back only until 1988. Wirth, however,
served in the House from 1974 until 1986 and could have been open to
demands for his personal checking-writing record during his House
service.
	Last week, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said he would not run to make
good a pledge he would not seek a second term if he could not lower the
federal deficit in his first six years.
	A few days ealier, Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., one of the most
respected members, said he would not seek re-election, citing a
frustration with Congress's inability to deal with deficit and other
issues.
	Others not running are Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., Jake Garn, R-
Utah, Steve Symms, R-Idaho, and Brock Adams, D-Wash.
Xref: sparky clari.news.gov.international:270 clari.news.europe:64 clari.news.politics:577 clari.news.politics.people:69 biz.clarinet.sample:1230
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (United Press International)
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.europe,clari.news.politics,clari.news.politics.people,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Quote of the Day
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, political parties,
	politics, political personalities
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 21:02:01 PDT
Location: great britain
ACategory: international
Slugword: quote
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 58; Id: z0197; Sel: gbigf; Adate: 4-14-12med
Codes: yigfrgb., yipprxx., yiprrxx.

	British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, announcing his resignation
following last week's Conservative Party victory:
	``I make and I seek no excuses and express no bitterness when I say
the Conservative-supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet
again.''
Xref: sparky clari.news.election:269 clari.news.politics:552 clari.news.gov.usa:211 biz.clarinet.sample:1202 clari.news.top:206
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Miyazawa urges end to fruitless bashing
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, political parties,
	politics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 16:33:52 PDT
Location: japan
ACategory: international
Slugword: japan-bashing
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 309; Id: z6157; Sel: jpigf; Adate: 4-13-735ped
Codes: yigfrjp., yipprxx.

	TOKYO (UPI) -- Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa called Monday for
enhancing Japan-U.S. friendship to fight nuclear proliferation and other
serious global issues with an end to ``fruitless mutual bashing.''
	Listing serious concerns gripping the world, Miyazawa told a banquet
commemorating the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the American-
Japan Society, ``We will not be able to solve any one of these issues
unless we, Japanese and Americans, cooperate very closely together day
in and day out.''
	Miyazawa cited environmental problems, ``narcotics, the widening gap
between the rich and poor, the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction or nuclear safety'' as areas to concentrate upon.
	He called for the United States and Japan ``to foster mutual respect
in place of mutual bashing.''
	``Let this recognition of the importance of bilateral cooperation and
this reservoir of goodwill prevail over the fruitless mutual bashing,''
Miyazawa said.
	Relations between the two countries have taken a rancorous turn since
U.S. President George Bush visited Tokyo with a trade delegation in
January. The non-binding accord Bish and Miyazawa reached to boost
purchases of American auto parts and sales of American cars in Japan
generated criticism on both sides.
	Since then, verbal bashing in both countries has escalated, and
violence against Japanese in the United States has been significantly on
the rise.
	Bush, in a message read by U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost, said he
underscored the significance of building friendly relations and
encouraged the society to do more to this end.
	Referring to the founding of the society in 1917, Bush said, no one
then ``would have predicted the tightly interwoven business, academic,
cultural and political ties we now enjoy.''
Xref: sparky clari.news.politics:585 clari.news.law.drugs:14 clari.news.law.investigation:4 biz.clarinet.sample:1241
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.politics,clari.news.law.drugs,clari.news.law.investigation,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: State Police ends probe into Brown drug allegations
Keywords: politics, illegal drugs, legal, legal investigations
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:30:45 GMT
Followup-To: biz.clarinet.sample
ACategory: usa
Slugword: brown-probe
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 411; Id: z4539; Sel: xxnp.; Adate: 4-14-1230ppd
Codes: ynp.rxx., ynldrxx., ynlirxx.


	SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) -- The California State Police said Tuesday
they have ended an investigation into a report that drugs were used at
the home of Democratic presidential candidate Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown
while he was governor because they cannot prove or disprove the charges.
	State police, however, are extremely skeptical of the allegations
after interviewing past members of Brown's security detail, Capt. Robert
Donnalley said.
	``We have found no truth to the charges,'' he said.
	Donnalley said state police have ended a four-day effort to uncover
the identities of two men who told ABC News last Thursday that they saw
people using large quantities of cocaine and marijuana during parties at
the governor's Los Angeles house.
	None of the men accused Brown of using drugs, and none said they saw
him in the presence of others using drugs.
	``We have pretty much run into a dead end. Without assistance from
ABC and without these people coming forward on their own, we are simply
unable to prove or disprove even the existence of these folks,''
Donnalley said.
	Brown has catagorically denied ever giving a party where drugs were
used. He has threatened a lawsuit to force the television network to
name the men, whose faces were hidden on camera.
	State police reviewed videotapes of the news report and interviewed
former members of Brown's security detail in an effort to uncover the
identities of the men. Officers who guarded Brown while he was governor
told their superiors that they never saw any drugs at the house.
	``They are frankly in disbelief that anybody would make that
allegation,'' Donnalley said. ``It did not happen. These things that
have been alleged just did not happen.''
	ABC News told state police it had verified the men were members of
Brown's security team while he was governor of California between 1975
and 1982. The network cited four state police officers in its report.
None of the men were identified, but two appeared on camera with their
faces concealed.
	Donnalley said ABC News refused to name its sources when asked by
state police. He said the network would not disclose how it discovered
the men or how it determined that they actually worked for the state
police.
	Close associates of Brown were shocked by the news report. Several
said that Brown did not throw parties and was staunchly opposed to drugs
and alcohol.
Xref: sparky clari.news.gov.state:34 clari.news.politics:527 biz.clarinet.sample:1159
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.state,clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Judge rejects request for primary filing extension
Keywords: state government, government, politics
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:33:14 GMT
Followup-To: biz.clarinet.sample
ACategory: usa
Slugword: primary-pa
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 332; Id: z4962; Sel: xxngs; Adate: 4-9-330ped
Codes: yngsrxx., ynp.rxx.


	PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- A federal judge Thursday refused to allow any
more candidates on Pennsylvania's primary ballot, but an appeals court
will have the final say on the matter.
	U.S. District Judge Robert Gawthrop agreed that 15 prospective
candidates were not given enough time to file nominating petitions
because the state missed the March deadline for redrawing its
congressional districts.
	But Gawthrop said granting extensions would delay the April 28
primary and deprive millions of Pennsylvanians of their right to vote on
time.
	The decision was immediately appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals. The three-member appeals court heard arguments Thursday and
let the decision stand until a final ruling, which was expected to be
issued Friday.
	State election officials said Gawthrop's decision, if upheld, will
assure that the primary goes off on schedule. Adding names to the ballot
at this late date would have been costy and inconvenient to voters, they
said.
	Fred Voight of the voter watchdog group Committee of Seventy, said, 
``It isn't like you can take everything that you have and move it back.
It doesn't work that way. You have to have a new application process and
new ballots because you are going with a different date.''
	``It's a very complex matter involving the constitutional rights of a
whole lot of people,'' he said.
	Delaying the vote could mean that Pennsylvania's 215 Democratic
delegates would not be seated at the July 13 convention, he said.
	The aspiring candidates argued in their lawsuit that by the time
Pennsylvania's new congressional map was was approved on March 10 there
were only nine days left in which to collect petitions.
	Last week Gawthrop extended the deadline for filing nominating
petititions until last Monday for two would-be candidates from
Montgomery County, neighboring Philadelphia.
	But Thursday's ruling vacated that order.
Xref: sparky clari.news.gov.usa:205 clari.news.politics:540 biz.clarinet.sample:1190 clari.news.top:201
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (DAVID A. WIESSLER, UPI Senior Political Editor)
Newsgroups: clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample,clari.news.top
Followup-to: biz.clarinet.sample
Message-id: <politics-analysisU2A81220ae@clarinet.com>
Subject: Clinton keeps winning key primaries
Keywords: politics
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 21:19:25 PDT
ACategory: washington
Slugword: politics-analysis
Priority: major
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 403; Id: z0299; Sel: xxnp.; Adate: 4-8-1220aed; Ver: sked
Codes: ynp.rxx.

	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- If Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton keeps winning the 
``must-win'' primaries, Democrats are going to have to acknowledge that
he is their candidate whether they like it or not.
	New York was supposed to be the state that would strip off Clinton's
bark and leave him politically wounded.
	While the two weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary were rough ones
for the southerner visiting the urban hotbed, Clinton in the end pulled
out an relatively easy win.
	Coupled with victories in the Midwest, Clinton now has nearly two-
thirds of the delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.
	He also has three weeks of breathing room before the April 28
Pennsylvania primary to regroup and, as he indicated in his victory
speech Tuesday night, reach out to the Democrats who have not yet come
over to his side.
	Those Democrats who have been wringing their hands over a Clinton
nomination are running out of time and candidates.
	Former California Gov. Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown Jr. staked a lot on New
York and for a while seemed to have struck a nerve. But in the end he
finished third behind non-candidate Paul Tsongas.
	Brown will stick around and probably cause Clinton some problems,
especially in caucus states where his faithful can come in droves. But
it is hard to see him making a major challenge until California in June
on the last day of the primary season and that will be too late.
	Tsongas is reassessing his decision to put his campaign on hold but
even though he ran well as a protest vote Tuesday it is unlikely he
would do a lot better as an active candidate.
	He said he did not want to stay in the race just to be a spoiler. If
he got back in actively that is what he would become. And the lack of
funds that drove him out in the first place will not get any better.
	The drive to get someone else in the race pretty much died in New
York.
	Filing dates for the primaries are past so no one new can get in.
That would leave only a brokered convention to pick another candidate.
	While still a possibility, as of now there is no one on the horizon
who is willing to step forward to take up the challenge.
	Clinton seems to win whenever he really has to.
	Those disenchanted Democrats better hope that one of those times is
in November.
Xref: sparky clari.news.gov.international:276 clari.news.election:279 clari.news.europe:67 clari.news.politics:583 biz.clarinet.sample:1239