Breaking with its opposition allies, Kenya's Democratic Party said it would participate in national elections due by February. A package of constitutional reforms passed last week has divided the opposition, which boycotted the last elections in 1992. The US attempted to get Korean peace talks started again one day after an unprecendented agreement to send experts to North Korea to assess the famine-stricken country's food needs. Hit by drought and tidal waves, the Communist country needs 1.9 million tons of grain, the UN said. Taiwan vowed to press on after its bid to join the UN was shut down by China for the fifth year in a row.
China considers the island a renegade province.
The new release already has sold more than 20,000 copies. And, like communism itself in its heyday, stopping its spread may be difficult. There are plans to market the album via the Internet. In typical Yankee fashion, a Newport, Maine, florist found a novel way to grow her business after moving into an old bank building. The place had a driveup window, so Carol Charters reopened it - with a few modifications.