Afghan guerrillas mull interim council in Kabul standoff
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar proposed a one year interim rebel council excluding himself and Masood as moderate factions advance on Kabul. Government forces may bow to a neutral or moderate leadership, while Benon Sevan urged unity to avert fresh conflict as power struggles unfold after Najibullah’s ouster.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Hekmatyar
Ahmed Shah Masood
Najibullah
Masood
Islamic Council
Islamabad
Pakistan
U.N
Benon Sevan
Sevan
De Klerk proposes multiracial interim elections plan
South Africa's F W de Klerk unveils a plan for multiracial elections to form an interim executive council. Each party could nominate one candidate, the top three to five would join the council, and the chairman would rotate as state president every six months.
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de Klerk
Cape Town
South Africa
F.W. de Klerk
Evacuation Ordered as Guadalajara Explosions Kill Many
In Guadalajara Mexico officials ordered evacuation of a La Reforma neighborhood after sewer explosions killed over 200. The blast area covered 20 to 25 blocks with 600 injured and 15 000 left homeless. Authorities planned criminal negligence charges for three officials and a $300 million in damages was reported.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
Jalisco
Guillermo Cosio Vidaurri
la Reforma
Armando Morquedo
Enrique Dan Flores
Alamo
Bosnia groups and army sign truce in Sarajevo talks
Leaders of Bosnia's Muslims Croats and Serbs and the federal army signed a truce and agreed to resume discussions on the republic's future. European Community envoy Lord Carrington and Joao de Deus Pinheiro mediated the agreement after seven weeks of intense fighting in Sarajevo. More than 200 people have died since independence voting Feb 29.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
European Community
Lord Carrington
Joao de Deus Pinheiro
Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray dies in New Delhi at 70
Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray died in New Delhi at age 70 after breathing problems and a heart ailment. The artist, who helped introduce Indian cinema to the West, had won an honorary Oscar weeks earlier and recently earned best film and best director awards for Agantuk.
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Los Angeles Times
Satyajit Ray
West
Akira Kurosawa
Japan
New Delhi
India
Ray
Calcutta
United News of India
Agantuk
Doctors stage strikes across Russia over medical crisis
Moscow doctors and ambulance medics held warn ing strikes against low pay and aging equipment as Russia shifts from a planned to a market economy. Strikes began in eastern regions and spread to Moscow St Petersburg Smolensk and Kaluga with plans to picket the legislature. Ambulance workers in Moscow will join next week as organizers call for negotiations to reorganize services for better care.
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Moscow
Russia
St. Petersburg
Smolensk
Kaluga
Mikhail Kuzmenko
The
Union of
Medical Workers
Leon Akopov
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