Language guide notes official tongues across nations
The guide lists languages and their official status in various countries. It notes translations provided by Cedar Rapids groups and universities, with Indonesian Malay and Tagalog translation efforts failing by presstime. It identifies French English Arabic German Spanish Greek Finnish and Flemish as official languages in specific regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OmniLingua Inc
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa Translation Laboratory
T.B. Irving
Stavros Hadjis
Philippines
Algeria
Belgium
France
Australia
Britain
India
Ireland
Malawi
New Zealand
Zambia
Egypt
Saudia Arabia
Austria
West Germany
Chile
Spain
Venezuela
Greece
Finland
International News Briefs From Around the World
A wide set of brief reports notes Libyan security commander Khouidi Al Hamidi in Algiers with undisclosed aims, health updates on ex-president Kekkonen in Helsinki, Lugar opposing subsidized Soviet wheat in Sydney, VOEST Alpine losses in Vienna, Belgium inflation rise in Brussels, Thatcher aid for Cameroon in London, and arrests at a Chilean opposition magazine in Santiago. Other items include Arkhipov leaving Peking, Cairo calling for revolution, Chirac on Lebanon peacekeeping, Albanian border crossing, eye donation pledge, ASEAN economic talks, Indonesia's tariff-free market plan, Charley storm tolls in Dublin, Malawi’s self-sufficiency, Dutch-Chinese agricultural talks, nuclear-free zone pledges, Sison launching a new party, Saudi check clearing, Cory Aquino in Singapore, Libyan tensions in Moscow, Cameroon aid, Palme murder inquiry, Thailand debt curbs, and Haiti-Venezuela oil aid.
List of diplomats posted to various countries
A compiled roster of envoys including Algeria Moscow and Congo postings with names like Mohamed Sahnoun Gregory Wood Walter Mayr Paul Ponjaert Derek Plumbly Jorge Valen ek Ahmed Ghoneim Jaakko Laajava Henri Blanc Alexander Philon Dalip Lahiri Soesilo Soederman Padraic MacKernan Timon Mangwazu Albert Talalla Jan Sonneveld Wallace Rowling Emmanuel Pelaez Ibrahim Khoja Kumaran Vadim Kuznetzov Lorenzo Gonzalez-Alonso Lars Tillfors Sakthip Krairiksh Valentin Hernandez Hans-Theodor Wallau Mico Rakic Nalumino Mundia across Europe Asia Africa and the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algeria
Mohamed Sahnoun
Australia
Gregory S.R. Wood
Austria
Walter Mayr
Belgium
Paul Ponjaert
Britain
Derek Plumbly
Chile
Jorge Valenek
France
Henri Blanc
Greece
Alexander Philon
India
Dalip Lahiri
Indonesia
Soesilo Soederman
Ireland
Padraic MacKernan
Malawi
Timon Mangwazu
Malaysia
Albert Talalla
Netherlands
Agriculture and
Jan Sonneveld
New Zealand
Wallace Rowling
Philippines
Emmanuel Pelaez
Saudia Arabia
Ibrahim Khoja
Singapore
Kumaran
Soviet Union
Vadim Kuznetzov
Spain
Lorenzo Gonzalez-Alonso
Sweden
Lars Tillfors
Thailand
Sakthip Krairiksh
Venezuela
Valentin Hernandez
West Germany
Hans-Theodor Wallau
Yugoslavia
Mico Rakic
Zambia
Nalumino Mundia
Rau vows to pull West Germany Star Wars treaty
Social Democrat Johannes Rau said he would end West Germany's Star Wars agreement with the United States and urge Washington to remove its nuclear missiles deployed in the country if elected chancellor next January. Ortega accuses U S of blocking Nicaragua summit bid in Yugoslavia visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nuremberg
Johannes Rau
West Germany
United States
Washington
Belgrade
Daniel Ortega
Nicaragua
Ortega
Yugoslavia
Angolan Rebels Raid Zambia Village Abduct Four Civilians
In a weekend raid in Zambia's Zambezi region, UNI TA guerrillas abducted four civilians at gunpoint. Zambian police said the fighters from Jonas Savimbi's UNITA crossed the border, part of a pattern of at least 13 abductions since June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusaka
Zambia
Jonas Savimbi
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
Zambezi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa
To Toy
Ee Phie
Cowra
Deepe
Obate
Kayueop
Puy Vee Uwe As
Dbo
Cres
Costa
Owe
A la Ag IN
People’s Republic of China
Gazette
John McIvor
Charles Grassley
Alowa
Gary Bierschenk
Blairstown
Marvin Davis
Ames
Jon Davis
Iowa State
Bierschenk Farm
Algiers
Khouidi al- Hamidi
Al-Hamidi
Helsinki
Urho Kekkonen
Matti
Kekkonen
Sydney
Richard Lugar
U.S
Vienna
Voest Alpine Iron and Steel
Brussels
Ministry For Economic Affairs
London
Margaret Thatcher
Cameroon
Foreign Office
Yaounde
Santiago
Cance
China
Peking
Ivan Arkhipov
Xinhua
Cairo
Libya
Hosni Mubarak
Mediterranean
Assel (Ap
Jacques Chirac
United Nations
Lebanon
Ioannina
Sonia
National Eye Bank
Jakarta
Rachmat Saleh
Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community
ASEAN
New Delhi, India
Rajiv Gandhi
Dublin
Charley
Continent
The
Hague, Netherlands
Dutch Agriculture Ministry
Wellington
Mikhail Kapitsa
Manila
Jose Maria Sison
Communist Party of the Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
SAMA
Saudi Gazette
Jidda
Dammam
Corazon Aquino
Cory
Cory, Cory
Moscow
Pyotr Demichev
Tass
Madrid
Ment
Stockholm
Olof Palme
Dagens Nyheter
Bangkok
Suprachai Panichpak
Caracas
Haiti
Gerard Fritz Villain
Zhang Zai
Ahmed Raouf Ghoneim
Jaakko Laajava
Economic
Leela
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