U N council keeps Iraq sanctions amid threat of action
The Security Council renewed an 18 month worldwide ban on trade with Saddam Hussein's government and warned of possible renewed military action if Iraq fails to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspections. Diplomats cited pressure to repatriate Kuwaitis and return Kuwaiti property as required under the ceasefire.
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United Nations
Security Council
Iraq
Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
U.N
U.S
Thomas Pickering
Peter Hohenfellner
Council
Britain
David Hannay
Associated Press
Saddam
Liberal Democrat Leader Ashdown Admits Affair in Britain
Paddy Ashdown acknowledged a five month extramarital affair from 1986 after a confidential note surfaced. He said the pre election climate would not allow him or his family to be left alone as rivals push controversial coverage.
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London
Britain
Liberal Democratic Party
Paddy Ashdown
Ashdown
House of Commons
Patricia Howard
Jane
Five die in Belfast betting shop gun attack
Protestant gunmen opened fire in a Belfast betting shop killing five and wounding nine, part of sectarian violence that week raising Belfast deaths to 12. Residents fled as blood and spent cartridges covered the floor. Catholics and Protestants mourned and relations remained tense.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Sinn Fein
Irish Republican Army
Sean Graham
Anthony McHugh
IRA
Jim
Dominic McCarthy
German guards guilty in shooting at Berlin Wall incident
In Berlin, judges convict but release two East German border guards Uwe Hapke and Udo Walter after finding them guilty of manslaughter in the Dec 1 1984 shooting of Horst Michael Schmidt who died while attempting to scale the wall. Sentences are suspended. A second unrelated art theft report notes a missing Paul Cezanne watercolour at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, dating from archival storage.
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Berlin Wall
East Germany
Gdr
Uwe Hapke
Ingeborg Temperwin
Hapke
Walter
Rome
Paul Cezanne
National Gallery of Modern Art
Augusta Monferini
Monferini
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