Libya agrees to aid France in 1989 airliner blast inquiry
Libya will provide evidence and witnesses for France's investigation into the 1989 explosion of a French airliner over Africa. It stops short of promising to hand over suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The U.S. accuses Libya of stalling while Boutros-Ghali reports the Libyan position to the UN.
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Africa
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Lockerbie
Scotland
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Ali Ahmed Elhouderi
Russia to form its own armed forces after Minsk talks
Col. Gen. Dmitry Volkogonov said Moscow plans a presidential decree creating a Russian army after the Minsk meeting with the CIS leaders. He projected a force of about 1.5 million, similar to India, and suggested the Defense Ministry may become a civilian institution.
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Los Angeles Times
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Belarus
Dmitry Volkogonov
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Ukraine
Commonwealth
Volkogonov
India
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AIDS Epidemic Predicted to Cause Premature Death in Cities
The World Health Organization warned that AIDS will soon be the main cause of premature death in many Western cities and up to 10 million African children could be orphaned by decade's end. In the past eight months over a million people contracted HIV, about 90 percent via heterosexual intercourse.
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World Health Organization
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