Estonia pays high price for independence
Five months after declaring independence Estonia teeters on economic collapse and political crisis. Fuel oil runs low and bread rations appear as Tallinn plans evacuations to the countryside. Prices fall and milk vanishes while the government resigns, yet Estonians vow to persevere through hardship and hunger, valuing freedom above comfort.
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Tallinn
Estonia
Soviet Union
Ivi Proos
Ants Promann
Kuwait receives U S fighter jets for postwar air force
Kuwait on Saturday took delivery of the first of 40 F-18 Hornets under a 1.6 billion contract to modernize the air force after the 1990 invasion. Eight more jets will arrive in the next month as bases are rebuilt and additional equipment arrives, including Humvees and potential Patriot missiles.
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Kuwait City
Kuwait
U.S
Air Force
Sheik Ali al-Sabah
al-Ahmadi
al-Jahra
United States
Havel faces collapse of power as Czechoslovakia nears split
Vaclav Havel risks losing the presidency as constitutional reform stalls. With federation strains rising, June elections could bring leaders who doubt his viability and threaten reunification. Polls show Vaclav Klaus leading in the Czech lands and Vladimir Meciar in Slovakia, signaling a precarious future for the federation.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vaclav Havel
Havel
Petr Uhl
Michael Zantovsky
Vaclav Klaus
Slovakia
Vladimir Meciar
G7 finance ministers fail to secure Germany rate cut pledge
In Garden City New York the seven leading democracies offered stronger economic cooperation yet stopped short of a concrete action plan. The statement emphasized varied policy mixes by country and noted uneven recovery signs among the G seven including the United States Japan Germany Britain France Canada and Italy. The group also addressed the Soviet transition urging cooperation free trade and efficient administration.
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Garden City
N.Y
United States
Germany
New York
Japan
Britain
France
Canada
Italy
Japanese lawmaker calls U S managers inferior
Tokyo AP Ishihara former transportation minister calls U S managers inferior and says U S leadership does not understand their country or Japan. Kyodo quotes him amid criticism of Sakurauchi remarks on lazy illiterate American workers and reports of auto steel purchases.
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Japan
Shintaro Ishihara
Kyodo
Yoshio Sakurauchi
United States
Ishihara
Bush
Liberal Democratic Party
Sayen
Sakurauchi
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