Gorbachev calls US not world cop in AP interview
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev rejects the United States role as global policeman and urges democratic building abroad. He criticizes Bush and Yeltsin for slow and fast reforms, and reflects on the Soviet collapse and his own reforms. He plans no return to politics but vows to support reforms.
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Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S
United States
Gorbachev
Associated Press
Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Soviet Union
Bush
Yeltsin
Soviet
Kremlin
Afghan rulers consolidate control in Kabul amid factional struggle
The new Islamic government in Kabul centralizes command over mujahedeen factions and drives rival forces led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar from the city. Masood serves as defense minister and tensions with Hekmatyar remain, as leaders debate the scope of Islamic law.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Sigbhatullah Mojaddidi
Council of Ministers
Hekmatyar
Mohammad Khan
Mojaddidi
Masood
Sierra Leone Troops Oust Momoh In Coup
Mutinous Sierra Leonean soldiers claimed to have toppled President Joseph Momoh and formed a new government after reports Momoh fled to Guinea. The coup coincided with a West African peacekeeping deployment in Liberia and Libyan rebel activity.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Sierra Leone
Joseph Momoh
Momoh
Guinea
Liberia
Charles Taylor
South African police captain sentenced to death in mass killing
In Pietermaritzburg, Capt. Brian Mitchell was sentenced to death for leading the Dec 3 1988 massacre that killed 11 black funeral mourners in Trust Feed. Four black constables received 15 year prison terms. Mass killing marked a first for police culpability in South Africa.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
African National Congress
Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court
Andrew Wilson
Brian Mitchell
Dumisane Ndwalane
Kehla Ngubane
Thabo Sikhosana
Marshall Khambule
Trust
Pietermaritzburg
Natal
Mitchell
Commandos Destroy Bridges Linking Bosnia and Croatia
Masked commandos blew up the last two bridges connecting Bosnia-Herzegovina to Croatia near Brcko. Four people were killed and refugees seek safety in Croatia as fighting drives about 400,000 from their homes. Croatian radio reports masked assailants captured a police patrol guarding the bridges at dawn and set charges.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia
Haven of
Bosnia
New Republic
Iran said to possess two missing nuclear warheads from Kazakhstan
An European newspaper, citing a secret Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency report, claims Iran has taken at least two nuclear warheads from the Semipalatinsk site in Kazakhstan. The report notes a third weapon remains untraced and suggests Nazarbayev may have facilitated transfers in exchange for oil or cash.
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Iran
Kazakhstan
Foreign Intelligence Agency
Soviet Union
Semipalatinsk
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nazarbayev
Reza Amrollahi
Iranian Organization For Atomic Energy
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
Middle East
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