Indian parties decline to name premier after no confidence vote
Two largest parties reject president’s offer to lead a new government in India leaving dissident Chandra Shekhar as the only major claimant. Venkataraman consults leaders but calls for possible early elections as Congress backs Shekhar without joining cabinet. Advani’s BJP and Left Front also decline, no party holds majority.
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New Delhi
Chandra Shekhar
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Venkataraman
V.P. Singh
Janata Dal Party
Singh
Britain
Janata Dal
Rajiv Ghandi
Congress Party
Ghandi
Bharatiya Janata
Indian People’s Party
United News of India
Gandhi
Germany and Poland to sign border treaty this month
Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that Poland and the newly united Germany will sign a border treaty this month to settle decades of frontier concerns. He aims to also submit a wide ranging friendship and cooperation pact for ratification by February end following talks with Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki in Frankfurt Oder.
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Germany
Poland
Frankfurt AN der Oder
Helmut Kohl
Kohl
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
United
Mazowiecki
Oder River
Oder
Neisse
Saudi women driving protest not illegal say experts
Legal and religious experts say the group of 15 Saudi women who drove in Riyadh did not break civil or moral law. The ruling suggested no ban in Islamic or civil law on women driving, though authorities urged no repeat protests.
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Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Salman bin Abdel-Aziz
Desert Kingdom
Israelis Battle Guerrillas Infiltration From Jordan
Israeli soldiers clashed with five guerrillas who crossed from Jordan near Jericho. One fighter from each side died, four infiltrators were captured, and a high ranking officer suggested the group sought revenge for the Temple Mount killings. Police detained Kahane followers amid tensions.
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Meir Kahane
Yaacov Terner
Yekutiel Ben Yaakov
Kahane
Israel
Occupied Territories
New York
Jordan
Jordan River
Jericho
West Bank
Miss U S A Gina Tolleson Wins Miss World 1991
Gina Marie Tolleson of Spartanburg South Carolina won the 40th Miss World title in London at the Palladium. First runner up was Siobhan McClafferty from Ireland with Sharon Luenso Gonzales of Venezuela third. Tolleson earned 19000 dollars in cash and a work contract worth 59000 dollars.
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U.S.A
Gina Marie Tolleson
Spartanburg
S.C
Tolleson
London Palladium
Aneta Kreglicka
Poland
Ireland
Siobhan McClafferty
Venezuela
Sharon Raquel Luenso Gonzales
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