Sudan rejects food aid amid famine claims
Sudanese government economist Col. Salah Deen Karar said relief would be refused even if famine is declared, stating the junta will not accept any food assistance. In Johannesburg, 26 blacks were killed in factional fighting and nine ANC members faced terrorism charges. In Rambouillet, Gorbachev and Mitterrand signed a friendship treaty, omitting a non aggression clause.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Salah Deen Karar
Sudan News Agency
Johannesburg
South Africa
African National Congress
Ivory Coast president leads in first contested vote
In Abidjan Felix Houphouet Boigny led with about 85 percent of ballots counted as the Interior Ministry reported results from Ivory Coasts first multi party presidential election. Opposition decried fraud amid democracy protests.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Africa
sub-Saharan Africa
Interior Ministry
Claude Regnier
Houphouet-Boigny
Hindu temple plan ignites clashes in Ayodhya riot scene
Hindu holy men clashed with police in Ayodhya and a bus was set ablaze amid a curfew. The turmoil surrounds plans by fundamentalist Hindus to build a temple on a disputed 16th century mosque site.
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Ayodhya
India
V.P. Singh
Lucknow
Hoshiarpur
Punjab
United News of India
World Hindu Council
Anti-Communist bloc wins large Georgia election majority
Zviad Gamsakhurdia's Round Table-Free Georgia bloc claims about 70 percent of 250 seats in Georgia's parliamentary vote. Tass reports 34 of 125 districts for Round Table, 22 for Communist Party. runoff elections to follow, with 125 seats remaining via percentage shares.
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Los Angeles Times
Moscow
Georgia
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Round Table
Free Georgia
Tass
Communist Party
Georgian
Popular Front
Gamsakhurdia
Election Commission
Irakli Zhordania
Argil Chirakadze
Norway's center right government resigns over EEC ties
Norway's Conservative Prime Minister Jan Syse announced the resignation after the Center Party quit the three party coalition over Europe Economic Community talks. He aims to form a minority government though no party holds a majority in Parliament.
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Oslo
Norway
Centerright
European Economic Community
EEC
Jan Syse
Center Party
Syse
Tween
European Free Trade Association
Center
Anne Enger Lahnstein
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Labor Party
Soviets Show Waning Trust in Government in New Poll
The All-Union Center for Public Opinion surveys 1,356 respondents in 11 regions finding only 6 percent fully back national leadership, 32 percent with qualified support, and 50 percent with no confidence. Results cover Gorbachev and Ryzhkov amid shortages and sovereignty moves. a majority doubt emergency decrees will stabilize the economy.
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Moscow
All-Union Center For Public Opinion
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Gorbachev
Interfax
Ogonyok
Communist Party
Red Army
Russian Orthodox Church
Supreme Soviet
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Sun
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Phar,mor
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