Court orders Bhutto to stand trial in October
A special court in Lahore ordered ousted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to face trial on corruption and misconduct charges from her 20 months in power. Justice Rashid Aziz Khan set civil proceedings for Oct. 2, with potential disqualification from the Oct. 24 election and a ban from politics for up to seven years if convicted. Bhutto may appeal to the Lahore High Court and then the Supreme Court, a process unlikely to finish before the election.
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Lahore
Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Rashid Aziz Khan
Bhutto
Canadian autoworkers end Ford Canada strike
About 12 800 CAW members voted 91 percent for a tentative contract ending a nine day strike against Ford Motor Co. Canada. The walkout idled nine Ontario plants since Sept. 15 while Ford warned U.S. plants could face supply disruptions. The deal provides wage increases of 7.5 percent, 6.7 percent, and 4.8 percent over three years.
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Toronto
Canadian Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Canada
CAW
Ford
Ontario
U.S
Rushdie's Haroun And The Sea Of Stories Reviewed
Critics hail Salman Rushdie's Haroun and The Sea of Stories as a fairy tale for children with a serious message for adults. They praise mischievous humor despite his 19 months in hiding under police guard and his separation from wife Marianne Wiggins, noting the undercurrent of pain in the prose.
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London
Salman Rushdie
Iran
Critics Sunday
Rushdie
Marianne
Mubarak orders inquiry into Iraqi deaths of Egyptians
President Hosni Mubarak ordered an investigation into the deaths of at least 24 Egyptians said to be killed in Iraq in recent months. Interior Minister Abdel Halim Moussa said Iraqi authorities attempted to cover up the slayings by concealing bodies in coffins or claiming natural causes. Some victims allegedly died near the Iraqi Jordanian border.
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Mubarak
Cairo
Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Iraq
Abdel-Halim Moussa
Saudis Cancel National Day Celebrations
Saudi Arabia canceled all official National Day events as a gesture of solidarity with Kuwaitis. The royal court instructed embassies worldwide to refrain from celebrations due to the suffering since the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion.
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Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Deal Reached To Repatriate Vietnamese Boat People
Britain Vietnam and the United Nations high commissioner for refugees reached an agreement to repatriate non refugee Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong. The Observer reported three days of Hanoi talks and confirmed by Hong Kong security secretary Alistair Asprey. The accord excludes so called economic immigrants.
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London
Hong Kong
Britain
Vietnam
United Nations High Commissioner For
the Observer
Hanoi
Alistair Asprey
Divine Liturgy Returns to Kremlin Cathedral After 72 Years
Patriarch Alexi II led a Sunday Divine Liturgy in the Kremlin Uspensky Cathedral the first full service since 1918. About 1,000 attendees, including Moscow Mayor Popov and speaker Lukyanov, watched a 2 mile procession as worshipers filled streets and balconies.
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Moscow
Alexi II
Kremlin
Uspensky
Russia
Communist Party
Gavriil Popov
Anatoly Lukyanov
Alexi
Trinity Gate
Uspensky Cathedral
Ryzhkov warns of Soviet potato shortage
Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov warned that this winter could see a potato shortage across the Soviet Union as economic crisis worsens. He urged emergency powers for Gorbachev to push market reforms while Russian lawmakers opposed the move.
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Ryzhkov
New York Times
Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Supreme Soviet
Boris Yeltsin
Le Pen predicts crisis if France keeps gulf policy
Paris reports Jean Marie Le Pen delivering a Sunday rally to about 15 000 followers. He opposes France's military role in the Persian Gulf, arguing no vital interests are at stake and urging Saddam Hussein to free French hostages. He seeks to rally support for his National Front amid anti immigrant sentiment and rising regional backing.
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New York Times
Paris
France
Jean-Marie le Pen
le Pen
Persian Gulf
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Kuwait
Witnesses recount torture and death of Liberian leader Doe
In Monrovia Liberian witnesses describe the capture and brutal killing of former President Samuel Doe by rebels led by Prince Johnson. A Lebanese merchant quoted in the London Sunday Observer says Doe was cuffed shot in both legs tortured with a knife and slashed on the face before further gunfire. He recalls Doe bleeding and attempting to wipe blood from his body before allegedly disappearing.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Samuel Doe
Prince Johnson
Liberia
Monrovia
London
Sunday Observer
Johnson
Doe
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