Gorbachev launches decree to save economy in crisis
Gorbachev used his new powers to compel firms to honor contracts and the government to secure distribution as the Soviet Union shifts toward a market system. Western experts blasted the move as misdirected while bottlenecks and shortages threaten daily life across the republics.
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Bomb found at anti-terror conference in London
A plastic lunch box with high explosives was found under the lectern at an anti-terrorism conference in London and defused. The event, to be addressed by William Waldegrave and Sir Peter Imbert, was organized by the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism and canceled after the discovery.
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Break-in at U.S. general's Brussels residence
Two men, one disguised as a police officer, broke into Air Force Brig. Gen. John Douglass's Brussels home, knocked out a guard, and searched the residence before fleeing. Douglass was out of the country. NATO tightened security amid Gulf crisis tensions.
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Three killed in clashes over Indian job plan
Three more people die in anti government protests across northern India as mobs attack a train near New Delhi. Farmers block roads to pressure Prime Minister V P Singh over reservations for lower caste Indians. Singh urges dialogue. coalition leaders to meet Sunday amid turmoil.
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Czech Merchants Protest. State Shops Closed in Prague
Czech merchants and restaurateurs shuttered thousands of state owned shops across the country in a protest against government plans to auction work places to private owners. The labor action seeks preferential conditions for workers to buy into their firms and signals growing public discontent with the new democratic government.
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