Kaifu vows to push peace and curb militarism
Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, after a major election win, pledged to promote world peace and prosperity while denying any aim to build a military threat. He stressed close U S ties, a limited defense, and active international cooperation including aid, cultural exchange, debt relief, and free trade support.
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Tokyo
UPI
Toshiki Kaifu
Japan
Kaifu
United States
Noboru Takeshita
Four Months Aboard Upside-Down Catamaran Ends Safely
Four men including New Zealand skipper John Glennie and American Jim Napelka survived 120 days adrift after the Rose-Noelle capsized in a 60 knot storm 140 miles off East Cape. They subsisted on fish apples and seaweed before drifting ashore on Great Barrier Island and awaiting airlift to Auckland.
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Auckland
New Zealand
UPI
Pacific
John Glennie
Rose-Noelle
Great Barrier Island
Harakai Gulf
John
Malcolm Tomes
Glennie
East Cape
Tomes
Jim Napelka
Outward Bound
South Island
Phillip Hoffman
Rick Hellriegel
Rose
West Germans Line Up To Leave for West Germany From Prague Embassy
East Germans crowd the West German Embassy grounds in Prague seeking entry to the West. Bonn protests Czechoslovak police blocking access while diplomats reopen gates for hundreds more refugees arriving hourly. Over 6,200 refugees travel by train to the West amid weeks of negotiations and squalid Prague mission conditions.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
UPI
East Berlin
West Germany
Bonn
Ger
Germany
Poland
Gorbachev to visit Italy on state trip with pope meeting
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will tour Italy from November 29 to December 1 on a state visit. He is to meet Pope John Paul II, marking the first such encounter between a Soviet leader and the Vatican. The trip follows growing Western acclaim for Gorbachev and ongoing diplomacy with Rome.
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Moscow
UPI
Mikhail Gorbachev
Italy
Tass
Vatican
Gorbachev
Rome
Communist Party
Enrico Berlinguer
Nikolai Lunkov
John Paul II
Soviet Union
Alleged Medellin cartel figure extradited to Colombia
Ecuador handed over Evaristo Porras Ardila, an alleged Medellin cartel figure, to Colombian authorities at Tulcán near Quito. The transfer follows a string of bombings tied to efforts against cocaine cartels, with Porras sought by the United States.
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Colombia
UPI
Ecuador
United States
Ardila
Tulcan
Quito
Porras
U.S
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