Law on Land Gives Soviet State Control Farmland
Laws grant state ownership of land while allowing private plots for citizens. Congress to vote March 12 after Supreme Soviet approval. Farmers on kolkhozes and state farms may acquire plots to boost productivity amid reforms. Izvestia poll shows 40 percent want private farming.
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Menihae
Mikhail See Linge An
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Pavel Voshchanov
Soviet Union
Congress of People’s Deputies
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Izvestia
Congress of
People’s Deputies
Ednesday
Alexander Nikonov
Soviet Agricultural Academy
Birth control means liberation for Burkina Faso women
In Ouagadougou, health planners and aid groups push contraception to slow population growth and protect women’s health amid religious resistance and desertification. Advocates argue contraception empowers women, while critics fear promiscuity and oppose devices.
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Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
Bri F. Thiombiano
John 1
Thiombiano
Africa
Sahel
Sahara
United States
U.S
Agency For International Development
Meba Kagone
Europe Suffers Deadly Storm Toll Across Nations
Storms across Europe claim at least 65 lives in three days as winds up to 100 mph threaten Corsica and other regions. Fires, evacuated villages, and damaged sea walls mark the disaster, with Britain, Germany, France enduring heavy losses and relief aid totaling about 2 million dollars.
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London
Europe
Sweden
Sicily
Corsica
Nice
Catania
Salonica
Greece
Britain
West Germany
France
Switzerland
Italy
Belgium
East Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
Denmark
Red Cross
Ortega halts attacks on Contras in Nicaragua
President Daniel Ortega announced a halt to offensive operations against the Contras and urged the United States to end support. Violeta Chamorro, allied with Ortega, praised the move as a step toward ending civil war and pledged to oversee demobilization and civilian control of the armed forces once she takes power.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega
United States
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Ortega
Uras
Chamorro
Latin America
Humberto Ortega
United National
Arma
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