Belfast gunmen weigh IRA cease-fire as peace moves glare
Belief grows that Protestant gunmen are weighing whether to match the IRA cease-fire. Observers cite a Thursday statement from the umbrella group for two outlawed paramilitaries demanding three assurances: the IRA truce permanent, the INLA ending violence, and no secret British deals to secure the cease-fire.
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Northern Ireland
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Irish National Liberation Army
Veterans return MIA clues to aid war missing count
In Hanoi American veterans and Vietnamese colleagues exchanged documents and relics from battlefield era to assist locating missing soldiers. James L. Brazee led the Vietnam Veterans of America as they handed over diaries photographs and maps. Vietnam reports 300000 unaccounted soldiers while the United States lists 2229 missing. Brazee and Quang agreed to broaden cooperation and seek funds for a Friendship Village near Hanoi for elderly family members and orphans of dead and missing soldiers.
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Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans of America
James L. Brazee
VVA
United States
Brazee
Quang
U.S
Retired Adm Zumwalt Visits Vietnam over Agent Orange
In Hanoi, 25 years after ordering Agent Orange spraying, Adm Elmo Zumwalt Jr returns to meet with Dr Arnold Schecter and Vietnamese scientists on a week long visit. They discuss health effects and U.S. research efforts at American universities and medical schools. Zumwalt chairs the Agent Orange Coordinating Council and veterans groups.
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Hanoi
Vietnam
Adm
Elmo Zumwalt Jr
Zumwalt
Arnold Schecter
U.S
Agent Orange Coordinating Council
Vietnam Veterans of America
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
New Rwanda district governor greets refugees at Rukondo camp
Captain John Zigira, a Tutsi and new governor of Gikongoro district in Rwanda, addressing Hutu refugees at Rukondo refugee camp 55 miles south of Kigali. He promised cooperation and reconciliation after years of conflict with French forces aiding Hutus fleeing RPF advances.
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Rukondo
Rwanda
John Zigira
Muraho
Kigali
Zigira
Gikongoro
Rwandan Patriotic Front
Serbs Break Promises To Stop Muslim Expulsions In Bosnia
In Tuzla refugees recount brutal expulsion from Serb held areas Janja and Bijeljina after Radovan Karadzic promised to halt non-Serb removals. More than 700 traumatized Muslims arrived, reporting beatings, imprisonment, and murder as Muslims and Croats face ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian war.
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Tuzla
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
Janja
Bijeljina
Radovan Karadzic
U.N
Yugoslavia
Nuke test survivors recall horror on 40th anniversary
In Russia's central steppes near TOTSK, veterans recount the 1954 nuclear test that exposed 44 000 soldiers to fallout. A 1991 monument marks the site as Russian officials call the blast an imitation. A documentary cites generals telling veterans they were used for study and compensation debates.
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Totsk
Russia
Lyubov Ivanovna
Ivanovna
Pavel Grachev
Hiroshima
Alexander Vasiakin
US voices concern about nuke safety
NRC Chairman Ivan Selin calls plutonium smuggling from former Soviet republics a wake-up call on safety problems in Russia and Ukraine. He warns civilian reactor operations lack resources and authority to ensure safe operation, echoing Clinton officials and European concerns.
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Washington
Ukraine
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Ivan Selin
Soviet Union
Russia
Selin
Europe
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