Italy plans boatlift to carry asylum seeking Albanians
Italy lines up vessels for a boatlift of thousands of Albanians fleeing Tirana. Under UN Albania talks the evacuees would sail from Durres to Brindisi or Otranto. Some 3,000 to 5,000 are said to be in embassies with 800 in the Italian compound.
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Neighbors urge help for troubled Nicaragua crisis
In Managua regional leaders urge international aid for Chamorro as a 10 week old government battles a Sandinista strike and street clashes. Gun battles kill at least four and injure 84 as 90,000 workers join the walkout disrupting airports utilities and production.
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Amnesty International attacks US death penalty policy
Amnesty International criticized the United States for executions of 16 people in 1989 and for court rulings allowing capital punishment for teenagers and mentally retarded individuals. The London group released a nearly 300 page world survey detailing global human rights abuses including arbitrary arrests and torture. It cited ethnic and nationalist repression in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, India and several other nations, linking them to conflict and disappearances.
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Police arrest 11 Medellin cartel members in Puerto Triunfo
In Puerto Triunfo, 75 miles east of Bogota, 11 members of the Medellin cartel were captured. The operation seized more than 31 tons of dynamite and weapons. Among the detainees was the cartel leader Pablo Escobar’s personal physician and a relative who supplied explosives.
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Mandela diagnosed with slight pneumonia en route for treatment
Nelson Mandela, the 1 year old Black nationalist leader, is reported by The Star to have a slight pneumonia while at the Organization of African Unity summit in Addis Ababa. He was flown to Kenya for treatment as aides stress the illness is not serious and he must rest.
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Iraq and Iran eye higher OPEC oil price target
NICOSIA Cyprus Iraq said it will cooperate with Iran to push OPEC oil prices to at least 25 dollars per barrel. An Iran Oil Ministry official quoted Baghdad as believing raising OPEC’s benchmark price is achievable if all 13 members stick to quotas.
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Egyptian hippopotamus pottery breaks auction record
A 3,500 year old turquoise glazed hippo with lotus blossoms sold for 955600 dollars, a new auction record for an Egyptian antiquity. Sotheby's noted only six similar pieces exist. Robin Symes bought the artifact on Tuesday from Antoinette Schuster, descendant of Marion Schuster.
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Exile's return sparks Haiti strike call
Political and labor leaders urged a general strike to protest the exile return of Roger Lafontant, a former interior and defense minister tied to the Tontons Macoute and the 30 year Duvalier dictatorship. The Duvalier regime fell in 1986.
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Suspect in 1986 West Berlin bombing jailed in East Germany
East Germany has jailed a man, identified as a leader of the April 1986 La Belle discotheque bombing that killed two U.S. servicemen, a Turkish woman, and wounded 229 others. A Bush administration official said the Palestinian suspect planted the explosives and faces rape charges in West Berlin.
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