Polish hopes fade as martial law eases and price pain grows
In Warsaw Poles face grim daily life as martial law eases, with bread meat and housing prices rising. Analysts doubt renewed mass strikes will occur while debt and shrinking incomes deepen fear. Lines for essentials lengthen, wages stay unreliable, and shortages persist despite Pope John Paul II's June pilgrimage and promised reforms.
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Nicaragua mobilizes 7000 reservists at border amid rebel threat
Managua reports the leftist government is calling up at least 10 battalions totaling about 7000 reservists to northern border areas as insurgents threaten intensified attacks by next Tuesday the Sandinista revolution anniversary. Rebels led by Honduran based forces claim 7000 guerrillas in northern Nicaragua and CIA aid fuels covert support.
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Nicaragua Far Ahead in Soldiers and Advisers Says Honduras
Honduras charges Nicaragua has nearly double the soldiers and over 60 times as many foreign advisers as all Central American states combined, at an OAS meeting. Nicaragua denies and says Honduras lacks proof as tensions rise amid regional ideological warfare.
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Brussels diplomat shot in daylight as Armenian groups claim
Dursun Aksoy, 39, an administrative attache at the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, was killed when a gunman fired through his car window on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt. Police found shell casings and nearby items suggesting an accomplice. The Secret Armenian Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claimed responsibility in calls to UPI.
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Iran Defies War to Rebound Economically on Oil Wealth
Tehran reports and Western analyses describe Iran's rebounding economy driven by oil revenue and debt repayment, despite hardships for ordinary citizens and a water shortage protest in south Tehran. Wharton forecasters now expect about 9.4 percent GNP growth in the Iranian year ending next March as oil remains the main income source after the 1980–81 war disruption.
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Beirut clashes erupt as army moves on squatters
Gunfire rocks Beirut as Lebanese army and Muslim gunmen clash in downtown streets. State radio cites at least one dead and eight wounded after three hours of fighting observed by French peacekeepers who remained sidelined. Battles sprawl from West Beirut to downtown amid posters of Ayatollah Khomeini.
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