Secretary Baker to visit Mongolia on five day trip
Secretary of State James Baker will undertake an unprecedented five day official trip to Mongolia starting July 30. He would be the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the Communist nation and will discuss commercial and scholarly exchanges, potential U.S. aid, and the replacement of shrinking Soviet assistance. An agreement to send 15 Peace Corps volunteers to Mongolia in 1991 was reached.
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Mongolia
Ulan Bator
James Baker
People’s Republic of Mongolia
Washington
Baker
Peace Corps
San Francisco
Democratic Action forms to back Mazowiecki against Walesa
Nearly 10 prominent opponents of Lech Walesa formed a breakaway political movement in Warsaw on Monday. The new group Democratic Action vowed to oppose extremism and support Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who has clashed with Walesa over reform pace and scope.
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Lech Walesa
Poland
Democratic Action
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Wales
Colombia extradites two drug trafficking suspects to U S
Colombia sent two more suspects to the United States in a crackdown on narcotics, bringing extraditions to 19 since August. Eduard George Mitchell, a Texas native and U S citizen, faces Wisconsin drug smuggling charges, while Jose Gil Zapata, a Colombian, is charged in Florida with cocaine trafficking.
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Bogota
United States
Cesar Gaviria
Medellin
Texas
Eduard George Mitchell
U.S
Wisconsin
Jose Gil Zapata
Florida
Foes call off threat to kick out president
Haiti opposition leaders averted a crisis by withdrawing their threat to oust President Ertha Pascal Trouillot. Urged by the electoral council they agreed to dialogue not confrontation, and were not expected to stage massive demonstrations today.
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Haiti
Ertha Pascal Trouillot
Trouillot
Framed arrest warrant souvenir for Mandela
In Maputo at a rally for Mandela, President Chissano gave a framed arrest warrant from 1962 issued by Portuguese rulers, drawing laughter from the crowd. Mandela, on a 14-nation tour of Africa and beyond, was captured in 1962 and sentenced to life for sabotage and attempting to overthrow the government, later released in February.
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Mozambique
Nelson Mandela
Joaquim Chissano
Mandela
Africa
Europe
North America
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Convoy ambush halts food aid for Uganda
A UN relief agency halted emergency food deliveries in northeastern Uganda after gunmen ambushed a relief convoy and killed a driver, delaying aid to the region.
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Uganda
Kampala
U.N
Move Toward United Germany Gains Western Support
Western powers praise Gorbachev and Kohl as they announce a plan for a united Germany to join NATO. The move ends key Soviet objections and aims for full sovereignty by year end, with four wartime Allies meeting in Paris to discuss unity implications.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Germany
NATO
Gorbachev
Helmut Kohl
Britain
Soviet Union
Kohl
Stavropol
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Brussels
Bonn
Europe
Volker Ruehe
Christian Democratic Union
Lothar de Maiziere
United States
France
Paris
Assad ends Egypt visit and vows to join peace effort
Cairo reports Assad ends his first Egypt visit in 13 years after signaling willingness to join Arab-Israeli peace talks. He met with Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria and stressed Syria’s call for just peace while linking progress to regional circumstances and broader Arab unity ahead of the Cairo summit.
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Egypt
Cairo
Hafez Assad
Syria
Hosni Mubarak
Alexandria
Iraq
Palestine Liberation Organization
Israel
U.N
James A. Baker II
PLO
Damascus
Inaat Sadat
Jerusaem
Israelis and Arabs may pursue arms-control talks
In a first, Arab and Israeli diplomats discuss reducing chemical and nuclear weapons in the Middle East to ease war tensions. The talks would focus narrowly on disarming regional arms, bypassing broader security issues as fear rises. A U.S. diplomat says both sides are scared enough to talk.
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Mideast
U.S
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