Canadian P M race heads into home stretch showdown looms
In Ottawa, the Progressive Conservative convention opens to decide Mulroney’s successor. Defense Minister Kim Campbell edges rival Environment Minister Jean Charest, who vows a strong push to rally 3,800 delegates. Outcome will determine next prime minister and likely autumn elections.
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Kim Campbell
Jean Charest
Campbell
Charest
Mulroney
Leader ousted as Haiti army tightens its grip
Haiti's Prime Minister Marc Bazin resigned amid a military takeover with armed officers patrolling the National Palace. The army, in control since the 1991 coup, meets with lawmakers but signals no new regime. Civilians resumed routine life as international calls for Aristide's return grow louder.
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Liberia war famine cries for aid to save women and children
UNICEF Liberia chief Carl Tristman warns of a nutrition emergency as tens of thousands face starvation amid civil war. He cites widespread displacement and a lack of media attention in a conflict that has devastated the country since 1989, with a weekend massacre killing hundreds and over half the population homeless.
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Arab boycott on Israel linked firms ends in Arab world
Kuwait's first deputy prime minister says most Arab states have dropped the decades-old boycott of companies doing business with Israel. Direct dealings with Israel await peace treaties, as nations cite national interest in access to needed goods from foreign firms.
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Israel
Sheik Sabah Ahmad
Sheik
Guatemala freezes assets of deposed president Serrano
Guatemala froze Jorge Serrano’s assets and seeks extradition as Ramiro De Leon Carpio’s government asserts it has emerged from an abyss. An OAS-backed push supports the three day old presidency while a judge reports 25 accounts frozen with millions in funds under investigation.
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Ramiro de Leon Carpio
Managua
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Probers study Falklands war crime claims in Argentina
Argentina to open an inquiry into alleged executions of Argentine soldiers by British troops in the 1982 Falklands war. Capt. Anthony Mason testified on World in Action that a wounded Argentine prisoner was shot near an open grave, citing potential Geneva Convention violations.
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Britain
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Mason
World In Action
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Pagina 12
Unday
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Chcago Tribune
Shark attack claims diver as second victim in five days
In Bryan Bay Australia a diver was killed by a shark while his wife, present but unharmed, endured shock. Searchers recovered a leg with a flipper. The incident followed a previous fatal encounter near Tasmania last Saturday with a 14 foot white pointer shark.
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Australia
Bryan Bay
Australian Associated Press
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