Yeltsin signs decrees to curb spending under IMF deal
Moscow approves a series of decrees to raise fiscal discipline and fight corruption as the IMF negotiates a 6.2 billion standby loan. The loan's disbursement will be staged and tied to Moscow meeting deficit targets, strengthening presidential control over budget and exemptions.
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International Monetary Fund
Boris Yeltsin
Monetary Fund
Russia
Yeltsin
Aloumiveh
Yeltsins
Former Italian leader faces Mafia ties charges in Sicily
Prosecutors present an elaborate view of Guiliano Andreotti as both political patriarch and ally of Sicily's underworld. A hearing began to decide indictments for decades of alleged Mafia collaboration, with implications for his Christian Democrat party and postwar Italian politics.
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Christian Democratic Party
Italy
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Salvatore “Toto
Riina
Giovanni Falcone
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Rome
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Bettino Raxi
Tunisia
Arafat and Israeli envoy push for immediate final settlement
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel's deputy foreign minister Yossi Beilin want to bypass the five year interim autonomy period and move directly to a final settlement. Autonomy began in the Gaza Strip and Jericho ten months ago under the 1993 Israel PLO accord, but West Bank expansion faces security hurdles for Jewish settlements. Rabin opposes the plan while talks on a final settlement are slated to start in 1996.
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Gaza Strip
Yasser Arafat
Israel
West Bank
Jericho
Yossi Beilin
Army
Yitzhak Rabin
Bosnian Serbs cut aid to Sarajevo amid ceasefire talks
Bosnian Serbs announce a weeklong ban on land convoys into Sarajevo halting hundreds of tons of food while a UN plane was struck by two bullets on takeoff. Talks on prisoner exchange falter amid political rifts as Gorazde evacuees and emergency medical patients move under UN escort.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Mushin
Bosnia
Kris Janowski
U.N
Aur
Gorazde
Peru Ecuador sign new cease fire amid Amazon clashes
Rio de Janeiro reports Peru and Ecuador agreeing on a fresh cease fire to end a month long border conflict that has left 64 dead and 160 wounded. Military observers from the United States Brazil Argentina and Chile will monitor troop withdrawals next week in the contested jungle area. The fighting intensified last week including accusations of flamethrowers and toxic gas killing 13 Ecuadorian soldiers.
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Ecuador
Amazon
United States
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