Yeltsin Seizes Soviet Economic Powers in Decrees
Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued ten decrees transferring control of money supply trade in oil gold diamonds and currency from the Soviet central government to the Russian Federation as part of a shift toward market reforms and planned wage and price liberalization amid a fragile union treaty.
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Moscow
Boris N. Yeltsin
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Yeltsin
Russian Federation
Russia
Poland
Tively
Gorbachev
Ministry of Economics and Finance
Finance Ministry
Gosznak
Tehran Times says two Western hostages to be freed soon
The Tehran Times reports two Western captives, one American and one British, will be released from Lebanon soon on humanitarian grounds. The timing is unclear but priority may go to the British hostage Terry Waite, who disappeared in Beirut in 1987.
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Piru
Calif
Columbia Pictures
Dustin Hoffman
Geena Davis
Hoffman
Tehran
U.S
Nicosia
Cyprus
Tehran Times
Lebanon
Anglican Church
Terry Waite
Beirut
Iran
Terry Anderson
Middle East
Associated Press
Waite
David
United Nations
Giandomenico Picco
Damascus
Syria
Perez de Cuellar
Israel
Doomsday Government plan to be told on CNN
CNN reports a covert White House program named the National Program Office created in 1982 to ensure presidential succession under nuclear attack. The reserve includes notable figures such as Howard Baker, Richard Helms, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and James Schlesinger, with Lt. Col. Oliver North instrumental in its setup.
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CNN
Washington
U.S
White House
National Program Office
NPO
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Oliver North
NPC Reserve
Howard Baker
CIA
Richard Helms
U.N
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
Energy
James Schlesinger
Baker’s China trip ends with no progress reported
Secretary of State James A. Baker III wrapped up talks in Beijing after five hours with Chinese leaders including Yang Shangkun Li Peng and Jiang Zemin and left with no concrete concessions on human rights arms proliferation or trade. US officials cautioned against writing off the mission though no immediate response from Beijing was announced and a final session with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen was possible.
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Beijing
James A. Baker III
Baker
Qian Qichen
United States
China
Middle East
State Department
Yang Shangkun
Li Peng
Communist Party
Jiang Zemin
U.s.-China
Foreign Ministry
Israel may have wrong man in Treblinka case
The Israeli 1988 verdict declaring John Demjanjuk Ivan the Terrible faces new doubts after Soviet evidence points to Ivan Marchenko as the real guardsman. Guards attest Marchenko at Treblinka. Demjanjuk’s identity and Treblinka links are challenged by new testimonies and photos.
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Jackson Diehl
Washington Post
Jerusalem
John Demjanjuk
Cleveland
Ivan the Terrible
Treblinka
Demjanjuk
Soviet Union
Israel
Yoram Sheftel
Supreme Court
U.S
Justice Department
United States
Trawniki
Sobibor
Poland
KGB
Ivan Marchenko
Marchenko
Ivan Takcheyuk
Takcheyuk
Ivan
Demanjuk
Trebhinka
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Picco
National Security Council
NPC
Chine
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Dnepropetrovsk
Ukraine
Dub Macharenzi
Vinitzia
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