Input: A London-based spokesman of the Iraqi National Congress said Iraqi artillery was shelling the city and Iraqi tanks had advanced to within 10 km (six miles) of Arbil, the administrative centre of the Kurdish rebel-controlled region of northern Iraq.

London-based

Iraqi

Iraqi

Kurdish

Iraqi National Congress

Arbil

Iraq


Input: " At 4.50 a.m. Iraq time (0050 GMT) Iraqi forces began an artillery attack on the outskirts of Arbil, " the spokesman, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters in a telephone call.

Iraq

Arbil

GMT

Iraqi

Reuters


Input: There was no independent confirmation of the report which the spokesman said came from the organisation's members in Arbil.

Arbil


Input: He said damage and casualties in the city were heavy and Kurdish forces were defending the city.

Kurdish


Input: President Bill Clinton on Friday ordered the U.S. military to ready itself for any possible action as Washington turned up the heat in an escalating crisis over Iraqi troop movements in northern Iraq.

Bill Clinton

U.S.

Washington

Iraq

Iraqi


Input: On Thursday, Iraq accused Iran of aggression and said it reserved the right to retaliate for Tehran's alleged deployment of troops into northern Iraq, where fighting broke out between the two main Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups two weeks ago.

Iraq

Iran

Tehran

Iraq

Iraqi Kurdish


Input: Two die in Algeria restaurant blast-radio.

Algeria


Input: LONDON 1996-08-31

LONDON


Input: Two people were killed when a hand grenade exploded in a restaurant near Algiers late on Friday, Algerian radio reported on Saturday.

Algiers

Algerian


Input: The report, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), quoted security services as saying six other people were injured in the blast in the town of Staouelli.

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC

Staouelli


Input: An estimated 50,000 people had been killed in political violence in Algeria since 1992, when army-backed authorities cancelled a general election that Islamic fundamentalists had been expected to win.

Algeria

Islamic


Input: Baseball-Results of S. Korean pro-baseball games.

S. Korean


Input: SEOUL 1996-08-31

SEOUL


Input: Results of South Korean pro-baseball games played on Friday.

South Korean


Input: OB 5 Samsung 0

OB

Samsung


Input: Ssangbangwool 2 Hyundai 1

Ssangbangwool

Hyundai


Input: Standings after games played on Friday (tabulate under won, drawn, lost, winning percentage, games behind first place)


Input: W D L PCT GB


Input: Haitai 64 2 43 .596-

Haitai


Input: Ssangbangwool 60 2 49 .550 5

Ssangbangwool


Input: Hanwha 58 1 49 .542 6

Hanwha


Input: Hyundai 57 5 50 .531 7

Hyundai


Input: Samsung 49 5 57 .464 14 1/2

Samsung


Input: Lotte 46 6 54 .462 14 1/2

Lotte


Input: LG 46 5 59 .441 17

LG


Input: OB 43 6 62 .414 20

OB


Input: S. African Afrikaners still seek own territory.

S. African

Afrikaners


Input: CAPE TOWN 1996-08-31

CAPE TOWN


Input: South African right-wing Afrikaners on Saturday revived their campaign for a form of self-rule, identifying a sparsely-populated area in Northern Cape province as the best place for a home of their own.

South African

Northern Cape


Input: Constand Viljoen, leader of the Freedom Front party, told a news conference in Pretoria self-determination for Afrikaners could begin at local government level.

Constand Viljoen

Freedom Front

Pretoria

Afrikaners


Input: " Certain powers can be delegated from the provincial level, towards the sub-regions, " he said.


Input: " We think that the Afrikaner model within this new, multi- ethnic society of South Africa will have to develop experimentally with world thinking in this regard. "

Afrikaner

South Africa


Input: Viljoen broke with other right-wing whites in 1994 by taking part in the country's first all-race elections in April of that year, saying the only way to attain self-determination was by cooperating with President Nelson Mandela's majority African National Congress.

Viljoen

Nelson Mandela

African National Congress


Input: Some right-wingers demanded sovereignty in their own territory in the run-up to the elections, saying the alternative was war.


Input: Their threats came to nothing.


Input: Viljoen has hailed clauses in South Africa's new constitution as making possible a form of self-rule for the Afrikaners, descendants of the country's Dutch, German and French settlers.

Viljoen

South Africa

Afrikaners

Dutch

German

French


Input: According to state television, Viljoen told the news conference the self-rule model should be introduced in parts of the Northern Cape provinces where a majority of people -- whites and mixed-race Coloureds -- speak Afrikaans.

Viljoen

Northern Cape

Afrikaans


Input: Rwandan refugee group calls for calm over census.

Rwandan


Input: NAIROBI 1996-08-31

NAIROBI


Input: A Rwandan refugee lobby group called on Saturday for calm in refugee camps in eastern Zaire during a census from Sunday to be conducted by aid workers.

Rwandan

Zaire


Input: The Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda (RDR) urged the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to avoid any " policing approach " and to calm refugees by explaining the aims of the operation.

Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda

RDR

U.N.


Input: " The RDR appeals to all refugees to prepare themselves calmly for the demands of the census agents because it will be in their ultimate interest, " the group said in a statement.

RDR


Input: It said refugees feared census takers would use indelible ink to mark them so they could be detected by Rwandan government troops and mistreated if they were forced back into Rwanda.

Rwandan

Rwanda


Input: U.N. officials said more than 1,000 aid workers will take part in the census from Sunday until Tuesday of the estimated 727,000 refugees in camps around the eastern Zairean border town of Goma.

U.N.

Zairean

Goma


Input: Only about 100 refugees a week are returning voluntarily to Rwanda in contrast to the 600 babies born in the camps weekly.

Rwanda


Input: Zairean Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo said at the end of a visit to Rwanda last week that the Zairean and Rwandan governments agreed on an " organised, massive and unconditional repatriation " of the 1.1 million Rwandan refugees in Zaire.

Zairean

Zairean

Rwandan

Rwandan

Kengo wa Dondo

Rwanda

Zaire


Input: He said the repatriation would be carried out swiftly and would be enormous, starting with the closure of refugee camps.


Input: RDR said it feared forced expulsions would start in days.

RDR


Input: Zairean troops expelled 15,000 refugees in August last year.

Zairean


Input: Many of the 1.1 million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire and nearly 600,000 in Tanzania refuse to go home, saying they fear reprisals for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of up to a million people by Hutus.

Rwandan

Hutu

Hutus

Zaire

Tanzania

Rwanda


Input: NATO monitors Moslem move towards tense village.

NATO

Moslem


Input: MAHALA, Bosnia 1996-08-31

MAHALA

Bosnia


Input: NATO said it was closely monitoring the movement of about 75 Moslem men towards the village of Mahala in Bosnia's Serb republic on Saturday, two days after a violent confrontation with Serbs.

NATO

Moslem

Serb

Serbs

Mahala

Bosnia


Input: " I have to report this morning that we have in fact received reports ...


Input: that up to 75 Moslem men are believed to be approaching Mahala, " NATO spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Max Marriner said in Sarajevo.

Moslem

Mahala

Sarajevo

NATO

Max Marriner


Input: Marriner said that NATO troops had set up a checkpoint on the road between Tuzla and Mahala to establish the identities and intentions of the men headed towards the village.

Marriner

NATO

Tuzla

Mahala


Input: Mahala is a Moslem village on Bosnian Serb republic territory.

Mahala

Moslem

Bosnian Serb


Input: Moslems were driven from the village during the 43- month Bosnian war and most of their houses were destroyed.

Moslems

Bosnian


Input: Some Moslems began returning to rebuild their properties earlier in the week.

Moslems


Input: Fights and shooting broke out between the Moslems and Serb police on Thursday and NATO troops finally brought restored order.

Moslems

Serb

NATO


Input: A Reuters reporter who entered Mahala on Saturday morning found it tranquil but NATO troops and U.N. police were seen on the ground and NATO helicopters flew overhead.

Reuters

NATO

U.N.

NATO

Mahala


Input: Chechens exuberant but cautious on peace deal.

Chechens


Input: Liutauras Stremaitis

Liutauras Stremaitis


Input: URUS-MARTAN, Russia 1996-08-31

URUS-MARTAN

Russia


Input: Crowds of pro-independence Chechens greeted a newly-signed peace deal by singing, dancing and firing guns in the air on Saturday, but the celebrations held a trace of uncertainty.

Chechens


Input: More than a thousand women, children and men gathered in a field to the north of the town of Urus-Martan on Saturday to wait for a column of rebels to withdraw from the capital Grozny about 25 km (12 miles) away.

Urus-Martan

Grozny


Input: The men fired weapons into the air as groups of women danced.


Input: Adults in the crowd carried posters of former Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev -- who declared independence in 1991 -- and children, carrying photographs of him, called " Troops out! "

Chechen

Dzhokhar Dudayev


Input: Russian military officials have expressed fears that the rebels and their supporters will see the deal signed by Russian peace envoy Alexander Lebed in the early hours of Saturday as a military victory for the separatists.

Russian

Russian

Alexander Lebed


Input: It involves the withdrawal of Russian troops sent to Chechnya in December 1994 to crush the separatists and a postponement of the issue at the heart of the conflict -- the status of the mainly-Moslem North Caucasus region.

Russian

mainly-Moslem

Chechnya

North Caucasus


Input: But the people in the crowd on Saturday, who had turned out in support of the rebels, did not seem sure that the war was over.


Input: " We hope for the best, that it really has ended so we can live in peace.


Input: It's our only dream, " said a 30-year-old woman, Mubatik Dagayeva.

Mubatik Dagayeva


Input: Aiza Dudayeva, with her 10-year-old son beside her, shared the guarded optimism. "

Aiza Dudayeva


Input: We really want the war to end, we hope and believe that our sons and brothers will win, " said Dudayeva, adding that she was from Urus-Martan.

Dudayeva

Urus-Martan


Input: Urus-Martan is a traditionally anti-separatist pocket in Chechnya and Moscow-backed leader Doku Zavgayev, who has been sidelined in the peace deal, has warned that it and places like it could become centres of civil war if Russian troops leave.

Urus-Martan

Chechnya

Moscow-backed

Russian

Doku Zavgayev


Input: But on Saturday the people gathered just outside the town seemed to be united in favour of the separatists.


Input: Two columns of rebels appeared in jeeps and cars, firing their guns in the air, as the crowd rushed towards them.


Input: Mouldi Mamatuyev, in his late 20's, dressed in black and carrying a machine gun, was welcomed by his mother and sister.

Mouldi Mamatuyev


Input: " Two sons have come back, " said his mother Nurbika Mamatuyeva. "

Nurbika Mamatuyeva


Input: It's the end.


Input: We believe in God. "

God


Input: Mamatuyev joked that his sister Lisa was a rebel too, and she responded by grabbing hold of his gun and shouting the Chechen war cry " Allahu Akhbar " (God is Greatest) and " Freedom for Chechnya! "

Mamatuyev

Lisa

Allahu Akhbar

God

Chechen

Chechnya


Input: The fighter, sitting next to a man dressed in green and carrying a grenade-launcher, said that the strict Islamic law adopted by the rebels during the conflict was now needed to impose peace.

Islamic


Input: " The war has ended if everything works out, if there is law there will be power.


Input: Only Sheriat (Islamic law) can end the war. "

Sheriat

Islamic


Input: Polish group to bid for Ruch newsstand chain-paper.

Polish

Ruch


Input: WARSAW 1996-08-31

WARSAW


Input: A Polish consortium including the Bank Rozwoju Exportu SA (BRE) plans to rival France's Hachette in bidding for Polish state-owned press distribution chain Ruch SA, Zycie Warszawy daily said on Saturday.

Polish

Polish

Bank Rozwoju Exportu SA

BRE

Hachette

Ruch SA

Zycie Warszawy

France


Input: Zycie Warszawy said its own publisher, mineral water firm Multico, and a group headed by Polish businessman Zygmunt Solorz were forming a consortium which would offer about $120 million, with finance provided by BRE.

Zycie Warszawy

Multico

BRE

Polish

Zygmunt Solorz


Input: The consortium wanted 40 percent of Ruch's shares, the state would get 20 percent of Ruch and 40 percent would be offered on the Warsaw stock exchange.

Ruch

Ruch

Warsaw


Input: " This division would guarantee a dispersal of capital, preventing anyone from taking total control over Ruch and dictating market conditions, " the paper quoted one of the initiators of the move as saying, without giving a name.

division

Ruch


Input: A consortium of press distributor Hachette and Polish publishers group UWP are seeking more than than 50 percent of Ruch and French President Jacques Chirac is likely to support its case when he visits Poland in September, the daily said.

Hachette

UWP

Ruch

Polish

French

Jacques Chirac

Poland


Input: News-stand chain Ruch, which controls about 65 percent of Poland's press distribution market, had a net profit of 16.2 million zlotys on sales of 2.7 billion zlotys in 1995.

Ruch

Poland


Input: It has about 17,000 news-stands and was the country's sole press distributor before the 1989 fall of communism.


Input: Zycie Warszawy said the new, open consortium, which also included several listed Polish firms, would on Monday inform Privatisation Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek of its plans.

Zycie Warszawy

Polish

Wieslaw Kaczmarek


Input: It aims to invest $200 million in Ruch over five years -- more than the sum Ruch says it needs to upgrade its outlets.

Ruch

Ruch


Input: Initially Poland offered up to 75 percent of Ruch but in March Kaczmarek cancelled the tender and offered a minority stake with an option to increase the equity.

Poland

Ruch

Kaczmarek


Input: Two consortia -- UWP-Hachette and a consortium of a Polish SPC group and Swiss firms -- placed initial bids.

UWP-Hachette

SPC

Polish

Swiss


Input: But after the change of tender conditions Swiss investors pulled out and SPC decided to bid jointly with UWP-Hachette.

Swiss

SPC

UWP-Hachette


Input: Kaczmarek said in May he was unhappy that only one investor ended up bidding for Ruch, in which the government was initially offering up to 35 percent of shares with an option to extend the holding after investment promises are fulfilled.

Kaczmarek

Ruch


Input: -- Anthony Barker +48 22 653 9700

Anthony Barker


Input: Three Russian soldiers killed in gun attack.

Russian


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-31

MOSCOW


Input: Three Russian servicemen were killed on Saturday when unidentified gunmen attacked guards at an anti-aircraft installation outside Moscow, Interfax news agency said.

Russian

Moscow

Interfax


Input: It quoted military officials as saying the attack took place in Sergiyev Posad 70 km (45 miles) from the capital.

Sergiyev Posad


Input: The officials said the attackers had seized two Kalashnikov assault rifles and disappeared.

Kalashnikov


Input: Attacks on servicemen aimed at seizing their guns have become frequent in Russia where the number of violent crimes committed with the use of fire arms is growing.

Russia


Input: Cuban novelist Jose Soler Puig dies at 79.

Cuban

Jose Soler Puig


Input: HAVANA 1996-08-31

HAVANA


Input: One of Cuba's most acclaimed authors, Jose Soler Puig, died at the age of 79, the official newspaper Granma reported on Saturday.

Cuba

Jose Soler Puig

Granma


Input: Puig's first novel, " Bertillon 166, " was published in 1960, a year after the Cuban revolution brought President Fidel Castro to power.

Puig

Fidel Castro

Bertillon 166

Cuban


Input: The book, which has been translated into 40 languages, deals with a day in the life of Santiago de Cuba, Puig's native city, under the pre-Castro government of Fulgencio Batista.

Santiago de Cuba

Puig

Fulgencio Batista

pre-Castro


Input: The titles of his other novels translate as " In the Year of January " (1963), " The Collapse " (1964), " Sleeping Bread " (1975), " The Decaying Mansion " (1977) and " A World of Things " (1982), followed by " The Knot, " " Soul Alone " and, most recently, " A Woman. "

In the Year of January

The Collapse

Sleeping Bread

The Decaying Mansion

A World of Things

The Knot

Soul Alone

A Woman


Input: Granma called " Sleeping Bread " Puig's " greatest gift to the modern novel in our America. "

Granma

Sleeping Bread

Puig

America


Input: The author said in an interview shortly before his death that his own experiences had lent his books their strong sense of realism. "


Input: I'm a thief of ideas, " he said. "


Input: The stories have been given to me by people. "


Input: In the same interview, published by Prensa Latina on Saturday, Puig was asked if he feared death. "

Prensa Latina

Puig


Input: Death is not a punishment -- death is the end of life's punishment, " he said.


Input: U.N. Ambassador Albright arrives in Chile.

U.N.

Albright

Chile


Input: SANTIAGO 1996-08-31

SANTIAGO


Input: The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, arrived in Chile late Friday for talks on various Security Council issues with Chilean officials as part of a five-nation Latin American tour.

U.S.

Chile

United Nations

Security Council

Madeleine Albright

Chilean

Latin American


Input: Albright will meet Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Insulza Monday for talks on issues currently up for debate on the council, of which Chile is a non-permanent member, a U.S. embassy statement said.

Albright

Jose Miguel Insulza

Chile

U.S.


Input: The two will also discuss various issues affecting relations between the United States and Chile, local officials said.

United States

Chile


Input: Albright, who arrived from Uruguay, will rest most of the weekend in Chile, officials said.

Albright

Uruguay

Chile


Input: Her official programme will begin on Monday, and she will leave that day for Bolivia to attend a Latin American summit meeting in the city of Cochabamba.

Bolivia

Cochabamba

Latin American


Input: Her tour will also include Honduras and Guatemala.

Honduras

Guatemala


Input: Mexican army attacked in Michoacan state-report.

Mexican

Michoacan


Input: MEXICO CITY 1996-08-30

MEXICO CITY


Input: A group of heavily-armed men attacked a military convoy in the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Friday, killing one soldier and wounding two, radio reports said.

Mexican

Michoacan


Input: Radio Red quoted local police in the town of Tacambaro, Michoacan, 80 km (50 miles) south of the state capital Morelia, as saying 40 to 50 armed men attacked the convoy.

Radio Red

Tacambaro

Michoacan

Morelia


Input: Gonzalo Montoya, a police commander in Tacambaro, told Radio Red the group was armed with AK-47s and other high-powered assault rifles and wore military-style fatigues.

Gonzalo Montoya

Tacambaro

Radio Red


Input: Montoya said he thought the attackers were criminals linked to drug trafficking or kidnapping in the area. "

Montoya


Input: We often see people dressed in military-style clothing here, " he said.


Input: The attack comes a day after rebels of the self-styled Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) launched coordinated attacks in at least three Mexican states, killing up to 14 people and wounding about 20.

Popular Revolutionary Army

EPR

Mexican


Input: China said to fear dissidents more than criminals.

China


Input: MANILA 1996-08-31

MANILA


Input: The detention of veteran dissident Wang Donghai showed China's determination to crush any vestige of dissent during the current profound transitions in the nation's leadership, a human rights activist said on Saturday.

Wang Donghai

China


Input: Xiao Qiang, executive director of the New York-based group Human Rights in China, said Wang's arrest on Friday appeared to be part of the national " Strike Hard " campaign that has imprisoned thousands and sent hundreds to their death.

Xiao Qiang

Wang

New York-based

Strike Hard

Human Rights in China


Input: Although supposedly aimed at criminals, dozens of human rights activists have been detained in the campaign, which is meant to strengthen the Communist Party's grip on power as senior leader Deng Xiaoping nears death, Xiao said in an interview.

Communist Party

Deng Xiaoping

Xiao


Input: " China is going through this power transition period.

China


Input: The authorities are apparently extremely afraid of any political and social discontent, " said Xiao, in Manila to attend an Amnesty International conference on human rights in China.

Xiao

Manila

China

Amnesty International


Input: He said one of Wang's apparent offences was to write a public letter in May suggesting that a free press and an independent judicial system were vital if the government really meant to stamp out rampant corruption.

Wang


Input: Xiao said crushing legitimate dissent was only making the problem worse and one day China would pay a high price.

Xiao

China


Input: " Those issues are not going to go away by repression.


Input: You only make things more hidden but potentially more explosive, " he said.


Input: Wang was arrested in the east China city of Hangzhou by security officers who told the dissident's family he would be sent to a study class -- a euphemism for coercive ideological reform.

Wang

China

Hangzhou


Input: Wang, 45, was sentenced last month to one year's " re-education by labour " but was released because of ill-health.

Wang


Input: Xiao said conditions in the labour camp were so brutal they drove another activist sentenced with Wang to attempt suicide.

Xiao

Wang


Input: Police beat Wang and his colleague, Chen Longde, and encouraged other camp inmates to attack them as well, Xiao said.

Wang

Chen Longde

Xiao


Input: Manila hails Indonesia, OIC for peace deal support.

Manila

Indonesia

OIC


Input: MANILA 1996-08-31

MANILA


Input: Philippine president Fidel Ramos expressed gratitude to Indonesian president Suharto and the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) on Saturday for supporting talks that ended a conflict with local Moslem rebels.

Philippine

Fidel Ramos

Suharto

Indonesian

Moslem

Organisation of Islamic Conference

OIC


Input: " I extend the deepest gratitude ... to your excellency for your untiring and invaluable friendship and support, " Ramos told Suharto in a letter.

Ramos

Suharto


Input: The full text of the letter was released to reporters on Saturday.


Input: Jakarta served as the host to the series of negotiations which culminated in the initialling of the agreement last Friday.

Jakarta


Input: The formal signing of the peace agreement is scheduled on Monday in Manila.

Manila


Input: Ramos said the peace agreement " shall bring down the curtain on a long and storied era of strife in Philippine history. "

Ramos

Philippine


Input: The war claimed more than 125,000 lives in the southern Mindanao island over a quarter of a century.

Mindanao


Input: Burma's Suu Kyi says military rulers abuse law.

Burma

Suu Kyi


Input: Deborah Charles

Deborah Charles


Input: RANGOON 1996-08-31

RANGOON


Input: Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi hit out at the government on Saturday for recent arrests and jailing of activists, saying the military abused the law to try to crush the democracy movement.

Burma

Aung San Suu Kyi


Input: " The main purpose of this press conference is to make it known to the world that the authorities are misusing the law all the time in order to try to crush the democracy movement, " Suu Kyi told reporters at her Rangoon home.

Suu Kyi

Rangoon


Input: Suu Kyi said at least 61 democracy supporters had been arrested since May, and about 30 of them had been sentenced, most to long prison terms.

Suu Kyi


Input: In May the government launched a sweeping crackdown on the democracy movement, detaining over 260 members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) ahead of a party congress.

Suu Kyi

National League for Democracy

NLD


Input: Most were released but several dozen remain in custody.


Input: The Burmese government last week confirmed the recent sentencing of nine democracy activists who were arrested in the May crackdown, including Suu Kyi's assistant Win Htein.

Burmese

Suu Kyi

Win Htein


Input: The military government, which in May said it had detained the politicians to prevent anarchy, said the activists were charged with attempting to destroy the peace and stability of the state.


Input: But Suu Kyi disagreed with the methods, saying officials often arrested NLD supporters in the middle of the night, then did not give them the opportunity to defend themselves in trials.

Suu Kyi

NLD


Input: " When our people are tried, they are tried in a very secretive way.


Input: Their families are not told, " she said.


Input: Suu Kyi, who spearheads a campaign for sanctions on Burma's government, was under house arrest for six years without being tried before being released in July 1995.

Suu Kyi

Burma


Input: Several other leading members of the NLD have served prison terms.

NLD


Input: The NLD party won a landslide victory in a 1990 election but the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), which assumed power in 1988 after crushing pro-democracy demonstrations, never recognised the poll.

NLD

State Law and Order Restoration Council

SLORC


Input: " This lack of rule of law is an indication that the authorities are not interested in fair play, " she said. "


Input: They are using a travesty of the law to try and crush our movements and to sentence our people to long terms in prison without proper trial. "


Input: Suu Kyi said once the activists were sentenced, they suffered inhuman conditions and lack of rights in prison.

Suu Kyi


Input: " Almost all of the prisoners start suffering from various health problems after a couple of years in jail, " she said. "


Input: Some of our people have been in prison for five to six years. "


Input: Most political prisoners are held in Rangoon's Insein Prison.

Rangoon

Insein Prison


Input: Some who have been released have recounted torture methods like sleep and food deprivation and physical abuse.


Input: " If there are any more instances of death in custody it will be further proof that a prison sentence for political prisoners is sometimes almost the same as a death sentence, " Suu Kyi said.

Suu Kyi


Input: Hla Than, an elected member of parliament for the NLD, died in early August after being at Insein for six years.

Hla Than

NLD

Insein


Input: His death came five weeks after James Leander (Leo) Nichols, a close friend of Suu Kyi and Danish honorary consul, died while serving a prison term at Insein.

James Leander (Leo) Nichols

Suu Kyi

Danish

Insein


Input: Suu Kyi said the government had increased its repression tactics on the democracy movement because it feared the growing popularity of the movement.

Suu Kyi


Input: But she said she and the NLD would not stop their efforts to bring democracy to Burma even if it meant more arrests of party members or even herself.

NLD

Burma


Input: " We will carry on.


Input: Nobody is free from arrest in Burma. "

Burma


Input: Dow Chemical in China ethylene venture.

Dow Chemical

China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-31

BEIJING


Input: The Dow Chemical Co of the United States will invest $4 billion to build an ethylene plant in Tianjin city in northern China, the China Daily said on Saturday.

Dow Chemical Co

China Daily

United States

Tianjin

China


Input: The plant will have annual production of 400,000 tonnes, the newspaper said.


Input: It gave no further details of the venture.


Input: Tianjin boasts a range of infrastructure facilities, attracting several multinational oil companies to invest in recent years.

Tianjin


Input: Caltex Petroleum Corp plans to build a lubricants blender in a bonded zone in Tianjin, the newspaper said.

Caltex Petroleum Corp

Tianjin


Input: Multinational firms including Mobil, Shell and Caltex, were also attracted to Tianjin due to China's rising demand for lube and oil-based products, the newspaper said.

Mobil

Shell

Caltex

Tianjin

China


Input: It gave no further details.


Input: N. Korea urges S. Korea to return war veteran.

N. Korea

S. Korea


Input: SEOUL 1996-08-31

SEOUL


Input: North Korea demanded on Saturday that South Korea return a northern war veteran who has been in the South since the 1950-53 war, Seoul's unification ministry said.

North Korea

South Korea

South

Seoul


Input: " ...I request the immediate repatriation of Kim In-so to North Korea where his family is waiting, " North Korean Red Cross president Li Song-ho said in a telephone message to his southern couterpart, Kang Young-hoon.

Kim In-so

Li Song-ho

Kang Young-hoon

North Korea

North Korean Red Cross


Input: Li said Kim had been critically ill with a cerebral haemorrhage.

Li

Kim


Input: The message was distributed to the press by the South Korean unification ministry.

South Korean


Input: Kim, an unrepentant communist, was captured during the Korean War and released after spending more than 30 years in a southern jail.

Kim

Korean


Input: He submitted a petition to the International Red Cross in 1993 asking for his repatriation.

International Red Cross


Input: The domestic Yonhap news agency said the South Korean government would consider the northern demand only if the North accepted Seoul's requests, which include regular reunions of families split by the Korean War.

Yonhap

South Korean

Korean

North

Seoul


Input: Government officials were not available to comment.


Input: South Korea in 1993 unconditionally repatriated Li In-mo, a nothern partisan seized by the South during the war and jailed for more than three decades.

South Korea

South

Li In-mo


Input: Chinese police hold veteran dissident.

Chinese


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-31

BEIJING


Input: Chinese police have detained veteran dissident Wang Donghai, the New York-based pressure group Human Rights in China said on Saturday.

Chinese

New York-based

Wang Donghai

Human Rights in China


Input: Police in Hangzhou, capital of the eastern province of Zhejiang, told Wang's family that Wang would be sent to a study class, a euphemism for coercive ideological reform, the group said.

Hangzhou

Zhejiang

Wang

Wang


Input: Police gave no reason for detaining Wang on Friday and would not let his family meet him or say where he was being held, the group said.

Wang


Input: Police also would not say why Wang was being sent to a study class -- a holdover from the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution -- or say when he would be released, the group said.

Wang

1966-76 Cultural Revolution


Input: Wang's family and Hangzhou police could not be reached for immediate comment.

Wang

Hangzhou


Input: The group demanded Wang's release and said his detention was a dangerous signal China was returning to its Cultural Revolution days.

Wang

China

Cultural Revolution


Input: Last month, Wang, 45, a veteran dissident of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement, was ordered to serve one year of " re-education through labour ", but released because of poor health.

Wang

Democracy Wall


Input: Re-education through labour is an administrative punishment with a maximum of three years that can be imposed by police without recourse to prosecutors or the courts.


Input: Wang was jailed for two years for organising street protests after the military crushed pro-democracy demonstrations by students at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, with heavy loss of life.

Wang

Beijing

Tiananmen Square


Input: Chinese authorities appeared to be using administrative punishment more frequently to take dissidents out of circulation without having to go through a more complicated judicial process to impose criminal sentences, Western diplomats have said.

Chinese

Western


Input: China police detains dissident Wang Donghai.

China

Wang Donghai


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-31

BEIJING


Input: Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai, the New York-based pressure group Human Rights in China said on Saturday.

Chinese

New York-based

Wang Donghai

Human Rights in China


Input: Police detained Wang on Friday and would not let his family meet him or say where he was being held, the group said.

Wang


Input: The pressure group said Wang would be sent to a study class, often a euphemism in China for ideological reform.

Wang

China


Input: Wang's family could not immediately be reached for comment.

Wang


Input: Last month, Wang, 45, a veteran dissident of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement, was ordered to serve one year of " re-education through labour ", but released because of poor health.

Wang

Democracy Wall


Input: Re-education through labour is an administrative punishment with a maximum of three years that can be imposed by police without recourse to prosecutors or the courts.


Input: Wang was jailed for two years for organising street protests after the military brutally crushed pro-democracy demonstrations by students at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, with heavy loss of life.

Wang

Beijing

Tiananmen Square


Input: Hong Kong jails 88-year-old drug trafficker.

Hong Kong


Input: HONG KONG 1996-08-31

HONG KONG


Input: An 88-year-old army veteran was jailed for 15 years by a Hong Kong court for drugs trafficking after he admitted he had stashed heroin under his mattress, a newspaper said on Saturday.

Hong Kong


Input: " I am sorry to my ancestors for five generations, " Chen Chun-yeh told the High Court after sentencing on Friday, the Hong Kong Standard said. "

Chen Chun-yeh

High Court

Hong Kong Standard


Input: Tell my sons to collect my bones, " he said after hearing he was likely to die behind bars.


Input: Chen, a former army secretary of the Chinese Nationalist regime which fled from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949, pleaded guilty to trafficking 42 kg (92 pounds) of drugs that could have been turned into 25 kg (55 pounds) of heroin.

Chen

Chinese

China

Taiwan


Input: The ex-officer admitted stashing heroin under his mattress.


Input: China cities to ban disposable plastic containers.

China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-31

BEIJING


Input: Two Chinese cities are to ban the use of disposable plastic containers as part of efforts to fight pollution, the China Daily said on Saturday.

Chinese

China Daily


Input: Authorities in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, would punish those who sell or use disposable plastic containers from September 1, the newspaper said.

Wuhan

Hubei


Input: It did not elaborate.


Input: The city's industrial and commercial departments would confiscate disposable plastic containers and police would prevent new ones from entering the city, it said.


Input: Wuhan consumes more than 200 million disposable plastic containers a year, the newspaper said.

Wuhan


Input: The boomtown of Guangzhou, capital of the southern province of Guangdong, would ban disposable plastic containers by the end of 1996, it said.

Guangzhou

Guangdong


Input: Guangzhou uses up 500,000 such containers each day, the newspaper said.

Guangzhou


Input: It gave no further details.


Input: Iraqi Kurds say Iranian troops enter north Iraq.

Iraqi Kurds

Iranian

Iraq


Input: ISTANBUL 1996-08-31

ISTANBUL


Input: Iranian troops on Saturday entered Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq in the wake of an assault backed by Baghdad into the region, an Iraqi Kurdish group told Reuters.

Iranian

Kurdish-controlled

Iraqi Kurdish

Iraq

Baghdad

Reuters


Input: " They entered this morning.


Input: They have occupied the area to the depth of 40 km (25 miles).


Input: They have established a headquarters in Chuman, " Faik Nerweyi of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) told Reuters by telephone from Ankara.

Chuman

Ankara

Faik Nerweyi

Kurdistan Democratic Party

KDP

Reuters


Input: Nerweyi said he did not know the size or nature of the Iranian force in northern Iraq, but said KDP fighters had been easily outgunned in the area close to the Iranian border and had quickly withdrawn further west.

Nerweyi

Iranian

Iranian

Iraq

KDP


Input: " They were far too strong, " he said.


Input: Nerweyi said he did not know if there were any casualties.

Nerweyi


Input: A U.N. official in Baghdad said the KDP, backed by Iraqi tanks, heavy artillery and helicopters had taken control of the main northern Iraqi city of Arbil after fighting on Saturday.

U.N.

KDP

Baghdad

Arbil

Iraqi

Iraqi


Input: U.S. President Bill Clinton has authorised the repositioning of U.S. firepower in the Gulf region in response to the Iraqi attacks.

U.S.

U.S.

Gulf

Bill Clinton

Iraqi


Input: The KDP charges that the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which took control of Arbil in fighting in December 1994, has backing from Iran.

KDP

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Arbil

Iran


Input: The PUK accuses the KDP of collaborating with Baghdad.

PUK

KDP

Baghdad


Input: Northern Iraq has been under Iraqi Kurdish control since after the 1991 Gulf War.

Iraq

Iraqi Kurdish

Gulf War


Input: U.S.-led allied planes based in Turkey are intended to protect the Kurds from Baghdad.

U.S.-led

Kurds

Turkey

Baghdad


Input: Ceasefire monitors to meet in south Lebanon.

Lebanon


Input: JERUSALEM 1996-08-31

JERUSALEM


Input: A committee monitoring the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas will meet in south Lebanon on Sunday to discuss an Israeli complaint against the Islamic group, the Israeli army said.

Israel

Lebanon

Hizbollah

Israeli

Islamic

Israeli


Input: Representatives of the five nations making up the committee -- Israel, Lebanon, Syria, France and the United States -- will meet at 11 a.m. (0800 GMT) in Naqoura, the coastal headquarters of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Israel

Lebanon

Syria

France

United States

Naqoura

GMT

U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon

UNIFIL


Input: " The committee will meet following a complaint by Israel over an incident in which two Lebanese residents were injured by Hizbollah fire in the Sikhin village ...

Israel

Sikhin

Lebanese

Hizbollah


Input: on August 29, " an Israeli army spokeswoman said on Saturday.

Israeli


Input: The monitoring committee was set up to deal with violations of an April 25 ceasefire understanding that ended 17 days of fighting between Israel and the guerrillas.

Israel


Input: The understandings forbid firing from or at civilian targest but do not rule out guerrilla attacks on Israeli troops and their local militia allies in south Lebanon.

Israeli

Lebanon


Input: Around 1,000 Israeli troops patrol a 15 km (nine-mile) south Lebanon occupation zone which the Jewish state carved out in 1985 to prevent attacks on its northern bordder.

Israeli

Jewish

Lebanon


Input: Hizbollah (Party of God) gunmen have waged a guerrilla war to oust Israel from the area.

Hizbollah

Party of God

Israel


Input: KPD confirms Iraqi military aid-U.N. official.

KPD

Iraqi

aid-U.N.


Input: BAGHDAD 1996-08-31

BAGHDAD


Input: Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani said that it was being backed by Iraqi heavy armour and artillery in a battle with rival Kurds for the city of Arbil, a senior U.N. official in Baghdad said.

Kurdistan Democratic Party

KDP

U.N.

Massoud Barzani

Iraqi

Kurds

Arbil

Baghdad


Input: " They have confirmed to us that Iraqi troops are taking part in the attack on Arbil ...

Iraqi

Arbil


Input: We got the information from KDP leaders in KDP headquarters in Saladdin, " the official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.

KDP

KDP

Reuters

Saladdin


Input: Fire destroys restaurant in Bahraini village.

Bahraini


Input: MANAMA 1996-08-31

MANAMA


Input: A fire has completely gutted a Turkish-operated restaurant in a Bahraini village, residents said.

Bahraini


Input: They said a fire broke out at Shul'ala restaurant in the early hours on Saturday in al-Daih village, five km (three miles) west of the capital Manama.

Shul'ala

al-Daih

Manama


Input: It was not immediately clear what caused the fire or if there were any casualties.


Input: Government officials had no immediate comment.


Input: Iraq's Aziz says Baghdad aiding KDP against rivals.

Iraq

Baghdad

Aziz

KDP


Input: BAGHDAD 1996-08-31

BAGHDAD


Input: Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said on Saturday Iraqi troops were fighting in northern Iraq to aid Kurdish rebel leader Massoud Barzani against rival forces.

Iraq

Iraq

Tareq Aziz

Massoud Barzani

Iraqi

Kurdish


Input: " The leadership has decided to provide support and military aid to Mr Massoud Barzani and his comrades to enable them confront the vicious aggression ...

Massoud Barzani


Input: from (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan chief) Jalal Talabani, " Aziz said in a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Iraqi News Agency

INA

Jalal Talabani

Aziz


Input: Aziz said Iraq's military intervention, the first on such scale since the U.S. and allies decided to protect Iraqi Kurds against Baghdad, was in response to a plea from Barzani to President Saddam Hussein to back him militarily and save his people from attacks by Iran and Talabani.

Aziz

Barzani

Saddam Hussein

Talabani

Iraq

U.S.

Baghdad

Iran

Iraqi Kurds


Input: He said Barzani sent a message to Saddam on August 22 in which he said: " The conspiracy is beyond our capability therefore we plead with your excellency to order Iraqi armed forces to interfere to help us to evade the foreign threat and put an end to Talabani's treason and conspiracy. "

Barzani

Saddam

Talabani

Iraqi


Input: U.N. relief officials said they were not aware that the tanks advancing on Arbil were manned by Iraqi troops as they advanced from KDP-controlled areas and raised KDP flags.

U.N.

KDP

Arbil

Iraqi


Input: U.N. denies reports of Iraqi tank assault on Arbil.

U.N.

Iraqi

Arbil


Input: BAGHDAD 1996-08-31

BAGHDAD


Input: United Nations relief officials said on Saturday the fighting in Arbil in northern Iraq was between rival Kurdish factions and they were not aware of any Iraqi military advance on the city.

United Nations

Arbil

Iraq

Kurdish

Iraqi


Input: " KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) is trying to overtake the city.

KDP

Kurdistan Democratic Party


Input: They are using tanks.


Input: I think they will succeed.


Input: We have in no way seen any Iraqi troops in the city or in its approaches, " a U.N. relief official told Reuters.

Iraqi

U.N.

Reuters


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Tunisia-Aug 31.

Tunisia


Input: TUNIS 1996-08-31

TUNIS


Input: These are the leading stories in the Tunisian press on Saturday.

Tunisian


Input: Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Reuters


Input: LA PRESSE

LA PRESSE


Input: -After Tunisia called on France to respect Tunisian immigrants' dignity, France says it welcomes legal Tunisian residents.

Tunisia

France

France

Tunisian

Tunisian


Input: -Tunisia's exports of spare parts amounted to 220 million dinars in 1995.

Tunisia


Input: LE TEMPS

LE TEMPS


Input: -Trade talks between Tunisia and the Palestinian Authority.

Tunisia

Palestinian Authority


Input: -Speaker of parliament Habib Boulares arrives in Tripoli to represent President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali at the Libyan revolution anniversary celebrations.

Habib Boulares

Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali

Tripoli

Libyan


Input: ($1 = 0.96 dinar)


Input: Automakers, U.S. agency plan air bag safety ads.

U.S.


Input: DETROIT 1996-08-31

DETROIT


Input: Automakers, suppliers, insurers and the federal government's auto safety agency Saturday launched a $10 million safety awareness campaign aimed at reducing the number of children killed accidentally by air bags in cars and trucks.


Input: Officials said they will work with law enforcement agencies, pediatricians and media to warn parents about the dangers that air bags pose to children and adults not wearing seatbelts.


Input: Since 1993, 24 children have been killed by the explosive force of automotive air bags, which inflate at speeds up to 200 miles per hour.


Input: The first portion of the campaign involves pickup trucks equipped with billboards that were driving along some of the nation's busiest interstate highways during the Labor Day weekend, including Interstate 95 on the East Coast, Interstates 80 and 90 in the Midwest and Interstate 5 in California.

Labor Day

Interstate 95

East Coast

Interstates 80

Midwest

Interstate 5

California


Input: The boards read: " Air Bag Safety: Everyone Buckled, Kids in Back. "


Input: Janet Dewey, executive director of the industry-funded National Automobile Occupant Protection Campaign, said most of the injuries to children occurred because they were not wearing seatbelts.

Janet Dewey

National Automobile Occupant Protection Campaign


Input: A child's chances of being killed in a car accident, whether the vehicle was equipped with an air bag or not, is reduced by 29 percent when they are in the rear seat, she said.


Input: The auto industry was about three to six years away from introducing " smart " air bags with the ability to detect the size and position of an occupant and adjust inflation pressures accordingly.


Input: Current air bags were designed to halt the forward momentum of an average-sized, unbelted adult male, not a small child.


Input: Automakers petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to allow them to introduce air bags that inflate less aggressively to help reduce unwanted injuries.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Input: " Even if changes are made to airbags today, we'd still have 20 million vehicles on the road with current technology, " Dewey said. "

Dewey


Input: The public hasn't been getting the message. "


Input: Two die as New Hampshire motel explodes and burns.

New Hampshire


Input: ROCHESTER, N.H. 1996-08-30

ROCHESTER

N.H.


Input: Adds deaths, other details)


Input: An explosion leveled Rochester's one-story Lilac Falls Motel, killing two people, fire officials said Friday.

Rochester

Lilac Falls


Input: " It was an explosion, and then it got involved in fire.


Input: As far as I know, it's been to four alarms -- more trucks, more people, " said Don Penney of the Rochester Fire Department said.

Don Penney

Rochester Fire Department


Input: Eyewitnesses told Boston television stations they saw a gasoline truck parked behind the Lilac Falls Motel and smelled gasoline shortly before the explosion.

Boston

Lilac Falls Motel


Input: Fire department officials said they were investigating the cause of the blast and searching for any more casualties.


Input: Officials did not immediately identify the victims.


Input: Local hospital officials said a few firemen were treated for smoke inhalation but there were no other injuries.


Input: Car kills two trying to avoid Texas drag race.

Texas


Input: DALLAS 1996-08-31

DALLAS


Input: An illegal drag race on a Dallas street turned deadly when another vehicle veered into the crowd, killing two people and injuring a dozen more, police said Saturday.

Dallas


Input: Organisers tried to block off traffic while preparing the drag race late on Friday, but an allegedly drunk driver was unable to slow down in time and ran into a group of spectators as he swerved to avoid one of the cars that was to take part in the race.


Input: A 26-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were killed.


Input: The driver, aged 51, was arrested and charged on two counts of intoxicated manslaughter.


Input: A police spokesman said the straight, flat stretch of road was often used illegally as a drag strip by Dallas youths.

Dallas


Input: U.S. warplanes, ships in Gulf await Clinton order.

U.S.

Gulf

Clinton


Input: Jim Adams

Jim Adams


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-31

WASHINGTON


Input: More than 300 U.S. warplanes and 20 ships were available on Saturday in case President Bill Clinton ordered the use of U.S. force against Iraqi military action in northern Iraq, U.S. defense officials said.

U.S.

U.S.

Iraq

U.S.

Bill Clinton

Iraqi


Input: They said 200 fighter planes, including 79 on the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, were already in the Gulf; the aircraft carrier Enterprise was in the eastern Mediterranean with 79 more, and an air expeditionary force with up to 40 more was ready to fly from the United States if ordered.

Carl Vinson

Enterprise

Mediterranean

Gulf

United States


Input: " Yesterday the president ordered the Department of Defense to take prudent planning steps to have forces ready to deploy to the region should he direct us to do so, " Pentagon spokesman Doug Kennett said. "

Department of Defense

Pentagon

Doug Kennett


Input: We have taken those prudent planning steps. "


Input: Clinton said on Saturday he had ordered U.S. forces in the Gulf to go on high alert and was reinforcing them in response to Iraqi attacks on Kurdish dissidents in northern Iraq.

Clinton

U.S.

Gulf

Iraq

Iraqi

Kurdish


Input: " These developments ... cause me grave concern, " Clinton said at a campaign stop in Troy, Tennessee.

Clinton

Troy

Tennessee


Input: But he added, " It is premature at this time, and I want to emphasize that, highly premature to speculate on any response we might have. "


Input: The U.S. defense officials said military flights to enforce no-fly zones in both northern and southern Iraq doubled over the weekend.

U.S.

Iraq


Input: Clinton said Iraqi military forces overran the city of Arbil, which has been held since 1994 by Kurdish rebels who Baghdad says are backed by Iran.

Clinton

Iraqi

Kurdish

Arbil

Baghdad

Iran


Input: There were unconfirmed reports that Iran had sent troops into northern Iraq in response to Iraq's attack.

Iran

Iraq

Iraq


Input: U.S. plans rely heavily on U.S. air attacks on Iraqi forces, but there are also 23,000 U.S. troops in the region, according to defense officials.

U.S.

U.S.

U.S.

Iraqi


Input: In addition to the 158 F/A-18, F-14 and other fighter planes on the aircraft carriers Vinson and Enterprise, the Air Force air expeditionary force of 30 to 40 F-15 and F-16 fighter planes and fuel tankers is ready to fly from three U.S. bases in the United States, they said.

Vinson

Enterprise

Air Force

U.S.

United States


Input: The expeditionary force would include nearly 1,000 Air Force personnel in ground and support crews, they said.

Air Force


Input: The 23,000 U.S. military people already in the Gulf consist of 15,000 sailors and Marines, 6,000 U.S. servicemen based primarily in Saudi Arabia and 2,000 U.S. troops in the area for military exercises.

U.S.

Gulf

U.S.

Saudi Arabia

U.S.

Marines


Input: Most of the Marines are on three ships in the Tarawa Amphibious Readiness Group.

Marines

Tarawa Amphibious Readiness Group


Input: The Carl Vinson leads a battle group that includes seven other ships, and there are nine other U.S. ships in the Gulf for a total of 20.

Carl Vinson

U.S.

Gulf


Input: Two missing Belgian teenagers found unharmed.

Belgian


Input: BRUSSELS 1996-08-31

BRUSSELS


Input: Two Belgian teenage girls missing since Thursday have been found unharmed, police said on Saturday.

Belgian


Input: " The girls, Rachel and Severine, have been found.

Rachel

Severine


Input: They are unharmed, " a police official in Liege said.

Liege


Input: He declined to say whether the girls had been kidnapped or whether they had gone away of their own accord.


Input: Late on Friday, the two girls -- Rachel Legeard, 18, and Severine Potty, 19 -- were reported missing after failing to return home from a shopping trip to the eastern town of Liege on Thursday.

Rachel Legeard

Severine Potty

Liege


Input: Earlier, police declined to comment on whether it suspected a link with the Marc Dutroux case, the paedophile kidnap, sex abuse and murder scandal which has rocked Belgium in the past two weeks.

Marc Dutroux

Belgium


Input: Algeria restaurant bomb kills seven-newSpaper.

Algeria


Input: PARIS 1996-08-31

PARIS


Input: A bomb explosion in a restaurant west of Algiers on Friday killed seven people, an Algerian newspaper said on Saturday.

Algiers

Algerian


Input: Algerian security forces said in a statement that two people were killed and six were wounded when a home-made bomb ripped through a restaurant in the coastal town of Staoueli.

Algerian

Staoueli


Input: But Le Matin newspaper, quoting witnesses, said the bomb killed seven people and wounded 20.

Le Matin


Input: Liberte newspaper said the bomb was hidden in a bag in front of the restaurant and that a booby-trapped car was defused near the restaurant shortly before the bomb went off.

Liberte


Input: A week ago a home-made bomb exploded in a market in the western coastal town of Bou Haroun, 65 km (40 miles) from Algiers.

Bou Haroun

Algiers


Input: Newspapers said it killed two women and five children.


Input: Algerian newspapers quoted the Human Rights National Observatory (ONDH), a government-appointed watchdog, as saying earlier in August that about 1,400 civilians had been killed in bomb attacks blamed on Moslem guerrillas in the past two years.

Algerian

Moslem

Human Rights National Observatory

ONDH


Input: An estimated 50,000 people have died in Algeria's violence pitting Moslem rebels against government forces since early 1992 when the authorities cancelled a general election in which radical Islamists had taken a commanding lead.

Algeria

Moslem

Islamists


Input: Iran agents stormed German diplomat's home -- Bonn.

Iran

Bonn

German


Input: BONN 1996-08-31

BONN


Input: Iranian security forces burst into the home of a German cultural attache in Tehran a month ago and seized his guests for questioning, Bonn's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Iranian

German

Tehran

Bonn


Input: A spokesman said he could substantially confirm a report in the news weekly Der Spiegel, which said Iranian secret police burst in while attache Jens Gust was entertaining six Iranian writers and their wives.

Der Spiegel

Iranian

Iranian

Jens Gust


Input: Gust was threatened with violence, then locked into a room to be interrogated on suspicion of " promoting activities hostile to the state " while his guests were taken away, the magazine said.

Gust


Input: The ministry spokesman said the German embassy immediately made a sharp protest to the Tehran government.

German

Tehran


Input: The Iranian ambassador was also summoned to the ministry in Bonn to hear a sharp protest and " disapproval of this glaring breach of the principles of international law ", he added.

Iranian

Bonn


Input: Iran subsequently said it regretted the incident, which it said had been the result of a misunderstanding.

Iran


Input: All those detained appeared to have been freed, the spokesman said.


Input: Relations between the two countries are currently under strain because of the testimony in a Berlin court of former Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr.

Berlin

Iranian

Abolhassan Banisadr


Input: Banisadr, an avowed opponent of the Tehran government who now lives in exile, accused top Iranian leaders of personally ordering the assassination of three exiled Kurdish leaders in a Berlin restaurant in 1992.

Banisadr

Tehran

Berlin

Iranian

Kurdish


Input: Iran has asked Germany to extradite Banisadr, who is due is due back in Berlin next Thursday to continue his testimony.

Iran

Germany

Berlin

Banisadr


Input: Banisadr, who received political asylum in France after fleeing there in 1981, told Der Spiegel he did not plan to ask for a guarantee of safe conduct.

Banisadr

France

Der Spiegel


Input: If Germany were to extradite him, he said, it would " lose face before the whole world ".

Germany


Input: German prosecutors have already accused Iran's intelligence minister Ali Fallahiyan of ordering the killing of the Kurdish leaders.

German

Kurdish

Iran

Ali Fallahiyan


Input: Iran, which denies the allegations, urged German authorities to disregard Banisadr's testimony and said it could hurt relations.

Iran

German

Banisadr


Input: Italy's Dini meets Burundi negotiator Nyerere.

Italy

Burundi

Dini

Nyerere


Input: ROME 1996-08-31

ROME


Input: Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini on Saturday met former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, the international negotiator for Burundi, the ministry said.

Italian

Tanzanian

Lamberto Dini

Julius Nyerere

Burundi


Input: Nyerere arrived in Rome this week on a private visit and held talks with the U.S. special envoy to Burundi, Howard Wolpe, and the Sant' Egidio Community, an Italian Roman Catholic organisation which has been monitoring Burundi closely.

Nyerere

Howard Wolpe

Rome

U.S.

Burundi

Burundi

Sant' Egidio Community

Italian

Roman Catholic


Input: " (Nyerere) informed Minister Dini of the latest developments in the (Great Lakes) region, with particular respect to Burundi following the military coup d'etat on July 25, " the ministry said in a statement.

Nyerere

Dini

Great Lakes

Burundi


Input: It gave no details of their talks.


Input: Nyerere was due to be presented with an " Artisans for Peace " prize by the Lay Volunteers' International Organisation on Sunday.

Nyerere

Artisans for Peace

Lay Volunteers' International Organisation


Input: He leaves Rome on Monday.

Rome


Input: The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the coup by retired Tutsi major Pierre Buyoya and for the first time said in a resolution it intended to pressure Buyoya into unconditional negotiations with all parties and factions " without exception ".

U.N. Security Council

Tutsi

Pierre Buyoya

Buyoya


Input: Buyoya on Saturday dismissed its threat of an arms embargo against Burundi and flatly ruled out talks with Hutu rebels.

Buyoya

Burundi

Hutu


Input: Some 150,000 people -- mostly civilians -- have died in Burundi since 1993 when the country's first democratically elected Hutu president was killed in an attempted army coup.

Burundi

Hutu


Input: Nato declines comment on fighting in Iraq.

Iraq


Input: BRUSSELS 1996-08-31

BRUSSELS


Input: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's spokesman on Saturday declined all comment on reports of armed conflict in northern Iraq.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Iraq


Input: But a NATO official told Reuters: " We are watching the situation closely. "

NATO

Reuters


Input: Earlier on Saturday, an Iraqi Kurd leader said both Iraqi troops and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) forces were attacking the city of Arbil in northern Iraq.

Iraqi Kurd

Iraqi

Kurdistan Democratic Party

KDP

Arbil

Iraq


Input: More automatic weapons stolen in Belgium.

Belgium


Input: BRUSSELS 1996-08-31

BRUSSELS


Input: More than 10 weapons, including automatic Kalashnikov rifles, were stolen from an arms store in Belgium, police said on Saturday.

Kalashnikov

Belgium


Input: A policeman in the southern Belgian town of Chatelet told Reuters that thieves used a car to ram the window of an arms store in neighbouring Chatelineaux last night.

Belgian

Chatelet

Chatelineaux

Reuters


Input: It was the second arms robbery this week.


Input: On Tuesday, thieves stole about 40 forearms from a shooting range in southern Belgium, including Kalashnikov, Uzi and Fal automatic weapons.

Belgium

Kalashnikov

Uzi

Fal


Input: No trace of two missing teenagers in Belgium.

Belgium


Input: BRUSSELS 1996-08-31

BRUSSELS


Input: Belgian police said on Saturday they had found no trace of two teenage girls reported missing during a shopping trip three days ago.

Belgian


Input: " There is no trace so far, the enquiry is continuing, " a Liege police official told Reuters.

Liege

Reuters


Input: Late on Friday, Liege police said in a statement that on Thursday, Rachel Legeard, 18, and Severine Potty, 19, had gone shopping to the eastern town of Liege on Thursday, where Legeard's wallet had been stolen.

Liege

Liege

Rachel Legeard

Severine Potty

Legeard


Input: After reporting the theft to the police, they took a bus home and reportedly got off the bus before arriving in their home village of Nandrin.

Nandrin


Input: They have not been seen since.


Input: Police declined to comment on whether it suspected a link with the Marc Dutroux case, the paedophile kidnap, sex abuse and murder scandal which has rocked Belgium in the past two weeks.

Marc Dutroux

Belgium


Input: Controversial IRA film screened at Venice festival.

IRA

Venice


Input: Vera Haller

Vera Haller


Input: VENICE, Italy 1996-08-31

Italy


Input: Dublin-born director Neil Jordan says he never lost more sleep over a film than over " Michael Collins ", his controversial epic about the IRA which has its premiere on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival.

Neil Jordan

Michael Collins

Venice Film Festival

IRA


Input: The film, starring Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts, recounts the life of Michael Collins, the Irish Republican Army's Director of Intelligence who fought for Irish independence from 1919 to 1921.

Liam Neeson

Julia Roberts

Michael Collins

Irish Republican Army

Irish


Input: Although not due for release in Britain until early next year, some politicians have already said they feared it would fan sectarian tensions in British-ruled Northern Ireland.

Britain

Northern Ireland

British-ruled


Input: Jordan defends his decision to make the film, whose screenplay he wrote himself after years of research, saying it was " more about history than any political statement ".

Jordan


Input: " The film spares neither the Irish nor the British in its depiction of the savagery of the time, " Jordan said in a statement released by Warner Bros. "

Irish

British

Jordan

Warner Bros


Input: How often has independence been achieved without bloodshed?


Input: Very rarely. "


Input: Jordan, whose 1992 film " The Crying Game " also came under fire for what was perceived as a sympathetic portrayal of the IRA, said Collins was more than just a revolutionary.

Jordan

Collins

The Crying Game

IRA


Input: " He developed techniques of guerilla warfare later copied by independence movements around the world, from Mao Tse-Tung in China to Yitzak Shamir in Israel, " Jordan said.

Mao Tse-Tung

Yitzak Shamir

Jordan

China

Israel


Input: " Collins would never be a proponent of contemporary terrorism as practised today.

Collins


Input: He was a soldier and a statesman and, over time, a man of peace. "


Input: Leeson, the Northern Ireland-born actor who was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his performance in " Schindler's List ", plays the lead role in Jordan's film.

Leeson

Oscar

Jordan

Northern Ireland-born

Schindler's List


Input: Aidan Quinn portrays Harry Boland, Collins' best friend, and rival for the love of Kitty Kiernan, played by Roberts.

Aidan Quinn

Harry Boland

Collins

Kitty Kiernan

Roberts


Input: Much of the film was shot on location in Dublin with Jordan using thousands of its citizens as unpaid extras.

Dublin

Jordan


Input: A set, however, was used for the fighting scenes.


Input: Noting that information about Collins was " as mysterious as the existence he maintained ", Jordan said he made some historical assumptions in the film.

Collins

Jordan


Input: " I have made choices about certain events based on my own extensive research into his letters and reported speeches, " he said. "


Input: I wanted to make this a story as accurate as possible without killing it dramatically and I think I have.


Input: It is a very true film. "


Input: One of the assumptions is his interpretation of the murky circumstances surrounding the shooting death of Collins, who had broken with his comrades when he sought a negotiated settlement with Britain, in an ambush in 1922.

Collins

Britain


Input: " I have never lost more sleep over the making of a film than I have over' Michael Collins', but I'll never make a more important one, " Jordan said.

Michael Collins

Jordan


Input: " In the life of one person you can tell the events that formed the north and south of Ireland as they are today. "

Ireland


Input: Dhaka stocks seen steady in absence of big players.

Dhaka


Input: DHAKA 1996-08-31

DHAKA


Input: Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) may remain steady as small investors are expected to target mainly blue chips while overseas investors will prefer to keep to the sidelines when the market reopens after Moslem Friday weekend, brokers said.

Dhaka Stock Exchange

DSE

Moslem


Input: " The market is expected to remain steady.


Input: There will be both buying and selling pressure, " said broker Shakil Rizvi.

Shakil Rizvi


Input: Broker Khurshid Alam said: " The market sentiment will remain strong.

Khurshid Alam


Input: But the prices may move in a close range following a continued market uptrend. "


Input: Brokers said blue chips like IDLC, Bangladesh Lamps, Chittagong Cement and Atlas Bangladesh were expected to rise.

IDLC

Bangladesh Lamps

Chittagong Cement

Atlas Bangladesh


Input: They said there was still demand for blue chips in engineering sector despite their persistent rise over the past several sessions.


Input: The DSE all share price index closed 2.73 points or 0.22 percent up at 1,196.35 on a turnover of 133.7 million taka on Thursday.

DSE


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