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US asks Iraqi troops out of the way: The United States has told the Iraqi military to stay out of the way while allied troops build camps for Kurdish refugees struggling to survive in the country's northern mountains. AP reports from Zakho of Iraq
The United Nations and Iraq, meanwhile, arc moving forward with their agreement to establish way stations in the north for refugees wishing to return home.
The UN envoy who reached the agreement. Prince Sadruddln Aga Khan, said Friday he expected that plan and the allied effort eventually to be reconciled.
New Liberian President? Amos sawyer was re-elected in Monrovia Friday night as interim President by the Liberian National Conference, meeting in Monrovia March 15 to find a lasting solution to Liberia’s political crisis, reports AFP.
The national conference agreed to drop the idea of a triumvirate Interim government following the withdrawal from the conference of Charles Taylor s National Patriotic Front of Liberia.
Palestinian to meet Baker: Th.
Palestine Liberation Organisation has given the green light for a Palestinian delegation to meet US Secretary of State James Baker in Jerusalem Saturday PLO sources In Tunis said, reports Reuter.
But the group will be reduced to three people who will hand a memorandum to Baker, the sources said.
The sources did not say whether the Palestinians in Jerusalem had received replied to 11 question they submitted to Baker through the American consulate.
Schwarzkopf meets Saudi minister: us General Norman Schwarzkopf on Friday paid a farewell visit to Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz who presented him with a commemorative gift, the Saudi press agency said, in
Nicosia, reports Reuter.
Schwarzkopf Is due US led multinational forces which drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait in February after a sevenmonth occupation.
The agency, monitored In Nicosia, did not disclose the nature of the gift, merely saying the minister paid tribute to Schwarzkopfs wise and courageous command.
6 killed in Bombay bomb blast: a. least six people were killed and one more seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in a bus depot in Bombay Friday night , police said, reports AP.
The explosion occurred at about 10:30 pm (about 1700 GMT) in a bus terminal of the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking, a private firm that runs Bombay s bus services.
The bus station is tn the western region of the city.
It was not immediately known what type of bomb was used in the attack and police said so far no body had claimed responsibility.
Five of those killed were employees of the transport firm, Sub Inspector of Police Rajendra Jadhav said. They Included three bus conductors, a driver and a starter — an employee responsible for enforcing proper bus timings.
Mengistu offers to resign: Ethiopian
President Mengistu Haile Mariam, battling major rebel advances in the north, offered to resign of it would preserve the unity of the country, reports Reuter from Nairobi.
"As long as it would help restore the unity of the country. 1 am willing and ready to step down," Mengistu said on Friday in a three-hour speech broadcast on television and radio.
"I ask the Ethiopian people to give an urgent verdict on how best to stem the threat by the northern rebels — be it through peaceful means or force."
Rebels, who control vast tracts of the north and have come within 100 miles (160 km) of the capital Addis Ababa tn the past two months, did not take Menglstu's offer seriously and said they would light on.
96 more to be freed in Africa:
President Frederik de Klerk has approved the release of another 96 political prisoners, bringing to 215 the total number of political prisoners freed in the past week, the Justice Ministry in Cape Town said Friday, reports AFP.
The releases arc part of a deal between the government and the black nationalist African National Congress under which political prisoners are to be freed and exiles allowed to return In exchange for the ANC ending armed actions against the white minority government.
At a press conference on Friday. De Klerk said the gov eminent was on schedule to meeting the April 30 deadline for the release of prisoners.
Pro-democracy talks in Indonesia:
Dialogue aimed at bolstering democracy In Indonesia should remain within the system and Its Institutions, military chief General Try Sutrt.no was quoted as saying Saturday, reports AFP
"We can hold healthy communications, we can hold political education we can make social criticism but all of these should be oriented iowards the interests of the national de vetopment." he told leading dally Kompas.
They should not run outside the norms, system and Institutions which we have already agreed on." Gen. Try said In an Interview.
Soviet unrest worsens crisis:
of industrial unrest In the Ukraine and tension in the Baltic Republic of Lithuania have worsened the crisis awaiting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on his return from Japan and South Korea, reports Reuter from Moscow.
And the Kremlin chief will find little comfort in economic results for the first three months of this year, showing Gross National Product dopm eight per cent from 1990, productivity down nine per cent and foreign trade slashed by a third.
Friday's batch of bad news cast further doubt on Gorbachevs chances of saving the country from collapse with a programme of emergency measures due to be debated by ^Soviet Parliament on Monday