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Riyadh to buy 2,300 Humvees tn. Pentagon announced in Washington Thursday that Saudi Arabia had agreed to purchase 2.300 Humvee all-terrain military vehicles, as well as parts and equipment, together valued at 123 million Dollars, reports AFP.
The Humvee, manufactured by the firm LTV, is the jeep's automotive successor. The 1.25 tonne four-wheel-drive ' vehicle can transport troops and arms, and can be equipped with a tow anti-tank missile launcher.
In a separate 350 million dollar accord. Saudi Arabia has accepted a service contract with the US aviation giant Boeing for the Kingdom's Awacs reconnaissance aircraft and KE3 inflight refueling aircraft, the Pentagon said.
Indonesian plane crashes • An Indonesian aircraft crashed In Pekanbaru. east of Sumatra, killing five people on board, the Kompas dally reported in Jakarta Friday reports Reuter
It quoted a transport official as saying the light plane, owned by a state-owned plantation firm, crashed on Thursday shortly after Leaving Pekanbaru Airport on its way to Medan
The pilot, his two children and two other passengers were allied An investigation is under way to find the cause of the
Satanic Verses' translator killed: a
Professor who translated Salman Rushdie's controversial book The Satanic Verses' into Japanese was found dead Friday at his university campus, police said tn Tokyo, reports Reuter.
The body of Hitoshi Igarashi. 44. was found with several stab wounds at the campus in Tsukuba. 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Tokyo, a police spokesman said.
British author Rushdie published the book In 1989. sparking a firestorm of protest from Muslims. The Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an order calling on Muslims to kill him. Rushdie has lived in hiding ever since.
British MP sentenced
Member of Parliament was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Thursday in London for refusing to pay the poll tax — a deeply unpopular local authority tax the government has promised to scrap, reports Reuter.
Terry Fields. 54. an oppositions Labour Party representative tn the northern port city of Liverpool, had led a campaign against the tax. which prompted mass protests when it was introduced last year.
Its unpopularity was one reason for the downfall last November of its instigator. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Her successor John Major has said it will be replaced.
More US spending for FP
introduced Thursday recommends increasing US spending to 12 billion Dollar a year by the year 2000 on family planning and contraception programmes In developing countries. AP says from Washington
The resolution, sponsored by Representative Peter Kostmayer. would affirm the country's support for the Amsterdam Declaration, a plan adopted by 79 countries tn 1989 for controlling global population growth.
This year. Washington will spend about MOO million on family planning and contraception programmes.
•Failure to curb the rate of world population growth will j magnify the deterioration of the earth's environment and natural resources and undermine economic and social progress.' Kostmayer s resolution says.
One section of the resolution calls for making contraceptives available to every rmn and woman by 2000.
Bush to visit Japan
said Thursday he wffl visit Japan some time near the end of November AP reports from KennedOnkport (Maine).
Bush made the announcement at a new* conference with Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Katfu.
'I was very pleased to firmly accept his very generous Invitation.'Bush said.
He said exact dates for the trip will be worked out at a later date.
50 hurt in Tokyo gas leakage
least 50 factory worker* and severs! passers^r were admitted to hospital In Fujinomiya. 120 km (75 mile*) west to Tokyo Friday after potoonous ehfortoe ga* leaked from a paper mfl. police said. reports Reuter.
The almost colourless gas caught victims unaware*. causing them to l^t for brewth. but no one was seriously
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