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US-Vietnam resume talks:
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United States and Vietnam resumed talks here Thursday on normalizing relations, which could lead to a lifting of restrictions on the movement of Vietnamese diplomats here. • reports AFP from New York.
The meetings were held at the US mission to the United Nation. Last year the two countries met several times in New York for talks devoted mainly to the problem of US servicemen missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam war.
One Item that was expected to be on the agenda of the current round of talks was the lifting of restrictions on the movement of Vietnamese diplomats and journalists, who must stay within a 25-mlle (40-kllomctrc) radius of New York.
Albania's SOS for shoes:
Albania, which Is facing a catastrophic situation with the onset of winter, is appealing to the World Community for 240,000 pairs of shoes so that Its children can go to school, Economics Minister Gramoz Pashko said Thursday, reports AFP from Belgrade.
Quoted in a dispatch from the Albanian News Agency ATA. Pashko said that without the shoes. Albanian children "cannot go to school."
Albania has been facing a wave of strikes in the past few months, and Prime Minister YIU Bufi has recognised that the economic situation Is disastrous.
Most basic consumer goods arc lacking, and food supplies are less and less reliable, even in the capital Tirana, according to inhabitants contacted by telephone from Belgrade.
Many residents fear the oncoming winter, with wood in short supply and electric power cuts multiplying.
Khomeini's sentence chases Rushdie :
Iranian Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayati has said Iran, has not changed its policy on the death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie, despite a statement by Irans UN Ambassador that he need no longer fear for his life, reports Reuter from London.
"Our position towards this question 1s the same as It was previously. There is no change in our policy," he said in remarks broadcast by Austrian Radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Rushdie has been in hiding under police guard since February 1989 when Iran's late spiritual leader. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ordered Muslims to kill him, saying his novel The Satanic Verses" blasphemed Islam.
Ships collide in Dublin:
Air and sea rescue services were searching Friday for three people missing after two cargo ships collided in DubUn harbour, a spokesman said, reports Reuter from Dublin.
Orie man was believed to be trapped in the hull of the Irish-registered Kilkenny, which sank in the harbour.
He is thought to be still alive and divers were using cutting equipment to try to reach him.
Eleven survivors were found, the rescue services spokesman said.
The second ship involved in the collision was identified as the German-registered Hassclvcrder.
Pakistan denies transferring arms:
Pakistan denied Thursday the reports that it had transferred arms meant for Afghan mujahideen to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. reports Xinhua from Islamabad.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Slddique Kanju termed the allegations as "blatant, false and fabrications" made by the Israeli intelligence.
The Minister said in his brief statement in the Senate that the very fact that such an allegation was made by an officials of the Israeli Defence Force made it obvious that it was part of the disinformation campaign against Pakistan.
He said as ever Pakistan stood committed to completely boycotting all kinds of contacts with Israel. It was a travesty of truth that Pakistan had diverted the arms meant for Afghan mujahideen to Iran during the war in collusion with the United States and Israeli agencies, he said.
He assured the Senate that such kind of a tiding never happened on Pakistan's soil and would never occur.
Mongolia changes name :
Mongolia. m the latestrnove to distance itself from its Marxist past, has decided to change its name, the official New China News Agency said Friday, reports Reuter from Beijing.
Parliament voted on Thursday to abandon the old name, the People's Republic of Mongolia. The country will now be known as the Republic of Mongolia.
The change becomes law when a constitution now being drafted Is ratified, the Agency said.
In March last year Mongolia's communist leadership, faced with a vocal pro-democracy movement, followed Moscow's lead and renounced the party ■ monopoly on power.
Since then. It has allowed the nation's first free elections and launched an ambitious programme to privatise state-owned Industries and property.
Major's easy win in parliamentary vote:
British Prime Minister John Major easily won a parliamentary vote on Thursday backing his stand on moving Britain closer to political and economic union with Europe, reports Reuter from London.
Despite some resistance from his own ruling Conservative Party, the government won by 351 votes to 250.
Analysts said Major would regard the vote as additional backing for his negotiating stance at a European Community (EC) tn the Dutch town of Maastricht on December 9-10.
Major opened the two-day parliamentary debate on Wednesday saying there were great risks and rewards for Britain In choosing to join tn a greater union with the European Community
Some in his party, including his predecessor Margaret Thatcher, voiced concern that the union proposals which Major would face at Maastricht amounted to a huge surrender of British parliamentary sovereignty to EC Institutions.
But no more than a handful dared to risk party unity by voting against Major, who will lead the Conservatives Into a general election within the next eight months
Lockerbie: Libya won't hand over accused;
Libya has formally refused to hand over to Britain two Libyan Intelligence agents accused of Involvement In the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie In 1988. a top Libyan official was quoted as saying on Thursday, reports AFP from London.
Libya's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Blshart denied his country's Involvement in the bombing in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
He said he had called for an urgent meeting ol the Arab League to discuss the afie^lion.
A man claiming to be one of the two men accused by Britain and the United States of the bombing told Radio Monte Carlo earlier that he was not involved.
A Scottish court, had asked for the two men to be extradited to Britain to stand trial.
A total of 270 people died when the Boeing 747 jet blew up in mid-air over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988.
Sikh militants kill 19 more :
s&h militants raked a wedding dinner with assault rifles and killed 19 members of the marriage party, police said Friday, reports AP from Amritsar.
Though details were sketchy, the massacre appeared to be part of a war between rival militant groups seeking In de pendence for Sikhs in the northern state of Punjab, news agencies reported.
Five or six militants smuggled the Chinese-made AK-47 rifles hidden under their shawls, then opened fire Indlscrlml nately st Thursday evening's dinner. Senior Superintendent °f Hoof of*tWoscGkl8«l^rc Sikhs. Gupta said. The dead Included five women and two children. Two people also were wounded
The wedding celebration was In the house of the eider brother of Ja^r Singh. a top Sikh rebel leader of the outlawed Khskstan Commando Force. Gupta said
The killings occurred In the village of Bhaserke Brhani. ftve kilometres (three miles) west of Amritsar, the holiest ^Sikh city and the centre of the 89th separatist movement.