Reuters SOUSTONS, France President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said on Thursday that the Madrid peace conference had broken the ice between Middle East foes but that the international community must follow it up to ensure peace. “The ice was broken, we hope it will be completely broken,” he said here. M. Gorbachev was in southwest…
Berlin (Reuters) – Protected by the police and armed with a new court order, workers on Friday resumed the dismantling of Berlin’s giant Lenin statue, a survivor of the 1989 revolution that ended Communist rule in the former East Germany. Policemen scuffled earlier with 40 demonstrators who tried to prevent the workers from erecting…
Warsaw (Reuters) – President Lech Walesa of Poland will ask Bronislaw Geremek, a former Solidarity adviser and a leader of the Democratic Union party, to form a government, a presidential spokesman said Friday. “The president thinks Professor Geremek should start political consultations aimed at forming a government,” the spokesman, Andrzej Drzycimski, said by telephone…
Reuters Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia – The Yugoslav Navy on Wednesday searched a flotilla of Croatian relief boats for weapons before allowing it to pass through a blockade to the medieval port of Dubrovnik. The ferry Slavija, with the Yugoslav president, Stipe Mesic, aboard, was waiting at the eastern tip of Mljet Island for the fishing and…
RAMALLAH, Israeli-Occupied West Bank – Palestinians poured into the streets after their chief delegate’s speech at the Madrid peace talks on Thursday, decorating Israeli army jeeps with olive branches as smiling soldiers looked on. “We let the world hear our cause,” Nasser Ibrahim, a Palestinian who works in Israel, said after hearing a broadcast of…
HAVANA (Reuters) – The Labor Ministry has ordered managers at many companies to cut back production schedules, resulting in wage cuts of up to 30 percent, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said Thursday. Managers were ordered to revise operating schedules “taking into account the need to reduce cafeteria service at those labor centers experiencing…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Traffic could increase by 1,000 percent on some European east-west routes in the next decade with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, transport chiefs said here Thursday. They called for a policy to integrate road, rail, air and water transport to meet the needs of increased traffic throughout Europe while protecting…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A court on Thursday jailed four men for their role in the biggest art theft since World War II, Dutch radio said. The four Dutch nationals had pleaded guilty to stealing 20 works worth about $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum here last April 14. The paintings, which included “Potato Eaters,”…
JERUSALEM – Roger G. Harrison, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan, was injured Monday is an automobile collision on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road, the Israeli police said. A woman in another car was killed. The police said Mr. Harrison was undergoing surgery at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. A police spokeswoman said three other men in the…
ANKARA-Car bombs killed an American serviceman and seriously injured an Egyptian diplomat here Monday in attacks directed at the Middle East peace conference. A group calling itself Turkish Islamic Jihad took responsibility and said the attacks were to protest the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference that opens in Madrid Wednesday, the Anatolian News Agency reported. …
27 August 1991 Reuters News English (c) 1991 Reuters Limited TOKYO, Reuters – India hopes to receive substantial financial aid from a consortium of donors next month, Finance Secretary Sriranga Shukla said on Tuesday. Shukla, in Tokyo for talks ahead of the September 19-20 meeting in Paris, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World…
17 September 1991 Reuters News English (c) 1991 Reuters Limited TOKYO, Reuter – Most Asian stock markets, casting around for fresh stimulus, weakened on Tuesday while the dollar declined in late regional trade against the mark. But Tokyo stocks, buoyed by hopes of easier credit, bucked the declining trend with the 225-share Nikkei average up…