JORDAN CAN`T HANDLE HUGE INFLUX OF WAR REFUGEES, OFFICIALS SAY
Jordan will be unable to cope with the huge influx of refugees that the Persian Gulf war is expected to unleash, and thousands of people fleeing the fighting may die...
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E. GERMAN JUDGES SEEK GRIP ON LAWS
Under the former Communist regime in East Germany, police searched the premises of a farmer who refused to join a collective. They found a pig that hadn`t been registered with...
PLOT TO OUST E. GERMAN LEADER WAS FRAUGHT WITH RISKS
A former East German Politburo member says the decision last October to oust Erich Honecker as head of state was a far bolder and riskier action than opening the Berlin...
LEADING FOE OF KOHL IS STABBED
Oskar Lafontaine, the leading opponent of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in West Germany`s forthcoming elections, was stabbed in the throat Wednesday night by a woman at an election rally near Cologne....
TO BONN RESIDENTS, A MOVE TO BERLIN IS NO CAPITAL IDEA
The problem for West Germany`s capital is that it never gets any respect. On a continent with such glittering counterparts as Paris, Rome and London, the peaceful Rhine River community...
GERMAN INSTABILITY WORRIES NEIGHBORS
East Germany, engulfed in an atmosphere of political crisis and confusion, is marching toward dramatic changes that carry sometimes worrying implications for its neighbors in the East and West. In...
U.S. NUDGES ISRAEL`S LIKUD TO ACCEPT EGYPTIAN PLAN
Secretary of State James A. Baker III sought Thursday to put pressure on the dominant Likud bloc in Israel`s Cabinet to accept an Egyptian plan for getting Israelis and Palestinians...
TOP COURT OKS ABORTION LIMITS
The U.S. Supreme Court gave the states new authority Monday to restrict a woman`s constitutional right to abortion, significantly limiting for the first time the effect of its landmark 1973...
MOURNERS RIP SHROUD, KHOMEINI`S BODY FALLS
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini went to his grave Tuesday amid scenes of emotional frenzy unmatched since the dramatic mass demonstrations that brought his Islamic republic to power 10 years ago. At...
TERROR A WAY OF LIFE IN IRAN JAILS, UN TOLD
After Iranian authorities arrested Fahimeh Shaiesteh and her entire family, they executed her mother and brother, drove her teenage sister to a mental breakdown and subjected her and her husband...