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	 SEOUL - South Korea's state prosecutors sought an arrest 
warrant for the former chief body guard of former president Roh 
Tae-woo, who has been arrested on bribery charges. ``We have the 
application for Mr Lee Hyung-woo's arrest on charges of graft,'' 
a Seoul district court official said. Lee, who was interrogated 
by prosecutors for the fifth time on Wednesday, has admitted to 
managing some of Roh's $654 million slush fund.  
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	 OSAKA - Asia-Pacific leaders, with one notable no-show in 
U.S. President Bill Clinton, gathered for a summit that was 
basking in the glow of a deal on regional free trade in the 21st 
century.  
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	 UNITED NATIONS -  U.N. members voted for an immediate end to 
nuclear tests and deplored those already conducted by adopting a 
resolution aimed at France and China. The vote in the 
disarmament and international security committee, which includes 
all 185 U.N. members, was 95 in favour, 12 against, with 45 
abstentions. Remaining states did not vote.  
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	 WASHINGTON - An unprecedented shutdown of U.S. government 
services consumed a third day with no end in sight as President 
Bill Clinton and congressional Republicans waged a bitter power 
struggle with heavy touches of political farce.  
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	 WASHINGTON - U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry will 
travel to Dayton to meet with U.S. officials trying to negotiate 
an end to the four-year war in Bosnia. Secretary of State Warren 
Christopher also plans to cut short an Asian trip to return to 
Dayton in anticipation of a Bosnia peace agreement, U.S. 
officials said earlier.  
	 DAYTON, Ohio - The Bosnian rivals were under intense 
pressure to trade land for peace as negotiations to end the 
four-year war entered the final round with some expecting a deal 
as early as this weekend. ``It is all going to be over on 
Saturday or Sunday,'' a source close to one of the Balkan 
delegations said.  
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	 WASHINGTON - Democrats gleefully attacked House of 
Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich for his complaint on 
Wednesday of a snub from the president during a trip on Air 
Force One to Israel, and for his suggestion that Republicans' 
hard line in budget talks was partly a result of that.  
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	 WASHINGTON - The U.N. official in charge of dismantling 
Iraq's deadliest weapons predicted his team would face renewed 
friction with Baghdad and raised the possibility inspectors 
could be taken hostage or even killed.  
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	 VIENNA - A deadline for the final implementation of a 
European arms reduction treaty passed with negotiators hunting 
for a compromise deal between Moscow and NATO over weapons 
limits on Russia's borders. The 1990 Conventional Forces in 
Europe (CFE) treaty, signed by 30 states, including most of 
Europe, the United States and Canada, was aimed at reducing 
armaments from the Atlantic to the Urals to eliminate surprise 
attacks and large-scale offensive operations.  
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	 JERUSALEM - A former army chief who, like the slain Yitzhak 
Rabin, has a vaunted record and a daring demeanour popular with 
Israelis is the frontrunner to be foreign minister in Shimon 
Peres's new government.  
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	 MANNHEIM, Germany - Swept along by an astonishing change of 
mood, Germany's opposition Social Democrats have out of the blue 
elected a new leader and sparked speculation that they could 
change the face of German politics.  
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	 ALGIERS - Incumbent Liamine Zeroual appeared set for a 
five-year term as Algeria's elected head of state after early 
results showed him leading comfortably in Thursday's 
presidential poll. Officials said provisional results from most 
of the country's 48 provinces showed Zeroual, a former general 
and favoured candidate of Algeria's powerful military, leading 
with about 58 per cent of the poll.  
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	 WARSAW - Polish president Lech Walesa entered the last day 
of his re-election effort in full attack, savaging his 
ex-communist opponent and telling the left-leaning government 
that it should resign if he won.  
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	 SANTIAGO, Chile - The government of Chile, citing security 
concerns, on Thursday abruptly cancelled a scheduled public 
appearance by author Salman Rushdie, who is under an Iranian 
death edict.  The Indian-born British author, condemned by Iran 
for his novel ``The Satanic Verses,'' flew into Santiago under 
tight security and was due to visit a book fair, his local 
publishers said.  
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	 ATHENS - Rioting inmates at a top security Greek prison 
continued their revolt overnight, refusing to return to their 
cells despite the failure of a mass breakaway.  
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