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	 DAYTON, Ohio - Senior U.S. officials converged on 
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base amid reports the rival Balkan 
leaders sequestered there for peace talks were close to a deal 
to end their four-year war. There is a strong possibility that 
U.S. President Bill Clinton will fly to Dayton if a peace 
agreement is reached at the Balkan peace talks this weekend.  
	 WASHINGTON - Despite optimism that a Bosnia peace deal may 
be close, the House of Representatives scheduled action on a 
U.S. troop restriction that the White House said could derail 
peace prospects.  
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	 ALGIERS - Former general Liamine Zeroual swept to victory as 
Algeria's elected president with ballot results giving him a 
solid, outright win over his three rivals. The runner-up accused 
the government of ``hijacking'' the race in favour of the 
military-backed winner.  
	 TUNIS - Tunisia, Mauritania and Libya congratulated Zeroual 
on his election victory.  
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	 WASHINGTON - A high-stakes political test of strength over 
the U.S. budget showed signs of easing even as President Bill 
Clinton prepared to veto the latest Republican plan to halt an 
unprecedented disruption of government services.  
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	 PARIS - France cancelled a summit with Italy and postponed 
one with Belgium in a fit of pique after Rome and Brussels 
joined most European Union nations in a U.N. vote deploring 
France and China's nuclear weapons testing.  
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	 WARSAW - Polish President Lech Walesa vowed to force changes 
in the ex-communist government if he was re-elected at the 
weekend, while his leftist rival Aleksander Kwasniewski promised 
a new era of harmony.  
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	 VIENNA - U.S. President Bill Clinton hailed a European arms 
treaty as a milestone in post-Cold War security and said all 
signatory states would work to settle problems over military 
border strengths.  
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	 ABUJA - Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha marked the 
second anniversary of taking power by saying his isolated 
government would not be stampeded into change but it would 
implement plans for democracy.  
	 AMSTERDAM - Greenpeace vowed to step up pressure on oil 
giant Shell over its Nigerian interests and called for an 
international oil embargo on the country.  
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	 ATHENS - Masked youths hurled petrol bombs and Greek riot 
police fired volleys of teargas in central Athens in clashes 
that erupted after a march to commemorate a 1973 student 
uprising.  
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	 ROME - Former Nazi SS officer Erich Priebke will be flown 
under police escort to Italy next week to face a war crimes 
trial after losing his fight against extradition from Argentina.  
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	 UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 
exchanged greetings with the crews of the U.S. space shuttle 
Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir as their docked craft 
orbited across Africa.  
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	 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Bill Clinton apologised for the 
admitted involvement of three American servicemen in the rape of 
an Okinawan schoolgirl and vowed to address grievances about the 
U.S. military presence on the Japanese island.  
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	 ABIDJAN - The secretary-general of Ivory Coast's ruling 
Democratic Party (PDCI) said no parliamentary elections would be 
held in the western opposition stronghold of Gagnoa until 
security could be assured.  
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	 DAR ES SALAAM - Zanzibar's opposition Civic United Front 
(CUF) said its supporters were being harassed and intimidated by 
the ruling party which was seeking to consolidate power 
following elections on the islands.  

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