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	  *Reuters World News Highlights*    	
	 DAYTON, Ohio - Bosnia peace talks entered their most crucial 
24 hours with the proferred resignation of Bosnian Foreign 
Minister Muhamed Sacirbey described by U.S. sources as a 
``positive development.'' Sacirbey has offered to quit so 
President Alija Izetbegovic can appoint a Croat to the post to 
bolster the newly formed federation of Muslims and Croats. (See 
YUGOSLAVIA)  
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	 MOSCOW - Russia's rebel Chechnya region inched closer to a 
potentially explosive conflict as the Moscow-backed parliament 
vowed to go ahead with elections that separatists have promised 
to disrupt. The rebels, who see Russia as a foreign occupation 
power, condemned the decision as illegal and provocative. 
(See-Chechnya)  
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	 WASHINGTON - President Clinton will call on Congress to stay 
in session throughout Monday to reach an agreement to reopen the 
federal government, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta 
said. Clinton said earlier the seven-year balanced-budget plan 
passed by the Republican-led Congress would be ``dead on 
arrival'' when it got to the White House. (See BUDGET)  
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	 JOHANNESBURG - South African President Nelson Mandela said 
he had called on the United States to impose an oil embargo on 
Nigeria after the execution of nine human rights activists and 
he received a ``positive'' response from President Clinton. (See 
NIGERIA-SAFRICA)  
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	 WARSAW - President Lech Walesa awaited the verdict of the 
Poland he fought to rid of Communist rule but which now seems 
to contemplate dismissing him in favor of an ex-Communist. (See 
POLAND)  
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	 OSAKA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama 
told leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 
that a ``new chapter in Asia-Pacific history is opening'' now 
that members are taking firm steps toward creating a vast 
free-trade region. An APEC summit will open Sunday. (See APEC)  
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	 BELFAST - Britain sent Ireland new proposals on Northern 
Ireland aimed at ending political deadlock on finding a lasting 
peace after year-long guerilla ceasefires. (See IRISH)  
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	 ANKARA - Turkey's Constitutional Court has cleared the way 
for early parliamentary elections to be held on Dec. 24 by 
dismissing a challenge to the date by nearly 100 opposition 
members of parliament. (See TURKEY)  
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	 ALGIERS - Algeria's military-backed head of state Liamine 
Zeroual basked in the glow of his presidential election victory 
as attention turned to the possibility of opening dialog with 
the Islamic opposition. (See ALGERIA)  
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	 ATHENS - Battling outbreaks of violence on two fronts, 
hard-pressed Greek police ended a violent occupation of Athens 
Polytechnic by anarchists but faced a new prisoner revolt at the 
city's top-security jail. (See GREECE)  
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	 ROME - The Italian government appeared to have won a new 
lease on life when the leader of the Northern League said his 
party would behave responsibly despite firm opposition to a 
controversial new immigration decree. (See ITALY)  
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	 ROME - Italian police left for Argentina to bring back 
former Nazi SS officer Erich Priebke, wanted for crimes against 
humanity in Italy's worst World War II atrocity.  
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	 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said the Roman Catholic ban on 
the ordination of women as priests was a definitive, infallible 
and unquestionable part of the Church's doctrine.  
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	 ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's government postponed the Nov. 26 
general election in part of the opposition stronghold of Gagnoa, 
scene of bloody ethnic clashes surrounding last month's 
presidential poll. (See IVORY)  
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	 VIENNA - Tiny West African oil producer Gabon appeared 
poised to announce it was quitting the OPEC petroleum cartel.  

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