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	 WASHINGTON - Crisis talks between White House officials and 
Republican leaders in Congress failed to reach a budget deal to 
end a partial government shutdown and send 800,000 federal 
employees back to work. ``We were unable to make any progress,'' 
said White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta after two long 
meetings with congressional leaders. No further meetings were 
scheduled, insuring that the government would remain partially 
closed for at least a second day.  
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	 SEOUL - South Korean state prosecutors summoned disgraced 
ex-president Roh Tae-woo to appear for questioning for a second 
time, an official at the prosecutors office said. ``Prosecutors 
have ordered Mr. Roh to come in this afternoon,'' the prosecution 
official said. Roh was summoned early this month after he 
confessed he had amassed $654 million during his 1988-1993 term 
in office and had kept $242 million after he left office.  
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	 WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger and South 
African President Nelson Mandela moved to increase pressure on 
Nigeria by raising the issue of oil sanctions with British Prime 
Minister John Major.  Mandela told reporters after a meeting in 
New Zealand's capital that the pair had contacted Major by 
telephone and would try to talk to U.S. President Bill Clinton 
this weekend to discuss the issue.  
	 LAGOS - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell resisted pressure to 
shut its huge Nigerian operations over the execution of nine 
minority rights activists and, to the relief of Lagos, said it 
would stay in the African country. A senior Nigerian official 
said Shell's resolve to stay on vindicated Nigeria's position.  
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	 RIYADH - The American military command in the Gulf ordered 
tighter security at all U.S. bases in the region as an FBI team 
was due to join Saudi experts to probe a car bomb blast that 
devastated the centre of Riyadh. Monday's explosion at a 
U.S.-run military centre in the Saudi capital killed five 
Americans and an Indian.  
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	 WASHINGTON - Already fighting a budget battle with Congress, 
President Bill Clinton said it could cost 50 percent more than 
earlier estimates, or $1.5 billion a year, to deploy U.S. forces 
in Bosnia. Clinton disclosed the estimate, which surpassed 
previous estimates of about $1 billion, in a letter to House of 
Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich.  
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	 DAYTON, Ohio - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher 
intervened in peace talks with Balkan leaders but produced no 
early progress and officials said negotiations could spill into 
next week.  
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	 PARIS - Prime Minister Alain Juppe takes the knife to 
France's social security system in a operation likely to cause 
howls of pain from unions, the opposition and even his own 
party. The conservative premier has said his government will 
resign if parliament rejects his plan for the debt-plagued 
welfare system, part of an assault on public deficits to enable 
France to qualify for a single European currency from 1999.  
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	 JERUSALEM - Acting Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres 
awaited the official go-ahead to form a new government which he 
said would be prepared to pay a painful price for peace.  
 Winding up consultations with Israeli political parties, 
President Ezer Weizman was widely expected to ask Peres at a 
meeting later in the day to put together an administration in 
the aftermath of the killing of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.  
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	 TAIPEI - Taiwan's former premier Hau Pei-tsun has agreed to 
be the vice-presidential running mate of ruling party 
vice-chairman Lin Yang-kang in the island's first direct 
presidential elections next March.  
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	 UNITED NATIONS - The United States said it would not agree 
to expand the 15-member Security Council if Germany and Japan 
were not given permanent seats. But New Zealand said it was 
useless to insist on two new permanent members only and that the 
185-member General Assembly should consider stopping its debate 
on Security Council reform, perhaps for 10 or 20 years.  
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	 MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana has emerged 
as the most likely compromise candidate for the vacant job of 
NATO secretary-general after declining to rule himself out of 
the running. Solana as good as declared his candidacy when, 
answering a reporter's question on whether his name may go 
forward, he said: ``The...question is not for me to answer, so 
I'm not going to answer it.''  
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	 MOSCOW - The Russian parliament's lower house is due to give 
the redrafted 1996 budget a first reading, less then five weeks 
before a crucial parliamentary election. The State Duma, which 
had rejected the government's original draft last month, will 
debate a new variant worked out by a joint reconciliation 
committee a day after President Boris Yeltsin named a new head 
of the country's Central Bank.  
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	 SAN ANDRES LARRAINZAR, Mexico - Mexican government envoys 
and Zapatista rebels went into the second day of a new round of 
peace talks on Tuesday, but the atmosphere was marred by the 
killing of a Chiapas Indian in a police eviction.  
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