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Bulgarian Premier Lukanov may resign after civil unrest
Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov's government of former Communists appeared on the verge of collapse yesterday after angry street protests by activists against an angry largest union to join a nationwide strike.
The official Bulgarian news agency said an agreement was struck under which Lukanov would resign, but Lukanov called the report premature.
News reports also said President Zhelyu Zheyev would appoint a caretaker Cabinet headed by a premier who would be neither of the Socialist Party — the renamed Communist Party — or of the Union of Democratic Forces, the main opposition.
President Bush wants William Bennett to be chairperson of the Republican National Committee.
Bush favors Bennett as next Republican Party chairperson
Spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater also indicated Bush was likely to nominate outgoing Florida Gov. Bob Martinez as Bennett's successor as the office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Bennett will "be the president's candidate" to elect a new chairperson. Flitzwarter meets to select a new chairperson.
GOP Chairperson Ele Atwater is being treated for an inexperiable brain tumor.
The three factions that have fought an 11-month war for control of Liberia signed a ceasefire accord yesterday, raising hopes for an end to the conflicts that have claimed more than 10,000 lives.
Liberian peace accord raises hopes for an end to civil war
Nigeria's president said a regional military task force would remain in Liberia indefinitely to address the crisis.
The agreement was signed at the end of a summit convened to seek a settlement of the Liberian civil war. Leaders of 13 nations attended
From The Associated Press
Rights of media triumph in the Noriega tapes case
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A federal judge yesterday lifted a ban on broadcasting tapes of Manuel Norrie's prison telephone calls, defusing a confrontation between the media and those of a criminal defendant
While CNN hailed the decision as a victory against censorship, Noriage's defense and constitutional specialists said the case showed that the law would not accept at least temporary restrictions on the press.
U. S. District Judge William Heeveler's decision ended a three-week legal battle between Noriega and the network, which aired some of the tapes before the index ordered CNN to stop.
CNN President Tom Johnson said the decision would allow the network to pursue its story on the government's taping of the ousted Panamanian leader's conversations.
The judge made his ruling after he and the attorneys reviewed transcripts of seven tapes the court had reviewed.
Supreme Court's refusal to overturn Hoeveler's initial ban.
At yesterday's hearing, Noriega defense attorney Frank Rubino told the judge he would withdraw his request to stop the broadcasts. He said the judge had refused to grant a lawyer-client privilege already had been broadcast.
Federal prosecutors said they had no objections to lifting the ban, once again insisting that Noriega's rights were never violated by the routine prison tapping.
Jane Kirtley, head of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the ruling showed the gag order should never have been issued in the case the added she was worried about the precedent set.
"The fortunate effect of that is that a news organization has been unconstitutionally constrained for several weeks from bringing information lawfully obtained to the attention of the general public," she said. "That damage cannot be rectified."
High oil costs dampen economy
Federal Reserve chairperson says recession possible
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairperson Alan Greenspan said yesterday that oil price increases caused by the Persian Gulf crisis have prompted the U.S. to "turn," confirming private analysts' recession talk.
Separately, the Commerce Department reported that the economy, as measured by the gross national product, grew at a lackluster 1.7 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, even worse than the previously reported 1.8 percent rate.
Appearing before the House Banking Committee, he also said the central bank could do little to cushion the effect of higher oil prices on Americans' standard of living.
Most private analysts think the economy has weakened sharply since the quarter ended, an assessment Greenspan confirmed. But he cared more about how the recession, which is defined as a contraction of six
Greenspan said, "We won't know whether it is the beginning of a recession or just some aberration in economic activity for quite a while. We know it will not know for certain until April or May of next year."
months or more in the GNP.
He said that another Commerce Department report released yesterday did not fit with the weak orders. Orders to U.S. factories for big ticket durable goods, designed to last three or more years, rose more strongly than anticipated in October, jumping 3.6 percent.
At the White House, spokesperson Marlin Fitz-
water said the economy was not in a recession yet,
but added, "I think everyone acknowledges we're in a slow period."
Greenspan said oil prices, which have risen from $20 a barrel before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 to around $33 now, are cutting the spending power of businesses and consumers.
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