DHAKA Reuter: At least 60 people were feared drowned when a ferry sank in southern Bangladesh river local officials said

DHAKA Reuter: Bangladesh might change the date for the Presidential election scheduled for next month if the major opposition groups renounce their boycott of polls Prime Minister Mizanur Rahman Choudhury said.

TOKYO Reuter: The United States and Japan have been restricting exports of sophisticated super computers to third countries and are now negotiating even stricter restrictions a mass circulation newspaper said.

KARACHI Reuter: Pakistan’s top opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she did not want outright confrontation with the government of President Zia ul Haq.

NEW DELHI Reuter: Six policemen were killed in an ambush by separatist tribal guerrillas in India’s northeast Tripura state the second major attack in two weeks the Press Trust of India News Agency reported.

MANILA Reuter: President Corazon Aquino flew secretly to the northern Philippines to witness the signing of a truce between the army and mountain tribe rebels led by a renegade Roman Catholic priest.

ISLAMABAD Reuter: An Afghan guerrilla leader said his men were under pressure in the western province of Herat and called for diversionary attacks.

Article extracted from this publication >> September 19, 1986