JOHANNESBURG: At least 25 people were seriously injured when a bomb explosion wrecked a fast food restaurant in the South African Port of East London. Police said they had no reports of fatalities in the blast, the latest in series of Urban Guerrilla attacks on major cities.
WARSAW: The Polish Government accused solidarity supporters of holding it at “strike gunpoint,” as more workers downed tools in the worst labor unrest since 1981. The authorities ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Jastrzebie, where strikes closed four collieries.
RANGOON: More than half a million people marched peacefully through cities across Burma demanding an end to the 26-year-old socialist government. Troops deployed under martial law were pulled back in Rangoon where at least 100,000 people took control of the streets, demanding “nothing but democracy.”
BAGHDAD: Spokesman said the Iraq-Iran war front was calm despite claims by both sides of troop movements violating their ceasefire. Iran accused Iraq of a Series of ceasefire violations and said it had acted “in absolute compliance with the declared ceasefire.” Iraq said its seventh army corps had been fired at on August 20. At the United Nations a team of U.N. experts said Iraq had used mustard gas against Iranian civilians during an air attack in the West Azerbaijan province.
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian died in the Gaza strip after a day of violent protests and fresh disturbances broke out in a refugee camp under curfew, Palestinians said. The Israeli are issuing joint passports for residents of Gaza and the West Bank. In Washington an Israeli official was summoned to the state department to hear New U.S. complaints about Israeli deportations of Palestinians from the occupied territories, diplomatic sources said.
ADDIS, ABABA: A red cross chartered plane shuttled between Mogadishu and a small Ethiopian railway town on Tuesday as Ethiopia and Somalia began exchanging prisoners from a war that officially ended 10 years ago.
One hundred and seventy-seven captives, the first batch of Ethiopian prisoners of war to go home after the 1977-78 Ogden conflict, cheered as they boarded a Boeing 707 in the Somali Capital.
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