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Show 6B Sunday, June 23, 1996 WORLD BRIEFS: gives up ponsfiles Bangladeshileader to form government TheAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh’s president on Saturday invited former opposition leader Sheikh Hasina to er 5 years form the next government, fol- NAMA, Bahrain — Iraq hamded over Saturday what it says are complete files on its banned non-conventional weap- tary election victory. ons programs - information that U.N. inspectors have sought for will take office Sunday, Presi- lowing her party’s parliamenMs. Hasina, daughter of Bangladesh’s first president, dent Abdur Rahman Biswas said. five Years. With three black folders in and, chief arms inspector Rolf keus told reporters that Iraqis surrendered files on chemical and Biological weapons and surfacetb-surface missiles. * While the Iraqi move ap- Hasina’s liberal Awami League will control 179 seats in the 300-member Parliament, including 32 seats belonging to coalition partners. Former peared to be a breakthrough, Eksusstressed that the material had Prime Stay mid-week at the State Line or Silver Smith in Wendover, Nevadg_and - © | ‘ play the challenging Toana Vista golk ~ course with a cart — for only $10. .. «. FOR RESERVATIONSCALL 1-800-848.2300 Minister Khaleda Zia’s party, which controls 116 seats, announced yet tarbe assessed or verified. : “What we received just a few Friday it would participate in Bours Ago - whatwestill haven't of the democratic process.” The announcement eased concerns that supporters of the centrist Bangladesh Nationalist Party might take to the streets to protest results of the June 12 elections. Parliament “for continuation reviewed - are full, final and complete declarations on Iraq’s weapons programs,” Ekeus said upon returning from a four-day ipso: Baghdad. = He now expects a full discloSuré on the country’s nuclear program as well, perhaps bythe endpfthe month,hesaid. ‘m r terms of the 1991 U.N. Zesdlutions that ended the Gulf WW. aq is required to destroy long-range missiles and s nuclear, biological and < weapons programs. = Despite stringent economic Sangtiens imposed to encourage ‘SIrag*fo comply with the resolu- ‘tid, Baghdad authorities have ssys mitically deceived and con"Information from U.N. in- ‘Spectots, the United Nations Says. Ifawas not clear why theIraqis agreed’ to hand over the longsought material at this time. “T was very concerned when I entered Iraq ... but coming out of the county I feel we've gotten | Somewhere,” Ekeussaid. Ekeus went to Baghdad on Wednesdayafter Iraqi authorities refiised to allow U.N. inspectors access to five suspected weapons sites, despite demands by the U.N. Security Council. GERMANY: aca TTrtAYThpHY Ratasas FROMSPRING iisete Pope honors priests, nun for apposing Nazis PADERBORN, Germany Pope John Paul II honored three ‘German ems and a nun today for their opposition to the Nazis, although he failed to deliver preparedremarks praising the Roman Catholic Church for its resistance JOHN PAUL II: He poole to re- : ill beatify two es tRise p gi SADR a Renee: Eu hil? desla Papal TWIN OY ST spokesman geremcuted by Joaquin fhe Nazis. Navarro-Valls Said that even though the phrase raeuo Was omitted, it remains an offi- tial papal announcement. © The pope wassetting the stage or a ceremony today in Berlin in which he will beatify two priests persecuted by the Nazis for speaking out against Hitler. He also spoke in praise of two church figures beatified in 1987 = a nun killed in the gas cham- bers and priest. SOMALIA: Fighting flares up again in Mogadishu OETG. | oT ssi O MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fierce fighting between rival Somalj militias reignited Saturday, kill@@#at least seven people and Ney GoteBing 13 others in MogadiShui. = bhe-battle between forces of Gen. Mohamed Farah Aidid and those: of Osman Hassan Ali be- gan Friday afternoon and re- sumed Saturday morning after an pvernight lull in the capital. ' Aidid’s forces are fighting those of his former aide and fiancier, Hassan Ali, for control of the rich agricultural valleys and ports in southern Somalia. ah AMON JAY PASSE PHILIPPINES: Mayor, eight others die r Au #7 when bus hits dump truck t sa ab ete o ANY. SIZE SET ai i. TACLOBAN, Philippines - A central Philippine mayor and eight other people were killed er Saturday when the bus they were riding in swerved to avoid an on- foming vehicle and rammedinto a parked dumptruck. Six other people were injured in the accident in Abuyog town, about 40 miles south of Tacloban and 380 miles southeast of Mapila. ' Zosimo Batolini, mayor of ahaplag in Leyte province, died m the highway accident, provin- tial police chief Edwin Pfleider $aid. ' . | The bus driver fled the scene. ' — The Associated Press 1S i + ‘ L HOME INTE posers ee OMG Fl 8 |