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    <CENTER><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+4">Events
    of October 1997</FONT></FONT></FONT></CENTER>
    <CENTER><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1"></FONT></FONT></FONT></CENTER>
    
    <P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">Anne
      D. Baylon</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">CENTRAL
    EUROPE</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Poland</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 10</B>
      As Poland gets richer, the number of cars and novice drivers on the roads
      has been growing. Bad roads and alcohol consumption have caused Poland to
      suffer one of the highest rates of accidents involving drinking and
      driving (with a 16 percent increase over last year for the first six
      months of 1997) despite legislation against drunken driving that is among
      the strictest in Europe.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 15</B> At a time
      when Poland is seeking approval for entering NATO, the departing
      government (which suffered an electoral defeat in Sept.) has signed an
      agreement with Israel to buy $500 million in anti-tank missiles and $200
      million in avionics in preference to an offer by Boeing, which also
      involves British, Swedish, and Italian companies, for the avionics. The
      deal, which has still to be formally ratified, has prompted protests for
      its unfair bidding procedures and is being opposed by leaders of the new
      government.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 17</B> Jerzy
      Buzek, a 57-year-old chemistry professor and former anti-Communist
      underground activist, becomes Poland's Prime Minister. Mr. Buzek will lead
      a coalition of two anti-Communist parties: Solidarity Election Action,
      which is union-based, and Freedom Union, which is market-oriented.
      President Kwasniewski, who is a former Communist, and Prime Minister Buzek
      will have to govern in a &quot;cohabitation&quot; style similar to the
      French one. Poland also introduces a new Constitution which weakens the
      power of the President and strengthens the role of Parliament.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 29</B> Prime
      Minister Buzek announces the composition of his new center-right cabinet.
      Two well-known figures of the Solidarity underground re-emerge: Bronislaw
      Geremek, a former leading figure in Parliament, becomes Foreign Minister
      while Janusz Onyszkiewicz, a Defense Minister in the early &euml;90s,
      becomes Defense Minister again. Leszek Balcerowicz, the architect of
      Poland's successful economic program in the early &euml;90s, is appointed
      Finance Minister. Marek Krzaklewski, the &quot;power&quot; behind the new
      government, holds no formal post except as head of the Solidarity
      parliamentary group.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Romania</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 19</B>
      In a big reversal of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's scheme in the mid &euml;80s
      to convert the delta of the Danube from wetlands to arable land,
      scientists and engineers from several countries are working on returning
      drained areas to their previous wetland state for the purpose of
      protecting wildlife and controlling flooding. The Danube Delta Biosphere
      Reserve, an agency created by the Romanian government in 1991, is
      overseeing the project, which is funded by the World Bank's Global
      Environment Facility and other donors.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Slovakia/Hungary</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 12</B>
      Although Slovakia and Hungary have signed treaties to fix their current
      borders and respect their minority rights, Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir
      Meciar, who is running for re-election in 1998 and needs the support of
      the far-right Slovak Nationalist Party, has been proposing to his
      Hungarian counterpart Gyula Horn to trade the hundreds of thousands of
      ethnic Slovak and Hungarian minorities who live in their respective
      countries. Six hundred thousand Hungarians currently live in Slovakia. Mr.
      Horn has dismissed the proposal as explosive.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">EASTERN
    EUROPE</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Kazakhstan</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 10</B> President
      Nursultan Nazarbayev removes Akezhan Kazhegeldin, his reformist Prime
      Minister who had conducted a swift industrial privatization, and replaces
      him with Nurlan Balgimbayev, a close ally who has displayed in the past a
      preference for state control of enterprises. A nation of 17 million,
      Kazakhstan has staked its future on foreign investments in its huge
      untapped oil fields. The move has prompted alarm among foreign investors.</FONT></FONT>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Russia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 1</B> The Moscow
      prosecutor's office investigates allegations that Uneximbank, Russia's
      most powerful bank, paid through a Swiss intermediary $100,000 to Russia's
      former privatization chief Alfred Kokh in exchange for his help in
      obtaining control of a recently privatized telecommunications company. Mr.
      Kokh, who was dismissed from his post in September, had been accused by
      President Yeltsin of being too close to Uneximbank.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 2</B>
      Contradicting a September statement in which he had declared he would not
      seek re-election, President Yeltsin does not rule out the possibility of
      running for a third term in 2000 when asked again. The Russian
      Constitution, however, limits the President to two consecutive terms.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 9</B> In
      Strasbourg for a Council of Europe summit meeting, President Yeltsin
      insists that he will not run again for President in year 2000.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 15</B> Efforts by
      Communists in Parliament to derail Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's
      government by pushing through a no-confidence measure fail when President
      Yeltsin threatens to dissolve Parliament and call early elections if the
      no-confidence vote goes through (according to polls, the Communists would
      be the biggest losers if elections were held now). The government will now
      be free to address the subjects of spending cuts in the 1998 budget and
      the new tax code, which had prompted the no-confidence vote in the first
      place.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Russia/Belarus</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 8</B> Pavel
      Sheremet, a Belarussian journalist working for Russia's ORT television
      network, is freed after having been detained by Belarus since July for
      trying to cross the border into Lithuania illegally. The detention of the
      journalist, who had been working on a report on smuggling, had caused ill
      feelings between the presidents of the two countries. President Aleksandr
      Lukashenko, who has a reputation as an autocrat, has long been unhappy
      about Russian journalists' activities because Russian television can reach
      Belarus and therefore escape censorship.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Russia/Commonwealth
    of Independent States</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 23</B> At a
      meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nations that were
      part of the Soviet Union hold Russia responsible for the poor condition of
      the group. President Boris Yeltsin acknowledges that the group has &quot;worked
      irrationally and ineffectively&quot; and is in need of complete
      reorganization.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Tajikistan</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 16</B> Gunmen
      kill 14 presidential guards at their headquarters. Although no
      organization claims responsibility for the attack, rebel groups who do not
      recognize the peace accord signed in June by President Emomali Rakhmonov
      with the main opposition groups (in order to stop the civil war that broke
      out after independence in 1991) are being suspected.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Uzbekistan</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 28</B>
      In 30 years, the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake, has lost
      half of its water. While for thousands of years, Central Asia's two major
      rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, fed the Aral, their water became
      diverted through irrigation canals as the region became the main Soviet
      source of cotton. Whatever was left has since been contaminated by
      chemicals sprayed on the cotton fields. Although the presidents of the
      five countries affected (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
      and Turkmenistan) have urged action to protect the Aral Sea, they have
      little optimism and warn that saving it may be impossible.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1"></FONT></CENTER>
    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">THE
    FORMER YUGOSLAVIA</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Bosnia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 1</B> NATO troops
      seize four television transmitters under the control of Bosnian Serb
      leader Radovan Karadzic and silence his television station after the
      station refuses to stop its attacks against international organizations
      working in Bosnia, including the 35,000 peacekeepers. According to NATO
      Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark, broadcasts are to resume soon
      under &quot;new management&quot; and will be turned over to loyalists of
      Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic in the meantime.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 8</B> Hundreds of
      Bosnian Serb policemen loyal to President Plavsic (who controls the
      western part of the Bosnian Serb republic from her headquarters in Banja
      Luka) confront rival policemen loyal to Bosnian Serb wartime leader
      Radovan Karadzic near Derventa, 50 miles east of Banja Luka. The armed
      standoff is dispersed by NATO-led troops.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 10</B>
      Results from the September municipal elections show that Bosnian Muslims,
      voting by absentee ballots, have won control of Srebrenica, the town in
      eastern Bosnia where thousands of Muslims were expelled and massacred by
      Bosnian Serb soldiers during the Bosnian war. Srebrenica, whose population
      before the war was 70 percent Muslim and 30 percent Serb, is now only
      populated by Serbs who have vowed to keep the Muslims away. As a result,
      enforcing the election victory according to the Dayton peace accords may
      be close to impossible.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 10</B> Municipal
      election results for two contested towns, Brcko (held by Serbs but wanted
      back by Muslims) and Mostar (divided between Muslims and Croats), show
      that the towns will be &quot;sharply divided and probably as difficult to
      govern as before the vote.&quot;</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 15</B> Since she
      took control of Banja Luka in July, President Biljana Plavsic has grown in
      confidence and resisted carrying out the Dayton peace agreement, causing
      concern among Western diplomats. In particular, she has refused to allow
      displaced Muslims and ethnic Croats to return to their homes in Banja
      Luka.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 16</B> Managing
      to circumvent the NATO troops that seized their transmitters on Oct. 1,
      hard-line Bosnian Serbs resume broadcasting. Although NATO officials
      ignore where the Bosnian Serbs are broadcasting from or how much of the
      country they are reaching, they assume that there are at least two
      clandestine transmitters.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 17</B> Meeting in
      Rome, envoys from the Contact Group powers (U.S.A., Germany, Britain,
      France, and Russia) agree on the need to regulate all news media in Bosnia
      in order to ensure &quot;normal European democratic standards.&quot;</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 18</B> Bosnian
      Serb television broadcasting goes off the air after the West warns that it
      will not &quot;tolerate pirate broadcasts.&quot; According to an
      independent news agency, NATO forces have now taken control of the last
      transmitter under the hard-liners' control.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 29</B> Under the
      peace accords, Washington promised to arm the Muslim-Croat Federation
      since it was badly outgunned during the Bosnian war by the Bosnian Serbs
      supported by the Yugoslav army. But the accords imposed a ceiling of 1,000
      artillery pieces, which now requires the Federation to destroy over 100
      artillery pieces by Oct. 31 in order to receive a shipment of 126 U.S.
      howitzers.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Bosnia/Croatia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 3</B>
      In recent weeks, the Muslim-led Bosnian government and Croatia have been
      stepping up a secret program to rearm and train their army in violation of
      the Bosnian peace agreement which severely limits the number of heavy
      weapons each side to the agreement can own. By contrast, the Bosnian Serb
      army has been suffering from its current power struggle, lack of funds,
      poor morale, and a shortage of spare parts, making it a likely loser if it
      is attacked.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Croatia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 6</B> Hoping to
      release Washington's pressure, which caused loans to Croatia from the
      World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to be blocked, Croatia
      shows signs of wanting to abide by the Bosnia peace accords as 10 Bosnian
      Croats (including Dario Kordic, the most wanted Bosnian Croat war crimes
      suspect) turn themselves in to the International Tribunal in The Hague.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Serbia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times of Oct. 6</B>
      There are signs that the autocratic rule of President of Yugoslavia
      Slobodan Milosevic has been breeding an increasingly radical and
      violence-prone opposition. In Serbia, where average salaries are under
      $100 a month, people have turned to extremists out of desperation; in
      Montenegro, the main candidate for the presidency, Milo Djukanovic, is
      fiercely opposed to Mr. Milosevic; and in Kosovo, which lost its
      autonomous status seven years ago under Mr. Milosevic's government, ethnic
      Albanians have turned to guerrilla warfare against Serbia.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 21</B> Dusan
      Jovanovic, a 14-year-old Gypsy boy, is beaten to death in a Belgrade
      street in full daylight. There are 150,000 mostly poor, barely literate
      Gypsies in Serbia, who have little affinity with the Croatian, Serbian,
      and Muslim ethnic parties in power in the former war zone. And with the
      rise of neo-Nazi gangs in Serbia, there has been an increasing number of
      violent attacks on Gypsies.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Serbia/Kosovo</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 19</B>
      In Kosovo, a region of southern Serbia inhabited by 2.2 million ethnic
      Albanians (over 90 percent of the population),&nbsp; an ethnic Albanian
      guerrilla force, the Kosovo Liberation Army,&nbsp; has started to mount
      coordinated attacks on Serbian police stations, recently killing four
      Serbian police officers and five civilian officials. With newly acquired
      weapons, mostly smuggled into Kosovo from looted Albanian government
      storehouses, the rebels appear ready to wage a secessionist war.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Serbia/Montenegro</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 6</B> Candidates
      from Mr. Milosevic's Socialist Party fail to win in the elections for the
      presidencies of Serbia and Montenegro. In Serbia, a less than 50 percent
      turnout invalidates the elections, which will be held again in two months.
      In Montenegro, the two leading candidates fail to obtain the necessary 50
      percent majority, forcing a runoff to be held on Oct. 19.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 20</B> The winner
      of the runoff election in Montenegro is Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic of
      Montenegro,&nbsp; who becomes President. Mr. Djukanovic has denounced Mr.
      Milosevic's authoritarian rule and hinted that Montenegro might declare
      its independence. This is a new blow to Serbian President Slobodan
      Milosevic since Montenegro controls half of the Yugoslav Parliament's
      upper house, which has the power to choose or dismiss the Yugoslav
      President.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">The Balkans</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 22</B> In
      accordance with a June 1996 treaty aimed at achieving stability in the
      Balkans by reducing arms and creating parity among the parties, 4,220
      tanks, jets, helicopters, and artillery pieces have been destroyed by
      Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia&nbsp; (i.e.,the Bosnian Federation of
      Muslims and Croats and the Bosnian Serbs) over the past 16 months. The
      treaty requires the governments to destroy weapons by Oct. 31 in order to
      get down to the specific limits that have been set.</FONT></FONT> </P>
    <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1"></FONT></CENTER>
    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">WESTERN
    EUROPE/EASTERN EUROPE</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Council of
    Europe</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 11</B> In
      Strasbourg, the 40-nation council adopts a declaration that strengthens
      human and civil rights for 800 million Europeans (from Iceland to
      Ukraine). In particular, the declaration sets up plans for a court of
      human rights that would allow citizens to seek redress against their
      governments, for a commissioner for human rights, and for banning cloning.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">France/NATO</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 1</B> Since the
      United States is unwilling to turn over the Southern Command in Naples to
      a European officer, France announces that it will not rejoin the NATO
      military command structure when it is reorganized at the end of the year.
      The Naples command has always been held by a U.S. admiral and its major
      military asset in wartime would be the U.S. Sixth Fleet.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Soros
    Foundation/Russia</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>NY Times, Oct. 20</B>
      American financier George Soros announces that he will spend $500 million
      in Russia for&nbsp; the next three years in the sectors of health care,
      educational opportunities, and retraining of the military for civilian
      jobs. Mr. Soros, who has a foundation in Moscow, the Open Society
      Institute, will become the leading philanthropist in Russia. He is also
      the leading Western investor in the country through his Soros Fund
      Management, which has invested over $2.5 billion in Russian business.</FONT></FONT>
    </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Treaty on
    Banning Chemical Weapons</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 31</B> The
      Russian Parliament's lower house approves the international treaty banning
      chemical weapons that was signed in 1993 by 167 nations and ratified by
      102 of them. But Russia is expected to run into large financial costs
      (about $5 billion) and technical problems in the destruction of its
      arsenal--the world's largest stock of poison gas (nerve gas, mustard gas,
      and blister agents). The treaty must still be voted on by the Parliament's
      upper house.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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    <CENTER><B><I><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000">U.S.A./NATO
    Expansion</FONT></FONT></I></B></CENTER>
    
    <P><FONT FACE="Palatino"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Oct. 7</B> Secretary
      of State Madeleine Albright presents to the U.S. Senate the White House's
      case in favor of approving the admission into NATO of Hungary, Poland, and
      the Czech Republic. Although senators are mostly favorable, they raise
      questions concerning the financing of the expansion, estimated by the
      Pentagon at $35 billion over 13 years and about $2 billion for the U.S.
      share, and about the Administration's ability to obtain commitments from
      the allies that the U.S. &quot;will not bear the brunt of the costs.&quot;</FONT></FONT> <BR> </P>
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