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1. Bissau Unrest: Fighting raged in Bissau, capital of
Guinea-Bissau, despite a unilateral cease-fire declared by the
government in its battle with rebels in the West African state,
news reports said. Clashes were also reported around the south­
ern town of Fulacunda in another sign that the struggle for con­
trol of the impoverished Atlantic seaboard state had spread be­
yond the capital.

2. Southern African military allies of embattled Congolese President K. prepared for a prolonged and costly attack against rebels in the dense eastern jungles of the vast mineral rich coun­try. The announcement by K.'s allies-Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola- could lead to a major escalation of the conflict that be­gan on Aug. 2.

3. More Clashes Erupt as Albanians Ready to Talk. A

Serbian police officer was reported killed Tuesday and another wounded in clashes with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and Alba­nians said the police then surrounded three villages amid fight­ing. Yugoslavia's official Tanjug news agency said the casual­ties occurred while a group of police officers were on patrol in the village of Rzic, near the town of Decani in western Kosovo, near the border with Albania. Earlier, the main ethnic Albanian party in Kosovo — the League for a Democratic Kosovo — said

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heavily armed Serbian police had surrounded three villages in the Decani area. The reports came just after the leader of Kos­ovo's Albanians gave the clearest signal yet that he will enter talks with the Serbs on Kosovo's future, naming a 15-member team to draw up a platform for talks. Kosovo's ethnic Albanians are seeking independence for Kosovo, where they outnumber Serbs 9-to-l.

4. Philippine Rebels Killed. Philippine troops backed by
helicopter gunships killed 21 Muslim rebels in fighting on Min­
danao island, the military said yesterday. It said two soldiers
died and four were wounded in Tuesday's battle, which forced
2,000 civilians to flee their homes in Buldon, Maguindanao
province.

The army reinforced its forces around Buldon last week after suspected rebels of the Mora Islamic Liberation Front ambushed a convoy carrying the town's mayor, killing two soldiers. The MILF's vice-chairman, G. J., said in a radio interview yesterday that he had had a meeting with an army general and they had agreed on a "cessation of hostilities".

The MILF, which demands an Islamic state in the southern islands, is a breakaway faction of the mainstream Moro National Liberation Front, which reached a peace deal with Manila last year. The MILF is not a party to the pact but held preliminary talks with the government on January 7 on ending its rebel­lion. ■— Reuter, Zamboanga.

5. NATO warned that atrocities against ethnic Albanians
in Kosovo were rising. NATO spelled out in clearest terms to
date atrocities purportedly carried out by Serb forces against the
ethnic Albanians left in Kosovo, warning the violence was
growing more brutal and far-reaching. The allegations, sup­
ported just by refugee interviews and aerial photography, add
fuel to concerns over the fate of hundreds of thousands of ethnic
Albanians forced out of their homes but prevented from fleeing
into neighboring states. It also builds momentum for war crime

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prosecutions of Serb leaders after the conflict ends. On Tuesday, the U.K. took the rare step of handing over intelligence about Serb killings in Kosovo to the U.N. chief war crimes prosecutor for Yugoslavia. Earlier in the week, Germany said it provided "extensive evidence" as well.

6. Kosovo Crisis: International monitors condemned an out­break of ethnic violence in Kosovo's capital that injured seven people and damaged a dozen cafes. An uneasy calm returned to Pristina, where some owners of vandalized cafes began repairs.

7. Lome, Togo — African leaders, anxious to show they can put their troubled house in order, brought together Zaire's war­ring parties in Togo for a symbolic first step toward talks to end the conflict.

A special Organization of African Unity, OAU, summit in the Togolese capital Lome on Wednesday and Thursday secured a handshake between representatives of the civil war foes and a commitment to future talks and a truce.

At their headquarters in Goma, Zaire, the rebels said Friday that talks with representatives of ailing President M. S. S. would start in South Africa early next week.

"If nothing changes, then the talks will be in South Africa and will begin on either Monday or Tuesday", said rebel secre­tary general M. N..

In Johannesburg, a government source confirmed that South Africa had been asked to host peace talks. But even with a date, the two sides and mediators still have to resolve the thorny prob­lems of the agenda and a cease-fire.

The rebels of veteran dissident L. K. hold one-quarter of the sprawling Central African nation and are advancing deep inside its key mineral-rich central and southern prov inces of Kasai and Shaba. They took up arms last October to topple M., 66.

8. India, which is largely Hindu, and Pakistan, which is an
Islamic state, have fought three full-scale wars in the past five

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decades. This summer, they engaged in a smaller conflict in mountainous Kashmir.

Indian Prime Minister A. B. V. and S. held talks last winter in the Pakistani city of Lahore, and pledged to settle their differ­ences peacefully. But the dialogue was undermined by the out­break of fighting along the border, and Tuesday's military take­over seems likely to deal a further blow to the prospects of re­suming negotiations.

9. Kabul Under Fire. Kabul, Afghanistan (AP)— Opposi­
tion forces fired several rockets Thursday on the Afghan capital,
Kabul, wounding at least five civilians in a strike on a military
base of the ruling Taliban militia, witnesses said.

Fierce fighting raged elsewhere in the country. The Taliban launched a long-expected summer offensive Wednesday on the northern-based opposition alliance in a bid to extend their strict Is­lamic rule over the 10 percent of the country they do not control.

10. Israel Attacks Guerrilas. Nabatiyeh, Lebanon (AP) —
Israeli warplanes attacked suspected guerrilla bases in southern
Lebanon on Friday after a guerrilla was killed and three Israeli
soldiers were wounded in a clash.

Two Israeli jet fighters fired four missiles in raids on hills near the village of Ain Bussawar, a guerrilla stronghold facing the Israeli-occupied border in the south, Lebanese security offi­cials said.

11. Rebels took control of Guinea-Bissau's second-
largest city, Bafata, apparently marking a return to an all-out
civil war in the tiny west African nation after a three-month
truce.

12. Georgia Blames UN. United Nations (Reuters) — Geor­
gian President E. S. complained Monday that the UN Security
Council had failed to pay sufficient attention to the problem of
his country's breakaway region of Abkhazia.

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In a speech to the General Assembly, he said that, as a result bf a "campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing conducted by Abkhaz separatists with external military support, "many civil­ians had been killed and nearly 300,000 displaced.

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