PRESS SUMMARY
Prepared for Foreign & Commonwealth Office by Lincoln Hannah Limited
TUESDAY 18TH AUGUST 1992
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
1
Danish opposition to EC union grows. (FT IND T)
2 Swedish party plays EC card. (FT)
THE AMERICAS
3 Aristide seeks British help to return to Haiti. (IND)
EASTERN DEPT/CENTRAL EUROPE
4
5
Death toll in Georgia rises to 40. (FT IND T)
Gorbachev evokes past with call on republics to form new union. (T FT G DT IND)
10 Need to rethink Russian reform. (FT)
11 John Lloyd on why Russia's foreign minister has been hurt, perhaps
fatally, by a campaign of denigration. (FT)
12 Armenian president faces stiff protest. (FT DT IND)
13 "Peterborough" column reports on the appointment of Sir Brian Fall
as Britain's non-residential ambassador to Belarus. (DT)
14 Czechs and Hungarians seek unity. (FT)
15 UN
fears
fears 200,000 Bosnians may flee/UK under attack on Yugoslav sanctions/Protection plan backed by Bosnian president/Muslims fly the white flag of subjugation/Ethnic rivalry undermines struggle to save Bosnia/Serb general threatens to shoot down relief planes/Hospital operates without anaesthetic/Refugees "trapped" in blazing hotel/Paris leads demands for more effective sanctions.
(FT T DT G IND TO DML)
AFRICA
29 Southern African neighbours sign integration treaty.
(T FT DT IND G)
31 US works on how to feed Somalis.
(G T FT IND DT DE DML DMR TO S STD)
34 UN relief attacked by south Sudan rebels. (FT G)
35 Relief agencies forced to pool aid for refugees in Ethiopia. (G) MIDDLE EAST
36 West raises the stakes in Iraq/Bush spurred by hopes that Saddam is nearly finished/Saddam faces aircraft ban by West/Briton found by Red Cross in Iraq jail/Britain prepared to join US in air strikes/Saddam's marsh war nears climax/US has "sizeable" sea and air force ready against Iraq/Arabs opposed to hitting
hitting Iraq/UN inspectors call off Baghdad hunt. (FT T DTG IND DE)
54 Arabs may delay start of Washington talks. (FT G)
55 Tony Walker reports on the role of Faisal Husseini. (FT) ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
56 Kabul suffers night of rocket duelling. (FT GT IND G) 58 Pakistan proposes talks on Kashmir. (FT G)
59 Treaty on Kuriles at hand.
(T)
60 Khmer Rouge accuses UN. (FT IND T)
UNITED NATIONS
61 Connor Cruise O'Brien on the feuding at the United Nations.
(T)