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Blair once pledged to set up a Scottish parliament if the Labour won the next general election , which must be held by May 1997 .
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2,760
validation
1
But many activists were dismayed when he abruptly decided earlier this year to hold a two-question referendum on the issue , asking Scots if they wanted a separate parliament and if it should have tax-raising powers .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": ["Scots"]}
2,761
validation
1
Many party members argued that a general election win would demonstrate popular support for a separate parliament and others said a single question referendum would suffice .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,762
validation
1
Prime Minister John Major says the 300-year-old union of the Scottish and English parliaments will be a main plank in his Conservative Party 's election platform .
{"person": ["John Major"], "organization": ["Conservative Party"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": ["Scottish", "English"]}
2,763
validation
1
Conservatives have only 10 of the 72 Scottish seats in parliament and consistently run third in opinion polls in Scotland behind Labour and the independence-seeking Scottish National Party .
{"person": [], "organization": ["Labour", "Scottish National Party"], "location": ["Scotland"], "miscellaneous": ["Scottish"]}
2,764
validation
1
Britain condemns Iraq involvement in Arbil attack .
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2,765
validation
1
LONDON 1996-08-31
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2,766
validation
1
Britain on Saturday condemned Iraqi involvement in an attack on the Kurdish city of Arbil and said it was in close touch with its allies .
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2,767
validation
1
" We condemn Iraqi involvement .
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2,768
validation
1
In no way can Iraqi involvement be seen as helpful , " said a Foreign Office spokesman .
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2,769
validation
1
U.N. officials said that a Kurdish rebel faction backed up by Iraqi tanks , heavy artillery and helicopters had taken control of half of the city after heavy fighting .
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2,770
validation
1
Arbil lies within the so-called safe haven set up at the end of the 1991 Gulf War on the suggestion of British Prime Minister John Major to protect Iraqi Kurds from attack by the Iraqi military .
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2,771
validation
1
The area is patrolled by U.S. , French and British planes .
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2,772
validation
1
" We are in close touch with all our allies , " said the Foreign Office spokesman .
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2,773
validation
1
He declined to give any further information .
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2,774
validation
1
Seven Iraqis charged with hijack .
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2,775
validation
1
LONDON 1996-08-31
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2,776
validation
1
Seven Iraqi men appeared in court on Saturday charged with air piracy following the hijacking to Britain of a Sudanese airliner with 199 people aboard .
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2,777
validation
1
The seven , including a carpenter and a businessmen and whose ages ranged from 25 to 38 years old , were ordered to be held in jail until another hearing next week .
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2,778
validation
1
No pleas were entered at the preliminary hearing .
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2,779
validation
1
They were accused of taking over Flight 150 which was flying from Khartoum , Sudan , to Amman , Jordan .
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2,780
validation
1
All the hostages were freed on Tuesday after the plane landed at Stansted airport , north of London .
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2,781
validation
1
The men have claimed political asylum in Britain saying they were persecuted while in Iraq .
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2,782
validation
1
Their court appearance means they will face trial and possible imprisonment in Britain before their applications for asylum are considered .
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2,783
validation
1
Under English law the maximum sentence for hijack is life imprisonment but there has been widespread speculation that the seven will receive lesser sentences .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": ["English"]}
2,784
validation
1
After a search of the aircraft following the hijack , police found only knives and fake explosives .
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2,785
validation
1
Opposition group says Iraqis advance in north Iraq .
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2,786
validation
1
LONDON 1996-08-31
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2,787
validation
1
An Iraqi opposition group in exile said on Saturday it had received reports that Iraqi forces were shelling and advancing on the Kurdish town of Arbil in northern Iraq .
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2,788
validation
1
A London-based spokesman of the Iraqi National Congress said Iraqi artillery was shelling the city and Iraqi tanks had advanced to within 10 km ( six miles ) of Arbil , the administrative centre of the Kurdish rebel-controlled region of northern Iraq .
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2,789
validation
1
" At 4.50 a.m. Iraq time ( 0050 GMT ) Iraqi forces began an artillery attack on the outskirts of Arbil , " the spokesman , who asked not to be identified , told Reuters in a telephone call .
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2,790
validation
1
There was no independent confirmation of the report which the spokesman said came from the organisation 's members in Arbil .
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2,791
validation
1
He said damage and casualties in the city were heavy and Kurdish forces were defending the city .
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2,792
validation
1
President Bill Clinton on Friday ordered the U.S. military to ready itself for any possible action as Washington turned up the heat in an escalating crisis over Iraqi troop movements in northern Iraq .
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2,793
validation
1
On Thursday , Iraq accused Iran of aggression and said it reserved the right to retaliate for Tehran 's alleged deployment of troops into northern Iraq , where fighting broke out between the two main Iraqi Kurdish rebel groups two weeks ago .
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2,794
validation
1
Two die in Algeria restaurant blast - radio .
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2,795
validation
1
LONDON 1996-08-31
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2,796
validation
1
Two people were killed when a hand grenade exploded in a restaurant near Algiers late on Friday , Algerian radio reported on Saturday .
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2,797
validation
1
The report , monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , quoted security services as saying six other people were injured in the blast in the town of Staouelli .
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2,798
validation
1
An estimated 50,000 people had been killed in political violence in Algeria since 1992 , when army-backed authorities cancelled a general election that Islamic fundamentalists had been expected to win .
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2,799
validation
1
Baseball-Results of S. Korean pro-baseball games .
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2,800
validation
1
SEOUL 1996-08-31
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2,801
validation
1
Results of South Korean pro-baseball games played on Friday .
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2,802
validation
1
OB 5 Samsung 0
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2,803
validation
1
Ssangbangwool 2 Hyundai 1
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2,804
validation
1
Standings after games played on Friday ( tabulate under won , drawn , lost , winning percentage , games behind first place )
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2,805
validation
1
W D L PCT GB
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2,806
validation
1
Haitai 64 2 43 .596 -
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2,807
validation
1
Ssangbangwool 60 2 49 .550 5
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2,808
validation
1
Hanwha 58 1 49 .542 6
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2,809
validation
1
Hyundai 57 5 50 .531 7
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2,810
validation
1
Samsung 49 5 57 .464 14 1/2
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2,811
validation
1
Lotte 46 6 54 .462 14 1/2
{"person": [], "organization": ["Lotte"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,812
validation
1
LG 46 5 59 .441 17
{"person": [], "organization": ["LG"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,813
validation
1
OB 43 6 62 .414 20
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2,814
validation
1
S. African Afrikaners still seek own territory .
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2,815
validation
1
CAPE TOWN 1996-08-31
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2,816
validation
1
South African right-wing Afrikaners on Saturday revived their campaign for a form of self-rule , identifying a sparsely-populated area in Northern Cape province as the best place for a home of their own .
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2,817
validation
1
Constand Viljoen , leader of the Freedom Front party , told a news conference in Pretoria self-determination for Afrikaners could begin at local government level .
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2,818
validation
1
" Certain powers can be delegated from the provincial level , towards the sub-regions , " he said .
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2,819
validation
1
" We think that the Afrikaner model within this new , multi- ethnic society of South Africa will have to develop experimentally with world thinking in this regard . "
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2,820
validation
1
Viljoen broke with other right-wing whites in 1994 by taking part in the country 's first all-race elections in April of that year , saying the only way to attain self-determination was by cooperating with President Nelson Mandela 's majority African National Congress .
{"person": ["Viljoen", "Nelson Mandela"], "organization": ["African National Congress"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,821
validation
1
Some right-wingers demanded sovereignty in their own territory in the run-up to the elections , saying the alternative was war .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,822
validation
1
Their threats came to nothing .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,823
validation
1
Viljoen has hailed clauses in South Africa 's new constitution as making possible a form of self-rule for the Afrikaners , descendants of the country 's Dutch , German and French settlers .
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2,824
validation
1
According to state television , Viljoen told the news conference the self-rule model should be introduced in parts of the Northern Cape provinces where a majority of people -- whites and mixed-race Coloureds -- speak Afrikaans .
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2,825
validation
1
Rwandan refugee group calls for calm over census .
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2,826
validation
1
NAIROBI 1996-08-31
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2,827
validation
1
A Rwandan refugee lobby group called on Saturday for calm in refugee camps in eastern Zaire during a census from Sunday to be conducted by aid workers .
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2,828
validation
1
The Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda ( RDR ) urged the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to avoid any " policing approach " and to calm refugees by explaining the aims of the operation .
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2,829
validation
1
" The RDR appeals to all refugees to prepare themselves calmly for the demands of the census agents because it will be in their ultimate interest , " the group said in a statement .
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2,830
validation
1
It said refugees feared census takers would use indelible ink to mark them so they could be detected by Rwandan government troops and mistreated if they were forced back into Rwanda .
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2,831
validation
1
U.N. officials said more than 1,000 aid workers will take part in the census from Sunday until Tuesday of the estimated 727,000 refugees in camps around the eastern Zairean border town of Goma .
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2,832
validation
1
Only about 100 refugees a week are returning voluntarily to Rwanda in contrast to the 600 babies born in the camps weekly .
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2,833
validation
1
Zairean Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo said at the end of a visit to Rwanda last week that the Zairean and Rwandan governments agreed on an " organised , massive and unconditional repatriation " of the 1.1 million Rwandan refugees in Zaire .
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2,834
validation
1
He said the repatriation would be carried out swiftly and would be enormous , starting with the closure of refugee camps .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,835
validation
1
RDR said it feared forced expulsions would start in days .
{"person": [], "organization": ["RDR"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,836
validation
1
Zairean troops expelled 15,000 refugees in August last year .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": ["Zairean"]}
2,837
validation
1
Many of the 1.1 million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire and nearly 600,000 in Tanzania refuse to go home , saying they fear reprisals for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of up to a million people by Hutus .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": ["Zaire", "Tanzania", "Rwanda"], "miscellaneous": ["Rwandan", "Hutu", "Hutus"]}
2,838
validation
1
NATO monitors Moslem move towards tense village .
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2,839
validation
1
MAHALA , Bosnia 1996-08-31
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2,840
validation
1
NATO said it was closely monitoring the movement of about 75 Moslem men towards the village of Mahala in Bosnia 's Serb republic on Saturday , two days after a violent confrontation with Serbs .
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2,841
validation
1
" I have to report this morning that we have in fact received reports ...
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2,842
validation
1
that up to 75 Moslem men are believed to be approaching Mahala , " NATO spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Max Marriner said in Sarajevo .
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2,843
validation
1
Marriner said that NATO troops had set up a checkpoint on the road between Tuzla and Mahala to establish the identities and intentions of the men headed towards the village .
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2,844
validation
1
Mahala is a Moslem village on Bosnian Serb republic territory .
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2,845
validation
1
Moslems were driven from the village during the 43- month Bosnian war and most of their houses were destroyed .
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2,846
validation
1
Some Moslems began returning to rebuild their properties earlier in the week .
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2,847
validation
1
Fights and shooting broke out between the Moslems and Serb police on Thursday and NATO troops finally brought restored order .
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2,848
validation
1
A Reuters reporter who entered Mahala on Saturday morning found it tranquil but NATO troops and U.N. police were seen on the ground and NATO helicopters flew overhead .
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2,849
validation
1
Chechens exuberant but cautious on peace deal .
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2,850
validation
1
Liutauras Stremaitis
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2,851
validation
1
URUS-MARTAN , Russia 1996-08-31
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2,852
validation
1
Crowds of pro-independence Chechens greeted a newly-signed peace deal by singing , dancing and firing guns in the air on Saturday , but the celebrations held a trace of uncertainty .
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2,853
validation
1
More than a thousand women , children and men gathered in a field to the north of the town of Urus-Martan on Saturday to wait for a column of rebels to withdraw from the capital Grozny about 25 km ( 12 miles ) away .
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2,854
validation
1
The men fired weapons into the air as groups of women danced .
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2,855
validation
1
Adults in the crowd carried posters of former Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev -- who declared independence in 1991 -- and children , carrying photographs of him , called " Troops out ! "
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2,856
validation
1
.
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2,857
validation
1
Russian military officials have expressed fears that the rebels and their supporters will see the deal signed by Russian peace envoy Alexander Lebed in the early hours of Saturday as a military victory for the separatists .
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2,858
validation
1
It involves the withdrawal of Russian troops sent to Chechnya in December 1994 to crush the separatists and a postponement of the issue at the heart of the conflict -- the status of the mainly-Moslem North Caucasus region .
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