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The following editorials are from newspapers around the world:

LE FIGARO

On trade talks between the EC and the United States:

PARIS - The GATT accord could produce some $200 billion overall in
extra world trade.  France would be among those profiting.  But the price
to pay would be the liquidation of tens of thousands of farms, the
accelerated abandonment of the countryside and the loss of strong parts of
the export market.

That's a lot - too much.  . . . Instead of helping agriculture with
price supports, [this new policy] would help with support to farmers,
including payments that they produce less.  The beneficiaries: American
agricultural exporters, assured of a greater part of the market.  It's on
this central point that American pressure has been felt for six years.  And
it's there that the European Community has given in, and the lone French
knight can't hold out its illusions much longer.

TIMES

On Lithuania:

LONDON - The crushing electoral defeat of Vytautas Landsbergis, the man
who led Lithuania to independence from the Soviet Union, is a bitter blow
to nationalists and reformers in the Baltic states and elsewhere in the
former Soviet bloc.  They see in the return to power of Algirdas
Brazauskas, the former Communist Party leader, evidence of a growing
hostility to market reforms, a hankering for the old ways and the intrigues
of hard-liners in Moscow who have not abandoned hopes of regaining the lost
empire.

GUARDIAN
On Italy's political troubles:

LONDON - The greatest danger to the future of the European Community is
presented by Italy.  While its economy is in a more beleaguered state than
that of any other member-state, this is combined with a political meltdown
of epic proportions.  . . .

At the root of the political crisis lies the collapse of communism in
1989. Its impact was far greater in Italy than in any other Western
European country, since the main opposition was the Communist Party and the
raison d'etre of the dominant party, the Christian Democrats, had always
been to keep it out of office.  The result is that ever since 1989, the
party system has been steadily unraveling.

KHALEEJ TIMES

On Britain's Iraqi arms scandal:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Getting to the truth of what really went
on during the Iran-Iraq war, when an arms embargo was supposedly in
existence against both countries, is important for its own sake: The
British and the American public have a right to call those involved to
accountability.

It is important also for the rest of the world, especially for people
in [the Middle East], because it underlines once again the hyprocrisy of
Western governments.  It is becoming more and more clear as new revelations
come to the surface that many countries were running with the hare and
hunting with the hounds.

FRATERNITE MATIN

On a U.N.  arms embargo on Liberia:

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The U.N.  Security Council meeting [on Thursday]
has provided quite simply to one and all the occasion to acknowledge the
evidence that the solution to the Liberian drama is not found in Africa.

The Liberian conflict today constitutes a thorn, a huge thorn in the
throats of members of the Economic Community of West African States.  . . .

Liberia, it no longer needs to be hidden, has become a gangrene.  To
escape contagion, to avoid in the very near future dragging in several
countries in the sub-region because of the many misunderstandings about the
Liberian conflict, it is to be hoped the United Nations makes a serious
examination.

AL-NADWA

On Bosnia-Herzegovina:

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - The Muslim nation might lose this important
location in the heart of Europe if it does not move fast to end the tragedy
before it is too late.

The conspiracy is tightening around Muslims in Bosnia who might lose
not only their country but their very existence if they are not saved
immediately by their brothers in the Muslim nation.

Sarajevo is the symbol of Islamic steadfastness in the face of the
brutal Serbian aggression and the Serbian aggression is a conspiracy to
liquidate the Muslims in this part of the world.


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