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A20 The Arizona Republic Thursday, October 1, 1998 Russia studying plan to nationalize banks, paper says WORLD BRIEFS "the recovery and stabilization of the banking system," arid overall stabilization, the Interfax news agency reported. Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov insisted that he supported free-market economic rpfnrmc Kilt uith mnrp ctato rrmfrnl nnii 22 in West Bank Associated Press MOSCOW Russia's new government will consider a Soviet-style plan that would roll back reforms by nationalizing banks and flooding the economy with newly minted money, a newspaper reported Wednesday. However, the head of the central bank, Viktor Gerasrichenko, denied that the government intended to take over the banks. The government did not specifically deny the rest of the reported plan, said to have been drafted by a group of Soviet-era economists. According to the Kotnmersant business newspaper, it would boost -the money supply by 60 undoubtedly fueling inflation.

It also would reintroduca currency controls, Kommersant said. The newspaper said the Cabinet will consider the plan today. Government spokesman Andrei Korotkov confirmed that Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist who is first deputy prime minister for economic strategy, had worked out a plan that the Cabinet will discuss today. Korotkov, said the plan is to become the basis for a government program to be unveiled in one week. Maslyukov was the last chairman of the Soviet central planning agency, tjosplan.

Korotkov Would not describe the plan in detail, but he acknowledged that it calls for more state controls over banks and the currency market. He said it was aimed at HEBRON, West Bank Un more emphasis on social welfare. Kommersant said that the plan would again 'turn "Russia into a transition economy, only this time it will move backward to the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic." PUBLIC NOTICE important channel information for cox communications customers Effective November 1, 1998, Cox Communications will be adding two new programming channels, COX 9 ond The Trove Channel, to the service areas indicated below. To occom-modate the addition of COX 9, Cox Cable chonnel lineups will reflect minimal chonges. Please refer to the chart below for the changes effecting your service area.

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peace efforts, an assailant on Wednesday hurled two grenades at Israeli, troops guarding a downtown square in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron, injuring 11 Israeli soldiers and 11 Palestinians. The attacker was shot in the leg before he vanished into the Palestinian-controlled area of the city. The Israeli army poured reinforcements into Hebron and imposed a curfew on the area it controls. The grenade blast injured five soldiers and six officers from the paramilitary border police, as well as 11 Palestinians, the army and Palestinian doctors said. One Israeli was seriously wounded.

Authoritarian ruler accepts ouster by voters BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia's authoritarian ruler for virtually all of its six years of independence, announced Wednesday he would step down when the new Parliament convenes Oct. 26. In an emotional appearance on state television, he also said he would not serve in the new legislature, and sang an impromptu farewell song to Slovaks with tears in his eyes: "God be with you, I did not hurt any of you." His ouster as premier was forced by last week's national elections, in which the governing Movement for a Democratic Slovakia lost ground to opposition parties. The opposition and some analysts had expected that the 56-year-old Meciar, who has been widely criticized for antidemocratic practices, might fight to cling to power. N.

Korea orders charity to stop aiding sick people HONG KONG North Korea has ordered the charity group Doctors Without Borders to stop treating sick and starving people in the secretive communist nation, forcing the group to pull out in protest, the charity said Wednesday. The Paris-based group is joining at least two other agencies that have recently withdrawn staff from North Korea, frustrated by restrictions on how they can operate and where they can go. In the case of Doctors Without Borders, North Korean officials had asked the group not to focus on treating the sick, but to supply raw materials and chemicals to the country's pharmaceutical plants, the group said. The group recently withdrew 11 of its 13 professionals, including nine doctors, when talks with the Communist governn ant broke down. It said the last two were leaving Wednesday.

Tropical storm kills 13, cuts S. Korea rice crop SEOUL, South Korea Tropical Storm Yanni raced through South Korea on Thursday, killing 13 people, leaving dozens more missing, and flooding homes, roads and rice crops, government officials said. The storm also flooded residential areas and inundated 622,000 acres of rice paddies a quarter of South Korea's total crop land. "A considerable reduction in rice production is feared because the damage was done only a few weeks before harvest was to begin," Lee Eun-ho, an Agriculture Ministry official, told MBC-TV Before the storm, the government had predicted a third straight bumper rice harvest this year. Peru protesters storm presidential palace LIMA, Peru Thousands of anti-government protesters armed with clubs and stones broke through a police cordon around Peru's presidential palace on Wednesday and a smaller group forced its way inside.

A group of 60 demonstrators battled through police lines all the way into the palace in one of Peru's most violent protests in recent years. Some spray-painted "Dictator!" on the stone walls of the palace courtyard, while others broke furniture in inner offices. President Alberto Fujimori was in his office, but protesters did not reach him. Police fired into the air and lobbed tear gas to disperse the 5,000 protesters from unions and student groups. Airliner's engine problem forces emergency landing TOKYO A Japan Airlines flight bound for Brisbane, Australia, made an emergency return to the Kansai International Airport early Thursday after developing engine troubles, airport police said.

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