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Sunday, May 17, 1998

	Thousands prepare to flee Jakarta Thousands of foreigners and Indonesians were preparing on Saturday to flee riot-torn Jakarta, after days of mob violence claimed the lives of about 260 people with rescuers combing gutted buildings.		Clinton urges India to sign CTBT US president Bill Clinton on Saturday urged both India and the US Senate to adopt a global treaty to ban nuclear testing and said India was "on the wrong side of history" in exploding test nuclear devices.
	US goes soft on Iraq's N-file In the first concrete political opening by Washington to Iraq in seven years, the UN Security Council offered on Thursday to effectively declare Iraq free of nuclear arms.		Pakistan keeps its nuke options open Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif kept India and a nervous world guessing on Saturday about whether he would authorise the country's first nuclear test in retaliation to India's "reckless" five trials.

US nuke firms must transfer tech: China
Reacting sharply to a US threat on the nuclear issue, a Chinese diplomat told scientists here on Thursday that US companies must transfer technology to get nuclear energy contracts with China or keep losing out to foreign competition.

Encryption talks reach breaking point in US
A private-sector coalition opposed to strict US export controls on data-scrambling technology made its final offer to compromise with the Clinton administration, people familiar with the talks said.The coalition, known as Americans for Computer Privacy, has been negotiating with the administration since early March, but little progress has been made on breaking the years-old stalemate over encryption export limits.

Racist attacks growing in Moscow
Gandhi memorial proposed in Washington
Globetrotting
11 patients on life support die in Manila hospital fire
China army routed money to fund Clinton's campaign
Russia Mir crew plans cancer experiment
Tojo versus America
Aramco, Shell to invest in downstream oil project
Hingis upset
New US satellite for more effective spying on India
G-8 sticks to formula
Sharif prods G-8 for "strong action"
WFP to provide aid to Khmer Rouge refugees
For Turner and his boss, Murdoch is Enemy No. 1
Govt, Church at odds over last Czar's burial ceremony
Withdrawal symptoms
Riots in China town
US rejects Indian claim of N-state states
World Briefing
Intel Corp revamps networking group
"Japan sanctions will hit core sector projects"
Microsoft officials in talks with justice department to avert lawsuit
Intuit Inc sued again over Y2K
Excel Realty to acquire New Plan for $1.36 billion
Foreigners flee riot-hit Indonesia