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TOKYO -- Emperor Hirohito’s 110-day struggle for survival ended today.

As Limo Glides Down Pennsylvania Ave., Quayle Exults: ‘We’re There’

Soviets Debate Lessons of Failed Afghan Policy

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- As anger over an allegedly blasphemous novel continued to gather force in the Islamic world, Iran’s spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said Tuesday that the author and publishers of the book should be killed.

Hope to Prove Nation Has Mended Its Ways

U.N. Report Details War’s Human Toll

A Long Beach-bound Exxon oil tanker ran aground on a reef Friday and spilled an estimated 8.4 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, a pristine Pacific waterway heavily used by kayakers, fishermen and tourists.

New Senate to Be Chosen in 1st Free Vote Since WWII

Victims Trampled at English Stadium; 200 Reported Hurt

SHEFFIELD, England -- Poor police crowd control, inadequate emergency medical facilities and shortsighted design of the soccer stadium here were being blamed Sunday as the death toll rose to 94 in the nation’s worst sports disaster.

PARIS -- In the face of sharp criticism from rival Palestinian leaders, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat refused Wednesday to clarify his use of an ambiguous French word that has stirred hopes of progress toward peace in the Middle East.

Gorbachev Sees Even More Reason for Deep Socialist Reforms

At Least 100 Dead, 400 Hurt; Square Is Recaptured A Turning Point Seen for China

Fiery Leader Was in Failing Health Following Surgery

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- An embittered President Pieter W.

Mazowiecki, a Longtime Activist, Expects Formal Selection Today

BONN -- Thousands of jubilant East Germans began crossing into Austria and freedom early today shortly after the Hungarian government opened the border with a dramatic announcement late Sunday, declaring that all East Germans in its territory seeking to go to West Germany will be allowed to do so.

LONDON -- The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for a huge explosion Friday that reduced a three-story military barracks on the southeast coast of England to rubble, killing 10 people and injuring 22, eight seriously.

MOC BAI, Vietnam -- The Vietnamese army completed what it called its final troop withdrawal from Cambodia on Tuesday, ending nearly 11 years of military involvement there and leaving Vietnam at peace for the first time in more than three decades.

BUDAPEST -- Reformers in Hungary’s ruling party moved Saturday to leave hard-line Communists behind and form a new “socialist” party, committed to broad economic and political reform.

Stock Market: The selloff is fueled by fears that takeover fever is cooling, and that record prices will moderate.

BONN -- Embattled East German leader Erich Honecker resigned Wednesday under increasing pressure and was succeeded by Egon Krenz, a Politburo member regarded as a hard-liner, who indicated he will chart a new course.

MOSCOW -- Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, the longest-serving leader in Eastern Europe, resigned Friday, thrusting his country into the political maelstrom sweeping the region.

East Bloc: The hard-line Prague government signals that it is getting in step with the reform movement.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Frederik W. de Klerk, taking his first important step toward dismantling apartheid, declared South Africa’s remaining whites-only beaches open to blacks Thursday and promised to scrap a 36-year-old law that enables local officials to segregate such public facilities as parks, meeting halls and libraries.

Mideast: Twenty-three others also die as the blast rips Rene Mouawad’s motorcade in Beirut. A U.S. official says the list of suspects is ‘pretty long.’

BONN -- Alfred Herrhausen, the head of West Germany’s largest bank and one of the most powerful men in Europe, was killed in a bomb attack Thursday while he was en route to his office in Frankfurt.

MONTREAL -- Police on Thursday identified the gunman who killed 14 women, wounded 13 other people and killed himself Wednesday as Marc Lepine, an unemployed 25-year-old who “had few friends of the female gender” and who once aspired to study at the engineering school where he went on his murderous spree.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Sweetening its landslide presidential victory, Chile’s opposition coalition won heavily in congressional elections, while the nation’s once-prominent far-leftists did poorly, according to final results Friday.