News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 43

GENEVA, Dic 16 (IPS) - The new director of the United Nations Programme against AIDS, Peter Piot, Friday revealed a special commitment he has made to the Third World to fight the dreaded disease.

TEGUCIGALPA, Dic 16 (IPS) - A former Honduran military officer, considered a key witness in cases of victims who were forcibly disappeared for political and ideological reasons, returned to his country to give testimony to the attorney-general's office.

NEW DELHI, Dic 16 (IPS) - DESPITE CONTINUING MASS POVERTY AND LIMITED GOVERNMENT SOCIAL SPENDING, INDIA HAS MADE IMPRESSIVE GAINS IN CHILD SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT, SAYS THE U.N. CHILDREN'S BODY, UNICEF.

WASHINGTON, Dic 16 (IPS) - U.S. President Bill Clinton announced tax cuts of up to 60 billion dollars for the middle class over the next five years, in a move toward policies promoted by the opposition Republican Party, revitalised in November elections.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dic 16 (IPS) - Italy's vice-minister of foreign relations, Vincenzo Trentino, said Friday that citizens living abroad must not be seen as emigrants but simply as "fellow citizens."

BUENOS AIRES, Dic 16 (IPS) - The head of the Argentine branch of the International Immigration Organisation (IIO), Lelio Marmora, warned Friday that the country is becoming a "culture medium" for prejudice against immigrants.

CARACAS, Dic 16 (IPS) - The Venezuelan government on Thursday protested the state reception given former Commander Hugo Chavez in Havana this week.

UNITED NATIONS, Dic 16 (IPS) - The long-delayed vote to decide the sovereign status of the Western Sahara has been pushed back again to Oct. 1995, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali reported Friday.

UNITED NATIONS, Dic 16 (IPS) - A three-member commission of experts sent to Rwanda has verified the charge that the genocidal acts committed there this spring were planned.

GEORGETOWN, Dic 16 (IPS) - Omai Gold Mines is to invest another 50 million dollars in its gold mining operations here in an effort to expand its milling capacity.