News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 67

LONDON, Nov 18 (IPS) - A multitude of projects are being planned to put the grand ideas of the U.N. International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) into effective action on the ground, say the heads of the world's family planning organisations.

LAGOS, Nov 18 (IPS) - ORDINARILY, JEREMIAH ISAH IS A NEIGBOURHOOD MOTOR MECHANIC WHO ALSO HAD A JOB IN A LOCAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 18 (IPS) - FORTY-SIX YEAR OLD BERNADIN POISSON HAS A MONUMENTAL JOB. HIS TASK? CLEANING UP THE IMAGE OF AN ARMY WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES GAINED IT NOTORIETY.

DAKAR, Nov 18 (IPS) - Mauritanian policemen, accompanied by Senegalese counterparts, moved on Thursday to prevent Mauritanian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from exhibiting pictures of dead Mauritanian soldiers in an exhibition against armed conflict.

PRETORIA, Nov 18 (IPS) - SOUTH AFRICA'S FORMER HOMELANDS MAY HAVE BEEN TRACTS OF BARREN GROUND TO WHICH APARTHEID RELEGATED BLACKS, BUT LEADERS OF THESE ENCLAVES PAID THEMSELVES SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES THAT WOULD HAVE MADE MANY A PRESIDENT ENVIOUS.

ISMALIYA, EGYPT, Nov 17 (IPS) - Egypt's Suez Canal Authority, desperate to compete with new oil and gas pipeline projects in the Middle East, is launching a fresh marketing campaign to attract customers away from less expensive alternative routes.

MOSCOW, Nov 17 (IPS) - Against Russian government expectations and strategic interests Iran has joined Azerbaijan and a powerful western oil consortium in agreeing to develop the huge Caspian Sea oil shelf near the Azeri capital Baku.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 17 (IPS) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias Sanchez, visiting Haiti this week, reiterated his view that democracy would be strengthened if the Caribbean nation abolished its notoriously trigger-happy army.

DUBLIN, Nov 17 (IPS) - After a week of teetering on the brink, the Irish Government finally fell on Thursday morning -- threatening severe consequences for the Northern Ireland peace process that it did so much to bring to life.

PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 17 (IPS) - The newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago Thursday, defied the law and published the name of a person accused under the Sexual Offences Act of 1986.