News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 85

GEORGETOWN, Nov 09 (IPS) - Sharp differences have arisen between Guyana and its Caribbean colleagues over the process being used by the United States for refining an agenda for a key year-end summit with U.S. President, Bill Clinton.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 09 (IPS) - Ultranationalist Russian polititian Vladimir Zhirinovsky blamed the Jewish community for his nation's ills Wednesday, accusing them of financing organised crime.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 09 (IPS) - Brazil's coffee harvest for next year is projected at 12.0 to 14.8 million 50 kilogramme sacks, although before this year's drought, a 25 million sack harvest was anticipated.

CAIRO, Nov 09 (IPS) - King Hussein of Jordan is due to visit Israel for the first time on Thursday to exchange peace treaty documents with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

BONN, Nov 09 (IPS) - Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city of Bonn is still struggling hard to reconcile itself to the loss of the prestigious status as the capital of post-war west Germany.

SYDNEY, Nov 09 (IPS) - Australia used to be known for its centralised and formalised systems of industrial relations in the world, but a push to become more competitive internationally has seen a shift toward non-union negotiated labour agreements.

MANILA, Nov 09 (IPS) - In 1949, Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar was testing micro-organisms he had isolated from soil samples in his back garden when he chanced upon bacteria that would later lead to the development of the antibiotic erythromycin.

MANILA, Nov 09 (IPS) - Coming three years after the U.S. military was forced to quit its bases in the Philippines, President Bill Clinton's visit to Manila this weekend gives Washington a fresh chance to mend the love-hate relationship with its former colony.

AMMAN, Nov 09 (IPS) - Women and children in Lebanon and Palestine have suffered most from years of civil war and political and social instability in the region, say two academics attending this week's Arab region preparatory meeting for the 1995 women's conference.

AMMAN, Nov 09 (IPS) - Delegates from 22 Middle East countries gathered at the Arab Region Preparatory Conference here have been at pains to point out that Islam is a religion which teaches them openness, love and moderation in the modern world.