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European prime ministers were sent M. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s completed draft of a European constitution. M. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the Prime Minister of France, wrote to millions of households justifying pension changes that have provoked weeks of strikes. Iran welcomed the arrest by French police of 165 people in the Paris region said to belong to the People’s Mujahedin, an armed opposition to the Iranian regime. Iran was asked by the International Atomic Energy Agency to accept stricter inspections after failing to report ‘certain nuclear material and activities’. Tehran saw days of demonstrations by students against political control by Islamic religious leaders; Islamic vigilantes took violent action against them, and many students were arrested. President George Bush of the United States said that the demonstrations were ‘the beginnings of people expressing themselves towards a free Iran’. United States troops killed perhaps 100 Iraqis in an operation to counter opposition north-west of Baghdad. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the British ambassador to the United Nations, is to head British administration in Iraq. Two men from the Saudi Arabian security forces were killed in an operation to arrest suspects from al-Qa’eda in different districts of Mecca; five suspects were killed and several arrested. More than 50 Israelis and Palestinians were killed in a week, including 16 Israeli civilians murdered in a bus by a suicide bomber. Gregory Peck, the film actor, died, aged 87. Greek authorities banned the sale of ice lollies made in the shape of the giant penis on an ancient clay figure from Larissa.
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