JAPANESE CASH HELPS EASE LATVIAN BUDGET CRISIS.

Some $40million from the Nomura Securities group which has agreed to marketLatvian bonds on the world market will soon go into the statebudget account, BNS reported August 16. The news service saidthat the government might use part of this money to repay partof its loan to the central Bank of Latvia and thus be in a betterposition to borrow money from other sources.

Lithuanians Begin Joint Military Exercises with US Soldiers.