KYRGYZ PRESIDENT DESCRIBES PRICE INCREASES AS ECONOMIC SABOTAGE.

President Askar Akayev said there was no economic justificationfor recent price rises in his country and concluded that unnamedforces were seeking to destabilize the situation there, Interfaxreported July 17. Other Kyrgyz officials suggested that the pricerises had occurred because the government had lost control ofthe economy in too precipitous a fashion.

Turkmen Diplomat Says Drugs Behind Demonstration.