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Thursday, May lMS-lCid-minote Newspaper-A-1 1 GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) -Lagos It still the world's most expensive city for U.S. executives oversees but most other foreign cities ire now cheaper then New York because of the strong dollar, a global survey said Wednesday. Belgrade ranked as the cheapest of the II cities surveyed by Business International S.A. to help U.S. corporations determine living allowances for foreign-baaed executives.

'Lagos at 146 points on the index took top place for the fourth con secutive year, with Tokyo rating lit points, Tehran 111 and Cairo 114. All other foreign cities have become cheaper than New York because of the buying power of the U.S. dollar, according to the survey, which was based on foreign exchange rates during the week of Jan. 24 to 31 this year. In past surveys, a lower dollar had made numerous foreign cities more expensive than New York, which with 100 points on the scale is used as the base for comparison.

There were two U.S. cities slightly more expensive than New York Chicago and San Francisco. Down at the bottom, Belgrade ranked 91st and cheapest with just 40 points on the index. The other cheapest cities for American executives and their families were Quito (43 points), Sao Paulo (45), Rio de Janeiro (46) and Johannesburg and Harare (48). "As a result of the persistent strength of the U.S.

dollar living costs In most major cities around the world, especially in Europe, are even greater bargains than last year," the report said. "The world's cheapest cities are in Latin America in spite of soaring levels of inflation." it said. In the Nigerian capital of Lagos, the survey said, "scarcities lead to exorbitant black market prices such as $17 for a kilo of rice." Oslo was the most expensive European city with an index rating of 87, followed by Zurich (75) and Geneva (74). The most expensive cities were 1. Lagos 146 points J.

Tokyo 118 3. Tehran 116 4. Cairo 114 5. Chicago 102 6. San Francisco 101 7.

New York and Tape! 100 Costs are highest in Lagos 9. Los Angeles and Washington 99 11. Boston 98 12. Houston 97 and Lfbrevilla 97 14. Miami 96 15.

Singapore 95 afflfAbu Dhabi 5. onnnnnnnnnnnDDDnnnnrjn Beirut fighting, mars cease-fire MANUFACTURERS' near the Green Line's Museum jlusseini and the Lebanese Mill tary Council at his suburban crossing Wednesday. Twenty-eight people were killed and some 100 were Injured in a 12-hour rocket EVERYDAY! a BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPl) -Rival Christian and Moslem militiamen exchanged small arms and mortar fire in Beirut Wednesday, marring a fragile cease-fire that ended the capital's deadliest artillery duel in 10 months. Exchanges of sniper, machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire punctuated by occasional expolsions of mortar shells were reported throughout the day along the Green Line, a no-man's land of bombed-out buildings that divides mostly Moslem west Beirut from the Christian east. "The shooting is acceptable cease-fire violations and by no means a collapse of the last ceasefire accord," a militia source said.

Military sources said at least one man was wounded by sniper fire passage between east and west Beirut. But by afternoon, work 'had stopped and a fresh barricade was in place. The security committee quickly amended its plans; saying the road would reopen Thursday, Beirut Radio said. Meanwhile, Syrian-backed Palestinian leaders opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat returned to Beirut for their first official visit since the Israeli invasion three years ago. "The five-man delegation discussed the "struggle with the Zionist enemy and Lebanese-Palestinian relations" with Karami and Shilte Moslem leader Nabih Berri, who both oppose the return of Arafat's fighters to Lebanon.

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Baabda palace to discuss ways of checking violence that has claimed 57 lives since April 28. Rival militiamen started to tear down barricades on both sides of the Green Line early Wednesday but the clearing operation was halted by what militia radio termed "differences." Militia representatives failed to reopen even one of the six crossing points between east and west Beirut. A four-man security committee mediated by radio with the warring militias across the Green Line all morning as they attempted to supervise the bulldozing of dirt barricades blocking the Green Line's Museum crossing, the main and artillery battle that ended with a ceasefire early Tuesday the bloodiest fight in 10 months. A Lebanese Army spokesman said the initial cease-fire was broken but that agreement was reached on another that took effect early Wednesday. He warned, however, that persistent sniper fire along the Green Line strained the already fragile pact.

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