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South Africa, banned from international soccer for 29 years because of its policy of apartheid, was readmitted to the International Federation of Assn. Football and will be allowed to participate in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup.

FIFA also admitted Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine from the former Soviet Union; the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia; the Cayman Islands, Namibia and St. Kitts-Nevis.

The Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, granted provisional membership in December, also were admitted.

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