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...looks like George Mitchell should start packing his bags. The former U.S. senator from Maine, who engineered last year's Good Friday accord aimed at bringing peace in Northern Ireland, saw the agreement in tatters on Thursday when Protestant loyalists pulled up at the last hurdle. Britain on Thursday formally put the peace process under review after David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party refused to take its seats at the head of the new Northern Ireland Assembly created by the agreement. The Unionists rejected London's plan allowing the Republican Sinn Fein to take their seats in the assembly before...
...JOSHUA NKOMO, 82, Father of Zimbabwe; from prostate cancer; in Harare. Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later White Rhodesia for independence. Despite Nkomo's leadership, his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister in 1980. A subsequent split led to bloody clashes that ended with a 1987 peace accord and Nkomo's appointment to a powerless vice-presidential post...
Across the river on the Medical School's Longwood Campus, 175 students will receive doctor of medicine (M.D.) degrees and eight master of medical sciences (M.M.Sc.), accord- ing to Registrar Carol A. Duffey...
...agreement, in marathon talks with U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, on a joint peace plan to present to President Slobodan Milosevic. The talks almost broke down earlier with the Russians exasperated at what a spokesman described as Washington?s last-minute proposal of changes to the Bonn Accord "which were not included or agreed earlier." But the envoys appear to have sufficiently ironed out their differences to justify a test of Milosevic?s response...
...that Milosevic has agreed to negotiate within the somewhat open-ended framework of the Bonn Accord, the alliance has sharpened its interpretation of that accord and has pressed for Moscow?s (and Belgrade?s) agreement while bombs are still falling. The reason may be that once a deal is in place, the alliance loses its prime leverage over Milosevic -? its bombing campaign. Washington fears, with good reason, that Milosevic will have ample opportunity to subvert any undertakings to which he has signed on, while the U.S. will be unlikely to win agreement within NATO to resume the bombing in response...