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Escobar reportedly has agreed to turn himself in to Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could well portend a new narco era dominated by -- who else? -- Pepes...
...Havel will preside from the same office in Prague's Hradcany Castle over about two-thirds of his former country. The onetime playwright and erstwhile communist-era dissident promised to maintain a "moral dimension" in his government and to serve as a "more experienced and wiser" statesman in promoting accord with his nation's new neighbor, Slovakia...
...Bosnia. "The Serbs are not going to cease firing until satiated," says a State Department official. After more than nine months of fighting, an estimated 125,000 have been killed, more than a million refugees are homeless, and Bosnian Serbs hold 70% of the republic. An internationally sanctioned accord now would reward the Serbs, who make up only 31% of the Bosnian population, for their aggression. Milosevic would then be another de facto step closer to his dream of creating a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia...
...unprecedented step of approving the current U.S. military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial to a peace accord, the U.N. proposed its own scheme. In Cambodia the U.N. has a broader -- and, many say, more trying -- charge than in any other operation it has mounted...
...tapped by President Anwar Sadat as a senior policy adviser and was named acting Foreign Minister when two foreign ministers resigned in protest over Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977. Boutros-Ghali played a prominent role in the negotiations that led to the 1979 Camp David accord on the Middle East...