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...splashy party convention, and he launched a surprisingly effective grass- roots campaign, while opposition candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro got off to a pathetic start. Best of all, the 10,000-man army of insurgent contras, deprived of U.S. military support, was skulking in Honduras under a regional peace accord ordering them to disband in early December...
Could Lebanon actually be nearing a peace accord? Under the auspices of the Arab League, Lebanon's parliament last week agreed on the outlines of a new national charter revising the distribution of political power, the issue at the root of the country's 14-year-old civil war. The plan, worked out in the Saudi city of Taif, won the endorsement of 58 of the 62 legislators present. Whereas Christians previously held 54 of parliament's 99 seats, an enlarged, 108-member legislature would be evenly divided between Muslims and Christians...
...accord requires the two parties to identify by next month industries and export products that could benefit from lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S. Administration officials said the affected products would most probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic equipment and automobiles...
Over the decade, traders outmaneuvered attempts to regulate the trade by taking their tusks through nations that had not yet signed the CITES accord. In 1985 CITES agreed to register previously undocumented tusks in countries that promised to comply with the rules in the future. Such arrangements were made with Singapore and Burundi, which together had more than 390 tons of ivory. Traders' ivory, once suspect because it lacked documentation, suddenly quadrupled in value. In countries intent on barring illegal ivory, customs agents have found thousands of tusks in crates marked BEESWAX, BONE MATERIAL, MARBLE and JEWELRY. But most illicit...
...keeping the peace talks on track, Cristiani expressed doubts about the guerrillas' aim of achieving a permanent settlement by the end of January, warning that it could take all five years of his administration to achieve an accord. "If the process that we've agreed to in Mexico keeps going, there's always hope," he said. "But it won't be easy...