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...process so far has not delivered amity. Since Rabin and Arafat signed the first accord in September 1993, 112 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian radicals bent on wrecking the settlement. In the same period, 195 Palestinians have died at the hands of Israelis. Many of them too were innocent civilians, such as 14-year-old Mohamed Abed Ghani, who died last week in the West Bank city of Nablus when Israeli soldiers fired into a crowd of students who were jeering at them...
...Rabin doesn't want to see my face, but I don't want to see his either, nor the faces of the settlers and soldiers.'' Under the 1993 agreement, Israeli settlements are to remain in place during the interim phase, with their ultimate fate determined by the final-status accord. In the next stage, Israel is supposed to move its soldiers out of Arab-populated areas of the West Bank to allow Arafat's administration to take charge. But the Israelis say that with Arab violence unabated, the army must remain in many of those areas in order to ensure...
What Zedillo announced in Mexico City last week was an accord among the country's four largest political parties that will ultimately loosen the hold on power of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, not only in Chiapas but also throughout the country. The document promises electoral reforms at both federal and state levels to put an end to corrupt campaign practices and fraudulent vote counts. It will also allow the election of Mexico City's mayor, until now chosen by the President. ``Mexico was the ugly duckling of democracy,'' exulted Interior Minister Esteban Moctezuma, as he waited for his car after...
...document made no mention of it, but the p.r.i.'s stranglehold in the poor southern states of Chiapas and neighboring Tabasco may also be at an end. Part of the reported price for the accord's endorsement by the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution was Zedillo's promise to hold new elections in Chiapas and Tabasco, where opposition parties have protested, often violently, electoral fraud. But if a new election deal was struck, it immediately backfired. Worried about the threat to their dominance, p.r.i. supporters in Tabasco took to the streets, blocking highways and clashing with p.r.d. militants.The demonstrators...
...government delegation headed by Interior Minister Moctezuma. After a four-hour meeting, the government agreed to pull several hundred occupying troops out of two villages sympathetic to the rebel cause, while the Zapatistas agreed to extend a truce indefinitely. The two sides remained far apart on an accord to end the uprising, though...