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...troops to Ivory Coast in late 2002; they are trying to enforce a fragile 2003 peace agreement between government forces in the south and insurgents controlling the north. Combatants will be given until mid-December to restore the cease-fire and prepare power-sharing arrangements under the 2003 accord. - By Bruce Crumley and Carrie Giardino...
...some students at Harvard said they were preparing to grieve for Arafat, who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with two Israeli leaders after signing the first comprehensive peace accord between the Palestinians and the Jewish state...
Where the Smiths were desperate, the Wedding Present was bitter, and their songs overwhelmingly address the deceitful nature of ex-girlfriends, sentiments surely in accord with those of Rob Fleming. Their first album bore not only “Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?” (subsequently released in French, for no reason), “Don’t Be So Hard” and “You Can’t Moan, Can You?” but also the jealous ex-lover classics “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft?...
...WORK TO DO IF IT'S GOING TO TAKE BACK IRAQI cities held by insurgents. The job began last week, as 3,000 U.S. and 2,000 Iraqi troops stormed Samarra. In September talks with tribal groups there helped the U.S. begin to seat a city council. But the accord broke down, and the city slipped into rebel control. Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware reports from Samarra, which is a tune-up battle for tougher strongholds like Fallujah...
...participating in the interim government will likely contest the election - the Allawi government is reported to be trying to cobble together an agreement for the interim government parties to compete as a single list, to create a kind of force-multiplier for groupings such as his own Iraqi National Accord that have limited political standing. Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Sistani has expressed unhappiness at the idea of a slate of mostly former-exile parties dominating the election in this way, and his boycott threat may yet pressure the major Shiite parties to avoid standing on Allawi's ticket. Among...