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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...
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...
Defense Secretary William Perry and Indian officials today signed a military cooperation accord in New Delhi that aims to improve stormy relations between the U.S. and the former strategic Soviet ally. But TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says Perry is less concerned about the agreement, which simply authorizes joint military exercises and research, than in politicking in the region to prevent an arms race between India and bitter rival Pakistan. "Now that the Soviets are our allies," Thompson points out, "all their old allies are ipso facto our allies...