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COLOMBIA The Final Straw Warplanes began bombing rebel territory, and the army moved thousands of troops to the area, after the government canceled peace talks. President Andrés Pastrana broke off negotiations with FARC guerrillas after rebels hijacked a civilian plane and abducted a senator...
...COLOMBIA Get Out and Stay Out In response to a government cease-fire offer, Colombia's largest rebel group demanded the withdrawal of U.S. military advisers and an end to Plan Colombia, President Andrés Pastrana's effort to fight drug trafficking, a key source of rebel income. The call from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) came two days after Washington announced an expansion of its military-aid package. FARC accused the U.S. of a "humiliating violation of our national sovereignty...
...France. The early rooms fizz with life. Before World War I, artists were experimenting like children with a chemistry set. Here are pieces from the studios of the great and the less-great who splashed the lurid colors of the Fauve (Wild Beast) school onto the reality they lived. André Derain's scarlet-haired Woman in a Chemise of 1906 gazes up from a rumpled bed, while Auguste Chabaud's deserted Hotel Corridor of 1907-8 reveals only a suggestive line of light under a door...
COLOMBIA Mediation Helps Rebel leaders agreed to restart peace talks after President Andrés Pastrana called their bluff by threatening to retake their safe haven. But even as the President set another deadline for a cease-fire timetable, observers of the three-year peace process were hopeful of maintaining the momentum. The difference, they said, was the presence of international negotiators, including a U.N. envoy and diplomats from 10 countries. Renewed bombing attacks by FARC guerrillas in areas south of the capital left others less convinced...
...COLOMBIA Halt to Peace Talks President Andrés Pastrana suspended peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), accusing the rebels of stonewalling negotiations. The group are demanding that the government lift its security cordon around the demilitarized zone ceded to the 16,000-strong guerrilla army in 1999 as a peace incentive. Calling the security measures "non-negotiable," Pastrana allowed time for last-ditch U.N. talks, after which he said he would order the farc to evacuate towns in the enclave...