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...Perils of Peacekeeping Re Alex Perry's "Congo Seeks Protection": I think it's great that TIME covered an issue that wasn't on the evening news, but I am disappointed that Perry merely glanced at the problems faced by the U.N. peacekeeping force [Feb. 9]. Although the U.N. deployed peacekeepers around the world with some success in the second half of the 20th century, never before has it forcibly implemented a cease-fire. It is having such difficulty stemming the violence simply because no one's ever done it before. Rick Say, WEST CHESTER...
...original version of this story misidentified Congo's president Joseph Kabila as Laurent Kabila...
...pictures of the fallout in the Congo by James Nachtwey...
...pictures of the humanitarian disaster in Congo...
...after innumerable failed, internationally brokered peace efforts, a quietly engineered, bilateral African solution has broken a stalemate. Now there is at least a chance of something better for eastern Congo. Says Kagame, who has lived through civil war, genocide and two wars in Congo: "I have never been more hopeful than right...