Word: cordons
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...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...
...PHILIPPINES Settle Down Government troops ringed the city of Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao after days of fighting with the Moro National Liberation Front. The security cordon was set up to keep the Muslim rebels out of the city and angry residents in. Five guerrillas were hacked to death by citizens infuriated by a government decision to give rebels safe passage back to their camp in exchange for the freedom of 110 civilian hostages. Manila charged renegade Governor and MNLF leader Nur Misuari with rebellion and sedition in connection with the violence, which broke a 1996 peace pact between...
...felt like the doctor in The Andromeda Strain; the clock was outracing me. I went to my e-mail program, clicked on File, then selected Work Offline. That, I assumed, would cordon me off from the Net and keep me from spreading the bug while I figured out how to get rid of it. Next I checked my Out box. Argh! Sixty-five messages were queued up, waiting to be sent to my friends. Each was from me. Each bore the subject line "Homepage." Each had a file attached, as doom-laden as a warhead...
...gringo retirees, and another reason why it's often hard to tell where one country stops and the other begins. About 125 miles south of the border, this once tiny fishing village now stretches along the blue-green waters of the Sea of Cortez into a 50-mile-long cordon of dusty RV parks and mid-market subdivisions, all catering to seniors. Some 24,000 Mexicans and 9,000 nortenos coexist here, more apart than together. There are separate services in English and Spanish at the Baptist church; Alcoholics Anonymous offers meetings for Anglos at 6, for Mexicans...
...meantime, DeKalb County finally has a sheriff. A special election last Tuesday gave the office to interim sheriff Thomas Brown (no relation to Derwin Brown), who took 81% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. At his victory party, Thomas Brown's security cordon was as thick as a President's. Derwin Brown's widow Phyllis, who wants to open a youth club in her slain husband's honor, says that since the shoot-out, she and her family have applied for gun permits. Says Ron Brown, her brother-in-law: "Obviously, people are getting nervous somewhere...