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...Edging Toward Peace BURUNDI President Domitien Ndayizeye and the leader of the main rebel group, Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), signed a peace deal in Pretoria. The agreement, which specifies how the FDD will be incorporated into the transitional government, the army and the police, is the latest attempt to end a decade of bloody ethnic conflict. Test of Strength JAPAN Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the Lower House of Parliament and called a snap national election for Nov. 9, in what he called a test of popular support for his economic reforms. If Koizumi's Liberal Democratic...
...book opens with a sort of prelude, in which Uncle Domitien, visiting the Moermesters' farm, makes an only half-serious promise to Karelina (then just in her teens and worried about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket...
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