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Diplomats from 20 countries joined in calling for a comprehensive peace plan, but none of their speeches Sunday and yesterday offered new proposals to end the nation's two decades of conflict...
Pakistan wants India to pull back from the glacier, after which the two sides could discuss a new boundary line. The key requirement: it must begin at NJ 9842 and end at the Karakoram Pass. But Pakistan would be willing to draw a demarcation between those points that would fall somewhere between its earlier claims and India's current position on the Saltoro Range...
...national elections only months away. Bhutto is in an even more sensitive position. Having once taunted late President Mohammed % Zia ul-Haq, her predecessor, for losing the territory in the first place, she now faces poisonous criticism from opposition leaders who accuse her of "submission" to India. In the end, both Gandhi and Bhutto will have to stare down their political antagonists in order to agree on a boundary line across the north's icy fastness. Otherwise it will continue to be drawn in men's blood...
This banishment from study, although not the damage it has caused, may be coming to an end. Yielding to pressure from the U.S. and its own citizens, the Israeli government decided earlier this month to reopen a limited number of West Bank schools starting July 22. While the first six elementary school grades and the twelfth grade were scheduled to resume, the middle grades and West Bank colleges and universities will remain closed. The decision does not affect Gaza, where, except for universities and selected elementary and secondary facilities, most schools have continued to operate throughout the uprising...
...ivory, which had been erected in a clearing overlooking the Athi Plains in Nairobi's game park. The pyre was a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of elephants slaughtered in Africa by poachers over the past ten years, and a symbol of Kenya's avowed resolve to end poaching and the global ivory trade that threatens the elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked from the skulls of baby elephants, it could have earned...