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Ending a 19-year war, Angola's warring factions signed a ceasefire agreement today. Under the plan signed by top generals of the government and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), fighting -- which began on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975 -- will stop Wednesday. The truce will remain in effect until final details emerge as part of a United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan...
While Roosevelt was frantically playing up to the voters on Election Eve, Weld was playing squash...
People everywhere say they're disgusted with Congress, but in eastern Washington, voters enjoy the unique ability to fire the guy who runs the place. No House Speaker has lost an election since the eve of the Civil War, and the parade of national-news reporters trooping around from Walla Walla to Spokane has helped awaken voters to the scent of history in the offing. Having suffered the second-worst showing of his 16 congressional campaigns during the September primary voting, Foley finds himself in the toughest race of his career. Yet only recently has he begun to campaign...
...Eve F. Kaplan '95, who was a compulsive overeater her first year at Harvard, says she tried going to ECHO drop-in hours but did not find what she felt she needed...
Like Chatelle, he blamed Walsh for starting the hubbub. "I find it highly suspect that a councillor awaiting a trial on 41 counts suddenly finds it upon himself to be the guardian of public morals on the eve of his sentencing," he said...