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IVORY COAST Exodus France told its citizens to leave the Ivory Coast as stone-throwing mobs blocked the airport and stopped at least 500 French from fleeing. The call came after a deal to end the four-month-old civil war appeared to collapse. After days of rioting, protests against the French-brokered plan turned peaceful, with tens of thousands marching in the commercial capital, Abidjan. Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo accuse France of forcing him to sign a power-sharing agreement with rebels who control the former French colony's largely Muslim north. The army condemned the deal...
IVORY COAST War And Peace The latest clashes in the Ivory Coast could drag some of the country's neighbors into its four-month-old civil war. Liberians were reportedly part of a force of fighters that last week surrounded government positions in the western town of Toulepleu, on the Liberian border. The Ivorian army said 29 people died, including four government soldiers, and that Liberian participation in the fighting was a certainty. But a Liberian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Liberians were mercenaries. The attack follows incursions by both the Ivorian army and rebels across the Liberian border...
...care expenses for breast-feeding mothers and their children and a further $60,000 through reduced absenteeism. That's not including the incalculable goodwill of happy new parents. "They couldn't have made it any easier," says project manager Maria Couchon about pumping milk at work for her four-month-old daughter Ava. "It's a fact of life that I had to come back to work. But being able to do this was a big load off my mind...
...Sklyarov, the three weeks until his bail hearing last Monday were a whirl of jails: federal detention centers in Nevada, Oklahoma and California. Though separated from his wife, two-year-old son and four-month-old daughter back in Moscow, Sklyarov was typically upbeat about his imprisonment. He read mystery and romance novels to improve his English and felt he was learning a lot about U.S. society: "When you watch American movies, you see the policeman arrest somebody and read him his rights and that's all, but it's very interesting what happens after...
...What Bela recalls most about his interrogation, however, was an oddly philosophical exchange. Asked for his views of the four-month-old crisis facing the tiny Balkan nation, he answered, "In my opinion, wars could be short or they could be long. But they almost always end at the (negotiating) table." Behind his back, a police interrogator cut him off. "This is one war, " said the gruff voice, "that won't end at the table...