Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARIS--Bitter accusations against the Khmer Rouge dominated Cambodian peace talks yesterday, with Vietnam calling the communist group "the most barbarous regime ever known" and demanding it be destroyed like the Nazis...
...Certain people in the CCA have noticed that that other part has been missing, and they've been reaching out," says spokesperson Janet Murray. "A group that's more specifically grass roots-oriented will do a better job of reaching that goal...
...both sides seem prepared to make the schools a political issue again. HAMAS, an Islamic resistance group, last week called for a general strike in the West Bank that for a time seemed to threaten the reopening of some schools. Still, human-rights advocates were cautiously optimistic that Israel's move would presage a softening of its attitude toward Palestinian education. "We are delighted," says William Lee, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees. "Our main problem now is to make up for lost time...
Colombia is rich in rebels, but the government of President Virgilio Barco has slowly been coming to terms with them. The first to switch from outlaw group to political party is M-19, a 1970s leftist band of middle-class guerrillas who moved from symbolic displays of conscience, like holding "hostage" the sword of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar, to acts of terror and violence. In 1985 M-19 bungled a takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice, triggering a battle with government forces that left more than 100 dead...
...accord provided a heady moment for Barco, who is negotiating cease-fires with two other leftist rebel groups. A fourth group, the Cuba-trained National Liberation Army (ELN), remains recalcitrant. But Barco's government has accepted the resignation of a Cabinet minister, one of the ELN's conditions for talks...