Word: lagues
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...that has recently been settled was the 17-year struggle in Sudan between the 4,000,000 blacks of the south and the 11 million northerners, mostly Arabs. Three months ago, the leaders of the two sides-Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the southern guerrillas-met in Addis Ababa, capital of neighboring Ethiopia, and signed a compromise settlement negotiated with the help of U.N. refugee organizations...
...heavily guarded federal military headquarters, an Arab, Major General Fatlalla Hamid, and Anyanya Leader Lagu pored over a sprawling map of Sudan's three southern provinces, discussing how to restore normality to the area for the first time since Sudan gained independence from Britian in 1956. Hamid and Lagu now live in the same house, work in the same office and tour the countryside together talking to Anyanya commanders...
They have also found a common scapegoat for their past troubles. Lagu insists that the British, not the northern Sudanese, were originally to blame for the civil war: "They deliberately kept us backward. They should .have taken a clear-cut line in the Sudan, either divide the country or unify it. They did neither, and we paid the price. But now the Sudan is finally going to work...
...civil wars appears to be at an end. One day next week, if all goes well, a peace treaty will be signed at Addis Ababa, the capital of neighboring Ethiopia, by the leaders of the two sides: Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the Anyanya...
...settlement must now be accepted by the fighting men on both sides. That will be made easier for the southerners because Lagu-a diminutive career soldier who in recent years built the Anyanya into a unified military and political force-will likely become their first Regional President. He shares credit for the settlement with Numeiry, who has worked for reconciliation with the south against strong opposition within his own hierarchy. On the eve of last month's peace talks, Numeiry dismissed his army commander and defense minister, Major General Khalid Abbas, who opposed the negotiations...