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...officials say they believe that as part of his reconsolidation of the group, Khadaffy and a core band of supporters have left the traditional Abu Sayyaf stomping grounds in the Sulu archipelago and Basilan and moved onto the main southern island of Mindanao, the vast home turf of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the much larger separatist group engaged in on-again, off-again peace talks with the Philippine government. (See story.) Arroyo is anxious to get a peace deal with the M.I.L.F. to bring stability and development to Mindanao. M.I.L.F. chairman Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim says a deal...
...pressed safari suit, his PDA and shiny leather briefcase close at hand. Murad, who is in his late 50s, resembles a thriving small-town businessman rather than a guerrilla leader. But there's no doubt about his authority over the 100 uniformed and heavily armed fighters who escorted the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.) chairman during an exclusive interview with TIME in Maguindanao province last week, his first since becoming the group's leader a year ago following the death of its founder, Hashim Salamat. Several dozen soldiers stand for nearly an hour with parade-ground stiffness until Murad gives...
...with, and he says he's "hopeful but not too optimistic." He wants the government to adopt "a new formula" that will break the cycle of failed negotiations and mutual distrust between the two sides. A similar peace accord with the oldest Islamic separatist group in the Philippines, the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), was signed in 1996, and that group was given administration of much of Mindanao and a healthy budget. But the M.I.L.F.'s refusal to go along kept peace from the region. Murad claims to have 70,000 armed fighters across the island (although independent analysts think...
...before. Conferences of diplomats come not without precedent. Schemes and plans for restraining man's aggressive instincts have been broached. But it is not in any such fundamentally illegitimate liaison as that of naval science and academic culture that the solution is to be found. Plato and Ludovico II Moro may only make our marines the better fighters. It is only in the stimulation of some sort of national consciousness of the horrors of organized warfare that peace may be assured...
...mastering even so basic an idea can be a slow process, often too slow when survival is on the line. And so nature provides us with a head start. Before we have a chance to practice our first little Moro grab--before we leave the womb, in fact--our pleasure engine is humming. "Little boys can have erections from the day they're born, sometimes even in utero," says Marrow. "Both sexes get pleasure from touching themselves without having to be taught...