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Right now it would be hard to make a case for consistency. Only five days after sending troops and tanks to occupy 18 villages in Chiapas that had been controlled by Zapatista rebels, Zedillo abruptly called off the offensive. He ordered the soldiers to do nothing that might lead to shooting, suspended efforts to catch rebel leaders for whom he had caused arrest warrants to be issued and offered the Zapatistas amnesty and political negotiations if they would lay down their arms. He even went along with one of the rebels' prime demands: the resignation of Chiapas Governor Eduardo Robledo...
...across Mexico, security forces were on the lookout for the mysterious rebel spokesman known as Subcomandante Marcos. Last week the Chiapas leader, who has always been masked in public appearances, was revealed by Zedillo to be Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente...
...nationally televised speech, Zedillo announced the issuing of arrest warrants for Guillen and four other E.Z.L.N. leaders, who were, contrary to public belief, ``neither popular, nor indigenous, nor from Chiapas.'' The charismatic rebel spokesman and his fellow rebel leaders, the President charged, were former members of a 1970s student revolutionary group. Government aides added that Guillen had grown up in comfortable circumstances in Tampico. He attended private religious schools and the Autonomous University of Mexico, and later taught communications at another university before disappearing in 1983. According to press reports, Guillen lived for several years in Nicaragua, where he worked...
Patti Davis, former first lady Nancy Reagan's rebel daughter, criticized her mother's stringent rules on how many cookies she could eat in her 1992 autobiography The Way I See It. And actress Lana Turner's daughter bemoaned her status as "hopelessly ugly" in her mother's eyes...
...TIME Mexico reporter Ron Buchanan says, President Ernesto Zedillo this afternoon called off his hunt forrebel Zapatista leadersin the southern Chiapas state and offered peace talks to their elusive leader, the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos. Hours earlier, the governor of troubled Chiapas resigned after two months in office, bowing to rebel calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders, who represent poor Mayan peasants, amid international stock market jitters over the rebellion...