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...Mayor Marion Barry announced his response: a severe diet of job cutbacks and reductions in city services. Potentially most painful, however, was his request that the Federal Government take on $267 million in city Medicaid costs, and consider paying for even more services in the future. The appeal could reopen the question of how much home rule Congress should accord the District...
...kind. The Bosnian Serb leader promised to honor the Sarajevo cease-fire -- an area where there is not much fighting -- and release Muslim prisoners under the age of 19 -- of whom there are almost none. He also promised to release U.N. hostages, permit free movement of U.N. convoys and reopen Sarajevo airport (two U.N. planes landed on Saturday); in other words, undoing actions already deemed illegal by U.N. resolutions. Finally, he pledged to "guarantee human rights," a declaration of Orwellian hypocrisy from a man instrumental in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Bosnians...
...Wednesday, Dec. 14, Chechen president Jokhar Dudayev had broken off negotiations with a Russian team and summoned his people to "a war for life or death." But on Friday he proclaimed a cease-fire and announced that he would reopen talks. The stated positions of the two sides would seem to leave nothing to talk about. Dudayev was demanding that Russia immediately pull out its forces and recognize the full independence he had proclaimed for Chechnya three years ago, while Yeltsin insisted as a precondition for any withdrawal that the Chechens disarm and end their secession. The view in Moscow...
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when autonomy talks reopen Tuesday in Cairo to insist that Israel keep its word. That answer will probably emerge Wednesday, when the 18-member Israeli Cabinet meets...
...Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the embargo should remain in place as long as Syria refuses to negotiate a peace pact with his country. Today, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced a three-day Middle East trip next week in an effort to get Israel and Syria to reopen negotiations.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...