Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 16 slayings of the previously untouchable Jesuits, their live-in cook and her daughter came at a pivotal time for the region, which had been nearing an international settlement mediated by Costa Rican leader Oscar Arias...
Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing...
Stung by criticism that he has become an "accomplice" of the murderous Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk last week resorted to a familiar tactic. He announced yet another change in his zigzag course to a political settlement...
...concession: a recent Australian ! proposal, which skirts the issue of Khmer Rouge participation by placing the country under U.N. trusteeship, "merits consideration." However, he added, his Western supporters would have to join the Viet Nam-backed Phnom Penh government in making that a condition of a peaceful settlement...
Representatives of the government and Eritrean rebels, mediated by Jimmy Carter, agreed last week to hold formal peace talks, but any settlement will come too late to put food in bloated stomachs...