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...bloodshed had scared the two sides sufficiently to cool them down so they could resume negotiations -- or if the army's tactics would provoke more belligerence from Slovenia. Early Saturday each side agreed to cease-fire terms under which the army would withdraw its troops and Slovenia would suspend claims to sovereignty. But the arrangement seems tenuous at best. The Slovenian government stated that it had agreed only to hold off for three months on further steps toward independence. Said Slovenian foreign minister Dimitrij Rupel: "What we've done, we shall keep." After the army issued another harsh threat...
...weapons. But De Klerk would not go beyond a meek compromise offer, allowing the weapons to be carried only on genuinely ceremonial occasions. Rather than let yet another deadline -- the third it has set in the past three weeks -- slide by, the A.N.C announced on Saturday that it would suspend talks with De Klerk on a new constitution until he made "progress" in meeting its demands. The A.N.C. will probably also boycott an all-party peace conference called by the government for this week, but De Klerk insisted he would go ahead regardless...
...Yeltsin's victory could backfire. By winning control over Russia's coal mines, Yeltsin inherits an industry steeped in debt and badly in need of modernization. And the miners voted to suspend their strike for only two months, lest Yeltsin prove no better than Gorbachev at settling grievances...
Finally, if the deadline is ignored and the moment of truth arrives, call the police and have the demonstrators arrested for trespassing. Allow their classmates and future public defenders to bail them out of jail. After appropriate consultation and investigation, suspend or expel the malefactors, or at least place them on probation...
...California, a rich state with weak public schools and a $12.6 billion budget shortfall, Republican Governor Pete Wilson has asked the legislature to suspend a law that guarantees education 40% of the state's outlays. Last week teachers, parents and politicians flooded the capital to protest his decision. "I'd give up a pay raise if they'd lower my class size," said fourth- grade teacher Melissa Stepanick of Fruit Ridge Elementary School. "I can't be effective with 33 kids." That is no wonder when 1 in 4 California children lives in poverty, 1 in 5 speaks English...