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...great truth Starzl now sees is this: "The mystery was not about [the body's] rejection." It is about the intermingling of cells, the achievement of a peaceful truce between the patient and the donated organ. Rather than beating the patient's immune system into submission with drugs until it accepts the donor organ, Starzl realized, the trick is to convince both the body's defense mechanism and the new organ that the intruder is really "self," a recognized member of the host body...
...play out their own power struggle with the lives of thousands of Chechen civilians and Russian soldiers. Conflicting views within the Russian government about how to respond produced astounding zigzags in policy. Even as the Chechen war seemed to subside at week's end with dramatic news of a truce and maybe even a peace agreement, there was a sense that the other war, the Kremlin war, was just beginning...
MOSCOW: Interrupting his efforts to end the 20-month old civil war in Chechnya, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed returned to Moscow on Monday to brief Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress. Although the Lebed negotiated cease-fire remains tenuous but intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While...
...armed truce in which the "inter-entity boundary line" becomes a permanent division and no central government emerges; in short, partition--something similar to the status of Cyprus or the two Koreas...
...prohibits gunfire. Pyongyang has declared the armistice meaningless and has repeatedly demonstrated its scorn for the pact. In early April, 100 North Korean soldiers entered the demilitarized zone on three consecutive nights. North Korea also ejected foreign cease-fire observers from its territory and closed its offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. After the April incursions, President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam suggested that the two Koreas meet with the U.S. and China to discuss a permanent peace accord. North Korea indicated that it is interested in signing a longterm peace accord but only with...