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Even so, any break in so murderous a conflict is welcome. And the truce in Sudan well illustrates the strange phenomenon of Carter diplomacy. This time, at least, nobody is likely to denounce it as an unconscionable bribe to an outlaw state, as some did the North Korean agreement Carter got started last June--or as helping to legitimize a band of killers, the view some took of the cease-fire he brokered in Bosnia in December. Nor will he be accused of undermining official U.S. policy, a charge still heard six months after his last-minute success in paving...
Carter Mediates Sudan Truce...
Sudan's Islamic fundamentalist government and southern rebels negotiated a truce with the help of former President Jimmy Carter. The two sides, which have been fighting a 12-year war in which more than 1 million people have died, agreed to a two-month cease-fire so that health workers could try to wipe out the parasitic Guinea worm, which causes debilitating disease...
Bosnian government forces attacked a communications tower held by Bosnian Serbs outside the northeastern city of Tuzla, breaking a truce that began New Year's Day and was scheduled to expire May 1. After the Serbs responded by shelling Tuzla and another government-held town, Travnik, in central Bosnia, a return to all-out war seemed inevitable...
With their last truce in shambles and Russian shells falling again, Chechen rebels promised a "bloodbath" to avenge Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of their people exactly 50 years ago. In Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin marked Russia's Red Army Day by admitting his troops were getting "wobbly," but he denied that they have committed atrocities in Chechnya. Yeltsin himself looks as wobby as ever: New polls say two-thirds of Russians think he should not run for president in 1996, and more than half would like him to resign...