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...violent Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland. They proposed reviving an elected parliament for the British-controlled province and creating a lower house with members from both northern and southern Ireland. The next step: peace negotiations between Protestant and Catholic factions, who are presently honoring a six-month truce. But an angry reaction today from Protestant politicians, who do not want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the overall Protestant population in Northern Ireland is not as hostile...
...violent Protestant-Catholic conflict in Northern Ireland. They proposed reviving an elected parliament for the British-controlled province and creating a lower house with members from both northern and southern Ireland. The next step: peace negotiations between Protestant and Catholic factions, who are presently honoring a six-month truce. But an angry reaction today from Protestant politicians, who do not want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the overall Protestant population in Northern Ireland is not as hostile...
...days after they arranged a shaky ceasefire, Russian and Chechen officials agreed to a two-day truce to try for a negotiated settlement to the two-month-old civil war. The commander of Moscow's troops in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, claimed the agreement had averted an all-out massacre. But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said the pending talks between envoys were too low-level to accomplish anything serious. "You never can stop a war by means of negotiations between commanders," he told reporters. A taste of what's to come: this afternoon, 50 Chechen presidential guards arrived...
...after five hours of talks between top Russian and Chechen officials. It follows the nearly complete destruction of the Chechen capital, Grozny, and the widening of the battle into the surrounding region. In the last week, Chechens have returned to Grozny only to find their town in ruins. The truce reached today bars both sides from using air power, grenade launchers and other heavy artillery...
Triple Gold Medal-winning speed skater Johann Olav Koss is leading efforts to arrange a global cease-fire during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Koss hopes that such an "Olympic Truce" will allow UNICEF relief workers to provide medical care to children in war-torn regions, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina. "I believe sport can give hope to children in those areas," the Norwegian Olympic champion told TIME Daily. He hopes a ceasefire during the Atlanta games will be more successful than a similar effort during the 1994 Winter Olympics in Koss' homeland, which produced only a brief truce in the Bosnian...