Word: truce
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...urgent attempts to devise at least piecemeal solutions. The European Community last week dispatched three foreign ministers to Zagreb and Belgrade to secure a cease-fire in the increasingly volatile republic of Croatia. The trio arrived bearing words of peace, but without any assurance that they could engineer a truce, let alone an enduring solution. In Belgrade, sessions convened by Yugoslavia's crippled eight-member federal presidency produced door slamming and name calling -- but no cease-fire...
Compared with other technologies that have reached consumers' homes with blistering speed, digital recording has been a laggard. One reason: musicmakers resisted devices that could enable consumers to create free, mint- condition copies of their favorite albums. But last week the hardware makers and the music producers reached a truce, agreeing on a plan under which small royalties will be charged on all digital recording equipment (2%) and blank tapes and disks (3%). The royalties will be distributed to musicians in proportion to their record sales. If okayed by Congress, the draft legislation could provide a boost for digital audiotape...
Despite daily charges of truce violations, the fragile cease-fire between the secessionist republic of Slovenia and the Yugoslav government held last week. Both are publicly committed to a three-month cooling-off period, yet the agreement has done little to quell tensions in independence-minded Croatia, where conflict between Croatians and Serbs threatens to erupt in warfare...
...syndicate's cease-fire pledge was prompted by a new constitution that went into effect last week prohibiting the extradition of suspects in drug crimes. It is hard to believe the narcotics lords will truly mend their ways. Yet in Colombia the truce brought a sense of relief, allowing President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to lift a state of siege declared in 1984 after traffickers killed a government minister...
Civilian authorities were ill positioned to impose a truce; a sense of powerlessness was endemic. Many admitted being as shocked as the rest of the world by Adzic's bellicose statement and by the dispatch of the menacing column toward Croatia's border. Asked if he thought Adzic was a loyal supporter of the federal government, Prime Minister Ante Markovic retorted, "I don't know, you'll have to ask him. Why are you asking...