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...talks concluded with a vaguely worded joint commitment to dispel the existing climate of violence and to establish a peaceful process of negotiation. It was not the truce many hoped for, but at least the two sides are still talking...
Once Gorbachev's democratization had lifted the lid, fiery-eyed nationalism leaped out. Azerbaijanis and Armenians fell upon one another as if centuries of Muslim-Christian warfare had never seen a truce. Moscow sent in peacekeeping troops, and Azerbaijanis denounced the government, publicly burning their red party cards. Soviet forces killed 20 demonstrators in Georgia. Fueled by anger over chronic unemployment, housing shortages and catastrophic damage to the environment, a spate of violent riots in Tadzhikistan, Kirghizia and Kazakhstan turned anti-Russian. With less bloodshed but equal vehemence, national movements in the Ukraine, Moldavia and Belorussia are demanding...
...peaceful commitment to a negotiated resolution." That is something the A.N.C. has yet to address definitively. Two weeks ago, the A.N.C. national executive in Lusaka adopted a platform, based on a ten-point plan sent by Mandela through intermediaries, affirming the group's commitment to negotiations and offering a truce if De Klerk meets its conditions for talks...
...fiercest division within the ranks of journalism is between the majority who support all-out war against the drug lords and those, notably the owners of Medellin's El Colombiano, who prefer a negotiated truce. In 1984, when he was still editor of the paper, Juan Gomez Martinez wrote, "To sit down with these despicable people, who are wanted by justice, is dishonest. It would twist the values of our country. It is an immoral and terrifying proposition." Gomez -- whose title became publisher when he was elected mayor of Medellin in 1988 -- has turned into a leading advocate of government...
...President kept his resentment under control. He was suspicious of Ortega's posturing but not then aware that the dictator planned to end the truce with the contras. "It was literally a photo opportunity," Bush said. Sure enough, Ortega's photographer rushed his shots to news organizations; the White House refused to release its own pictures. "We greeted. We shook hands. He had a firm handshake. He looked me in the eye. He did not lock on or anything like that. He was not defiant. We'd met before...