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...week to discuss cease-fire arrangements. Two U.N. teams were preparing to make separate visits to Tehran and Baghdad. One will investigate the status of some 70,000 prisoners of war held by the two sides. The other, led by Norwegian Lieut. General Martin Vadset, commander of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, will arrange details of a cease-fire. The cease-fire team's report, Perez de Cuellar predicted, "will allow me to announce the implementation of the resolution," perhaps as early as this week...
Amid shouts of "Let's regain our national identity!" some 13,000 student protesters massed at Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...
...base in Yamales, Honduras, clashed briefly with pro-Bermudez forces. At least two dissidents were wounded. Hernandez later agreed to negotiate with Honduran and contra officials, but by week's end the dispute had not been resolved. Nor was it clear whether the contras could negotiate a more lasting truce with the Sandinistas before the present cease-fire runs...
...time a truce was declared Thursday, at least 188 were dead and hundreds more wounded, making it the worst eruption of violence since Syrian troops moved into West Beirut in early 1987. The hostilities left the surprisingly strong Hizballah fighters in control of 70% of the disputed territory, a 16-sq.-mi. district of crowded slums that is home to 250,000 Shi'ites. Fighting was suspended after telephone consultations between Syrian President Hafez Assad and Iranian President Ali Khamenei. But the next day, the fragile alliance between Damascus and Tehran was taxed as Hizballah fighters broke the truce, drawing...
Although George Bush and Pat Robertson have declared a truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...