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...American response to guerrillas is a military one. We are trying to change that. On March 30, the (Moscow-lining) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.) will formally constitute themselves as a political party. They are opting for the path of elections rather than insurrection, as agreed in the truce we signed a year ago. Other guerrilla groups say they are seriously considering following the F.A.R.C. This shows that dialogue is viable...
They are locked in unlikely combat, and no truce is in sight. On one side are the scientists, who have amassed such overwhelming geological, paleontological and biological evidence that evolution has shaped the course of life on earth that they take the theory for granted, sort of like the law of gravity. On the other side are the creationists, who apply the language but not the rigor of science to defend a literal interpretation of Genesis. As the creationists see it, the universe and solar system were born only 10,000 years ago, humans trod the earth in the company...
...Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, one of two intermediaries, reported that the two sides had agreed on "a period of tranquillity on the nation's highways between Dec. 22 and Jan. 3." But Rivera y Damas said nothing of any larger agreements or a full Christmas truce and only made a general reference to holding future talks...
...former lieutenant. Nonetheless, the President charged that the rebel plan would not lessen the toll of war. Said he: "The rebels do not want to humanize the conflict because they say it is their strategy to prolong a war to destroy the country. They do not want a truce...
...acre area around the Korean truce village of Panmunjom has been a haven from gunfire, if not from violence, since the 1953 Korean armistice. But that record was shattered last week by a shootout over a Soviet defector in the Joint Security Area. An American G.I., Michael Burgoyne, 20, of Portland, Mich., was wounded in the melee. A South Korean soldier and as many as three North Koreans were killed...