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Guerrillas sign a truce...
...agreement calls for a yearlong truce beginning May 28. During that time, the government will consider granting pardons to F.A.R.C. members who are wanted by the authorities for political crimes, bank robberies, kidnapings or violent acts committed "in combat." The document opens the door for land and political reforms, promises business loans to the guerrillas and guarantees educational and other benefits to facilitate their return to "normal public life...
...been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government has been willing to let its soldiers fight against SWAPO, once its trusted ally, indicates how seriously it takes its new truce with South Africa...
...taken to playing off one capricious clerical judge against another, while powerbrokers have simply taken the law into their own hands. After colliding in a scramble to seize private land, two government officials ended up drawing guns on each other in a courtroom last August. Having effected a shaky truce, the judge declared a 30-minute recess, left the room and never returned...
...cordial hostility, few relationships rival the unstable truce between Washington reporters, who chafe at having news doled out by the teaspoonful, and presidential press secretaries, who often view journalists as carping nihilists incapable of admitting they are wrong...