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...travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past 19 years of civil war. The government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed a truce a year ago which, to everyone's amazement, has held...
...does the Tigers. (Her own negotiations for peace concluded with the 1999 assassination attempt that cost her the use of one of her eyes.) Kumaratunga and her political allies are playing the spoilers, whining about being frozen out of the talks, lambasting the LTTE for every violation of the truce, and claiming that life is getting harder under Wickremesinghe. On a recent trip to the ancient capital of Anuradhapura, Wickremesinghe woke at dawn to visit the holy Bo tree, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination. When the Prime Minister's convoy neared the ruins, the walkie-talkies started chattering with a surprise...
MIDDLE EAST One Step Forward ... A host of Palestinian groups met in Cairo for talks on ending attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah faction endorsed a proposed truce, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected it. The need for a cease-fire was apparent in Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said...
INDICATORS Truce In The Chocolate War The E.U.'s high court struck down Spain and Italy's restrictions on British chocolate, ending a nearly 30-year battle. The countries can no longer call British products, which contain up to 5% vegetable fat, "chocolate substitute." But there is one rearguard action left. They don't have...
FRANCE Face-Off A truce broke down in the Ivory Coast as government and rebels met in Paris. Rebel leaders want President Laurent Gbagbo to quit, claiming his 2002 election was unfair and insisting new elections are necessary. But Gbagbo said the constitution does not allow him to call early legislative elections and said the rebels should disarm...