Word: truce
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...Minister Deuba has little chance of regaining much land in Maoist hands. All through rebel territory, police checkpoints, if they exist at all, go unmanned. Deuba came to power just under a year ago as a peacemaker, promising talks with the Maoists. But when the guerrillas broke off their truce in November, he declared a state of emergency and ordered the army into battle. Deuba?whose ancestral country home was torched by the Maoists last month?took the collapse of the cease-fire as a personal affront. "I was betrayed," he says. "I was too lenient. They gave...
...Hamas is well aware that it will be the first casualty of any cease-fire - the fact that Arafat secured his own release by handing over to American and British jailers six men wanted by Israel has not been lost on Palestinian militants, and in order to enforce a truce Arafat would have to be willing to launch a Palestinian civil...
...continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude a cease-fire just now. The more serious obstacle may be that the offensive has destroyed much of the security and civil administration capability of the Palestinian Authority, impairing its ability to enforce a truce...
...compliance with Washington's requirements - adjusted substantially to accommodate the Israeli leader's initial recalcitrance - and move on in search of talks aimed at reducing regional tensions that imperil wider U.S. interests. But that may be wishful thinking, not only because of the problems of implementing a truce, but also because the political horizon looks as gloomy as the security...
...shock of the Friday bombing reverberated, the White House continued to issue statements of resolve--that Powell was still pursuing a truce, that his mission to the region had not been derailed, that American prestige could still forge a peace between the Israelis and Palestinians that neither side really seems to want. "The President will not be deterred," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Friday. But those assurances did nothing to douse the growing sense that the combatants are waging a war driven by unquenchable vengeance and hate and that the U.S., at this late hour, may not be able...