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...with Maoist guerrillas who have waged a five-year antimonarchist insurgency. A joint statement released after the meeting near Katmandu described the talks as positive. Negotiators said they would meet again in a fortnight to discuss ways of ending the conflict, which claimed about 1,800 lives before a truce was called in July...
...even before the latest attacks, neither side was betting the farm on achieving a new truce. For one thing, there's not much new on the table - the purpose of the talks is to revive the stillborn cease-fire brokered by CIA director George Tenet in June, but there is little reason for confidence that they'll manage this time around, as the latest round of violence underscores...
...chaperoned at the talks by one of Israel's top generals to ensure that the conversation be confined to the matter of a cease-fire. The Palestinians insist that the issue of security not be divorced from the political dialogue they believe is essential to create conditions for a truce, but Sharon is determined to avoid anything that might be construed by his conservative base as negotiating under fire...
...collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German Peace Bid An offer by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to hold cease-fire talks in Berlin was welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But proposals for a zone-by-zone truce seemed far from events on the ground, where at least 15 people died in continuing violence. IRAN Jailed for "Insults" A prominent member of the reformist bloc in Iran's parliament was sentenced to 22 months in prison for subversion. A judge said Fatima Haqiqatjoo's criticism of a journalist...
...Arafat has his own reasons for seeking a truce. Escalating violence is fast eroding his control of the Palestinian streets, and he has been pressing the Europeans to initiate new cease-fire talks with the Israelis in order to press for political concessions that could help him reclaim the initiative in Palestinian politics. But even if he has persuaded the gunmen in Beit Jala to hold their fire while the Israelis withdraw, the resultant truce will be extremely fragile...