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...blamed on the Armed Islamic Group, an extremist splinter faction. Islamists claim that to sabotage any compromise, hard-liners in the military-backed regime have supported some of the attacks. Unemployment topping 35% has helped produce nihilistic young thugs prepared to slaughter. Last week the Salvation Front declared a truce, but the killing is unlikely...
...associated with any group which retained the means of inflicting violence upon others for the attainment of political objectives," party leader Robert McCartney said. The IRA adamantly refuses to meet the Protestant demand that it unconditionally disarm itself. While this sticking point may ruin yet another truce, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is determined to convince pro-British Protestants that holding talks with Sinn Fein is in their best interest...
...reported. But the incident was serious enough for South Korea to convene an emergency meeting of security-related Cabinet ministers. Although South Korean officials later said the intrusion appeared unintentional, they said a formal protest would be filed with the U.N. Armistice Commission , the organization which monitors the fragile truce that ended the 1950-53 Korean...
...said the riots caused a truce between two gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, and in that way, benefited the community...
Corso was the intelligence officer for the truce team that negotiated with the North Koreans at Panmunjom. He says he learned from returning Americans that 500 sick and wounded U.S. prisoners within 10 miles of Panmunjom never reached the truce village for exchange. He believes the North Koreans held back the worst cases to hide the fact that they had been tortured and denied medical care. He had reports from agents later that all the ailing prisoners had died. In the course of the war, Corso, who was a senior Army intelligence officer, had received U.S. reports stating that...