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...friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens in only four days. In Stateway Gardens, Juanita Bishop counts five other tenants she knew who were killed by guns and says...
...Religious Truce...
Sitting in the conference room of Peace House on the South Korean side of the line in the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul's diplomats were shocked by the steamy rhetoric from their Northern counterparts. "Seoul is not far from here," warned the North's Park Yong Su, reading a prepared text to the South's Song Yong Dae. "Should a war break out, Seoul will be a sea of flames, and you, Mr. Song, will find it difficult to survive...
...first performed in 411 BCE, runs counter to today's definition of feminism. And neither the acting nor the guiding philosophy behind this production manages to bring it up to date. The female characters of the play, daringly swearing off sex to force their warring husbands to declare a truce, nevertheless fail to present a strong revolutionary image...
...working together, despite brutal fighting in the year since their anti-Serb alliance split apart. Bosnian Croat forces had sought to carve out a ministate for eventual merger into a Greater Croatia, but Muslim forces were gaining the upper hand. Unlike a string of previous failed cease-fires, the truce struck last week led swiftly to the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers along confrontation lines and the withdrawal of artillery and mortars to a distance of six miles...