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...Communist Party Leader Najibullah, who said last week that his Soviet-backed government would observe the first cease-fire in its seven-year war against the country's Muslim rebels. Najibullah, who was installed last May with the support of the 120,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, said the truce would begin...
...fully informed on both domestic and foreign affairs. He was a socialist, he said, not a Communist, and his goal was a nonracial, democratic South Africa. If the government would legalize the African National Congress that he once helped lead and open negotiations, the organization would call a "truce" in the armed struggle...
...Kremlin officials were disturbed by Sakharov's bold behavior, they did not show their concern. Indeed, Soviet authorities went out of their way to signal a truce with the country's leading human rights activist. When asked at a press conference if Sakharov might be punished for his Afghanistan comment, Yuri Kashlev, a senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official, responded mildly, "I do not see anything bad in this comment by Sakharov. Indeed, our leadership has stated in the past on many occasions that we seek to resolve the problem of Afghanistan as soon as possible." As if to reinforce that...
...member New People's Army, permits as many as 50 rebel negotiators to set up a headquarters in Manila. They will be immune from official search, arrest and prosecution. The armed forces will retain the right to respond to "hostile acts" by the N.P.A. during the truce...
...conference with the N.D.F.'s chief negotiator, Satur Ocampo. Both men sounded guardedly hopeful. "We're holding onto our guns," said Ocampo. "It will be a cease-fire in place." Still, he pledged that the rebels, who control 18% of the country's 42,000 villages, would honor the truce. Said Mitra, for his part: "Both sides won the war." He added that the negotiations had been "eased through friendship and goodwill," noting that he and the N.D.F. negotiators had been journalistic colleagues long before President Ferdinand Marcos declared war on the insurgents by imposing martial...