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Once more the globe-trotting peace missionary, Jimmy Carter, has surprised the diplomats. Last week he went to Sudan, where a bloody conflict has long seemed less a civil war than an exercise in mutual extermination, and emerged with the promise of a two-month cease-fire...
Former President Jimmy Carterannounced that he has brokered a two-month ceasefire in one of the world's lesser-known hot wars, a bloody, 12-year conflict between Sudan's Islamic government and rebel fighters.Carteradded, surprisingly, that public health concerns motivated the two sides to compromise: "The primary purpose of this agreement is to permit the leaders and citizens of Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than...
...afford to build a new home are likely to be stymied at first by a moratorium on postquake construction, a policy intended to avert slapdash projects and allow time for possible new building-code and zoning strictures. In Kobe's case, officials were thinking about extending the normal two-month delay to as long as half a year...
...measure cannot be altered or rejected by Cambridge, Boston or Brookline--the three Massachusetts communities with rent control laws. And the act effectively makes moot a two-month court battle over the way the nine Election Day ballot referenda--including the initiative to abolish rent control--were conducted...
...two-month court battle over November's election procedures also appears to be nearing an end. Four voters had charged Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly--who administered the ballot referenda--with violating the constitution by not printing summaries of the nine lengthy initiatives inside voting booths. They also charged numerous voting irregularities...