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Today: scattered showers early, becoming partly sunny and windy during the afternoon. High around 50. West wind 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Tonight, becoming mostly clear, low 30 to 35. Friday, parley sunny, high near...
...mere fact that the foreign ministers of some 20 countries, including the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., are gathered in Paris this week to try to end ten years of war in Cambodia constitutes something of a breakthrough. Only a few days before the conference opened, a parley among the four warring Cambodian factions broke down just hours after it began. The talks were resumed by the factions -- the country's Vietnamese-backed government, represented by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and a resistance coalition that includes two non-Communist groups under Prince Norodom Sihanouk andnationalist leader Son Sann, as well...
Baker and Shevardnadze meet in Vienna with foreign ministers from 33 other nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...
Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...
This year's playoff picture looks as confused as last year's. Will the Lakers be able to capture a thirdstraight NBA crown? Will Boston rebound from a horrendous performance against the Pistons in the Eastern Division finals? Will Detroit parley its playoff experience into the crown it should have won last year...