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...cease-fire between Philippine government forces and Communist rebels began last week amid prayer services, pealing church bells and jubilant marches. It almost did not come off: last-minute objections by both sides over the pact's provisions drew warnings from National Democratic Front Negotiator Satur Ocampo that the cease-fire was "in jeopardy." How long it will last is another matter. The day after peace supposedly broke out, rebels paraded through a small village brandishing automatic weapons...
Before the signing, Mitra held a press 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...
...yeah? What's art, doc? You mean those six-minute strips of animated paint and ink that served as anarchic baby sitters for a couple of generations of Satur- day-matinee kids? A duck getting its beak blown askew by an irate hunter is art? Well, yeah, when the duck is Daffy and the hunter is the dully malevolent Elmer Fudd. In Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Daffy and Bugs are out to convince Elmer that the other is the legally blastable species. In the midst of an argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot...
...with the Harvard field hockey squad's 2-0 upset loss at the hands of Brown Satur. day, the Crimson stickwomen have tumbled from atop the Ivy League standings. Their entire season and a first ever Ivy title now hinges on a date at Yale this Saturday...
...order to cut costs, the Postal Service should stop delivering mail on Satur days. Distressing finding: even if it does that, and gets an increase in its subsidy from the Government, the cost of a first-class stamp will probably climb from the present...