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...responsible tried for murder, even though a new amnesty law prevents any of the perpetrators from having to serve time for political crimes. They would also welcome the final dissolution of the notorious battalion, as was stipulated under the current peace plan signed by both the government and the rebels last January. But the San Salvador government has indefinitely suspended the battalion's disbanding, claiming the F.M.L.N. has yet to demobilize its troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will not meet the Oct. 31 disarmament deadline because...
...these reconciliations remained elusive right to the end, if indeed there is a peaceful end. Piqued at losing the vote to the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), erstwhile rebel Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), claimed that the MPLA rigged the result and only reluctantly withdrew his threat to take his troops out of the newly unified Angolan army, a move that would have put the country back on the brink of civil war. In Mozambique the immediate problem is to get the message of peace...
...summer that I can't shut my eyes to my writing. Fantasies about latching onto the easy spirit of the American dream are slowly losing their place in my imagination. I've tried therapy but, with Norman Mailer, "I wonder if their ends are essentially different, the artist a rebel concerned with Becoming, the analyst a regulator concerned with Being...
...summer that I can't shut my eyes to my writing. Fantasies about latching into the easy spirit of the American dream are slowly losing their lace in my imagination. I've tried therapy but, with Norman Mailer, "I wonder if their ends are essentially different, the artist a rebel concerned with Becoming, the analyst a regulator concerned with Being...
...third time this year, the elected President of a former Soviet republic has been forced out of office by a popular uprising. Rebel militiamen in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, seized President Rakhmon Nabiyev as he drove to the airport and forced him at gunpoint to sign a formal resignation. Nabiyev, the longtime communist boss of Tajikistan, won almost 60% of the vote in a presidential election last November. Fighting broke out between Nabiyev's supporters and his rivals, a coalition of democratic and Islamic groups, and in recent weeks the clashes turned into civil...