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<text id=91TT2202>
<title>
Oct. 07, 1991: World Notes:El Salvador
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 37
World Notes
EL SALVADOR
High Time For Peace
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<p> When Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani addressed the
United Nations General Assembly last week, he predicted that
1991 would bring peace to his country. And high time too: a
civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has
left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17
months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels
signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating
the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into
society and offering assurances for their safety.
</p>
<p> The agreement also pledges to transfer the police force
from military to civilian control and permit former rebels to
join it. Moreover, the two sides agreed to reduce the size of
the army and purge officers notorious for human rights abuses.
Still unresolved are the timing of a cease-fire and the
disarming of the guerrillas.
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</body></article>
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