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- WORLD, Page 37World NotesEL SALVADORHigh Time For Peace
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- 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.
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- 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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