WORLD IN BRIEF : EL SALVADOR : Rebels, Government Prepare for Talks
El Salvador’s right-wing government and leftist rebels head into peace talks today in Costa Rica proposing opposite routes for ending their nation’s 10-year-old civil war. President Alfredo Cristiani has said his representatives will ask the rebels to agree to an immediate end to hostilities, which he said would create a climate for later negotiations on eliminating the causes of the war. However, the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front insist that the government make political, judicial and military reforms before they stop fighting.
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