World IN BRIEF : AFGHANISTAN : Dissidents Agree to Another Cease-Fire
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The beleaguered Islamic government announced another cease-fire with hard-line fundamentalists, who have rained destruction on the capital, Kabul, for nearly a month. However, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, chief of the dissident Hezb-i-Islami party, threatened to renew his bombardment unless the government accedes to his demand for the withdrawal of a formerly Communist militia from the capital within a week.
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