Kashmir Residents Savor Cease-Fire
From Times Wire Reports
Relieved villagers on both sides of the India-Pakistan border were making holiday visits to relatives after the guns fell silent between the two nuclear-armed neighbors for the first time in 14 years.
A cease-fire between the two armies -- which traded machine-gun and mortar fire almost daily -- went into effect at midnight Tuesday. Indian and Pakistani army officials reported that there had been no firing along the 700-mile frontier.
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