The Middle East Situation

Despite impressive progress in other fields, the new military rulers in Sudan have as yet made no headway on the key problem of making peace with the rebels in the south of the country. Hopes current earlier in the week that the leader of the rebellion, Col. John Garang, would visit Khartoum for peace talks were shattered at MEES press time on 19 April, when the rebel radio announced that the southern rebels had resumed fighting and would never negotiate with the...