Envoys work to close cease-fire in Ivory Coast

Saturday, October 5, 2002

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- West African peacemakers struggled to hold together a cease-fire deal Friday in divided Ivory Coast -- while rebels accused loyalists of readying their long-threatened counterattack under cover of truce talks.

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