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IN BRIEF
Palestinians elect Abbas
by wide margin
RAM ALLAH, West Bank — Mah
moud Abbas was elected Palestinian
Authority president by a wide margin
Sunday, giving him a decisive man
date to renew peace talks with Israel,
rein in militants and try to end more
than four years of Mideast bloodshed.
The victory of the staid, pragmatic Ab
bas, who has spoken out against vio
lence and has the backing of the inter
national community, was expected to
usher in a new era, after four decades
of chaotic and corruption-riddled rule
by Yasser Arafat who died Nov. 11.
U.S. troops open fire,
killing 8 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops
opened fire near a checkpoint south of
Baghdad after their convoy was hit by
a roadside bomb and a hospital official
said Sunday at least eight people were
killed in the second American attack in
two days to have deadly results. In oth
er violence Sunday, a U.S. soldier as
signed to Task Force Baghdad was
killed by a roadside bomb, while a Ma
rine was killed in action in the volatile
Anbar province.
— The Associated Press
Sudan’s peace deal ends ‘dark chapter’
Sudan’s vice president and the country’s main rebel leader signed
a peace agreement Sunday to end Africa’s longest running conflict.
Important developments in southern Sudan
134/ amain recogniz
es that Sudanese in
dependence is inevi
table, and fuses north
and south Sudan.
1955 Southerners
take up arms for inde
pendence from the
government in Khar
toum, the capital.
1956 Sudan be
comes an indepen
dent nation, the same
year an organized
southern rebel move
ment, the Anya-Nya,
revolts against the
government.
1962 John Garang
joins the southern
rebels.
1972 A peace
agreement is
reached in Addis
Ababa.
1977 The gov
ernment in Khartoum
begins making unilat
eral changes to the
peace agreement.
June 5, 1983 Gen.
Jaafar al-Nimeiri, the
Sudanese president
who negotiated the
Addis Ababa peace
agreement, declares
it void. John Garang
emerges as the leader
of the Sudanese Peo
ple’s Liberation Army,
with goal of over
throwing the Islamic
government.
June 30, 1989 Gen.
Omar el-Bashir takes
power in a coup d’etat.
1994 Regional peace
efforts begin.
1997 Sudanese
government
accepts a
declaration of
principles and serious
peace talks begin.
July 20, 2002 Sides
sign the Machakos
Protocol in Kenya to
decide how peace
talks are to proceed.
Sept. 25, 2003 Proto
col on security ar
rangements is signed.
Jan. 7 Wealth shanng
protocol is signed.
May 26 Power shar
ing protocol is signed.
June 5 Talks to com
bine protocols into a
comprehensive peace
agreement begin.
Dec. 31 A permanent
cease-fire is signed.
Jan. 9, 2005 A com
prehensive peace
agreement is signed.
Sudan’s
Vice President,
wjAli Osman Mohammed
0 Taha, left, and SPLA
Chairman John Garang, right,
exchange peace agreement
documents.
AP
OSAC to cut loan
division March 1
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EUGENE — The Oregon Student
Assistance Commission is shutting
down its student loan division, after
seeing its share of the market shrink
over the past few years.
At one time, the student assistance
commission was the state’s primary
student loan guarantor. But now, the
commission’s portfolio is being turned
over to Educational Credit Manage
ment Corp., a non-profit student loan
guarantor headquartered in Minneso
ta that expects to take over the Oregon
system on March 1.
About 50 people at the state
agency’s headquarters in Eugene have
been or soon will be laid off, although
most already have found other jobs.
Borrowers should see little change
in how their loan payments are han
dled once the changeover is complete.
The Legislative Emergency Board
on Friday approved spending almost
$700,000 to cover costs associated
with closing the loan program.
The Student Assistance Commis
sion’s market share shrank after the
advent of the Direct Lending program.
“It has become clear to the commis
sion that the reimbursement we were
receiving for operating the loan pro
gram for the federal government was
not sufficient to carry the program
long-term,” said Margie Lowe, the
commission’s new executive director.
“Our financial position just continued
to erode and cash flow was becoming
more and more of a concern.”
The commission will continue to
manage the Oregon Opportunity
Grant, the state’s main need-based col
lege aid program, and to coordinate
more than 200 scholarships on behalf
pf private donors.
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