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The editorial encouraged Asian governments to press Myanmar to break its stalemate.
Since the Irish Republican Army refuses to decommission its weapons before representatives of Sinn Fein, its political wing, are seated in the new Northern Ireland executive, and since the Unionist leader refuses to call the assembly to order before the IRA gives up at least some of its arms, the current stalemate seems fairly intractable.
But the polarized stalemate can't continue much longer, for two reasons.
The Washington Post leads with the extra-innings Kosovo negotiations in France, stressing Madeleine Albright's statement that NATO will not bomb Serbia if the continuation of the stalemate is due to objections from both Albanians and Serbs.
In an editorial, it urged the United States to back Netanyahu's proposal for a summit with Yasser Arafat, who, it claimed, was now responsible for the stalemate in the peace process.