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DATE: SUNDAY, March 28, 1993                   TAG: 9303280123
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA                                LENGTH: Short

SOMALIS AGREE ON GOVERNMENT

Somali leaders, vowing to trade "the logic of force for the ethic of dialogue," agreed Saturday to establish an interim government to end the anarchy that has locked their country in a deadly cycle of famine and violence.

After 13 days of bargaining at a U.N.-sponsored peace conference here, 15 chiefs of Somalia's warring factions reached a compromise accord to set up a three-tiered, federal-style administration to guide their country during a two-year period leading to elections.

Somalia has been without a government since Mohamed Siad Barre, the country's longtime autocratic ruler, fled in January 1991 amid an escalating civil war and widespread famine that led President George Bush to send troops last December.

The pact also commits Somali factions to "complete a simultaneous disarmament throughout the country" within 90 days, and it calls for multinational forces to buttress an existing cease-fire by imposing "strong and effective sanctions" against violators.

by CNB