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World IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Rivals Agree to Anti-Violence Pact

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

The African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa’s rival main black groups, signed an agreement in Johannesburg aimed at preventing violence when they commemorate the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Today is the 33rd anniversary of the massacre, when police opened fire on an unarmed crowd in the township south of Johannesburg, killing 69 people.

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