U.N. Truce Team Takes Position
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Hundreds of U.N. observers moved into position today for a cease-fire Saturday morning that will bring at least a temporary halt to an 8-year-old war that has cost Iran and Iraq more than a million casualties.
Women dressed in traditional Arab robes sprinkled rose petals on the men in blue berets as their convoy left Baghdad. Their posts are along the 730 miles of border that begins in the southern marshlands and snakes north to the rugged mountains of Kurdistan.
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