As he thought that such a resignation would have a destabilising effect, Sudirman stayed his hand, and a Java-wide cease fire came into effect on 11 August 1949.
As preparations were made to resume the advance, the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's subsequent unconditional surrender brought the fighting on Bougainville to an end and a cease fire came into effect.
A cease fire has gone into effect between Egypt and Israel and Russia and West Germany have come to an agreement.
8 47 PM Channel 2 TV Poll about cease fire: 70% against 24% in favor 6% undecided — Muqata (@Muqata) 21 Nov 12 During the eight days of bombardment before Wednesday's cease-fire went into effect, hundreds of Palestinian casualties were rushed to the emergency room in Gaza's Shifa Hospital, with the latest figures from Unicef showing many of them were children.
He added: "Hamas displays no regard for human life and must cease firing rockets into Israel and digging tunnels to facilitate the murder of civilians.
Neither the new Islamist government in Egypt nor the established one in Turkey has succeeded in persuading Hamas to cease firing rockets from Gaza into Israel.
It is excellent that Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat's successor, is breaking out of the vicious circle of the intifada, talking the armed factions into ceasing fire and so setting the scene not only for a tentative, reciprocal ceasefire from Israel but also for a meeting next week with Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
Hearing the collective cooing, Israeli and Palestinian armed forces immediately ceased fire and threw their weapons into an enormous trash pile before running across the once-disputed Gaza Strip and West Bank to embrace their past enemies.
By 10 17, both sides had ceased firing and the Ottoman fleet withdrew into the Dardanelles.
Among the central issues are whether Hamas may be willing to meet Israel's basic demand that it cease rocket fire into the Jewish state.
Mr. Bush said he would decide whether Secretary of State Colin L. Powell would get involved in trying to transform the cease-fire into renewed peace talks after assessing the efforts of the Palestinians and Israelis to calm the violence.
