1.   But Peru later said it had not yet accepted the truce.

2.   Clinton is gambling that the IRA will accept a truce in order to get a seat at the negotiating table for Sinn Fein.

3.   Ecuador agrees Tuesday to a cease-fire in its border conflict with Peru, but Lima has not accepted the truce.

4.   Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail told reporters that the government accepted a truce even though it is aware the rebels may benefit from it by regrouping and rearming.

5.   He appeared to reject an offer of asylum by Nigeria, aimed at persuading Taylor to accept a truce.

6.   In Lima, Rosa Jiminez, a Foreign Ministry press official, said Peru had not yet accepted the truce.

7.   Mandela, returning to South Africa, said President dos Santos of Angola had personnally committed his government on Tuesday morning to accepting a truce.

8.   Lissouba had already accepted the truce.

9.   On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney offered incentives to Yasser Arafat to accept a truce.

10.   The attack came a day after Sharon and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney offered incentives to Arafat to accept a truce.