During the early 1970s, the Venezuelan Government decreed a general amnesty in order to pacify the country.

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On April 22nd Mrs Merkel appeared before the Bundestag to defend NATO's plan to pacify the country alongside the Afghan army and police and then hand over responsibility for maintaining peace as quickly as possible.

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The world will have to either wait for a strong man to pacify the country or for some terrorist outrage, likely by Al Qaeda, that -- as with Afghanistan -- will force a massive international response.

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