Article: Yeltsin Sets Reforms for State Land; Georgian Rebels, Loyalists Agree to Truce, Negotiations

Russian President Boris Yeltsin today issued a sweeping order on the privatization of land that calls for the rapid reorganization of collective and state farms and encourages a sharp increase in the number of private plots before spring planting.

In Georgia, meanwhile, troops loyal to President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and rebels seeking his overthrow agreed tonight to a cease-fire and the start of negotiations over how to resolve fighting that has left at least 51 people dead and hundreds injured this week.

After two hours of talks, according to news reports from Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, several senior government officials

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