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By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press Writer

February 6, 2007, 9:28 PM EST
PARIS -- Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.

The signing capped a quarter-century of efforts by families of people who have vanished at the hands of governments.

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