Word: truce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...
After eleven months of bitter fighting, the two sides in Nigeria's bloody civil war finally sat down together last week and began truce talks in Uganda's capital of Kampala. "Whether the war is just or unjust is no longer the question," Uganda President Milton Obote told his guests from the federal government and secessionist Biafra. "The principal and overriding demand is to bring it to an end. I pray for the success of your talks." Almost immediately, however, the negotiations bogged down. Nigeria's Chief Anthony Eronsele Enahoro demanded talks before a ceasefire; Biafran Delegation...
...developments warrant. But already the Paris talks have broken all records for press coverage of peace negotiations. Fewer than 100 correspondents, for example, were in Reims to witness the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, and only 120 went to Kaesong for the opening of the Korean truce negotiations in 1951. The only major news organization not represented at the Paris talks, in fact, was Peking's New China
Looking for a Truce. The board's chief job is to bring a truce in what O'Connell calls the "war between economics and safety"-a war that until recently has been formidably one-sided. "We've found people too occupied with making money and getting another passenger aboard the plane," says O'Connell, "or patching things up till the steering wheel falls off. There hasn't been enough affirmative interest in safety." With blunt language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless...
Outside the official armistice meeting hall in Panmunjom, a bullet-riddled truck and some bloodstained clothing were put on display last week in mute testimony to North Korea's latest truce violations. A band of ten North Korean soldiers had ambushed the truck 1 mile south of the Demilitarized Zone, killing two American and two South Korean soldiers. Before the week was out, the North Koreans had made two more attacks on allied forces at the DMZ, killing two more South Koreans...