Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholics in Ulster trade killings in a kind of perpetual motion of futility. Arabs and Israelis stand tensely at borders of territorial, cultural and religious dispute. In the Philippines, Moslem separatists are in rebellion against a Christian majority. Greek-Cypriot Orthodox Christians confront Turkish-Cypriot Moslems across a sullen truce line. Pakistan separated from India because Moslems feared the rule of a Hindu majority...
While Nguyens were fighting Tay Sons in the south, the Trinh family, which rules the north, decided to break a 100-year truce and recapture the southern region that had split away in 1613. They managed to seize the southern capital of Hué last year, but the Tay Son brothers intercepted them in Quang Nam and halted their advance. Prospect: further bloodshed and confusion...
...Beirut last week. A khamsin, the seasonal wind from the desert, blew clouds of choking yellow dust into the tortured city, and between them, the storm and new political maneuvers brought an end to renewed fighting between leftists and rightists. Before the battles tapered off and an "armed truce" was reinstated, however, some 200 people had been killed in a single day in wild artillery and mortar duels. In one more senseless scene from a year long tragedy, three mortar rounds fell on a crowd of women shoppers and their children in West Beirut, killing seven and wounding...
...past, Berrigan has several times been reprimanded by the Roman Catholic church for his use of illegal means of social protest, and has even been threatened with expulsion from the priesthood. Berrigan characterizes his current relationship with the Vatican as "an uneasy truce." He maintains, however, that his relations with the Jesuit hierarchy to which he is much more immediately responsible are excellent...
...cease-fire in Lebanon sometimes seems like wide-open civil war anywhere else. During the first half of the latest ten-day truce (the 24th in five months), more than 300 people were killed in fighting between the rival Maronite Christians and an alliance of Moslems, leftists and Palestinian fedayeen. That brought the death total to more than 13,000 as Lebanon this week marks the first anniversary of the outbreak of the civil...