Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn country. Both the highly visible role played by Khaddam and the participation of Syrians on the truce teams were signs that Damascus has emerged, at least for the moment, as the most effective Arab power in the Middle East...
...rightist Christian militias, patrolled Christian sectors of the country. Within a few days, rival groups of gunmen had been separated. Widespread looting stopped after some lawbreakers were shot on sight by the P.L.A. and others were summarily tried and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. At week's end truce violations were limited to a few isolated ambushes and outbursts of gunfire...
...first time in 15 days-under Premier Rashid Karami, who had withdrawn his resignation. Civil servants were ordered back to their offices and schools and banks prepared to reopen. Although most Lebanese began breathing easier for the first time in weeks, there were fears that the truce was a fragile one and could again dissolve into fighting. "The country is in de facto partition," warned one Cabinet minister...
Several previous truce agreements, although usually negotiated in good faith by leaders of the warring factions, collapsed because they were unable to control the loosely organized and undisciplined militia nominally under their command. After the mid-January ceasefire negotiated by Karami (TIME, Jan. 26), for example, rightist forces in the capital, composed mostly of Phalangists, the "Tigers" of the National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were...
...never loved each other in your lifetime," Simenon says. Still, he was a dutiful son. The book takes the form of a meditation during the week Simenon spent at his mother's bedside while she was dying, slowly and peacefully, of old age. There had been no truce between them. Her first words to him were, "Why have you come, Georges...