Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principle of confidentiality in international negotiations. On the strength of the official publication and the pledge that no other promises were still secret, Congress was satisfied enough to move toward a vote to ratify the assignment of 200 electronics technicians to the Sinai to monitor the Egyptian-Israeli truce there. A House vote of approval is expected this week; the Senate vote will follow. Oil experts from Egypt are then set to move into the Sinai oilfields, later than the original Oct. 5 date specified in the Kissinger negotiations but not too late to imperil the agreement itself...
Mike Mansfield's ability to equate 200 civilians monitoring the Sinai truce with "another Viet Nam" [Sept. 8] is symptomatic of a national failing. Too often, Americans have overreacted to the lessons of history rather than learn from them...
...halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
...mission was to sell Congress* on the soundness of the Sinai accord he had worked out between Israel and Egypt. Since the agreement includes not only massive sweeteners in the form of U.S. aid but also the stationing of U.S. civilian technicians in the Sinai to monitor the truce electronically, Kissinger and President Ford are seeking a congressional resolution of support. Such a resolution, they hope, will not only silence domestic critics but also provide tangible support to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who are both being hounded by vocal critics...
...whether these two rival forces can forge at least a temporary truce in the long-running war between labor and management. With so much at stake, the question of who rules Britain has become almost totally identified with another and perhaps more urgent question: Who rules the shop floor...