Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story about the impending interim peace settlement in the Sinai brings me to think about how we have not thanked the United Nations soldiers for serving in what has to be the most unpleasant military duty in the world. Why not consider nominating the United Nations truce force in the Middle East for a collective Nobel Peace Prize at the next ceremonies in Stockholm...
...unprecedented American commitment to help maintain peace in the Middle East. The most widely debated proviso of the agreement is an article stipulating that the U.S. will send up to 200 civilian electronics experts to maintain surveillance stations in Sinai that will monitor troop and aircraft movements and report truce violations. Israel refused to ratify the pact without U.S. surveillance. Although not explicitly part of the deal, $2.3 billion in military aid for Israel in fiscal '76, as well as $700 million for Egypt, will now be presented for congressional approval by the Ford Administration. The U.S. will also...
...Gays and Psychiatry: An Uneasy Truce...
...bark is worse than his bite. Says Reddin: "People may remember him by his statements rather than his accomplishments." City Attorney Burt Pines certainly will. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a 1964 classmate of Davis at the police academy, recently had to negotiate a truce after Davis attacked Pines for being "soft" on pornographers, and Pines struck back, questioning the chief's professionalism in making charges without evidence. Last week Davis zeroed in on bigger game. Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss revealed that one reason the party chose New York over L.A. for its 1976 National Convention was fear...
Indefinite Truce. By the end of last week, the six-year casualty totals in Ulster's long-running sectarian warfare between a Protestant majority (1,037,600) and a Catholic minority (474,900) stood at 1,290 dead and 12,807 injured. Since the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army declared an indefinite "truce" last February, the casualties among British soldiers have been greatly reduced. Five members of the 13,000-man force have been killed since the cease-fire began, compared with 16 in the previous seven months. But the civilian killing has continued unabated, with...