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Word: truce (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October Arab-Israeli war brought a temporary truce, and diplomatic relations were reestablished. Iraq then felt free to send an army division to face the Israelis on Syria's Golan Heights. With the ceasefire, the Iraqi troops were again posted on the Iranian frontier. Inevitably, a series of border incidents led to last week's duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Moslem v. Moslem | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Kimberly Rath failed until now to make that traditional truce with the self where you are resigned to cropping both your hopes and losses. Failure had brought pain--with acid bummers riding her mind, with a bad trip to California, with sanpaku and Harley, who cared--maybe in the wrong ways. Kimberly must have felt scared, and something in her fear drove her to the place of this old and settled...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...letter of the disengagement agreement but to exceed its requirements. The withdrawal from the west bank, which is supposed to take 28 days to complete, was actually begun two days early. At the same time, Israeli forces voluntarily handed back six wounded Egyptian prisoners captured since the October truce and made plans to return 89 other unwounded Egyptian P.O.W.s taken prisoner along the cease-fire lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Pulling Back for Peace | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Disengagement is the sixth and ultimate point of Henry Kissinger's ceasefire agreement worked out in early November. The Egyptian position is that in accepting the earlier five points, including U.N. truce observers and an exchange of prisoners of war, Cairo gave more than it got. Thus the Egyptians maintain in public that the sixth point, disengagement, should be carried out unilaterally by the Israelis. Privately, both sides broadly hint that they expect a settlement on the issue this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Grappling with the Tactics of Peace | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...soon be able to show not only his own people but also more intractable Arab leaders that his strategy of trusting Kissinger and going the negotiating route can produce better results than a resumption of fighting. For its part, Israel would prefer an agreement to end the rash of truce violations that have claimed 14 dead and 60 wounded since the ceasefire. In one incident last week, three Israeli soldiers were killed when Syrian mortar shells hit their trench. On the Suez front on election day, there were 72 incidents involving mortar fire, small arms and antitank missiles. Israeli leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Grappling with the Tactics of Peace | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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