Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another key goal of the conference is finding a formula for the installation of a peace-keeping force, probably supplied by Commonwealth nations, to supervise a truce until new elections can be held. If that compromise cannot be achieved, neither side has any alternative but to keep fighting it out on the battlefield, where no one has any hope of a victory...
...numbed British officials sought out I.R.A. leaders for discussions on a truce. The I.R.A. outlined its demands, including British withdrawal by the mid-1970s. The British government refused, distrustful of the I.R.A. Since then, the Provos and the much smaller I.N.L. A. have forged closer links with other international groups, notably the Palestinians and the Basques, and received assistance in obtaining weapons and guerrilla training. They have also gained more sophisticated expertise in explosives. Last week's deadly precision was a far cry from the crudely made devices of earlier times that often proved more dangerous to those...
...appeared to be an insoluble political crisis lasting 186 days-a new national record-and dating back to January when Premier Giulio Andreotti was toppled by the Communists' withdrawal of their parliamentary support. It also showed every sign of being a stopgap. "We will have a government of truce," quipped a deputy in a cartoon in Turin's daily Stampa Sera. "Hostilities will be resumed at a date to be agreed upon...
...thing, the Administration did not want that debate to be clouded by its current squabble with the Israelis over their opposition to a U.S. plan to replace the 4,000-man armed U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai with a much smaller number of unarmed truce observers. More important, Washington wanted to buy time for private bargaining over the diplomatic language to be used in a possible new U.N. resolution on the Middle East...
...month mandate to maintain peace in the Sinai was quietly allowed to expire last week in order to avert a Soviet veto in the Security Council. The U.S. proposed a compromise plan-carefully prearranged between Washington and Moscow-to deploy the unarmed observers of the 295-man United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in place of the U.N. Emergency Force...