Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dennis Banks, an Indian leader, jumped out to announce that both sides had agreed to a ceasefire proposed by the National Council of Churches of Christ. Reported Huff: "There were whoops of joy as the sun set behind a ridge spotted with the silhouettes of jagged pines." That precarious truce held despite a shootout between Indian patrol guards and federal marshals just an hour later. Two Indians were shot, one in the hand and one in the leg, and both sides argued over who had fired first...
...Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips were removed-inspiring newspapers...
...Hanoi officials and the Viet Cong released the names of 136 Americans who, they said, would be turned over to U.S. military representatives early this week in Hanoi. In another private meeting, between the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese, Saigon's representatives promised better protection for the Communist truce watchers. Yet Hanoi did not seem reassured, and at week's end the Communists withdrew their JMC field teams from Hué and Danang. They were flown in U.S. aircraft to Saigon, thus further delaying the already tardy truce supervision process...
...that empowered the army to rescind the draft deferments of any student who boycotted classes. The law only spurred more protests. Strikes and demonstrations spread to the University of Athens and to the Aristotelian University of Salonika to the north. The students have called a temporary truce, but another mass rally is scheduled for this week. If the government does not back down, warns one student leader, "we will come down the streets...
...little prospect that a lasting peace is coming rapidly to Indochina. Accords in Laos and Vietnam have stopped neither air attacks in Laos nor ground fighting in South Vietnam. Violations of some protocols of the January agreement and the meaningless execution of others demonstrate the nature of the truce. And the Congressional unwillingness to support American reparations is a continuing demonstration of the spirit in which this country waged...