Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governments involved, a time limit on the commission's existence, an understanding that the supervisory force be unarmed, nonmilitary and confined to observation and supervision, and the creation of some parent multinational body to which to report its findings. Also, Canada insists that reports of a truce violation need not be unanimous. Explained one official: "Under the old I.C.C., the Canadian might have observed an infraction, the Indian said, 'I don't see anything,' and the Pole suggested, 'Let's all go have a drink...
...Provisionals were plainly trying to win back by force a place at the conference table that they have been denied since last summer's fragile truce broke down and they resumed bombing. Last week British Prime Minister Edward Heath revealed in Parliament that I.R.A. truce feelers had recently been made again through intermediaries, but the Provisionals' conditions for political talks are unacceptable to the British: a declaration of British intent to quit Northern Ireland, withdrawal of troops to their barracks, and a general amnesty. The British government is no longer interested, and not only out of fear...
...over how to conduct its campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland, MacStiofáin became leader of the Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the subsequent bombings and terrorist shootings in the North. Until his arrest last week, his leadership remained unchallenged. During a temporary truce last June, the British government brought him to London as head of an I.R.A. negotiating team, but violence broke out again in Ulster a few days later. British officials consider MacStiofáin ruthless and impossible to deal with, and urgently pressed the Dublin government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch...
There are other, less troublesome items on the Paris agenda. The negotiators must agree on the coordination of a truce in South Viet Nam with parallel cease-fires in Laos and Cambodia. They must also settle on a site for the multi-nation "guarantee conference" that is supposed to convene within 30 days to deal with the larger problems of peace in Viet Nam and presumably the rest of Indochina as well. Paris is questionable as a site because Saigon feels that France is partial to the North Vietnamese; Geneva is out, since Hanoi has bitter memories of the city...
...during the long bombing campaign; over 50 are civilians, trapped while out on patrol. One of them, Lieut, (j.g.) Everett Alvarez, now 34, was shot down fully eight years ago; others, still unidentified, may have been seized during the past few weeks. In the 60 days after the impending truce settlement, they will all begin their voyage home...