Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pure in heart. Said MacGuinness: "We will now begin to concentrate on army targets and sabotage their installations. We have proved we can do what we like in Londonderry. We are sick, sore and tired of being treated by the British government as little boys." Two days before the truce broke down, he was among the six Provo leaders flown secretly to London for talks with Ulster Proconsul William Whitelaw. Now, MacGuinness vowed, "we will not stop fighting until the Protestants and Catholics can live together without discrimination in housing, jobs or religion in a social, democratic and united Ireland...
...their confidence in the man who faces perhaps the toughest task in British politics since World War II. Whitelaw acknowledged the praise but declared sadly: "I deserve none of these things because I am not succeeding." Nonetheless, he emphasized that he would "continue to soldier through" to repair the truce. Accordingly, the British government sent in additional troops, bringing its strength in Ulster to 17,000, the highest ever...
...Protestants resent so deeply. Despite the I.R.A.'s demands that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed, at least for the time being, this glimmer of hope for an eventual reconciliation. Whitelaw's announcement of the discussions infuriated Ulster's Protestants, not simply because he had negotiated with the Catholic terrorists, but also because he had previously said that he would...
...sunny morning two months ago, a black sedan arrived at the "truce village" of Panmunjom on the boundary between South and North Korea. Its passengers included Hu Rak Lee, 48, director of South Korea's powerful Central Intelligence Agency, an aide and two bodyguards. At Panmunjom, Lee and his party transferred to a North Korean car, crossed the border and drove to the nearby village of Kaesong. There they boarded a helicopter for Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Lee was the first high-ranking South Korean official to visit Pyongyang since the armistice ending the fighting of the Korean...
...seven-point agreement flabbergasted Koreans on both sides of the truce line, if only because of the depth of the enmity that has separated the two countries. The North Korean invasion of the South in 1950 led to a war that lasted three years and took an estimated 1,000,000 lives (including those of more than 50,000 Americans). As recently as three years ago, a 31-man suicide squad from the North had attempted to assassinate South Korea's President Chung Hee Park...