Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 378 deaths, 1,682 bombings and 7,258 personal injuries over the past three years, the tentative truce could of course easily be broken. Just how easily was shown at week's end. Three days before the ceasefire, three British soldiers were killed when their Jeep ran over a land mine, and a Catholic youth was shot dead by a sniper in Belfast...
Tenuous as it may prove to be, however, the truce represented a breakthrough for Whitelaw (see box) and a handsome return on his determined policy of conciliation. Whitelaw released more than half of the Catholics who had been interned without trial by Faulkner's government. Last week he took another conciliatory step and ordered that 80 Catholics and 40 Protestants sentenced for political crimes such as carrying arms be treated as political prisoners. That meant that they will be allowed better food, more family visits and ordinary clothes. The ruling came just in time to save some...
...I.R.A.'s truce offer means that Whitelaw has won valuable time for further political initiatives. As a next move, he would like to convene a meeting on Northern Ireland's future at which all quarreling factions would be represented. The I.R.A.'s cease-fire was obviously a bid for a voice at such a meeting, but nothing will infuriate Protestant loyalists more than the suggestion that they join what one of them last week called "a compact with the Queen's enemies." Whitelaw, therefore, is in the position of a referee who has managed at last...
France Sour, a Paris newspaper, and the United States had proposed in a secret exchange with North Vietnam that a seven-day truce be put into effect, apparently to be followed by a general cease-fire...
...officials denied the truce and cease-fire report as "completely without foundation." North Vietnamese officials noted inquiries about the report but had no comment. Neither side commented on reports that secret talks had begun...