Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the current condition is a hollow truce and not a resolution. As it is on the blackboard of the second floor storeroom, the fundamental question here, "Ain't they got no shame?" is still unanswered...
...Boston Irish needed their culture a hundred years ago. It was the only frame of reference they had during their war with Boston's Brahmins. Now the war is over, although neither side emerged the victor, and the truce has brought with it a free intermingling of the two, and an erosion of the Boston Irish community. The assimilation has affected other ethnic groups as well, to the point where Boston's suburbs are a melange of nationalities (with blacks and Spanish-speaking people, of course, neatly excluded), all whipped into one bland, suburban culture. The Brahmin oppression is dead...
...Dilemma. The I.R.A., though, was clearly in a dilemma, and reports persisted of a split between some units in Ulster and the leadership south of the border over whether to declare a temporary truce. If the I.R.A. ceased bombing, it stood to lose momentum in its goal to drive the British out of Ireland entirely. If the I.R.A. continued, it could lose the support of Ulster's Catholics, whose immediate demands had been met by the end of the Stormont government, and by a British promise to begin releasing terrorist suspects who had been interned since last summer. "Very...
...date for British troop withdrawal from the province, abolition of Ulster's parliament, and amnesty for political prisoners. But the initiative stirred little response from either the Stormont or Westminster government, leading one I.R.A. leader to declare: "It's now total war." The day after the truce ended, a 200-lb. gelignite bomb shattered windows and tore the roofs off several buildings in downtown Belfast. Another I.R.A. explosive, left in a parked car, killed two British Army specialists who were trying to dismantle...
Last week that unspoken truce was broken as 4,000 Cambodian troops began encircling Angkor in an attempt to cut off the Communists' supply lines and starve them into submission. It was an uneven contest. The Communists could strike out at any point on the city's 60-mile perimeter, and had all the defensive advantages of an underground bunker complex. Government troops, meanwhile, were under strict orders not to direct artillery fire at the city and to use even their rifles sparingly...