Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, Colombo engineered a truce between the warring Mafia factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese of New York City, and Slefano Magaddino of Buffalo. Who should be picked for the job but enterprising...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft was told by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad that Egypt had agreed to a written U.S. suggestion that Israel pull back from the canal to a line halfway across Sinai. The Egyptians would move to within 15 miles of the Israeli line, and a United Nations truce force would be set up between them...
...army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners, blew them up in the Jordanian desert, and openly challenged the army. This time Hussein, decrying the renewed fighting as a "shame to the Arab people," resolved to crush...
Considerably less charmed were the Americans who faced him nine years later across the table at the Korean truce talks in Panmunjom, where Huang led the Chinese delegation. He refused to speak English, would not shake hands with the American delegates and interminably denounced them as "capitalist crooks, rapists, thieves, robbers of widows." At one session, his marathon attacks became so insulting that Arthur Dean, chief American negotiator, gathered up his papers and stalked out of the conference room. One American participant recalls: "Huang Hua was quite stunned. He cried 'Come back!' That was the only time...
...statement accuses the Pakistani government of using tanks, planes and artillery against unarmed people and concludes,"... we fear that the present course of the government of Pakistan can lead only to disaster." It urges an immediate truce and prompt restoration of "legitimate and responsive government in East Pakistan...