Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan's U.N. building. But much of the week was consumed by his 11,344-mile round-trip flight to Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree to continue the truce and keep on talking. The Arabs charged that by drawing Jarring to Jerusalem, the Israelis were stalling in order to wreck the negotiations...
Agreement in Principle. In fact, the Israelis wanted to make a procedural point, and they felt that it was important enough to bring the patient, mild-mannered Swede all the way from New York City. In the three-year history of the on-and-off truce negotiations, procedure has often tended to become substance. The Arabs want discussions held at the U.N., where international pressure is on Israel to settle, and at the ambassadorial level. Israel wants talks held at Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete or some other Mediterranean location, and at the foreign minister level. The Israelis want face-to-face...
Sadat has bid for popularity among the lower classes by cutting some food prices, invoking price controls and launching an attack on black-market operators. He has declared a truce with a hostile middle class by revoking the laws that Nasser instituted a decade ago to seize their property. He told a visitor last week that he intends to release some 600 political prisoners. Streets in Cairo are being repaired and swept for a change, new street lights are being installed, and sandbags protecting the Nile bridges are being replaced by shrubbery...
...fighting in South Viet Nam ceased for 24 hours last week, to mark a Christmas truce. Meanwhile a crucial but often forgotten war continues in Cambodia-and, with the advent of the dry season, is gaining in intensity. There the Communist forces, composed primarily of North Vietnamese regulars, plus some Viet Cong and Cambodian Khmer Rouge, are as determined as ever to isolate the capital of Phnom-Penh from the rest of the country and thus discredit or even oust the "salvation government" of Premier...
...sides in the Middle East, the 90-day cease-fire that ended earlier this month became a time of military reinforcement. Now, with a second 90-day truce under way and their armories in order, the Middle East governments seem to be turning inward, taking advantage of the respite to settle long-smoldering political problems. Last week, from Syria to Egypt, a frenzy of internal housekeeping was in progress...