Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely that the President will soon put forward a new American initiative, including some sort of cease fire proposal, coupled with what has remained consistent U.S. policy: international supervision of any truce, free elections, and no imposition of a coalition government through negotiation against the wishes of Saigon. There is speculation that Nixon may announce his plan-perhaps linking it with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes...
Fighting in the North. As the bizarre skyjacking affair was ending, Jordan's civil war also seemed to be moving toward conclusion after ten days of savage fighting. A truce team of officers from six other Arab nations arrived to supervise a cease-fire under the terms of a 14-point agreement negotiated earlier in Cairo. There was still sporadic fighting in the northern sector of Jordan, however, and 20 people were killed in an army-guerrilla clash...
...Amman, where the heaviest fighting of the war had taken place, shooting had already stopped. Under the peace plan, both guerrillas and army personnel were leaving. Joint teams of truce officials, guerrillas and Jordanian army officers ranged through the city supervising the evacuation...
...always easier to make war than make a truce," he added...
Declaring that "an unconventional war may require an unconventional truce," Nixon announced that he was prepared to negotiate a timetable for the complete withdrawal of North Vietnamese and American troops from the war zone...