Word: truce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Habib's request, Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Moshe Arens on Wednesday to ask for a strict 48-hour truce. Habib needed the time to persuade the P.L.O. to submit to Lebanese government authority. Arens made no formal reply, but Israeli guns finally fell silent 24 hours later than Haig had requested. However, an aide traveling with Begin in the U.S. last week told TIME that Israel would not commit itself to a formal cease-fire but would consider arrangements to allow the P.L.O. to depart from the capital peacefully. Said the aide...
...Israelis besiege Beirut to await a truce-or a showdown
...warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces...
...months since the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-P.F.) of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980, he and Joshua Nkomo, 64, the portly, outspoken head of the opposition Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), have coexisted uneasily. Last week their shaky truce was shattered. Nkomo was unceremoniously stripped of his rank as Minister Without Portfolio in the Mugabe government, a post he was demoted to a year after Nkomo's party won 20 parliamentary seats in the 1980 elections (vs. 57 for Mugabe's). The accusation against Nkomo: conspiring...