Word: truce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. infiltration of the West Bank, he swung into action. At a press conference that the daily Ha'aretz described as "overdramatized," defense ministry officials declared since participants in the raid had been trained in Lebanon, the P.L.O. in effect had violated the July 1981 truce in southern Lebanon. As government radio and television commentators cried out Sharon against the summoned P.L.O. "provocation," Sharon summoned Eitan and a small group of generals and intelligence officers. Israeli tanks and troops were al ready moving north. Sharon decided that he and Eitan should take their plan for a limited attack...
...lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight of the lettering. So dire are the city's straits that Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been holding truce talks with the graffitists, who are asking him to concede them ten subway cars for their "artwork" in exchange for leaving the others clean. One artist by the name of CRASH, speaking in his native graffiti, thinks that the plan would "pass with flying colors...
...Jersey. The feud is unequivocally over. All is forgiven. Forgotten? Not just yet. "Why, we're plain old Hatfields and McCoys," says one of the latter in a shrugging, boiler-plate disclaimer, "good friends and neighbors . . ." Yet after a reminiscence has meandered a while, and the truce reaffirmed again, the rote kindliness can give way to neat bursts of partisanship. In bits and pieces, a little blame is assigned, victory claimed. The legacy is not erased, just quiet and manageable. Modern Hatfields and McCoys do not quite know whether to be proud or embarrassed by their inglorious family histories...
...should not fight the United States." As Yamamoto saw it, there was only one slim chance for victory if war with the U.S. were to be pursued. A massive surprise Midway on Pearl Harbor might inflict enough damage on the U.S. Pacific Fleet based there to win an early truce from Washington...
...states. That, in turn, would greatly increase the threat of a new Middle East war. Deeply worried that Lebanon's fragile cease-fire could soon crack, the Reagan Administration planned to dispatch Special Envoy Philip Habib back to the region after the Arab summit to seek a lasting truce...