Word: truce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers will not be found here; children and adults alike deserve to see the film and be surprised by its resolution. But it can be said that by film's end an uneasy truce obtains. Like pairs off with like, and the childhood friends are last seen in their separate worlds, awash in rueful nostalgia and a musical score that ends in a minor key. Viewers should be less melancholy. They need not leave this film comparing it unfavorably with the great Disney films of everyone's youth...
...Englishman, I say both the I.R.A. and the extreme Protestant factions are murderers and must be treated as such. If only Bobby Sands had struck for truce talks or had suggested a workable solution, he would have been a real hero. Northern Ireland does not need a Bobby Sands, whose hunger strike was planned provocation. It needs a new peace movement. It needs the majority of sensible Irish to tell the minority of senseless fanatics to stop...
Thus did political violence return to Spain last week at a critical moment for the country's beleaguered young democracy. Ever since an abortive military coup last February, the army and the government have coexisted in an uneasy truce. Last week's attacks clearly seemed to be aimed at undermining that shaky stability. The targets were exclusively military-men and police officers, and their funerals attracted hundreds of right-wing demonstrators who angrily denounced the government and called for the army to seize power...
...week's end the weak Lebanese security forces took up truce-keeping duties in Zahle. But both sides were already building up their reinforcements with a vengeance. The betting was that it would be only an interlude, too brief, as always before another bloody siege...
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...