Word: truce
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Spokesmen for the Protestant groups -- the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Red Hand Commandos -- linked their truce to the I.R.A.'s continued adherence to its own cease-fire. The Loyalists added a surprise note of apology for their terrorist actions, declaring their "abject and true remorse" to the loved ones of all innocent victims for the "intolerable suffering" they had endured. "We are on the threshold of a new beginning," the statement said, "with our battles in future being political battles...
Washington, who grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, recently helped negotiate a truce between the Crips and the Bloods, two of the city's most prominent gangs...
...coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." This is the third attack by Protestants since the cease-fire was announced a week ago. The I.R.A. has not avenged previous attacks, and the governments of Ireland and Great Britain appealed to the group to hold to its truce...
...truce could prove only temporary. A lot of Vermonters think of the battle in symbolic terms, referring to the store chain as "Sprawl-Mart," a term conveniently supplied last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wal-Mart opponents vow to fight the retailer's efforts to build stores in the more suburban locations of St. Albans and Williston, where Wal- Mart has unsuccessfully sought permits for the past four years. As the company surely knows by now, Vermonters give ground grudgingly when they give...
...Canada called a truce on the fierce "wheat war" between the two countries. American farmers have long complained that the Canadian government unfairly subsidizes its wheat exports, and undercuts U.S. farmers. The agreement reached today would impose high tariffs if Canadian wheat shipments to the U.S. exceed certain levels...