Word: truce
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...fiercest attacks in more than a decade, Israeli warplanes and artillery rained fire on southern Lebanese villages in retaliation for rocket attacks by the pro-Iranian guerrillas of Hizballah. Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered truce in the weeklong offensive only after Hizballah pledged to stop guerrilla raids. More than half a million refugees have fled the U.N.-controlled southern security zone in recent weeks. The U.S. rebuked all parties, including Israel and Syria, for slowing the peace process...
...tell, don't pursue" -- that would meet the military's requirements while trying to define what one official called a "zone of privacy" for gay servicemen and -women. But the military's chief congressional ally, Armed Services chairman Senator Sam Nunn, was taking no chances. Ending his truce with the White House, Nunn announced that he would introduce legislation to codify a strict interpretation of "Don't ask, don't tell" -- one that would preserve the policy that declares "Homosexuality is incompatible with military service...
...creation of 755,000 new jobs since he took office. "This is the most decisive presidency you've had in a very long time on all the big issues that matter," he said. The question-and-answer sessions represented a wary revival of Clinton's on- again, off-again truce with the media, which had reached a new low early in the week after Clinton introduced his Supreme Court nominee. When ABC correspondent Brit Hume asked about "a certain zigzag quality" in White House decision making, the President said peevishly, "How you could ask a question like that after...
...MUCH BALLYHOOED MAY 27 MEETING WITH IBM CEO LOUIS GERSTNER JR.; A TRUCE WAS EXPECTED IN THEIR FEUD OVER SOFTWARE: It's the most overhyped meeting of all time...
...carefully negotiated truce in the relations between the sexes can in large part, be attributed to a degree of change in male attitudes and expectations. The cessation of hostilities has allowed for the emergence of admirably modern men with a progressive vision of human relations and a talent for the realization of possibilities. In a highly unscientific survey of friends, Neil L. Rudenstine narrowly beat out Bill Clinton as an avatar of this new male sensibility...