Word: truce
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...main theater, quiet, of a sort, came to the Serb-besieged town of Srebrenica under a United Nations-arranged truce. Still, pressure mounted in the U.S. for intervention: a dozen Balkan desk officers in the State Department urged air strikes, unilateral if necessary, to protect besieged cities. President Clinton at his news conference ruled nothing out but again disavowed any unilateral action. The most the Administration is likely to do soon is to press for a lifting of the embargo against arms shipments to Bosnia. Supplying Bosnia with heavy weapons -- or letting others do it -- is the step least likely...
...reconstruction to small volunteer organizations and an overstretched investment drive; the lame- duck mayor receded into city hall; the Federal Government turned its back; minority groups fumed about the patronizing attitude of their would-be helpers; police remained mostly unrepentant about the Rodney King beating; and gangs declared a truce but kept on selling drugs and robbing people...
...delicate truce prevails among black gangs, including some affiliated with the Crips and the Bloods, who conduct much of the city's drug business. Arranged among the gangs themselves and nurtured by community groups, the truce is meant to curb the turf wars that cut down members and bystanders alike. Yet gang killings hit a record high last year, accounting for 430 of the city's 1,100 murders, in part because efforts to extend the truce to the Latino gangs of the city's east side have failed. The rising body count is due partly to the popularity...
...strike bombers and attack aircraft. Powell's report falls well short of Clinton's hopes for a major restructuring of the military, and will play little role in the defense budget the President sends Congress next month. Before then Clinton is likely to visit the Pentagon to seek a truce...
...successful 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, took the helm of Rebuild L.A., the city's formal rebuilding effort. Angelenos also warmly greeted new police chief Willie Williams, who arrived from Philadelphia in July after the forced resignation of the combative Daryl Gates. The era of good feeling even produced a truce between street gangs and a summer-long drop in black-gang-related homicides...