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...Robert P. Wolff '54, head of the prodivestment Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, on a meeting this week with Harvard Alumni Association officials, where a "truce" was called on acrimonious campaigns for the Board of Overseers...
...House vote marked a truce between feuding Democrats John Dingell of Michigan, a dogged opponent of auto regulation, and California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile...
Despite occasional gunfire, the truce held last week, allowing a semblance of normality to return to Beirut. Its residents have watched cease-fires come and go, but one promising tip-off suggests this one will last for a while. The price of plate glass for replacing the thousands of windowpanes shattered by gunfire and artillery barrages quadrupled within hours...
Such forthrightness will be essential if the two sides are going to settle their monumental differences. Before there can be an election in which both sides will agree to participate, for instance, there must be a permanent cease-fire. In mid-September the F.M.L.N. announced an eleven-day unilateral truce, but Cristiani claims that the rebels have not honored it. Said he: "They're still attacking our forces and using ((land)) mines...
...endorsed by Syria, which has more than 30,000 troops in the strife-torn country, and its Lebanese allies. It marks the first time since the two sides began waging open warfare six months ago, at a cost of more than 800 lives, that both sides have accepted a truce proposal...