Word: truce
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...tons of weapons allegedly used by death squads. Yet despite President Virgilio Barco Vargas' determination to continue his crusade against the Extraditables, the monthlong counterattack by the cartel has begun to take its toll. Weary of the violence, Colombians from all sectors of society are calling for a truce and a direct dialogue between the government and the drug barons. Former President Alfonso Lopez Michelson says Colombia will have to "eventually sit down and talk things out with all the forces of destabilization in the country...
...German officer entered Warsaw under a flag of truce on Sept. 16 and delivered an ultimatum: surrender in 24 hours or artillery would begin shelling the entire city. The Polish commandant refused to receive the message. German planes dropped leaflets with the same warning. Then the shelling came...
...these trends continue, it could mean truce, then peace on these far-flung battlefields. Wars, including cold ones, don't end until people stop dying in them. By folding up the Reagan Doctrine, the U.S. can provide some cover for Moscow's retreat, perhaps helping end the expansionist phase in Soviet history. Such a strategy might even come to be called the Bush Doctrine...
...moderate as dean, but faculty members believe he will still take an active role in the Law School's ideological battles. On the other hand, outgoing Dean James Vorenberg '49 was seen as a consensus builder, who appealed to Bok when the political turmoil threatened the school's uneasy truce...
...nightmare of Tet. At dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968, fireworks sputtered in celebration of the lunar new year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What the hell...