Word: truce
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Political tensions could destroy the truce among OPEC nations. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained for years. The Saudis have been financing Iraqi attacks against Iran, which has itself fired upon Saudi oil tankers in the Persian Gulf region...
...Chernobyl last month. "He goes shopping, and people come up and ask him if they are in danger," Louis says. "He answers calmly and objectively, as a scientist, and tells them they can eat the apples and not to worry." Sakharov may also be ready to call a truce with the Kremlin. Bonner's daughter Tatyana Yankelevich said in Paris that her stepfather had offered "to cease his public activities, and wants to return to his scientific activity...
...veteran troubleshooter had assured him that the U.S. "was not in any way telling us how to run our affairs." Habib was similarly silent after a 55-minute visit with Aquino. The meeting was apparently cordial but ended on a somber note as Aquino reiterated her position that a truce with Marcos was impossible. Said she: "I made it clear that in no way could I be part of the Marcos government...
...Punjab city of Amritsar, an uneasy truce was holding at week's end between militant and moderate Sikh groups that had earlier exchanged gunfire at their most sacred shrine, the Golden Temple. The groups were fighting for the right to rebuild a revered part of the temple complex called the Akal Takht, which was severely damaged in a June 1984 siege by the Indian army. That military action, in which at least 600 Sikhs died, inflamed unrest and ultimately led to Indira Gandhi's assassination...
...Tito Okello, had appealed to the rebels to lay down their guns and join his government. On Dec. 17 he met with Insurgent Leader Yoweri Museveni in neighboring Kenya and signed a peace accord that called for Museveni to become deputy chairman of a restructured military council. But the truce soon fell apart. In Uganda, generals may come and go, but the blood always seems to flow...