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Finally, in a dramatic finale on Friday, the three combatants reached a truce. Allied would acquire Bendix for $1.9 billion, and Marietta would remain an independent company. If the deal goes through, the firms will have spent about $4 billion, much of it borrowed from banks, to buy and shuffle about one another's shares. Yet no one seems quite sure what good, if any, will result...
...line. But unemployment's at 14 percent and rising, and the persistent work stoppages and management-labor animosity that the prime minister has done nothing to discourage are contributing to the slump. In such a situation. Thatcher can't afford to seek an unconditional surrender, only an evenly negotiated truce...
...edgy, spartan existence for U.S. soldiers stationed along the two-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. In the "truce village" of Panmunjom, through which the border runs, two large bunkers, essentially allied observation posts, are dug into barren knolls. One of the bunkers is known as Guard Post Ouellette...
...cycle of bloodshed and renewed stalemate intensified appeals for a rapid settlement of the 22-month-old conflict. Last week Iraqi President Saddam Hussein admitted that he was "favorably disposed" to Algeria's offer to serve as mediator between the two warring nations. He also suggested that the truce should become effective in early September, coinciding with the summit of non-aligned nations scheduled to take place in Baghdad. Bright banners already festoon the Iraqi capital, bearing the words WELCOME TO OUR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS in English, French and Arabic. For years Saddam Hussein has envisioned the summit...
...kidnaping, which took place in the heartland of Nkomo's Ndebele tribe, was just one of several recent signs that the uneasy truce among the Ndebeles, Mugabe's majority Shonas and Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last...