Word: truce
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...warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
DIED. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, 83, retired Air Force major general who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II for negotiating a truce with French soldiers during the Allied invasion of North Africa; in Brentwood, Calif. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J.P. Morgan, later helped set policy for NATO forces...
...months since the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-P.F.) of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980, he and Joshua Nkomo, 64, the portly, outspoken head of the opposition Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), have coexisted uneasily. Last week their shaky truce was shattered. Nkomo was unceremoniously stripped of his rank as Minister Without Portfolio in the Mugabe government, a post he was demoted to a year after Nkomo's party won 20 parliamentary seats in the 1980 elections (vs. 57 for Mugabe's). The accusation against Nkomo: conspiring...
...P.L.O. infiltration of the West Bank, he swung into action. At a press conference that the daily Ha'aretz described as "overdramatized," defense ministry officials declared since participants in the raid had been trained in Lebanon, the P.L.O. in effect had violated the July 1981 truce in southern Lebanon. As government radio and television commentators cried out Sharon against the summoned P.L.O. "provocation," Sharon summoned Eitan and a small group of generals and intelligence officers. Israeli tanks and troops were al ready moving north. Sharon decided that he and Eitan should take their plan for a limited attack...
...lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight of the lettering. So dire are the city's straits that Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been holding truce talks with the graffitists, who are asking him to concede them ten subway cars for their "artwork" in exchange for leaving the others clean. One artist by the name of CRASH, speaking in his native graffiti, thinks that the plan would "pass with flying colors...