Word: truce
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...ended an uneasy truce between warring guerrilla armies. The principal antagonists are two rival leaders who are members of Chad's own central government: President Goukouni Oueddei and Defense Minister Hissene Habré. The two ex-soldiers once fought as Muslim allies during the country's 14-year civil war. Now they are locked in a personal power struggle, with their respective forces (Oueddei's 6,800; Habré's 5,000) shelling each other's urban strongholds...
Last August all eleven factions met in the Nigerian capital of Lagos to attempt to reach agreement, and they established a fragile government of national unity. But the new coalition government has barely functioned since its inauguration. Last week the Lagos truce appeared to have been irrevocably shattered...
Cossiga's Cabinet, born as a stopgap "government of truce" after last summer's inconclusive national election, caved in after the Socialists announced that they would no longer keep it afloat by abstaining on key votes.* Cossiga did not bother to go through the formality of a vote of confidence. After a brief parliamentary debate, he routinely visited the Quirinale Palace to submit his resignation; just as routinely, President Alessandro Pertini asked him to stay on as caretaker...
Before yanking the Olympics off to sanctified Greece, look at your Thucydides, wherein you'll find that in 420 B.C. guards were used at Olympia, ostensibly to prevent an "invasion" by Spartans, who had been barred from the Games, allegedly for violating an Olympic truce. Purity has always been in short supply, and history does indeed seem to repeat itself. Jack C. Rossetter Elmwood Park...
...over some other disturbing Middle East developments. In Lebanon, there was more sporadic fighting as the result of Syria's decision to withdraw most of its peacekeeping forces from Beirut. With the Syrian troops out, the Lebanese civil war may break out again, after an uneasy three-year truce...