Word: truce
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...truce was called. The Eagle Point schools finally reopened last week, and in the high school cafeteria a hopeful banner said: MACARONI AND CHEESE, WE WANT TO GRADUATE PLEASE. But after almost two months only about half the senior class returned to classes and only about two-thirds of the younger students. Some had transferred to nearby districts (average tuition: $160 per month) and could not transfer back. Others had taken jobs or simply dropped out. In addition, 15 teachers had resigned and gone job hunting...
...Delicate Truce. For the short term, Andreotti needs the Communists, reported TIME's Rome bureau chief Jordan Bonfante last week, and the Premier is convinced that for the moment at least, they intend to act responsibly and without their usual revolutionary deviousness. But Andreotti is limiting the relationship to parliamentary cooperation; he has turned down a suggestion by Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer for a round table of major parties to draw up economic policy. In the longer term, the Premier believes Euro-Communists should be encouraged to follow democratic procedures not so much within national governments...
...delicate truce with his principal opposition has enabled Andreotti, a seasoned politician who has three tunes been Premier and was a minister in 16 governments, to crank out an intensive program of austerity measures-including stiffer tariffs, higher government-controlled prices, and proposed wage restraints-aimed at curing the sickest partner in the European Common Market. Italy's current inflation rate is 18%, its internal deficit is estimated at $20 billion, and its foreign trade deficit has doubled in only a year, to $4.4 billion. So weak is the lira that it has to be supported...
...peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians. Leaders on both sides in the Lebanon fighting hailed the deal as a promising start. "It's the best that could be had under the circumstances," said Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami. As the truce hour approached one morning last week and the first guns went silent, a rainbow broke out in the sky over Beirut. At week's end, the truce was holding with only small and scattered violations...
...more stability." At least Boston was spared the travail of Louisville and environs, where once again anti-busers clashed with police, smashed windows, set bonfires and had to be dispersed by tear gas. In Boston, as elsewhere, one could hardly speak of peace; at best it was a truce...