Word: truce
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...halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
...mission was to sell Congress* on the soundness of the Sinai accord he had worked out between Israel and Egypt. Since the agreement includes not only massive sweeteners in the form of U.S. aid but also the stationing of U.S. civilian technicians in the Sinai to monitor the truce electronically, Kissinger and President Ford are seeking a congressional resolution of support. Such a resolution, they hope, will not only silence domestic critics but also provide tangible support to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who are both being hounded by vocal critics...
Your story about the impending interim peace settlement in the Sinai brings me to think about how we have not thanked the United Nations soldiers for serving in what has to be the most unpleasant military duty in the world. Why not consider nominating the United Nations truce force in the Middle East for a collective Nobel Peace Prize at the next ceremonies in Stockholm...
...unprecedented American commitment to help maintain peace in the Middle East. The most widely debated proviso of the agreement is an article stipulating that the U.S. will send up to 200 civilian electronics experts to maintain surveillance stations in Sinai that will monitor troop and aircraft movements and report truce violations. Israel refused to ratify the pact without U.S. surveillance. Although not explicitly part of the deal, $2.3 billion in military aid for Israel in fiscal '76, as well as $700 million for Egypt, will now be presented for congressional approval by the Ford Administration. The U.S. will also...
...whether these two rival forces can forge at least a temporary truce in the long-running war between labor and management. With so much at stake, the question of who rules Britain has become almost totally identified with another and perhaps more urgent question: Who rules the shop floor...