Word: truce
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...sectarian violence-the worst in more than a year-has occurred despite a ten-week truce between the militant Provisional Irish Republican Army or Provos and the British army. It comes as an ill-timed blow to Merlyn Rees, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who is attempting to restart a political dialogue. On May 1, elections are scheduled for a 78-seat convention whose members are to work out a new government for Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Catholics...
...days (233 have been killed in Ulster but only one this year), British Army Commander Lieut. General Sir Frank King has openly questioned Rees' policy of releasing I.R.A. suspects detained without trial (230 out of 576 internees have been sprung). While this policy is the key to the truce, a British officer said last week: "We have always been cynical about it. The Proves will maintain the cease-fire to get as many of their men released as possible and then start again after the elections. By now they are all well rested, well fed and well trained...
...boycott. As a result, there is doubt that the new convention will work any better than the "power-sharing" coalition that broke down last June. One housewife in Belfast asked last week, "If this is a ceasefire, what's war?" Should the new convention collapse and the fragile truce break down completely, she may find...
...that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...look away in embarrassment. Everyone smells blood: people in the movie industry talk disaster, and they do not mean burning office buildings or crippled airplanes; critics move the heavy artillery into place. This may be just the moment, then, if only out of simple charity, to attempt an uneasy truce with Peter Bogdanovich...