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...Defense Ministry and the Damascus radio station, both of which they hit. But homes and buildings near the ministry in the fashionable residential quarter of the city occupied by many foreign missions and embassies were also damaged, including a hospital and the Soviet cultural mission. A Norwegian United Nations truce observer, his wife and eight-year-old daughter were killed...
Growing disenchanted with the bloodshed, Maria left last year after the Proves' short-lived truce with the British army broke down and the I.R.A. went back on the offensive. On Friday, July 21, 1972-forevermore "Bloody Friday" on the Belfast calendar-the city was hit by 20 bombs in a single hour...
...What has Mr. Kissinger achieved so far? A temporary truce in Viet Nam−by giving legality to over 200,000 rebel Viet Cong troops−that nobody of sound mind would have agreed...
...said, "I am staying." He asked everyone to leave; no one did. Allende then ordered the women to go to the office of the palace major-domo and told the men to take up combat positions. There was a 20-minute attack by infantry and tanks. During a brief truce, General Pinochet again called the palace, giving Allende 15 minutes to surrender. Once more the President refused. When the attack halted, the women in the palace−including one of Allende's daughters, Beatriz, 31−left for safety...
...largest amount of aid to Thieu's police has come openly from the Defense Department. Since the Paris treaty permits one-for-one replacement of worn-out military equipment that was in Viet Nam at the time of the truce, and since the police seem to be wearing out their supplies at a great rate, the Pentagon is shipping them Jeeps, radios and other equipment at a cost of $8.8 million this fiscal year...