Word: truce
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...Koscot, company officials have been fined and forced to make restitution to distributors in many other states. Koscot still has cases in abeyance or on appeal in New York, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Turner, who has hired Attorney F. Lee Bailey, has reached a truce with some states by agreeing to set a quota on the number of distributorships and emphasize selling products instead of recruiting...
...executives active in the chamber are well beyond that age. The White House announced that any such phone call was entirely "unauthorized," but the revelation that it had been made provided Septuagenarian Meany with some of his few moments of hilarity during the week. Finally the Administration called a truce, sending out that well-known conciliator Spiro Agnew. Speaking in Florida, the Vice President made a point of lauding Meany as "a patriotic American," predicting that he would go along with the wage-price freeze...
...true, rushed $80 million in war supplies to New Delhi when the Sino-Indian border war erupted in 1962. But, though Washington stopped arms deliveries to both countries when the Pakistan-India war erupted in 1965, the mantle of nonpartisan peacemaker went to the Soviets, who sponsored the truce talks at Tashkent...
Eventually, Colombo engineered a truce between the warring Mafia factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese of New York City, and Slefano Magaddino of Buffalo. Who should be picked for the job but enterprising...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft was told by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad that Egypt had agreed to a written U.S. suggestion that Israel pull back from the canal to a line halfway across Sinai. The Egyptians would move to within 15 miles of the Israeli line, and a United Nations truce force would be set up between them...