Word: truce
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...troops from Honduran territory in return for a Honduran pledge to protect the lives of Salvadorans in Honduras. An OAS peace-keeping force would stand guard along the border until tempers cooled. Since both sides seemed to have exhausted their ammunition and war planes, there was hope that the truce might turn into a permanent peace...
Public Fistfight. At first, the refugee hippies were accepted with little suspicion. But a spontaneous public fistfight in April was followed by a stabbing and a firebombing, and state troopers were called in to establish an uneasy truce. Last month Taos canceled an annual two-day town festival for fear of further violence, but ugly incidents have continued nonetheless...
...youths receiving college and graduate degrees this month. Some of the most violent students have been expelled, suspended, imprisoned or pacified. Here and there last week, a few recalcitrants cried defiance, but with little tangible effect. It looks like peace. In reality, the prevailing condition is a most fragile truce...
...their own terms. It is a hubris that they have earned by successive conquests of arms, and it envisions the downfall of Nasser, long their most implacable enemy, as part of the final process. It may be a shortsighted view: there is no surer way to a lasting truce than forging it with the strongest of one's opponents...
...other words, without incurring Israel's wrath. Pushing the issue, commandos last week attacked a police post and a key road junction in southern Lebanon, and in the brief battles two Lebanese soldiers and seven commandos died. Al-Fatah Commander Arafat flew to Beirut to negotiate a truce. No matter what the outcome, Lebanon will almost certainly be the loser...