Word: truce
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According to the stipulations of a three-week-old "truce" between the magazine and Cambridge police, Avatar agreed not to sell any issues to minors. The police, in turn, pledged no more arrests unless they notified the magazine that the City Solicitor judged a particular issue "obscene...
Egan, Crampton, Kornbluth, and Lerner were arrested in Harvard Square on Feb. 5 with 11 other Avatar vendors, one day before Cambridge police and Avatar editors called a truce in their longrunning dispute. Rossman was arrested two days before...
...Arab-Israeli eruption of last June was a pop war, unless you happened to be an Arab or an Israeli, and a pop war novel about it is a provocation no truce commission could have been expected to prevent. Meyer Levin (Compulsion) has fired off a rooty-tooty, pot-woozy, never-trust-anyone-whose-eyes-still-focus novel about how it wasn't in the Sinai campaign...
...timing and total effect, the Communist offensive changed the rules of the war in a way that will make it more difficult for the enemy in the future. In making a mockery of the Tet truce, proposed in the first instance by the Viet Cong and reluctantly agreed to by the allies, the Communists, as U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker indicated, made it highly unlikely that there would ever be a holiday truce again. By demonstrating their resources of manpower, the resiliency of their communications and command networks and the quality and quantity of their weaponry in the widespread attacks...
...last week seemed more than ever a permanent casualty of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the brief hopes that 15 trapped freighters might finally be freed after eight months of captivity flickered rapidly away in a three-hour gun duel between Egyptian and Israeli forces. By the time the truce was restored by the U.N.'s blue-helmeted observers, the Egyptians had not only suspended their efforts to release the rusting ships but declared that they would do nothing at all to reopen the canal until a complete Middle East settlement is reached...