Word: truce
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...Viet Nam, the week began and ended in the holiday artifice of truce...
...letter offered no specific policy recommendations besides a suggestion that the New Year's truce, which ended early this week, be extended indefinitely...
...troops found the change more than welcome, for two less martial men than Hope and Graham can scarcely be imagined. The fact that they could challenge the war for attention was evidence that the fighting had slacked off even before this week's formal 48-hour Christmas truce went into effect. A good many people, moreover, were trying hard to extend the lull into a permanent ceasefire...
...bombers struck hard and fast in Viet Nam before the 48-hour holiday truce...
...conservative National Radical Union, announced that he was pulling out of the government coalition. Since his party provided 99 of the regime's 153 parliamentary votes, Stephanopoulos was instantly finished. Said he when told the news: "But why now? Even in Viet Nam they've declared a truce for Christmas." In Athens' complex politics, the reason for the timing was far from clear. But some saw the fine hand of wily old ex-Premier George Papandreou, who for months has been demanding that the government resign and call new elections. It was Papandreou whom Stephanopoulos ultimately succeeded...