Word: truce
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...Imbert, this looked as if U.S. strategy were accelerating in reverse and he launched strong Dominican-manned military strikes against the rebels. At week's end a temporary truce was in effect. The U.N. wanted to turn it into a permanent ceasefire, but the junta was reluctant to halt its offensive...
Park responded in kind. Said he: "Along the truce line in Korea, in the jungles of Viet Nam, your beloved sons and husbands now share the same encampment and trenches with our men to defend freedom from Communist aggression...
Whether Quat's charges were true or not, one thing was sadly certain: the coup attempt and mass arrests shattered the fragile filigree of stability that had marked Quat's 14-week-old civilian regime and ended the restless truce between South Viet Nam's warring Buddhists and Catholics. Quat was forced to postpone the Cabinet reshuffle, planned for last week, that would have eliminated the last two military members of his government. At week's end the capital seethed with plots and counterplots, and few doubted that there would be an encore...
...hate chant: "Shoot the foreign invaders! Shoot the foreign invaders!" The opportunity came too often. Taking a wrong turn at the 30th of March Avenue, two paratroopers in a Jeep blundered into rebel territory, swiftly realized their mistake and pointed their rifle muzzles down as a signal of truce. They were cut down in a flurry of fire. Next day a marine convoy of two Jeeps and a three-quarter-ton truck again drove by accident into rebel territory. Four marines died, one was wounded, two captured. At rebel headquarters, Caamaño and Aristy gloatingly interrogated the marines before...
...more a truce than a treaty, but last week's steel settlement lifted a great burden from U.S. business, which had lived in dread and uncertainty for months about the possibility of a strike. The stock market climbed to three new records after the news, wound up the week with the Dow-Jones average standing at a robust 922. Most important, relief turned to a fresh wave of optimism as good economic news continued to pour...