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Meeting in emergency session in Washington, the Organization of American States asked Msgr. Emanuelle Clarizio, the papal nuncio in Santo Domingo, to negotiate a cease-fire until a five-man truce team could fly down to work out a lasting settlement. Wessin y Wessin and other loyalist commanders and some rebel elements agreed under two conditions: that no one would be punished for any acts during the fighting, and that the OAS would supervise the formation of a provisional government. Even as Msgr. Clarizio reported the hopeful news to Washington, rebel forces captured Ozama Fortress, the police headquarters, with...
...raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces as the starting point for any truce talks...
...automation question is a challenge that both unions and management must meet," said Labor Lawyer Ted Kheel, who had been sent by Mayor Robert Wagner to help arrange the latest truce. "The issue has not been swept under the rug with this settlement. And if there isn't success with this question soon, both sides will be losers...
...rioters died; 844 more were arrested and given speedy prison sentences. Fourteen Moroccan leftists sentenced to death last year for fomenting revolution were hastily sent to the wall. The firing squad's aim: dissuading the rioters from further action. It seemed to work. Last week an unsteady truce hung over the country as King Hassan tried to figure out what had happened...
Since the retaliatory bombing by Turkey's air force last August, Cyprus has dropped out of the headlines, thanks to the United Nations peace-keeping force, which has kept an uneasy truce between the warring factions. But the potential for renewed violence has been building up all the time...