Word: truce
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...marchers smiled at the hundreds of state troopers who ringed the building. They waved at the county employees who lined the building's windows. They sing in joyful, Christian defiance. There was no anger, only infinite patience. King blessed his people and went inside to negotiate a truce with the whites...
...COLOMBIA was once regarded as a showcase of the Alliance for Progress. With massive infusions of U.S. aid ($230 million since 1961), and under the steady hand of former President Alberto Lleras Camargo, the country's Liberal and Conservative parties called a truce in their senseless civil war and pushed through an impressive series of reforms. Under the current President, Guillermo León Valencia, army civic action programs and anti-guerrilla campaigns have sharply reduced poverty-fed banditry in the backlands. That is Valencia's major success. During his 31 months in office, the cost of living...
...transport plowing into the island's toy palms, and out of the special effects a story line emerges. Two enemy bands exist side by side, Japanese and American. Will they continue the mad annihilation? Or will they discover that they need each other to survive, and declare a truce...
...idea holds some promise, except that Director Sinatra and his scriptwriters goof away tension at every turn. A truce seems inevitable, since both camps are rent by internal strife and riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra...
...Italy, 61% in The Netherlands. Despite this, labor leaders use constantly increasing prices to demand even higher wages. In Italy, 7,000,000 workers will be looking for more in contract negotiations this year, and Communist Labor Leader Agostino Novella last week refused government pleas for a wage truce. In France, Communist and Catholic workers alike are scheduled to strike this week...