Word: truce
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...Commerce; 1948-50, roving ECA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security; 1955-58, Governor of New York; 1961, Ambassador-at-Large; 1961-63, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, led the U.S. delegation to the Laos truce talks in Geneva; 1963-, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs...
Militancy brought clashes of fists, stones, clubs, guns. In Cambridge, Md., a brief truce between Negroes and whites quickly gave way to warfare, with bands of armed and angry men roving the streets (see following story). In Savannah, Ga., ignoring appeals for caution voiced by responsible leaders, Negroes broke into a window-smashing, tire-slashing rampage that lasted sporadically for two nights and a day. The outbreak began when 1,000 Negroes marched downtown to protest the arrest of a Negro leader. A young New York Negro named Bruce Gordon, a member, oddly enough, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...other forms of segregation.* In mid-June, violence reached such a pitch that the local authorities asked Governor J. Millard Tawes to send in the National Guard. The Guard kept order, relatively speaking, for 25 days. During that time, leaders of both races negotiated a truce. Mrs. Richardson said she would keep her demonstrators off the streets for a few weeks to give the white community time to show good faith on various desegregation promises. But an hour after the Guard pulled out of Cambridge, early last week, militants pressured her into agreeing to a new demonstration. Eleven Negro...
...Secretary Duncan Sandys rejected any suggestion that Britain suspend British Guiana's self-governing constitution and take charge, but another 145 troops were airlifted to British Guiana "because of a deterioration in the situation." At week's end, the efforts of a British negotiator finally brought a truce between Jagan's government and the striking unions. But the racial differences have cut so deep that no easy end to the violence was expected...
...Southern businessman is wrestling with a crisis of conscience; his emotions say "never" to integration, his civil instincts say "perhaps some day," but his cash registers say "now." The dominant sentiment is expressed by Real Estate Executive Sidney Smyer, chairman of the businessmen's committee that negotiated a truce of sorts in Birmingham: "I'm not an integrationist, but I'm not a damn fool either...