Word: truce
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...here." Over and over, the crowds roared: "Toute la clique au poteau [To hell with everybody]." Most ominous note for the squabbling leaders was a silent march by 16,000 members of the powerful Union of Algerian Workers. At the Algiers prefecture they presented a declaration calling for a truce, a reunion of all the leaders of the revolution and immediate elections. Banners carried by the workers read simply: BREAD, HOUSES, WORK. But there was no sign last week of a political leader mature or strong enough to pacify and unite the nation behind those aims...
...J.F.K. in the painting Salutat done by Thomas Eakins in 1889. The painting shows Kennedy, accompanied by Bobby and Ted, approaching the coalition of Democrats and Republicans who have given him so much trouble in the present session of Congress. He seems to be attempting some sort of truce...
Brazil. After a six-week testing of wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil...
...went for five days before all present exhausted their voices, their patience and their defiance. The filibuster ended in an inconclusive truce, and the Senate turned to voting on piled-up appropriations bills...
...Angola) led by Mario de Andrade, a Sorbonne-educated, Red-lining mulatto. The rival groups often seemed to hate each other worse than they hated the Portuguese; both Roberto and Andrade were the targets of assassination attempts by the other faction. Should the two organizations ever reach a truce, Angola could once more be drenched in blood. The rebels now have automatic weapons and land mines; plastiqueurs trained by Algeria's F.L.N. have begun to infiltrate into Angola, ready to continue the terror with their plastic bombs...