Word: truce
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...truce plan is largely the work of Alberto Lleras Camargo, the Liberal President of Colombia who was in office in 1945 during the election from which most of Colombia's recent political misery grew. A split among the Liberals let the minority-choice Conservative candidate win. Four years later, panicky Conservative leaders closed Congress, put Colombia under a state of siege, imposed their most forceful caudillo, Laureano Gómez, as President. Bitter interparty rural fighting, in which 20,000 died, finally led to a military dictatorship under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Modest, brainy Alberto Lleras, meanwhile, moved...
...government budget, then succeeded in devaluing the franc by 20% without ever using the horrid word "devaluation." ("Every country has its totems-holy things which are not mentioned.") To prevent a new round of inflation, he now demands selected price controls and a six months "wage truce" from labor. The latest Bank of France statement shows France for the first time in two years taking in appreciably more foreign exchange than it pays...
...midday sun sears her still form, lying quietly in the dust. She is herself a fallen bridge between mankind's sundered parts. For a moment, before the small arms shatter the brief truce, Helga Reinbeck's silence is louder than all the guns...
After the Geneva truce, when hordes of refugees from the Communist North flooded into his parish, Father Jacques's life became busier than ever. "Priests," said the local Communist leader, "are always on the side of rich men." But the parishioners of Giadinh knew better, seeing their priest trudging wearily on his daily errands and returning to his tumbledown vicarage riddled with termites. Their juiciest fruits and biggest duck eggs were reserved for the father's table...
...Thus thousands more readers will learn what Edith Hamilton has to teach about the city where "the great spiritual forces that war in men's minds flowed along together in peace; law and freedom, truth and religion, beauty and goodness, the objective and the subjective-there was a truce to their eternal warfare, and the result was the balance and clarity ... a reconciling power, something of calm and serenity, the world has yet to see again...