Word: truce
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...pages) and the complexity of the report, accepted it without comment, hurriedly wired the disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...
...Democracy Has Triumphed." Early in the morning, the government decided to make a deal. At President Arevalo's request, the Papal Nuncio and the ambassadors of El Salvador and Argentina asked for a truce and offered the rebels generous terms, including amnesty and a government reorganization. Running low on ammunition, the rebels agreed...
...last week, opposing judges had reached a shaky truce: they would keep courts functioning until the state Supreme Court untangled the mess. Said one judge uneasily: "The court may find that neither set of judges may serve...
...replacing the Minister of Justice with pistol-toting Prosecutor Kwon, who had got his gun back from the police with an abject apology. But Rhee said that the Assembly committee could only question suspected collaborators and not arrest them. At week's end there was an uneasy truce...
...with the Vichy French in 1941. Though Zaim was a veteran of many losing causes, he rose steadily, first to chief of Syria's police, and finally to army chief of staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup...