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...number of Americans killed in the conflict, from 54,246 to 36,940. It seems that the higher figure--endorsed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and engraved on the five-year-old KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL on the National Mall in Washington--cropped up shortly after both sides declared a truce in 1953 and has been repeated, erroneously, ever since...
...Kissinger also won international acclaim for his work in the Mideast peace process. After the Egyptian invasion of Israel in 1973, Kissinger adopted a policy later coined "shuttle diplomacy," travelling throughout the region to orchestrate a truce in the conflict...
...between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News has been a classic Wild West affair in Hearstian yellow, stretching from penny-a-day subscription offers in the last decade back to a 1907 streetfight between the papers' editors. Now the bean-counters at the papers have called a truce, entering into a joint operating agreement (JOA) that will merge the Post's and News' circulation and advertising departments into a single entity. And though the agreement keeps the two editorial departments technically distinct, TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says it looks like Denver is not long from becoming...
...salary to the families of its slain soldiers - and right now that policy may be set to place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days after President Chandrika Kumaratunga rejected a rebel truce offer allowing her troops safe passage out of the beleaguered Jaffna peninsula, vowing instead to defend the territory to the last man. The secessionist fighters, who regard Jaffna as the capital of their desired homeland of Tamil Eelam, last week delivered a crushing blow to the Sri Lankan military by overrunning...
...cease-fire agreement by expanding their operations well beyond the south, where the government recognized their control. "Pastrana is hoping that when the FARC see this massive influx of U.S. aid to his government, they'll get weak-kneed and be willing to get serious about negotiating a truce," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "After all, this war has been going on for more than 40 years and that gives the FARC a strong vested interest in continuing...