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...fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie and I talked about the situation, about bird hunting, deer hunting, and the two good coon dogs I got. It's over and done with...
Practically every Nicaraguan, from Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle to his opponents in the Sandinista National Liberation Front, usually tries to go on vacation in Holy Week. The traditional holiday was shattered last week by a bloody eruption of the country's sputtering civil war. Discarding a truce they had announced for the week before Easter, 100 battle-hardened guerrillas took up positions in trenches and behind concrete barricades in the city of Esteli (pop. 25,000), where hundreds died in the bloodiest fighting of last September's Sandinista uprising. They were quickly joined by young protesters...
...American sermon which possesses its own peculiar cadences, to orchestrate in an intensely personal manner the intense emotional experiences of Afro-Americans. For Baldwin, of course, this violent synthesis of being negroid and American can only be negotiated in a successful manner if one, as he says, "makes a truce with reality...
Sept. 4, 1975. Two years of negotiations led by Kissinger shuttling between capitals finally produce a truce agreement, signed in Geneva, that results in Israeli withdrawals from a strip of the Sinai...
...Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After a decade of battle, a truce was signed, and an Iraqi plan for limited Kurdish self-rule was drawn up but later rejected by Barzani, who resumed fighting. In 1976, after the Shah of Iran and the U.S. withdrew their aid to the Kurds, Barzani received asylum...