Word: truces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians. Leaders on both sides in the Lebanon fighting hailed the deal as a promising start. "It's the best that could be had under the circumstances," said Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami. As the truce hour approached one morning last week and the first guns went silent, a rainbow broke out in the sky over Beirut. At week's end, the truce was holding with only small and scattered violations...
...more stability." At least Boston was spared the travail of Louisville and environs, where once again anti-busers clashed with police, smashed windows, set bonfires and had to be dispersed by tear gas. In Boston, as elsewhere, one could hardly speak of peace; at best it was a truce...
...poplar tree (TIME, Aug. 30). The trouble was, there seemed no way to enforce that demand except by outright military action, a step the U.S. was unwilling to take. Already, it had ordered the carrier Midway into Korean waters and sent B-52s on simulated bombing runs near the truce lines. The most that had ensued was a statement from North Korea's Communist dictator Kim II Sung that the killings were "a regrettable incident." The State Department branded Kim's gesture "unacceptable" because it admitted no responsibility for the killings. But after further considering the mildness...
...soldiers now stationed in South Korea, only 160 are assigned to Panmunjom, while South Koreans patrol the rest of the DMZ. The American volunteers-specially chosen for their conspicuous brawn and even tempers-serve 13-month tours of duty at the "truce village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...