Word: truces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iraq was clearly on the defensive, though, and appealed last week to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar for help in arranging a truce. Having provoked the fighting in September 1980 to regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi...
...support: a bipartisan plan to raise the federal gasoline tax and use the revenue to finance highway and transit improvements. Unlike the Democrats, Reagan refrained from terming the proposal a "jobs bill." Instead he called it a "user's fee" and a "highway bill." This euphemistic truce enabled both parties to embrace the proposal; it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and was expected to sail through the Senate...
Finally, in a dramatic finale on Friday, the three combatants reached a truce. Allied would acquire Bendix for $1.9 billion, and Marietta would remain an independent company. If the deal goes through, the firms will have spent about $4 billion, much of it borrowed from banks, to buy and shuffle about one another's shares. Yet no one seems quite sure what good, if any, will result...
...line. But unemployment's at 14 percent and rising, and the persistent work stoppages and management-labor animosity that the prime minister has done nothing to discourage are contributing to the slump. In such a situation. Thatcher can't afford to seek an unconditional surrender, only an evenly negotiated truce...
...edgy, spartan existence for U.S. soldiers stationed along the two-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. In the "truce village" of Panmunjom, through which the border runs, two large bunkers, essentially allied observation posts, are dug into barren knolls. One of the bunkers is known as Guard Post Ouellette...