Word: truces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before yanking the Olympics off to sanctified Greece, look at your Thucydides, wherein you'll find that in 420 B.C. guards were used at Olympia, ostensibly to prevent an "invasion" by Spartans, who had been barred from the Games, allegedly for violating an Olympic truce. Purity has always been in short supply, and history does indeed seem to repeat itself. Jack C. Rossetter Elmwood Park...
...over some other disturbing Middle East developments. In Lebanon, there was more sporadic fighting as the result of Syria's decision to withdraw most of its peacekeeping forces from Beirut. With the Syrian troops out, the Lebanese civil war may break out again, after an uneasy three-year truce...
...other side of the "Clean for Gene" coin was a nervous sense of truce that hung over the New Hampshire campaign. In backroom late night talks at the Wayfarer there was no shortage of McCarthy staffers who said this would probably be their final trip "within the system." There were some who didn't mind admitting that, personally, they'd rather throw firebombs or get heavy into dope--but they were attracted by the drama, the sheer balls, of McCarthy's "hopeless challenge...
...truce is threatened by reduction of a policeman's role
...crackle of gunfire and mortars has long been a normal sound of life in war-scarred Lebanon, where rival Palestinians, Muslim leftists and Christian Phalangists warily coexist under the watchful eyes of 30,000 Syrian peacekeeping troops. Last week the tenuous three-year-old truce in Lebanon was once again broken by sporadic fighting after Syria announced that it would soon reduce its policeman's role in Beirut. At the same time, the Damascus government said that it would move some of its Beirut-based forces into the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to buttress Syria...