Word: truces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base in Yamales, Honduras, clashed briefly with pro-Bermudez forces. At least two dissidents were wounded. Hernandez later agreed to negotiate with Honduran and contra officials, but by week's end the dispute had not been resolved. Nor was it clear whether the contras could negotiate a more lasting truce with the Sandinistas before the present cease-fire runs...
Although George Bush and Pat Robertson have declared a truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...
...police and the Muslims have formed an uneasy truce. D.C. Police Chief Maurice Turner announced that the department was working with the Muslims, saying, "We need all the eyes and ears we can." Although in the past year police have made more than 1,300 arrests in the complex (the entire resident population is only 2,000), they have not been able to stop the drug traffic. The Fruit of Islam is ordered to call the police if trouble begins...
...maize and tobacco fields that spreads outward across the valley is halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...
...peace is the absence of hostilities, then peace prevailed in Nicaragua last week. More accurately, a fragile truce seemed to be holding as representatives of the Sandinistas and the contras gathered in the dusty town of Sapoa to approve the fine points of a cease-fire agreement signed there two weeks ago. But the studied exercise in trust was only half the picture. At the very moment contra field commanders and their Sandinista counterparts were meeting, other rebel leaders were in Washington petitioning for additional aid. The appeal netted a fresh infusion of humanitarian funds and the possibility of renewed...