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...Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a constitutional-reform package known as the Meech Lake Accord. For Quebec its guarantees of a "distinct society" were a bare minimum, but for many in English Canada they went too far. When Meech Lake was not adopted, Quebec scheduled a referendum on its future for October of this year. The federal government is working on a new batch of compromises, which should be ready for national discussion in April. Beyond this hurdle is the next general election, which must be held no later than 1993, and which may see Canadian politics fragmented into five...
Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev also agreed on accelerated high-level talks toward an accord to sharply reduce their long-range nuclear arsenals, Kozyrev said...
Last week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) provided evidence to a House subcommittee that the Medical School had overcharged the government approximately $750,000 in indirect cost reimbursements. This figure is in addition to $250,000 which the school had previously returned to the government of its own accord...
...late 1970s, Fisher helped the Carter administration design a formula for the landmark Camp David Accord which made peace between Israel and Egypt. Later, he assisted in negotiations with the government of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis...
Political representatives of two of the world's oldest cultures met in Beijing last week and established diplomatic relations. "This is a moment we have awaited for a long time," exulted Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy. The accord between the Jewish state and China culminates a 40-year effort by Israel, one of the first noncommunist countries to recognize the People's Republic after its creation...