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...addition, two major developments of the 1970s--the 1973 OPEC embargo and the 1978 Camp David accord--paved the way for the recent crisis by shifting the bulk of power in the region away from Egypt to less developed states in the Persian Gulf region, Alnawrawi said...
...removal of Egypt as the leading economic, political, and cultural power in the Arab world as a result of the Camp David accord created a political vacuum which allowed Saddam Hussein to come to power," Alnawrawi said...
...imminent shift of the national capital from Bonn in the West to Berlin in the East only underscores the insecurity that many felt when Germany signed a non-aggression accord with the Soviet Union this summer. To these people, the best way to deal with Germany is to integrate it into the rest of the continent as rapidly and in as many ways as possible...
...accord ends the postwar rights of the World War II Allies in Germany and effectively marks the end of the cold war that began as soon as the defeat of Germany was completed. It puts the Big Four stamp of approval on the Oct. 3 unification of East and West Germany and states that the country will never try to claim land forfeited to Poland after World War II. The new Germany also agrees to renounce the manufacture, possession and control of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons...
Both sides remain publicly committed to their agreed-upon goal of cutting $50 billion out of the deficit next year as a down payment on $500 billion in reductions by 1996. But despite the burst of bipartisan determination, Bush is unlikely to be presented with an accord when he returns to Washington. As the talks began, Democrats suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich...