Word: accordant
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...Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when he was in the Senate. His detailed proposals on trade, which range from modifications in the antitrust laws to a new international accord on exchange rates, are still ideas in search of a constituency. Yet even Hart sometimes yields to the siren song of playing politics with trade. He told cheering farmers in Amarillo, Texas, "This nation needs a sugar industry and can't rely on foreign imports...
...Algiers, Arafat welcomed back into the fold Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In return, he promised the two Damascus-based radicals that he would renounce the two-year-old Amman Accord, under which he and Jordan's King Hussein had launched a joint peace initiative. In fact, the accord had long since broken down anyway...
...spite of the magnitude of his victory, Chadian President Hisene Habre still has problems to solve. Foremost among them: he must reach an accord with Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei, a former President of Chad himself and Gaddafi ally whose forces last year joined with Habre's to help defeat the Libyans. But after an unproductive meeting last week between Goukouni and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is trying to mediate between the two leaders, the President and the rebel commander reportedly remain far apart on issues ranging from Chad's provisional constitution to Goukouni's role...
...government's greatest failure to be its inability to achieve a breakthrough in relations with its Arab neighbors. Yet the two men are at loggerheads over a peace strategy. Shamir holds out for direct talks, maintaining that the only way to guarantee enduring peace is to negotiate a separate accord with each country involved. Peres agrees that direct talks are critical but believes that Jordan and other Arab states will negotiate only under the umbrella of an international conference...
...disclosure of two allegedly secret nuclear-arms agreements threatened to complicate U.S. defense arrangements on the Pacific Rim last week. In Japan, the Communist Party charged that it had found proof in the Library of Congress of a secret Washington-Tokyo accord. The Communists produced a photocopy of a 1966 State Department telegram to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo referring to a "confidential 1960 agreement ((that)) affords U.S. right to seek ((Japanese)) consent to introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan...