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...always a strained alliance. While serving on the committee, Abbas quarreled publicly with his chief. When Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan last February signed an accord pledging themselves to diplomatic efforts looking toward the eventual creation of a JordanianPalestinian confederation in the West Bank and Gaza, now occupied by Israel, Abbas repudiated it on the ground that only an independent Palestinian state was acceptable. Arafat's loyalists, for their part, were openly contemptuous of Abbas. Said one, after listening to Abbas harangue a crowd about the necessity of liberating Palestine by force: "He is nothing...
...lifeboat." The company's semiskilled assemblers now make $13.23 an hour, 6 cents an hour less than their colleagues at GM and Ford. Management says it has already agreed to parity for its Canadian employees and plans to do the same in the U.S., but no final accord has been reached...
...last battle in a long war." Indeed, the major factions in Lebanon's ten-year civil war last week agreed to a Syrian-sponsored proposal to end the fighting. Gemayel endorsed the plan at week's end during talks in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Whether the accord will prove to be any more durable than previous ones remains to be seen...
...wrote to each athlete individually, in plain desperation. But the Players Association acted quickly to forestall him. A few of the enclosed ballots were immediately filled out, and whole teams opted for testing--Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted by a number of major league players who actually applied...
When the votes were counted, the Akali Dal, a moderate Sikh party, had taken almost two-thirds of the state assembly seats, giving it a mandate to carry out a July accord with the central government to resolve long-standing Sikh grievances. No one expects, however, that the terrorists will fade away. "Each member of the new legislative assembly is now a target," said one key official. Still, the election provided strong evidence that the vast majority of Punjabis prefer the politics of the ballot to those of the bullet...