Word: accordant
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...Amman, Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, agreed on a "framework for common action" in reaching a settlement with Israel over the fate of some 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Though exact terms of the accord were not released, the U.S. was told through diplomatic channels that it contained at least the implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist...
...settlement, reached early Saturday morning after a midnight Friday deadline had passed, was the second accord of the week...
...that only two of them would sit on the board of the new firm. Bricker, meanwhile, would be stepping down. Hammer had agreed to buy out his $5.2 million contract with Diamond Shamrock. After a tense meeting early Monday morning in Dallas, the Diamond Shamrock board nixed the accord. In Los Angeles, a press conference called by Hammer to announce the merger was abruptly canceled...
...progress." That seemed to be a warning that any deal must involve agreements in all three sets of talks, including the one involving Star Wars. Paul Nitze, the veteran negotiator who is now a special arms-control adviser to Shultz, countered that the U.S. "saw no reason" why an accord could not be reached in one set of negotiations and put into effect independently of the others. But another U.S. official conceded that under the Geneva proposals, "each side can raise any linkages that it wants...
...Soviets, for their part, might go for such an accord because it would bear a strong--and, for the Administration, somewhat embarrassing--resemblance to the much maligned SALT II treaty and also to the counterproposal that the Kremlin put forward three years ago in the stalemated Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...